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Vintage Swim: By the River
My buying for the vintage swimwear collection has slowed down a little of late, nonetheless, every now and again something takes my fancy and this is what arrived in this post this morning to brighten...
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Dissecting the Human Head
In recent months I have come across a number of these fold-out models from the early twentieth century. This one, perhaps is the best so far. We might have to question why the "Household Physician"...
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Billy Fox in Vintage Swimwear
This is Billy Fox. We know that because someone has written his name on the back. But that is almost all we know. The same person who knew his name, and presumably more about him too, speculates on the...
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Callum James Books: New Catalogue
Well, finally, the March 2014 catalogue is available to the world. It's a pdf file that you can find here: www.callumjamesbooks.com/march2014.pdf Enjoy!
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Robert J Kirkpatrick's School Fiction Catalogues
Every now and again a bookseller comes along who is so embedded in their specialism and so dedicated and puts in so many years that they their catalogues make a significant contribution to the field....
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Meet Percy...
Well, you may have noticed there has been something of a hiatus here of late (again), this time it was occasioned by the need to deal with all your orders from Callum James Books latest catalogue so...
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A Short Story on the Back of a Vintage Photo
When I bought this photo, I assumed, because it appears to be taken in a photobooth, that it would be the normal 'thumbnail' size of photobooth pictures: I didn't mind that. So I was delighted to...
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Beautiful Vintage Face
This guy has got to be one of the most attractive people I have ever seen in a vintage photograph. He was being sold on Ebay last week as a German WW2 pilot. Sometimes it's difficult to grasp the sums...
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Crowdsourcing Edgar Allan Poe
These are images from an anthology of material by and about Edgar Allan Poe called Ravings of Love & Death, including two poems, six stories and an illustrated biography of Poe to be published in...
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A Curious Connection: Ralph Chubb & Algernon Blackwood
A regular correspondent about items on Front Free Endpaper, Paul, recently delighted me by pointing out that the design used on the front cover and title page of A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon...
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Three Male Nudes
In an antique centre in the Home Counties the other day I can across a box of photographs of artwork. For the most part they were photographs of female life studies and according to the box they were...
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More Vintage Photos
Sometimes, no matter what you are looking for on Ebay, if a search throws up something you are interested in at a reasonable price, it can be worth clicking through to see the rest of that seller's...
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Vintage Male Nude Photo
I don't usually post fully nude photographs on this blog but I think with the absence of dangly bits we will make an exception with this wonderful little item that arrived today in the post. Clearly...
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Original 1940s Vintage Patterned Paper Designs
Two of the favourite exercises given to 1940s art students were the design of patterned papers and the illustration of book jackets. Two of my favourite things! But of course art students vary...
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A Letter from Ferederick Rolfe Baron Corvo about Fr Beauclerk SJ of Holywell
It is not everyday that I get to publish previously unknown writing by Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo but I am delighted to say that a lady called Sue, a researcher who has often worked with Callum...
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Original Dust Jacket Designs from the 1940s
More from the talented hands of Gwendolen K Young whose patterned paper designs I posted a couple of days ago. Another common exercise in art school was to set the students the task of designing book...
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The Clarity of the Tintype Photograph
There is something about the tintype photo that I love, despite the uniformity of tone because of the dark metal ground, they often have a clarity you just don't get in other photos of the period and...
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Angus McBean: A Personal Photo Album
In an amazing auction sale back in April of last year, Bury St Edmunds auction house Lacy Scott & Knight sold a collection on photo albums by legendary photographer of the mid-twentieth century,...
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