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Short List #21
It's been a little while since I did this but a few days ago I sent out the latest Short List to people on my mailing list. Whilst my full-length and subject catalogues are announced to the world at...
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Cloudy Cove illustrated by Carolin Jackson
Cloudy Cove is a 32pp booklet sewn into thin card covers one of a large number of such that were published by The Oxford University Press in the 1950s under the series title "Adventures in Reading"...
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The Royal Hotel in Russell Square of Yesteryear
This has to be the coolest thing to fall from between the pages of a book in quite a while here at Callum James Heights. I assume it is a piece of letter paper from The Royal Hotel. The eagle eyed will...
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Mystery Dust Jacket
Apologies to those of you who follow me on Twitter who will already know this image. After another rewarding trip to The Pallant House Gallery in Chichester the other day I was struck by the number of...
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Gaston Goor Illustrates Les Amitiés Particulières Part I
Les Amitiés Particulières by Roger Peyrefitte is widely considered one of the classic pieces of romantic schoolboy fiction. It is the story of an older and a younger boy in a French boarding school...
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Ian David Baker A New Collaboration
Back in 2013, Callum James Books issued a catalogue of the photographs and artwork of Ian David Baker (Sold out now). Ian has now found a new collaborator in the shape of the fashion designer J. W....
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Today's Vintage Swimwear Additions
Three more vintage swimwear photos arrived in the post today and, with my usual generosity of spirit, I am sharing them here of course. For some people, photos like the bottom one which have been cut...
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Count Stenbock's Contemporary Reviews
This well-dressed chap is Eric Stanislaus Count Stenbock. Many of the readers of this blog will, of course, know him as one of the exotic flowers of the decadent movement in art and literature at the...
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Louveteau Magazine in the 1950s
French and continental European Scouting in the 20th Century had a very different feel to it compared either with the British or American versions of the movement. One expression of that difference...
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Scout de France Magazine in the 1950s
in the second post today on 1950s French scouting magazines, these covers are all from Scout magazine which was an official publication of Scout de France. The covers in most instances are by Pierre...
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Shane Leslie and Self-Censoring "The Cantab"
In 1922 the Irish catholic novelist Shane Leslie published a semi-autobiographical novel The Oppidan, a tale of life at Eton, where Leslie had been schooled and which he hated. The novel was reasonably...
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Ronald Firbank & Others Catalogue
I am excited to be able to tell you that in mid-May I shall be issuing a catalogue titled, Ronald Firbank: One Hundred Items from the Collection of Robert Scoble, this is obviously a follow-up to the...
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Some Photos That Got Away
Although I am obviously an extremely wealthy man (!), sometimes the things that I want in life do slip through my fingers. This is a small selection of items which won't be joining my collection of...
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Christian William [Bill] Miller (some more...)
Christian William [Bill] Miller has featured here before. He was a 'bright young thing' transposed from 1920s England to 1940s and 50s America. These photographs are among those that are in the...
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Green Island illustrated by Carolin Jackson
To my delight I discovered a small pile of these "Adventures in Reading" booklets in my local charity shop. You might remember I found and blogged one a week or so ago called Cloudy Cove. Of course,...
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Carolin Jackson illustrates Crooked Cargo
The second of these "Adventures in Reading" booklets for today. The colours in this one are much bolder whilst still retaining the same limited palette and the same style of work as the others.
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Vintage Covers for Dorian Gray
Completely by accident I came across a great cover on a Spanish edition of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray online. One thing led to another and soon I am digging through auction and sale...
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A Late Review: A Game of Dark by William Mayne
A Game of Darkby William Mayne(Hamish Hamilton, London: 1971) I have been reading quite a lot of what used to be called children's books, more usually labelled 'young adult fiction' these days. Some of...
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Vintage photo haul...
Last week's trip to Brighton was the usual round of books, junk shops, and high living. These are a few of the photos that I liberated and brought back home with me...
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