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Vintage Swimwear: A Selection
It's been a while since we've had a good selection of handsome chaps in their vintage swimwear so tonight I have both delved into my hard drive and found some more recent numbers too. None of these,...
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Nicholas Mordvinoff illustrates The Starman's Son by Andre Norton
This is the second time this book and these illustrations by Nicholas Mordvinoff (1911-1973) have featured on Front Free Endpaper, the last time nearly four years ago. A slightly different edition...
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Spot the Author: Esquire's 1973 Anniversary Edition Cover
This is the cover of the 40th anniversary copy of Esquire magazine from October 1973 which had a fold-out montage of all the literary contributors to its pages. It is a very clever piece of cut and...
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WW1 Soldiers: A Tender Embrace
There has been quite a lot online and in the press recently, I think occasioned by the publication of a book, about male affection in vintage photos... or Vintage Bromance as it is now rather...
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Vintage Swimwear Photo
I must have been on a little buying spree recently. This is the latest vintage photo to fall through the letterbox.
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New Catalogue from Callum James Books: Vintage Genres
The latest catalogue from Callum James Books is now available. This contains mainly affordable paperback editions of books from the genres of Science Fiction or Supernatural Fiction. It includes a...
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Bill Geldart Illustrates The Hungry Cloud by Tom Ingram
William Geldart (credited as Bill) illustrates this 1971 book by Tom Ingram, The Hungry Cloud. I haven't read it yet but there are just enough little references tucked away in forums and other odd...
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More G. F. Sims Catalogues
This is not the first time, by a long chalk, that G. F. Sims's book catalogues have featured here on Front Free Endpaper. His catalogues are something of a benchmark for those who come after. Book...
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Boris Karloff Reads to the Frightened
One of the most interesting of the vintage paperbacks in my latest catalogue perhaps is this selection of 26 very short stories by Michael Avallone but for which the main credit on the cover goes to...
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Happy Birthday Baron Corvo
Although most of the media, when it thinks of birthdays today, will be interested in a certain young prince of this realm, we should not overlook the birthday of another; today marks the 154th...
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Glitterwolf: An LGBT Literary Magazine
I've been reading Glitterwolf more or less since it first came out and couple of years ago, a magazine of "fiction, poetry and art from LGBT contributors" so I am both delighted to be able to plug...
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Noel Mewton-Wood: Brilliant, Tragic, Genius
This is the second mention on Front Free Endpaper for the tragic story of Noel Mewton-Wood (1922-1953), a lost musical genius. A couple of years ago I found a scan of an obituary and noticed the...
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The Ditto Press
These are the postcards/flyers that came with a recent order from an uber-cool London-based outfit called Ditto Press. If you have an interest in counter-culture and are feeling a young and creative...
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Champion Studio
Not usually a fan of the beefcake genre but these caught my eye this week on Ebay being sold by (still on sale in fact here, here and here) the lovely Chuck who has received honorable mention on this...
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Bunton Sculptor
It's a wonderful thing this Internet malarkey sometimes! I was looking for information about this statue today and on the back is written just "Bunton" so, wondering if he might have been the...
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Catalogue: British Scouting Photos and Others
It's that time again... as those of you who are on my mailing list know, I have just issued another catalogue. This one is such a beast it had to be published in four parts. Four pdf files are...
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Gilbert White's Window at Selborne
I have something of a weakness for good stained glass as longtime readers of the blog will know. This window, however, has the advantage of having literary connections as well. If you live in this...
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1970s Tile
It doesn't quite count as patterned paper but this little delight was something R and I found this weekend on a trip to one of our favourite hunting grounds, Lewes in East Sussex. It's usually R who...
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Charles Sayle Inscriptions and Dedications
In the middle of next month, Bonhams in Oxford will be selling to volumes by Uranian poet Charles Sayle, Erotidia and Musa Consolatrix. Sayle was a literary scholar and librarian at Cambridge...
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Communes: 1970s Journal of the Commune Movement
I don't think I would have coped very well living in a commune. From a brief experience of 'communal' living as a student I would have been fairly sure of this before this afternoon. But then these...
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