Saturday, January 19, 2013
Halitosis - a firing offence (1940)
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Vintage ad for Listerine on the inside of a mystery fiction magazine from 1940, the end of the era of the 'shudder-pulps.' Ads in th...
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Letter about Ian Fleming from his biographer.
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Found in a copy of John Pearson's book and addressed to someone called Jeremy. Dated 30/10/70 from Knightsbridge. Pearson was a friend o...
Friday, January 18, 2013
Publisher’s Promotional Leaflet for J.R.R. Tolkien (1967)
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This was found in a reprint set of Lord of the Rings and is a sort of news sheet to keep Tolkien lovers abreast of the latest news, almost c...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
BOOKS, THEATRES & BOMBS.
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From the papers of Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, sometime book dealer, Edward Gordon Craig specialist, theatrical history and dance expert. Publish...
Roger Fry
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From the papers of Janet Ashbee wife of C.R. Ashbee (Arts & Crafts Movement). This is Fry before Bloomsbury... 74 Cheyne Walk, C...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
I once met... Clare Winnicott
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I once met Clare Winnicott. She was one of the leading British social workers of the 20th century. The wife of Donald (D.S.) Winnicott, a...
A Look at Monte Carlo
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This is a cutting from a book from about 1990 that fell out of another book...wonder if this is the man who broke the bank! A Look at M...
Odd Showers [frogs, lizards and pilchards]
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From a scarce work (1882) which covers such curious subjects as revivals after execution, female jockeys, Blind Jack the roadmaker of Kna...
Sylvia Plath
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This strange note fell out of an old paperback collection of her poems. It came from a house in Fortune Green. Oddly enough the 'profess...
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Withnail & I script
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From the catalogue of Charing Cross Road Bookshop (2002) It was priced at £1500 and is no longer for sale. Bruce Robinson. Withnail and ...
Coffee Then and Now
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Press cutting (Sunday Times, London?) dated 1960 found in a copy of Aytoun Ellis's book Essence of Beauty . Interesting how the modern ...
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