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Vintage Swimming (and other sports)
I spent a long but very happy day in Brighton today and so it was inevitable really that there would be a vintage photo post on the blog tonight as I always find something while I am there. Cricket...
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Hans Tisdall - Some Jackets
The work of Hans Tisdall (1910-1977) has appeared on this blog before. He had a long relationship with Jonathan Cape in particular when it came to designing jackets. It doesn't take much to see the...
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Christopher Wood (1901-1930)
Those of you who follow me on Twitter, @callumjbooks, will know that I was recently at the exhibition of Christopher Wood's work at The Pallant Gallery in Chichester. As ever with The Pallant I was...
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Gollancz Yellow Jackets - And Only the Jackets
Hauls of dustjackets sans books are occasionally found. Sometimes they are a bit of a treasure trove because obviously, it's possible that the value of a book with a jacket can be ten or more times...
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Vintage Press Photo: Haunted Cherubs
I love vintage press photographs! They are often a little window into some amazing or tragic or amusing human story that has long been forgotten about. They always beg the question of what happened...
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More Dust Jackets mainly by Hans Tisdall
These images are of lots from the same auction as I blogged about a few days ago. A vast collection of jackets only for some fabulous books. I found them because I have been looking into the work of...
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Nude Study - Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov
I have been on holiday! Hooray! But back now! As I found myself telling someone that I am not one of those people who comes back from holidays all depressed but rather that I come back with a little...
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What Larks!
There is at least a vague pretense that the top two images here from Herbert Strang's Golden Story Book for Boys, relate to vintage swimwear: or lack of it as the hapless Johnnie Luckin, lucks-out when...
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Paperback and Pulp Fair
This seems like the kind of thing that readers of this blog might appreciate if you happen to be in London at that time so I thought I would give it a bit of a plug here.
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Rowland Emmett illustrates a Guinness Christmas Book for Doctors
Throughout the 20th century Guinness was keen to put across the idea that drinking Guinness was a healthful thing to do: remember "Guinness is good for you". As a part of that there was a concerted...
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Vintage Skinny Dipping Photos
Though vintage swimwear has been an ongoing theme here are Front Free Endpaper, I wouldn't want anyone to think we don't enjoy a little skinny dipping too. These are four photos I found being sold on...
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Hans Tisdall Jacket Designs for Ivor Brown's
Regular readers will know that the jacket designs of Hans Tisdall have become something of a feature on this blog of late. One of the things Tisdall was best known for was his lettering, in fact a...
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The Glory of Vintage Photos
The vintage swimwear collection here at Callum James Heights has been sadly lacking in terms of new acquisitions for a while. However, that doesn't stop me browsing around of course and one of the...
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A Headstone for Christopher Millard
A visitor to the grave of Christopher Sclater Millard (1872-1927) in St Mary’s Cemetery at Kensal Green will find only dirt and weeds. Although in his will he specified ‘none but the simplest...
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Frans Muller-Munster in "Die Schönheit"
These few scans have been on my hard drive for years now since I bought a pre-WW1 run of the German art/Naktkultur periodical, DieSchönheit. I have posted images from these before but somehow these...
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The Priest, The Decadent, The Bibliographer and the Publisher...
"The Priest and the Acolyte" is a well-written if somewhat overblown and sentimental story about the eponymous priest and acolyte who are involved in a rather wilting and soppy love affair and are then...
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A Spray of Leaves by Irma Chilton
If living in a world of books ought to teach one anything, it is to ditch that niggling feeling we all have that perhaps we should write a book. Day after day after day a good secondhand bookshop will...
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Another Short List Flies Out
As those of you on my mailing list will know, a few days ago the latest Short List was sent out full of goodies of all kinds that are new to my stock giving members of the mailing list first dibs. As...
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Saki Does Alice
Talk about two birds with one stone, collector-wise that is! The writing of Hector H Munro, or 'Saki' is still much read and admired by a discerning bunch of readers and Alice, well Alice and her...
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