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A Lost Novel
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Jane Austen?
An Analytical Essay
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Osric Allen
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International: Original drawings
depicting iconic Martians from HG Wells' sci-fi masterpiece
The War of the Worlds are on sale for £350,000
32 pencil and ink drawings to be sold in Dallas, Texas on 14
May by experts who said there is 'nothing like them'. Drawn
by Henrique Alvim Corrêa and included in 1906 edition of the
book after Wells did not like initial illustrations.
Read more
International: EL James has
earned £75m but lies in fourth place
Her books are frequently found
carefully hidden among bookshelves, and when they were made
into a film. Going to see it was treated as a clandestine
affair. But Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James, of London,
has no need to hide away after she rocketed to fourth place
in the Sunday Times Rich List of authors. With an estimated
wealth of £75million the 52-year-old knocked Jackie Collins
down to fifth place.
Read more
[The top
five authors' books may not make many sales in the
secondhand market however. Ed.]
UK: Scholium Group has a
surprising investor
The
family of the late pornography baron and property tycoon
Paul Raymond has emerged as an unlikely major backer of a
rare book dealer. Bateman Street Investments, a little-known
vehicle that has a stake in Scholium Group, is controlled by
the same private trust company that owns Soho Estates, the
property business set up Mr Raymond, The Sunday Telegraph
can reveal.
Read more
UK: Ruth Rendell dies
The best-selling crime writer Ruth
Rendell has died aged 85, her publisher has said. The
celebrated British author was best known for her series of
novels featuring Chief Inspector Wexford.
Read more
USA: First-ever copy of
Playboy magazine featuring Marilyn Monroe naked set to fetch
over $2,700 at auction
The first copy of Playboy magazine featuring Marilyn Monroe
as centerfold is set to go under the hammer. A world away
from its modern, glossy successor, this copy boasts it is
the first 'full color' magazine but only features black,
white, grey and a touch of red.
Dated from December 1953, it
is the first appearance of the 'Playboy Bunny', decked out
in a smoking jacket with a pipe in his mouth. In an
introduction to Volume 1, Number 1, it clearly states that
Playboy not 'a family magazine'.
Read more
UK: The days of unlimited
internet access may be numbered.
Web access may soon be rationed as
Britain's infrastructure BUCKLES under the ever-growing
demand for online access. Industry experts are set to meet
with the Royal Society next week to discuss the two biggest
problems facing the internet in the UK - its surging power
demands and its capacity to carry data. The internet is
already consuming at least eight per cent of Britain's power
output – and demand is soaring. Professor Andrew Ellis, an
expert in optical communications at Aston University, claims
existing cables will reach their capacity limit by the end
of this decade – triggering a 'potentially disastrous
capacity crunch'.
Read more
International: Google
reviewed in European Commission's shake-up of digital market
(also Amazon & Facebook)
The European Commission (EC) is set to carry out a
wide-ranging review of the role of some of the world's
biggest online companies as it considers tighter regulation.
The months-long inquiry will delve into issues of
transparency of search results and pricing, data use,
promotion of services and relationships between companies.
It is part of the EC's Digital Market Strategy, unveiled on
May 6. The paper sets out a number of policy proposals
designed to boost economic growth by reducing national
barriers for online services.
Read more
USA: North Country Books
Opens a New Store in Winooski
Winooski may not be the retail mecca
of Chittenden County, but local bibliophiles now have
another good reason to shop the Onion City. North Country
Books, a longtime purveyor of used and antiquarian books,
has reopened a physical store for those who prefer to thumb
through books before buying them. Unlike the store's
previous incarnations in downtown Burlington, the new
Winooski space is sunlit, airy and — much to the delight of
owner Mark Ciufo — above ground.
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USA: Commonwealth Books
consolidate
Commonwealth
Books, where shoppers can buy everything from medieval
manuscripts to current paperbacks, is entering a new chapter
in Downtown Crossing.
After running two locations within
a minute's walk of each other for six years, the locally
owned shop is consolidating in the larger of the two on
Spring Lane. The location at 2 Milk St. will close at the
end of this month.
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UK: Mark Twain stories, 150
years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars
Scholars at the University of
California, Berkeley have uncovered and authenticated a
cache of stories written by Mark Twain when he was a
29-year-old newspaperman in San Francisco. Many of the
stories are 150 years old.
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UK: Manor house that inspired
Thomas Hardy goes on sale for £3.25m
In the euphemistic prose of an
estate agent, Thomas Hardy’s Oxwell Hall might be said to
have “room for improvement”. The author described the house
as a “rambling and neglected dwelling” in which cress grew
from the plaster.
But when the real-life
inspiration for the hall, Poxwell Manor in Dorset, went on
sale for £3.25 million, the particulars tactfully omitted
Hardy’s unflattering description, opting instead to stress
its rather more 21st century assets, including a swimming
pool, tennis courts and a helipad.
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USA: Two Booksellers, 13
Bookstores, Six Days! A Road Trip Photo Essay
It all started, as many stories
these days do, through a text message. It only took moments
for two Massachusetts booksellers, Hannah Moushabeck of
Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley and Sara Hines of Eight
Cousins in Falmouth, to decide that “Yes, traveling 389
miles in five days and visiting as many bookshops as
possible along the California coast was a fine idea.”
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[Stunning images of bookshops - selling new and used titles.
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UK: The Annual London Fairs Season
Here is a short calendar of the
fairs taking place this year. Plan ahead and make your travel arrangements now!
| Date |
Organisation |
Venue (Opening
times) |
Info. |
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Sat 23 May |
London Photograph Fair |
Two Temple Place Embankment, London WC2R 3B (1pm to 8pm) |
Details |
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Sun 24 May |
London Photograph Fair |
Two Temple Place Embankment, London WC2R 3B (1pm to 8pm) |
Details |
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Sun 24 May |
Ephemera Society |
Holiday Inn London - Bloomsbury
Coram Street (11am to
4pm) |
Details |
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Sun 24 May |
Etc's Bloomsbury Summer Book Fair |
Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, Bloomsbury (10am to 4pm) |
Details |
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Thu 28 May |
Rare Books London
ABA's London International Book Fair |
Olympia National Hall, Hammersmith
(2pm to 8pm) |
Details |
Fri 29
May |
Rare Books London
PBFA's Summer International Book
Fair |
ILEC Conference Centre, Ibis Hotel
(2pm to 7pm) |
Details |
Fri 29
May |
Rare Books London
ABA's London International Book Fair |
Olympia National Hall, Hammersmith
(11am to 7pm) |
Details |
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Sat 30 May |
Rare Books London
PBFA's Summer International Book
Fair |
ILEC Conference Centre, Ibis Hotel
(10am to 4pm) |
Details |
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Sat 30 May |
Rare Books London
ABA's London International Book Fair |
Olympia National Hall, Hammersmith
(11am to 5pm) |
Details |
Sun 31
May |
Etc's Bloomsbury Summer Book, Ephemera & Postcard Fair |
Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, Bloomsbury (9.30m to
3pm) |
Details |
Sat 6
Jun |
The London Map Fair |
Royal Geographical Society
Kensington Gore (12 Noon to
7pm) |
Details |
Sun 7
Jun |
The London Map Fair |
Royal Geographical Society
Kensington Gore (10am to 6pm) |
Details |
UK: The Annual London Fairs Season - Previews
Book your travel arrangements
in good time!
UK: Etc Fairs
Etc Fairs, as usual, has two
Summer Fairs for International Fairs week in London. The
first, the Bloomsbury
Summer Book Fair ‘kicks
off’ the week on Sunday 24 May, in the Galleon and Ellis
Suites, at the Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London
WC1H 0DG. The fair is fully booked, and is one of the
key fairs of the week with dealers from all over the UK,
Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and more! Expect
specialists in all areas with some of the very best
stock available. There are also map, ephemera and print
specialists, alongside auctioneers and bookbinders. This
year promises to be a great event! We have Exhibitors
Lists with specialisms and contact details on our
website, alongside Dealer Highlights running between now
and the fair date.
This is followed on Sunday
31 May with our second fair of the week, the
Bloomsbury Book, Ephemera &
Postcard Fair, which over
the past few years has proved to be very popular with
both visitors and exhibitors as it provides a great
finale for International Fairs week. This fair, which
although is well known for its ephemera, has an equal
number of bookdealers, as well specialists in prints,
maps, posters and now a large contingent of postcard
dealers. In the same venue as the Bloomsbury Book Fair,
it’s easy to find, with great facilities and friendly
atmosphere. Find details of both these great events on
the website,
www.etcfairs.com with links to the individual fairs.
UK: Peterborough Book Fair, Sunday 10 May
Highgate Hall in the delightful
village of Elton just outside Peterborough will play
host to 15 exhibitors this Sunday. Dealers, from as far
afield as Essex, Leicestershire, Suffolk, Norfolk and
Nottinghamshire will be attending.
There will be a
wide range of books on offer plus some postcards. Home
made refreshments are available all day. Free parking.
Elton is only 5 minutes drive from the junction of the
A1 and the A604. PE8 6RU for 'sat nav' users. The fair
is open from 10.00am to 4.00pm. More details can be
found at
www.missingbookfairs.co.uk
UK: The BB Society's Book Fair, Sunday 10 May
The BB Society is holding a Book
Fair on Sunday 10 May (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) at The
Village Hall, Holcot Road, Brixworth, Northamptonshire NN6
9BS from 10.00am to 4.00pm. A wide range of titles from top
book dealers from around the country. There will be books on
Local History, Country Pursuits, Birds and Butterflies,
Flora & Fauna - and antiquarian books, prints and posters,
maps and art books. Further details from Bryce Hanlon
on 07796 664670 or
bhanlon@btinternet.com.
Read more
UK: PBFA's Essex Book
Fair, Sunday 17 May
The eleventh PBFA Essex Book Fair will be held on Sunday
17 May from 10.00am - 4.00pm, at the magnificent venue
of Hylands House (CM2 8WQ), just outside Chelmsford, the
county town of Essex. This is the first time that the
fair will be held in spring, having moved from its usual
autumn slot. The house is set in acres of beautiful
parkland, with ample parking and catering available.
PBFA members from around the country will be offering an
attractive mixture of items, including first editions
and literature, antiquarian, topography, children’s and
illustrated, art, military, crime fiction, prints and
ephemera and much more. Entry is £1.00
Read
more
UK: Dorchester Book Fair, 17
MayNote: Change of venue and visit by Julian Francis)
Julian Francis, co-author with Martin Andrews of the
new book about Rena Gardiner, the Dorset artist and
printmaker, will be visiting the next Dorchester Book
Fair which, due to a double booking at Stratton, will be
held at Frampton Village Hall, Dorchester Road, DT2 9NG.
The village is situated off the A37 Dorchester to Yeovil
Road and if you are travelling from Dorchester it is the
first turning on the left as you leave the village of
Grimstone. The Hall is at the very end of the village on
the left hand side.
There will be eighteen dealers
attending and offering the usual good selection of
antiquarian, secondhand and collectable books. There
will be copies of the new book for sale and examples of
Rena’s work will be on display. The usual selection of
delicious refreshments will be supplied by Summerfields
and available all day. The Fair will be returning to its
regular venue at Stratton for November.’
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UK: PBFA's Oxford Book Fair,
25 & 26 April
The doors
opened to the 2015 Oxford book fair a few minutes early - in
order to keep our loyal queueing customers out of an
imminent rain shower but in all other respects it was
business as usual. We were welcomed back to the Oxford
Brookes Headington campus, which is now transformed and
includes numerous new cafes and shops amidst an
architectural feat of a new library.
Thanks to the
efforts of several of our exhibitors, most notably
Blackwells, Quaritch, Michael Taylor, Temple Rare Books and
Hedley Morgan (amongst many others!), and with assistance
from key allies in the academic and auction worlds, the
number of complimentary tickets distributed for the 2015
fair almost doubled. This year also saw the addition of
lamp post banners on the pavements of Oxford. All of these
efforts seem to have created a bit of a buzz amidst the
dreaming spires; visitor numbers were up over 10%.
Click on images to
enlarge. Photos by R Joseph and Tom Lintern-Mole
While we're talking figures, getting down to brass tacks the
figures were in general very encouraging. Our 103 exhibitors
took an average of just over £1900 each (up 7% from 2014),
translating to a total take of just over £198,000 (up 16%
from 2014). Just to reinforce how well established the
Oxford Book Fair has become in the last few years, thanks in
no small part to the efforts of Peter Hill and Marcus Niner,
sales to the general public hit almost 40% this year.
Onwards and upwards for 2016!
Exhibitors and
customers couldn't have had more help and support from our
fabulous 'door people' Pat and Margaret - who have made the
life of all those involved in book fairs easier for many
years! Thanks to both. Final thanks go to Conor Pattenden of
Zetetic Books and Jim Hine of Gresham Books, for their
dedication to the cause of logistical arrangements, Mike
Kemp for untiring press-liaison, Oxford printers Joshua
Horgans, for printing our lovely fair catalogues, and of
course the members and administrators of the PBFA for
continuing to support the PBFA fair, bringing their best,
most interesting and competitively priced stock to the fair.
Tom Lintern-Mole, Fair Manager
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Swann Galleries' Maps
& Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, 19
May
On Tuesday, 19 May Swann
Galleries will conduct an auction of Maps & Atlases,
Natural History & Color Plate Books with works by
John James Audubon, rare views, maps and atlases, as
well as a number of original watercolors and
drawings.
Featured in the run of works
related to Audubon are two manuscripts: an 1827
Autograph Letter Signed to his wife Lucy, in which
he discusses plans to send a copy of Birds of
America to soon-to-be President Andrew Jackson, and
his intentions for his family’s set (estimate:
$8,000 to $12,000). Another Autograph Manuscript,
unsigned, is Audubon’s 1826 working draft for his
Ornithological Biography entry on the Red-Winged
Starling. It is being offered with the corresponding
plates from both the first octavo and the double
elephant folio editions of Birds of America ($15,000
to $25,000).
The top lot is Pieter Goos’s
De Zee-Atlas / Ofte Water-Wereld, an atlas with 41
engraved maps, including 39 double-page maps, a
folding map and an additional map of New Jersey, all
with original hand-color in outline. Published in
Amsterdam in 1672, this important atlas is estimated
at $70,000 to $100,000. An earlier De Zee-Atlas by
Hendrik Doncker, Amsterdam, circa 1660, is also in
the sale ($60,000 to $90,000). Both represent the
height of Dutch sea cartography and come from
separate private collections.
Other
important atlases include Johannes de Laet’s Novus
Orbis seu Discriptionis Indiae Occidentalis Libri
XVII, Leiden, 1633, called by Burden “the finest
description of the Americas published in the
seventeenth century” ($10,000 to $15,000); Louis
Rednard’s Atlas de la navigation, Amsterdam, 1715
($30,000 to $50,000); and P. da Medina’s L’Arte del
navegar, Venice, 1554, the first Italian edition of
the first reliable pilot for New World waters, also
noteworthy as the first practical treatise on
navigation ($8,000 to $12,000).
The
auction will begin at 1.30pm on Tuesday, 19 May. The
material will be on public exhibition Thursday, 14
May and Friday 15 May from 10.00am to 6.00pm,
Saturday, 16 May from Noon to 5.00pm, Monday, 18 May
from 10.00am to 6.00pm and Tuesday, 19 May from
10.00am to Noon.
An illustrated catalogue
with information on bidding by mail or fax is
available for $35 from Swann Galleries, 104 East
25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at
www.swanngalleries.com.
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Colombia: First edition of Garcia
Marquez novel stolen in Bogota
It was being exhibited in a locked cabinet
at the International Book Fair in the Colombian capital, Bogota. The
fair, which closes on Monday, is dedicated to Garcia Marquez, who
died last year at the age of 87.
The book is estimated to
be worth $60,000 (£40,000) but its owner says for him its value is
immeasurable.
Read more
UK: From Nigel Burwood
(Any Amount of Books)
A man
(please contact the PBFA's office to see photo) has been identified
by another bookseller as a book thief, and has been seen in our shop
a couple of times and been chased out. Unfortunately today (1 May)
he managed to get away with 2 books in the £30.00 range. He took
them downstairs when the shop was busy and must have put them in his
bag.
We have him on CCTV taking the books from the shelf
and also hiding, in the shop, two other books including an odd
volume of a biography of Diderot, the other volume of which he took.
The police have been informed.
The man is very
nondescript apart from tattoos on his left forearm and on his neck.
He is about 50 years old, of a slim and gangly build (with a pot
belly). He has closely cropped hair and parks his metallic mint
green bike outside the shop.
Anyone with any information
please contact the PBFA's office. (Tel: 01763 248400 Email:
info@pbfa.org)
UK: Peter Moore
With effect from Friday 1 May,
stock has been moved from Unit 7 to Unit 10A which from
this date will only be used as warehouse. The
e-mail
address has not changed but in future trade will be
by mail order, the Internet and at PBFA book fairs.
All mail should be address to Peter Moore, 7 Meadow Way,
Harston, Cambridge CB22 7NQ. The business is no longer
open 'by appointment'.
UK: Inch's Books
As from 1 April 2015 Alex
Hollingsworth acquired the business from Peter and
Eleanor Inch who have retired. He intends to run the
business as it has been run previously. The new address
for Inch’s Books is 34 Canal Street, Oxford OX2 6BQ UK
(Telephone +44 (0)7710 542 000). The website,
www.inchsbooks.co.uk and email address
info@inchsbooks.co.uk remain the same.
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UK: The Bookhunter on Safari
Readers might like to follow Laurence Worms (ABA's Past President), as he writes about the trade and the
dealers he visits on his safari around the UK!
Click
on image to read his latest posting.
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The cost of the service - as it is promoting your business
to collectors and dealers in 44 countries
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Fair Organisers Promotion of Exhibitors' Top Titles
Fair organisers can now offer
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promotion of dealers' titles that they intend to bring to the
event. If a fair manager can obtain details of the top
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exhibitors, paste them into the
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The main benefit is that the list
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sitting on a website which is passive.
Most of our services are free but we are asking £10
for the insertion per fair -
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Sheppard's Confidential.
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information, write to
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If dates for next year's events are known - do create new
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The entry form used to create entries has been changed.
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Catalogues on Sheppard's Confidential
Catalogues sent in are uploaded to our website where they can be searched and
browsed. Placing them on one location makes it quicker for users to locate catalogues containing
the subjects of books in which they are interested. So we welcome catalogues from all members of
the trade.
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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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 (Leonardo da Vinci and some other art books)
Douglas Stewart Fine Books (Recent
acquisitions - May)
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Denmark:
Sophia Rare Books
(Recent arrivals) |
USA:
Robinson Street Books (History of Science)
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians
LLC (The Collection of
Jacob Lateiner Part VI) |
UK:
New books
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| 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, Presemt & 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. 413 7 May
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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