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120 Postcards
I don't usually like to link posts on this blog directly to what I'm selling elsewhere on the Internet but on this occasion it seems appropriate. I have a collection of 120 postcards, some which are...
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Australian Athlete
I don't normally post just a single image but this little gem I was pointed to recently by someone's Tumblr (I'm sorry I don't remember which), in it's home at the National Library of Australia and I...
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Ian David Baker at The Photographer's Gallery
If you are in London at lunchtime on Friday then you might like to pop into The Photographer's Gallery for the second of their "My Favourite Photographs" ten minute talks. Photographer and friend of...
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Jan Parker Illustrates Witchcraft and Black Magic II
Back in May I posted a selection of these images by Jan Parker for the Hamlyn paperback edition of Peter Haining's Witchcraft and Black Magic and I said at the time there may be more at a later point....
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Letterpress postcards by Clare Melinsky
R and I have just returned from holiday. We have been staying in a gloriously isolated cottage in the Glenkens area of Galloway in South Western Scotland. It was a magical and beautiful holiday and you...
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Mr Manhood and the art of Double Entendre
It may be that being named Mr Manhood is something that predisposes you to a life of double entendre and innuendo... which may explain why he called his only novel Gay Agony, which is a novel about...
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A 1930s New York Guide
As you might imagine, being in Wigtown, Scotland's National Book Town, for my birthday recently resulted in quite the pile of books in the back of the car and one of them was the New York City Guide...
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A 1930s New York Guide II
The 1939 New York City Guide that I mentioned in yesterday's post is not just illustrated by photographs. Far better, in my view, is the illustration work. All of the illustrations I've scanned here...
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New Catalogue from Callum James Books: The Old Stile Press
Callum James Books and the Old Stile Press have been friends for years and so it is an absolute delight to be able to present a catalogue which contains not only a selection of their 'in-print' books...
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John Piper illustrates Benjamin Britten
I have never met a piece of work by the 20th century British artist John Piper that I haven't really liked, and I am currently reacquainting myself with the work of Benjamin Britten. How serendipitous...
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Denton Welch in Digital Format
Denton Welch is one of those novelists whose work you read, sink into, marvel at and just live through and then, if you are like me, put them away for a while and every few years go back to them and...
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Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: 1901 Rowing Crew
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe is a turn of the last century photographer best known for his study of a group of naked boys in the harbour at Whitby called "Water Rats" and two or three other similar...
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Carrots by Jules Renard
In May this year I blogged about the story of Robert Lynen, an exceptionally brave young man who fought in the French Resistance during World War II. I came across his story because of a postcard of...
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My Husband Went to Berlin...
So, you may have noticed that I have been away a while. My best friend and I have been away in a cottage in North Devon and very lovely it was too. And whilst I was away R also went off on his own and...
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Between the Hills by Leonard Clark
I'm of the opinion that almost every secondhand bookshop of any size also contains rare books. I don't say valuable rare books mind, just rare ones. On a recent trip across the water to the Isle of...
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Travel Posters at Swann Auction Galleries
A stunning collection of twentieth century travel posters is about to go under the hammer at Swann Auction Galleries in New York. And when I say it's 'about to' I mean in about two hours time. It's...
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The Printing Art of George Ratcliffe Woodward
The phrase "Private Press" is used to cover all manner of ventures. If anything seems to fit the description properly, these wonderful booklets by George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848-1934) must do surely....
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James Cummins Halloween Catalogue
Love it or loathe it, Halloween approaches. One of the undoubted benefits of the season for the bibliophile is the sudden promotion of books on supernatural subjects. James Cummins in New York has...
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Dennis Wheatley, you can't give him away... or can you?
There was a time when Dennis Wheatley's first editions were very sought after or, in a phrase I hate with a passion, "highly collectible". Most of his books have never been very expensive, although my...
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Francis Edwin Murray: A Bookseller's Label
Sometime ago I wrote a long post here on Front Free Endpaper about the bookplate of the bookseller Francis Edwin Murray. It was the practice of nineteenth and twentieth century booksellers to stick...
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