Only the Unexpected Happens. Seven short stories
de Phyllis Pearsall
- Usado
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- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
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London, London, United Kingdom
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Hackney, the Stourton Press, 1985 157 pp. + publisher's limitation (this is one of just 150 copies printed). James McBey (illustrator). Signed by author with inscription "Dear new and forever friends." on the front free endpaper. Red, cloth-covered boards with leather spine, gilt illustration on the front cover. Tipped-in illustration on the verso of the half-title. Pearsall [née Gross], Phyllis Isobel (19061996), map publisher, was the younger of the two surviving children of Alexander Gross (formerly Grosz; 18801958), a Hungarian immigrant from Csurog, near Budapest, at that time selling oil lamps door to door, and his wife, Isabelle (18861937), a playwright and suffragette, and daughter of Arthur Crowley, a lapsed Irish Catholic priest and dealer in second-hand pianos, of Peckham Rye, London, and his Italian wife. The artist (Imre) Anthony Sandor Gross was Phyllis's brother. Alexander had established Geographiaan initially successful map-publishing businessin 1907, but went bankrupt and fled to Chicago in 1920. In 1924 she went to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne, supporting herself by writing for John Bull, an English-language magazine. In 1935 Phyllis got lost one evening in the streets of London and subsequently realized that the most recent street map of London dated from 1919 she decided to produce her own. Starting with the Ordnance Survey sheets she walked the streets of London for eighteen hours a day, compiling a 23,000 card alphabetical index of streets, which she kept in shoeboxes under her bed, and produced the first London AZ Street Atlas in 1936. After W. H. Smith had taken her first 250 copies the AZ was in great demand, and she founded the Geographers' A to Z Map Co. Ltd in the same year. She did all the research, printing, and distribution, and employed Mr Fountain, who had worked for her father, as her draughtsman. Despite her bouts of ill health Pearsall, a tiny, frail-looking woman, remained chairman of the Geographers A to Z Map Co. Ltd until her death, though from the late 1950s she rarely visited the office, relying on her management team to run the business while she went on painting holidays in Europe. The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the company, in 1986, was marked by an exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society; in that year she was appointed MBE.. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- Librería
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA. (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4162
- Título
- Only the Unexpected Happens. Seven short stories
- Autor
- Phyllis Pearsall
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Hackney, the Stourton Press
- Fecha de publicación
- 1985
- Palabras clave
- GEOGRAPHERS A TO Z MAP CO., PAINTER, WATER COLOURIST, ETCHER, WRITER;
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Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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