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A Lost Novel
by
Jane Austen?
An Analytical Essay
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Osric Allen
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International: South Sudan - where even school books are
rare books
Without literacy the world would be
an impossible place - barriers everywhere you turn and every
barrier high, keeping you fenced in by poverty and lack of
power.
ILAB booksellers want to smash down these
barriers. They really understand the value of literacy and
the place of the book as a vehicle of cultural messages,
knowledge and entertainment - not to mention an object of
beauty. They have to. To become a member of any of the 22
national associations that the International League of
Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) is the umbrella body of,
requires expertise and a real appreciation for rare books.
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South Africa: AntiquarianAuctions and UNESCO's World
Book & Copyright Day
Paul
Mills, founder of AntiquarianAuctions.com, is also an
antiquarian book dealer in his own right and trades as
Clarke's Africana & Rare Books. He told Sheppard's
Confidential: "Even though we are an international business,
our offices are based in Cape Town, South Africa and we felt
that it is particularly important for us to support the
campaign. South Africa alone has very high levels of
illiteracy with varying statistics. We need to support
education and training to fight illiteracy."
At the next auction which runs from 16-23 April,
Clarke's Rare Books & Africana will sell a facsimile copy of
S. Daniell's African Scenery and Animals, donating the
proceeds to UNESCO. (The only item in the auction to be
donated to charity!)
 This is a facsimile reprint of
the large folio of aquatint plates, first published in
1804-1805 with an introduction and notes by Frank Bradlow and signed by
him.
Samuel Daniell arrived at the Cape on 9 December
1799. He was appointed by Lieutenant-General Dundas, who
became his patron there, and to whom the first volume (part)
is dedicated, to act as secretary to a mission to the 'Booshuanas'.
The expedition eventually reached Lataku, at that time the
limit of European exploration, and was the source for
Daniell of the plates.'
Daniell's
African Scenery and
Animals is described as 'the scarcest and most valuable of
the large atlas folios of South African illustrations.'
(Mendelssohn, South African Bibliography). Description: 30
colour plates, large folio (610 x 460 mm), half blue
leather, marbled boards, a fine copy, Facsimile reprint. One
of an edition limited to 550 copies, Cape Town, (1804-1805)
1976. Estimate: $700. |
This is a facsimile reprint of
the large folio of aquatint plates, first published in
1804-1805 with an introduction and notes by Frank Bradlow and signed by
him.
Samuel Daniell arrived at the Cape on 9 December
1799. He was appointed by Lieutenant-General Dundas, who
became his patron there, and to whom the first volume (part)
is dedicated, to act as secretary to a mission to the 'Booshuanas'.
The expedition eventually reached Lataku, at that time the
limit of European exploration, and was the source for
Daniell of the plates.'
Daniell's
African Scenery and
Animals is described as 'the scarcest and most valuable of
the large atlas folios of South African illustrations.'
(Mendelssohn, South African Bibliography). Description: 30
colour plates, large folio (610 x 460 mm), half blue
leather, marbled boards, a fine copy, Facsimile reprint. One
of an edition limited to 550 copies, Cape Town, (1804-1805)
1976. Estimate: $700.
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International: Book Towns
A bookshop owner has called for fellow booksellers to
open up in Sedbergh, Cumbria, and join a booky coalition in
one of England’s three dedicated Book Towns. Sedbergh became
a member of the International Organisation of Book Towns
(IOB) in 2005, because locals wanted the town to offer more
than just tourism fare for visitors and walkers (the town
benefits from tourism to both the Yorkshire Dales National
Park and the Lake District). There are 17 IOB Book Towns in
the world, with three in the UK: Hay-on-Wye, Wigtown and
Sedburgh.
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USA: Would you believe it?
The bestselling title on Amazon in the US right now is not
Harper Lee’s hugely anticipated second novel, Go Set a
Watchman, or George RR Martin’s Song of Ice and
Fire fantasy series, or even Zoella’s much-mocked but
much-bought young adult hit, Girl Online.
Instead, Scottish illustrator Johanna Basford is topping the
charts, with her colouring books for adults taking top spots
on Amazon.com’s bestseller lists.
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UK: Varia Opuscula Theologica
Shrewsbury’s Oxfam Bookshop received
the 1600s copy of Varia Opuscula Theologica by Doctoris
Francisco Suarez from a local donor. It is listed on the
rare books website, Abe Books, with a price of about £500.
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Wales: Hay Castle infestation
In its turbulent 800 year history, Hay Castle has been
besieged, set ablaze and become a frequent target for
marauding Welsh rebels. But now the medieval stronghold that
has already endured so much is at risk of falling to a new
army of invaders… which each measure less than half an inch
long. An infestation of deathwatch beetles is putting the
imposing castle, which towers above the town of Hay-on-Wye
on the Welsh border, at peril.
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UK: Books about Islam selling
fast
Books about Islam are
flying off the shelves and selling out in France after the
deadly Charlie Hebdo terror attacks in Paris raised
questions about the religion.
Sales of books about the
religion were three times higher in the first quarter of
2015 compared to the same time last year, according to the
French National Union of Bookshops.
It comes as a
special magazine supplement from Philosphie which focused in
the Koran also saw a spike in sales following the attacks on
the French satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket,
which left 17 dead.
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USA: Take Half Off Books
thrive
As independent
bookstores struggle to survive in a landscape of reading
options, secondhand bookstores are thriving from Uptown
Whittier to Downtown Covina. Take Half Off Books at 6708
Greenleaf Avenue for example.
Owner Diane Cox has
been heartened by the support local readers have shown for
the sprawling store since it opened four years ago. Inside
the bright, airy space, patrons will find more than 40,000
books to choose from.
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USA: $10 million rare Bible
and artifact display now open and free of charge
It's an exhibition of Biblical
proportions. Ten million dollars worth of antique, unique
and original Bibles are now on display at a Provo bookstore.
In addition, there are dozens of religious and historical
artifacts. The man behind the display, rare book collector
Reid Moon, recently gave ABC 4 Utah a sneak peak. "You could
go across the United States and not find a bookshelf filled
with 50 bibles from the 1500s to the 1800s." You could call
Moon a bible bloodhound. And the collection he's spent years
amassing - along with a few loaner pieces - is now on
display at the Zion's Mercantile store located in The Shops
are Riverwoods - 4801 N. University Avenue in Provo.
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USA: US postal service
delivers misquote on Maya Angelou stamp
The US postal service on Tuesday is
unveiling a new stamp to honour one of the country’s most
celebrated writers – but the government agency may have made
a basic editing error. The new forever stamp features an oil
painting of Maya Angelou, alongside the quote: “A bird
doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it
has a song.” But on Monday, another author took credit for
the line. The children’s book author Joan Walsh Anglund told
the Washington Post that the quote is hers. It appears in
Anglund’s poem book A Cup of Sun, which was published in
1967.
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UK: Story written by future
Queen Victoria aged 10 to be published for first time
Always a diligent diary writer,
Queen Victoria’s journals run to 141 volumes comprising
43,000 pages, from which extracts were published in what
became a bestseller.
But one of her earliest
works, written when she was 10, is only now set to be
published for the first time, giving a fascinating insight
into the vivid imagination of the future monarch.
Entitled The Adventures of Alice Laselles by
Alexandrina Victoria, aged 10¾, and written in an unassuming
red composition notebook now in the Royal Archives at
Windsor Castle, it tells the story of a 12-year-old girl
sent away to boarding school after her father remarries.
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Scotland: First official
literature quarter
A
multi-million bid to create Scotland’s first official
literature quarter has been launched to mark the ten years
since Edinburgh was honoured as a global culture capital. A
stretch of the Royal Mile would be given official status in
recognition of centuries of publishing heritage in the area
and the number of literary organisations based there.
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UK: PBFA's Bury St. Edmunds Book
Fair, 11 April
Amongst
the huge selection of books, maps, prints and ephemera
offered for sale at The Athenaeum on the 11 April will be
this rare British Railways poster of the Norman Gate, Bury
St. Edmunds. It was painted by Donald Blake (1908-1997) who
was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club, the Wapping Group and
was President of the London Sketch Club. The poster measure
40” x 25” (102cm x 63cm) and was produced at some point
between 1948 and 1965. It is offered for sale, unframed, by
Black Cat Bookshop of Leicester at £295.
[Click on image to enlarge]
Also at the fair
visitors will find plenty of interesting, unusual and rare
books as Local history, British topography, natural history,
illustrated books, collectable children’s books, crime
fiction and art will all be well represented.
To
mark the forthcoming 200th Anniversary of Battle of
Waterloo, a military specialist will be bringing a selection
of books relating to the battle. There will also be a map
and print specialist attending.
The exhibitors,
members of the PBFA, come from Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex,
Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Yorkshire and even one from
Germany!
The Venue is The Athenaeum, Angel Hill,
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1LU. The fair is open from
10.00am to 4.00pm. Admission £1.00. Further details at
www.pbfa.org or speak to
the fair manager on 01245 361609.
UK: Etc's Gerrards Cross Book
Fair & 11 and Bloomsbury Book Fair 12 April
This weekend Etc Fairs has two events: the Gerrards
Cross Book Fair which takes place on Saturday 11
April - a great event located in an excellent location with
good facilities. The fair features a real diversity of
material on offer with items for sale from a few pounds up
to thousands. Great for collectors, enthusiasts or the
casual reader.
This is followed on Sunday 12
April, by the regular monthly Bloomsbury Book Fair
at the Royal National Hotel, London. This month sees well
over 100 dealers in books, maps, prints, ephemera and more,
showing a vast array of material, the exhibitor lists for
both events are available on our websites. For further
information or details phone Kim: 01707 872140 or on the
website www.etcfairs.com
USA:
New York City Book & Ephemera Fair, 11 April
The New York City Book and Ephemera Fair brings more than 50
dealers of rare and contemporary volumes, manuscripts, maps,
and unusual ephemera to Wallace Hall on Saturday, 11 April.
The fair takes place at Wallace Hall at the Church of St.
Ignatius Loyola on Park Avenue at 84th Street. Marvin Getman,
President of Impact Events Group, a New England producer of
specialty antiques and book fairs since 1981, stated the
event is "an affordable complement to the venerable ABAA
Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory". More than
50 dealers will be present. The fair promises items for both
seasoned collectors and new audiences. Given the range of
material, it could be said the New York City Rare Book and
Ephemera Fair at Wallace Hall is for music lovers, art
lovers, photography collectors, educators, historians and
readers.
Read more
UK:
PBFA's Bath Book Fair, Saturday 18 April
The PBFA Book Fair in Bath takes on
a new guise this year; in place of the two day Autumn Fair,
there are two one-day fairs. The first is on Saturday 18
April at The Assembly Rooms Bath - BA1 2QH. The Fair opens
at 10.30am and runs through until 4.30pm. Admission is just
£2 (and this gets you into Bath’s famous Assembly Rooms as
well - the haunt of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens).
More than thirty dealers will be present from all over the
UK with a wide range of tempting books at all prices.
Details of all dealers on the
PBFA
website. Further info Bath Old Books 01225 422244. The
second Fair is in October.
UK: PBFA's Bakewell Book
Fair, Saturday 18 April
The annual Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association book
fair at Bakewell is now five years old and is growing in
stature. This year the first of two fairs will be held on
Saturday, 18 April, at the Agricultural Business Centre,
Agricultural Way, Bakewell DE45 1AH. Entry will cost £1.00
although free tickets into the event are available and can
be printed off by visiting the
PBFA
website.
Being the largest book fair to be
held within the Peak District National Park. There will be
over twenty professional book dealers attending from various
locations in the UK: Cambridgeshire, County Durham, Cumbria,
Northumberland, Lancashire, Leicestershire, and of course
more locally from Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and
Lincolnshire. The event promises to offer the avid book
collector a multitude of interesting items from antiquarian
collectable books/ephemera/maps to new and used
hardback/paperbacks; from popular modern fiction to some of
the most obscure reference books imaginable ranging in
subject matter from aardvarks to zymurgy. Besides being
eager to sell books all dealers attending will be
approachable and ready to answer any enquiries that visitors
may wish to broach upon the subject of books and book
collecting.
This year the fair will be held on
two Saturday's - the first being 18th April, and a later
fair will be held on Saturday, 15th August. Admission is
from 10am until 4pm and entry will cost £1.00 unless a free
entry coupon/pass has been obtained/printed off from the web
site. The venue, which has easy disabled access, is situated
alongside the Bakewell Showground and has a large parking
area with an easy short level walk into the shopping centre
of Bakewell after visiting the fair. Refreshments are
available from the café inside the venue.
UK: PBFA's Travel and
Exploration, 19 April
The
next Travel & Exploration Fair will be held on Sunday 19
April from 11.00am to 5.00pm at the Royal Geographical
Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR. The fair offers
people the chance to see rare and beautiful books and
manuscripts detailing travels to all parts of the world.
John Bonham, organiser of the fair and RGS fellow, said:
“The fair offers an experience that online buying simply
can’t match – the buzz of being at a book fair and the
chance to see and handle rare books owned by dealers, all of
whom have an expert knowledge of their field. For many first
time visitors it can mark the beginning of a new quest in
life.”
This year’s fair features books,
photographs, maps, prints, and ephemera that celebrate
several anniversaries: Centenary of Shackleton’s Endurance
expedition to the Antarctic; 150th anniversary of the first
ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper and his party;
and the Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
Twenty-five booksellers will be also offer the public a
chance to buy items relating to travel and exploration in
all regions of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia,
Australasia, Europe, the Middle East, the Poles, as well as
books on military expeditions and mountaineering.
Among items on offer are:
- The Endurance caught in
the Ice – a photographs of Shackleton’s expedition ship
caught in the Antarctic ice by Frank Hurley;
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South, Shackleton’s account of the Endurance expedition;
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Scrambles Amongst the Alps, Whymper’s description of the
first ascent of the
Matterhorn;
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An album of photographs of a visit to Beijing in the 1930s;
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Voyages – the search for La Pérouse in the Pacific,
Amundsen’s navigation of the
North
West Passage.
For more information about the fair call
John Bonham on 020 7402 7064, email
info@bonhambooks.co.uk or go to the
PBFA website.
UK: PBFA's Oxford Book Fair, 25 and
26 April
The annual
PBFA Oxford Book
Fair is one of the largest events in the antiquarian,
rare and second-hand book, map, print and ephemera calendar.
In 2015 over 100 dealers will offer tens of thousands of
rare and collectable items.
Held at the Oxford
Brookes University campus, it offers good national transport
links via rail and road. In the past, the Oxford Book Fair
has attracted the attention of national media with notable
highlights, such as an archive of the First World War
aviator who coined the term 'joystick'.
The
Daily Mail and
Telegraph have already published previews - both are
well worth viewing.
The venue is the Oxford
Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford
OX3 0BP. Admission: £2 or free via the website - opening
hours are Saturday 25 April from Noon - 6.00pm, and Sunday
26 April 10.0am-4.00pm.
For further information
please contact: Tom Lintern-Mole (07921 151496,
tom@lintern-mole.com)
or Peter Hill (07703 533866,
ppeterhill.books@btinternet.com)
UK: Buxton Book Fair, Sunday
26 April
The next Buxton
Book Fair takes place at the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton,
Derbyshire, SK17 6BE on Sunday 26 April from 10.00am to
4.00pm. Admission Adults £1.50. Concessions £1.00.
Accompanied children 12 and under Free.
The venue
is set in twenty-two beautiful acres of Parkland - there's a
large pay and display car park nearby. Also, there is a cafe
and large restaurant, shop and Art Gallery. Visitors can
also visit the large Hot House with Plants & Fish. For more
local information there is a large Tourist Information
Centre & Large Shop and Art Gallery. |
UK: PBFA's Children's
Illustrated & Modern First Editions, 21 March
The PBFA's Children’s Illustrated &
Modern First Editions, held at the Hilton London Olympia
Hotel (Kensington High Street) was a great fair. Numbers
through the door were vastly up on last year and the
thirty-two dealers took £60,000 in just six hours of
trading! The top two takes were £9,000 and £7,000 and the
average was £1,700.
Fergus Fleming of the Queen
Anne Press who joined the event at the eleventh hour did
very well too. He plans to attend other events in the
future. His limited editions are stunning.
It’s a
fair with a great atmosphere and the majority of sales are
to real collectors. |
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Words that
have fallen out of use
Here is another - can you recall a word or phrase
that has fallen out of use?
'Slugabed' (noun). A lazy person who stays in bed long
after the usual time for rising.
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USA: The ABAA has issued the following notice
Reported MISSING from the estate
of Henry Laughlin in San Francisco:
A set of Pound’s
“Inquest” series, published by William Bird, at Three
Mountains Press, Paris, 1924 (170 copies of each
edition), including:
1. Hemingway, IN OUR TIME
2. Windeler, ELIMUS
3. Ford Madox Ford, WOMEN & MEN
4. Pound, INDISCRETIONS
5. BMG Adams, ENGLAND
6.
WC Williams, GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL*
* At one time, the
first 5 titles were together in a custom slipcase, while
#6, Williams’ GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL was kept separately.
Seeing the titles in a slipcase (whether 5 or 6) may be
an indication that these are the missing books in
question.
ALSO REPORTED MISSING:
Pound, HOW TO
READ. TO Publishers, [1932].
Pound’s copy, with his
penciled corrections. Later ownership signature of poet
Ronald Duncan, to whom EP gave it. Poor condition.
If you have any information about these titles or
have been recently offered these titles, please contact:
ABAA Security Chair Garrett Scott,
garrett@bibliophagist.com or (734) 741-8605 |
UK: ABA latest new
members
Ian Barnes
(FM) - Temple Rare Books
Edmund Brumfitt (FM) – Edmund
Brumfitt Rare Books
Andrea Mazzocchi (AM) – Bernard
Quaritch Ltd
Nick McBurney (AM) – G Heywood Hill
Richard Wells (FM) – Richard V Wells
Adam Yates (FM)
– Grove Rare Books
Scotland: J Hewit and Son
News Bulletin No.29 (April 2015) has
just been published. |
UK: The Bookhunter on Safari
Readers might like to follow Laurence Worms (ABA's immediate Past President), as he writes about the trade and the
dealers he visits on his safari around the UK!
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on image to read his latest posting.
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For anyone not used to searching these catalogues - once the file has been opened on your PC, there
are two ways to search for a title. Either hold the Control key down (Ctrl) and hit `F', or click `Edit' then
either `Find' or `Search'.
We now offer the additional service of converting your files into formats that suit devices
such as 'smart phones', e-readers' and 'tablets'. But to obtain the best layout, please also send in your Word or
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If you use an iPad and have had
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During 2014 our site attracted a huge number of visits
from the public, collectors and dealers. In the 12
months of last year, 43,400 people visited the summary
page of catalogues - that's over 3,600 a month. And over
5,540 downloads resulted of which 4,700 were PDF files.
One feature of our site is that visitors can search
across ALL the PDF files in one hit using a key word or
expression.
This shortens the search time and makes
the site a very effective. So it is well worth your time
to have your catalogues added.
Catalogues received this week include:
Australia:
Gaston Renard Pty Ltd (Miscellany)
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England:
Jeffrey Stern (Literature)
Janette Ray Rare and Out of Print Books (Architecture and Design) |
Ireland:
De Burca Rare Books
(A selection of fine, rare and important books & manuscripts
) |
USA:
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians
LLC (Jacob Lateiner Part V +
other Private
Collections - Robert Schumann
) |
To download these and all others - there are
over 100 listed - go to:
Catalogues
Please contact dealers direct and mention where you saw the book! Note that catalogues
remain on view for approximately four to seven weeks.
New catalogues are always welcome. If you have one, then please send it to us
at: office@sheppardsworld.co.uk
Note: Files please in a PDF format but we can convert Word
and HTML files. If possible please add your contact details
at the top of the first page, a summary of subjects and a
total of items on the first page after the cover.
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Letters to the Editor
[The views and opinions expressed in this letters
column are not necessarily those of either the Editor or the
Publisher. We welcome letters on any subject concerning the
trade.]
A call for help
Dear Sir
The PBFA have been
organising Book Fairs in Edinburgh for over 40 years and
although exhibitor numbers have declined in recent years, we
are confident that we have a strong and viable future. It
therefore comes as a great shock to see that Edinburgh
Council have increased the Stamp and Book Dealers Annual
License from £24 to £59 for the year 2015/16. These
individual fees are payable by each of our members wishing
to exhibit at any of our five annual events in Edinburgh.
As far as I know, no other city in the UK imposes
these charges. In addition, we have to contend with a
massively bureaucratic and costly process whereby each of
our venues has to be authorised by the council following the
public display of a Site Notice. We even have to submit a
layout plan, a detailed Risk Assessment and confirm that the
venue is compliant with electrical wiring regulations -
really, a great big box ticking exercise! It's the same
information each year for the same venue. And this costs
money - the PBFA has to apply annually for a License which
costs about £500 p.a.
We even toyed with the idea
of trying Pop-Up venues a couple of years ago - we wanted to
take our events to different, new venues, to areas of high
footfall, where we could reach new customers - and to our
amazement found out that we would have to go through the
same old rigmarole and pay an additional £300 for the
privilege. That idea simply can't fly given these
significant costs.
What are Edinburgh Council
trying to do? These costs, wholly attributable in our minds
to fund a bureaucratic nightmare, add nothing and endanger
our very survival.
We are a proud and
professional Association with a long and proven track
record. We want our events to prosper and we also want to
continue to be part of, and contribute to, Edinburgh's
cultural capital. I urge all our members, and indeed all
your readers, to make the Council aware of the very real
danger these increased costs pose to our survival. [Here's
the link to the
Council's Complaints e-mail address - just
click on the hyperlink. Ensure you head it Stamp and Book
Dealers Annual License.] Are the hotels, restaurants and
transport systems not in need of the indirect contribution
we make to the local economy? Andy Betchley,
Chairman, PBFA Scotland & UK National Secretary.
[Also, if you do lodge a complaint, please let
either Andy or the editor know. Thanks.] |
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to the list are shown in bold.
| Certain Odd Anagrams |
| Codex Chiromantiae, Appendix A. Dactylomancy, Or
Finger-Ring Magic, Ancient, Mediaeval And Modern. |
| Codex Chiromantiae, Being A Compleate Manualle
Of Ye Science And Arte |
| Criminous Clerks |
| Down Those Mean Streets a Gentleman's Gentleman Must Go;
or, What Ho Hornblower |
| Engraving a Diamond |
| Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria |
| Every Schoolboys Knows |
| Frost Fairs on the Thames |
| Hodges Against Chanot: Being The History Of A Celebrated
Case. |
| Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society |
| Kisses Of Fate. A Study Of Mere Human Nature |
| Lady Macbeth. A Study. |
| Monkeys and Chimeras |
| Nature. A Weekly Journal Of Science |
| Old Men Remember |
| Our Noble Selves. A Portion of an Epic |
| Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |
| Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London |
| Proceedings Royal Institution of Great Britain |
| Prolegomena Towards The Study of The Chalk Foraminifera |
| Protonotary |
| Queries: Past, Present & Future |
| Saxton Churchm Lead Chapel & Towton Church |
| suggestions for the improvement of the law of copyright |
| The Ancestry Of The Violin |
| The Cheetah-Girl |
| The Florist and Pomologist, and Suburban Gardner |
| The Gods of the Fourth World |
| The Heart of England |
| The Origin and Manufacture of Playing Cards |
| The Real Pirates of Borneo |
| Very Large Numbers |
| William Stickney 1764-1848 of Ridgemont |
| With the British Association in South Africa |
| Ye Magic Mirrour of Old Japan |
| Ye Roll of Ye Set of Odd Volumes |
Sheppard's Confidential © No. 409 9 April
2015
Published by Richard Joseph Publishers Ltd, PO Box
15, Torrington, Devon, EX38 8ZJ England
Contributors: Paul J Feain, (NSW Australia), Bon Summers, (Ancient City Booksellers,
Florida).
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