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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The Blind Boy Medium

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 The second of a couple of pamphlets from the world of mediums, psychics and seances - part of a large collection bought from a major coll...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The McWhirters v. the unions (1974)

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Ross & Norris McWhiter, founders of Guinness Book of Records In the 1970s a phalanx of right-leaning protests groups emerged in Br...

How to run a Psychic Circle

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We are publishing a couple of pamphlets from the Spirit World - part of a large collection bought from a major collector who was trying to d...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Literature dead (1870) says Katawampus

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Found in an obscure short-lived journal   The Trifle of  September 1912 (edited  by Ernest Hicks Oliver, a writer on yachting and history.) ...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Ponge's Museum of Street Cries

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Found - an American press cutting from Adams County News April 1914: Armed with a recording gramophone, M. Ponge, a schoolmaster in Paris...
Friday, June 6, 2014

The Enchanted Forest

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Came across a book about the New Forest in Hampshire -  The Enchanted Forest by Gladys Mackenzie Forbes (Mate & Sons, Bournemouth circa...

Reggie Caton (R.A. Caton of Fortune Press)

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Discovered in a copy of Raymond Tong’s Angry Decade , a slim volume brought out by the famous Fortune Press in August 1951, is that rarest o...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

A Vorticist row in 1967

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Revolution 1915 ('The Crowd') Found in the letters column of The New Statesman of 21 April 1967 this angry exchange about Vorti...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Simon Raven - poet and Greek scholar

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Found - in a 1949 Cambridge University magazine Imprint,  very early work of the British novelist  Simon Raven . This is the first issue of...
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Sunday, June 1, 2014

The Hound of the Baskervilles - the libretto?

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Found - an interesting Sherlockian letter in a collection of papers of the late 'Evoe' - the comic writer, satirist, poet  and one t...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Paul Nash bookplate for art collector Samuel Courtauld

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Found - a loose bookplate by Paul Nash  for the industrialist and art collector  Samuel Courtauld . Produced around 1930, it measures a size...
Monday, May 26, 2014

English Books in Paris

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Found in a mid 1930s American detective thriller, tipped in at the front (for exchange purposes) this flier for  the Gibert Joseph (or J...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

A Remedie against Ache of the Herte

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Found - this small keepsake card with deckled edges published by Mowbray's (bookshop chain and publisher.) It was written by Margaret ...

The day that May Kovar’s luck ran out

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One of the most poignant inscriptions in the celebrity album  kept by Swindon landlady Barbara Slocombe is the 'Good Luck to You' wh...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

It is rocket science…

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An apposite Jot in view of the recent death of Wurzel soundalike, Professor Colin Pillinger, the space scientist behind the Beagle 2 Mars la...
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