Rare Books and Rarer People Tapa dura - 1982

Werner, Shaw, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is minor foxing around the block of the book. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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Werner Shaw, London, first edition, 1982. Cloth, tall 8vo, 25 cm,. x, [1], 256 pp, [16] leaves of plates. From the blurb: "Rich men, poor men, beggar-men and thieves - sooner or later they all drift into the auction room. For thirty-two book sale seasons O.F. Snelling sat at his raised vantage-point at the rostrum of Hodgson's and Sotheby's; he advised and observed them all. In 1949 the author secured the position of Sales Clerk with Hodgson's Rooms in Chancery Lane, and it was with Hodgson's that most of his working life was spent. He retired from Sotheby's late in 1981. This is not an autobiography; it is an account of the quite extraordinary characters encountered by O.F. Snelling during his business life. They form an odd and motley gathering. Old Jim, 70 years with Hodgson's, diminutive in stature but a giant in his hatred of books; Potty, the miserly eccentric dealer whose private collection of early-printed books realised £200,000 at Sotheby's after he… Leer más

London : Werner Shaw, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 256p,[16]p of plates: ill, 1facsim,ports; 24cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: Introduction -- The Hodgsons -- The Job -- Old Jim -- Fred Karno's Army -- Millward, Hatry, and Wise -- Knock and Ring -- Potty -- The Grey Man -- Alice in Plunderland -- The Little Doctor -- A Salutary Story -- The Worst Bidder in the World -- Mr. Poonawallah -- 'Pornography and So On' -- A Note on Bad Taste -- Some Sale Room Eccentrics -- Death of a Bookshop -- The Book Runners -- Bookmen I've Liked -- Book Thieves -- Sotheby's -- My Three Spies -- L'Envoi -- Index. Subjects: Snelling, O. F. (Oswald Frederick) 1916-. Hodgson and Co. Sotheby's (Firm) History. Hodgson and Co. History. Antiquarian booksellers England London. Antiquarian booksellers England London;… Leer más