UK: York Book Fair, Saturday 12 January Each January the PBFA host a one-day second-hand and antiquarian book fair at the Knavesmire, York. And each year the fair has grown. This year the York New Year Book Fair will host 130 bookdealers who will be selling everything from early printed books to modern first editions and children's books. Visitors the to the fair will have an opportunity to look at and buy a variety of printed materials that includes, not only books, but maps, prints, and ephemera.   The fair will take place on Saturday 12 January. It opens at 10.00 and closes at 4.30pm. There is an admission charge of £1.00 but free tickets can be downloaded from the PBFA's website.   Tickets are also available from a number of local second-hand bookshops in York. A free shuttle bus is also available running to and from the fair, every 30 minutes. The bus leaves York from the Memorial Gardens (which is a five minute walk from the railway station). The first bus is at 9.30.

 
 

 
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UK: Forum Auctions - Thursday 10 January Sale The New Year begins very much where 2018 left off - with Forum Auctions leading the way with offerings of books and works on paper on a myriad of subjects and value-ranges. Their first sale of 2019 is an online one on Thursday 10 January. Over 170 lots will come under the virtual hammer with the sale countdown starting at 1pm. The eclectic mixture includes Russian newspapers; an 18th century manuscript on a Somerset sea wall; a Rene Kieffer binding; a receipt book of one Joshua Porter of Kaighnton, New Jersey; autograph letter from a soldier at Gallipoli; a rare 17th century verse satire against Brandy; several lots of curious 18th century poetry; smuggling; Blackfriars Bridge; rules for playing Skittles; Derby & Nottingham imprints; fore-edge paintings; literary greats such as Dickens, George Eliot and Trollope; postcards; Chess; large lots of vellum and limp leather bindings; escapology; a chocolate trade catalogue; wine menus; bookplates; Churchill's Centenary Edition Works; bibliography; children's and illustrated including Golliwog books; architectural plans and drawings; photograph albums; travel & topography; ordnance survey maps of Kent; agriculture; and New Naturalists series. The auctioneers decamp to Mayfair at the end of the month for 2 days of auctions: on Tuesday 29 January a 272-lot sale of Old Master to Modern Prints, with works by artists from Rembrandt to Banksy and taking in Picasso, Dali, Hockney, Miro, Hirst et al along the way. The star lot is a stunning unique screenprint of The Beatles by Andy Warhol, produced in 1980, which carries an estimate of £70,000-90,000.   The following day, on Wednesday 30 January, Forum has amassed an exceptional selection of 568 lots of 'modern' books and works on paper under the heading Private Press, Illustrated Books and Modern First Editions. Split into a morning and afternoon session (starting at 10.30am and 2.30pm), the first session comprises the life-long collection of the late Bruce Beatty, a well-liked collector from Bristol who died in 2018. The afternoon session includes books from the library of Anthony Dowd, a distinguished collector of private press books and designer bindings, and other consignments which between them cover many of the major private presses - Ashendene, Doves, Eragny, Essex House, Gogmagog, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, Kelmscott, Officina Bodoni, Vale, Whittington - numerous other presses, livres d'artistes, photobooks, calligraphic manuscripts and original artwork. Highlights from this extraordinary auction include: • The Cranach Press Hamlet, 1930 (est. £4,000-6,000) • Shakespeare's Poems, Essex House Press, 1899 (est. £1,000-1,500) • 8 specimen vellum leaves from Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927 (est. £1,000-1,500) • Eric Gill's two masterpieces for the Golden Cockerel Press - Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., 1929 (est. £3,000-5,000) and The Four Gospels, 1931 (est. £5,000-7,000) • One of the rarest works from the decadent 1890s, John Gray's Silverpoints, one of 25 large paper copies, original vellum binding designed by Charles Ricketts, 1893 (est. £2,000-3,000) • Joyce's Ulysses, Limited Editions Club, 1935, one of only 250 copies signed by Joyce and the artist Henri Matisse (est. £6,000-8,000) • Ovid's L'Art d'Aimer, illustrated by Aristide Maillol, 1935 (est. £3,000-4,000) • Dylan Thomas' Twenty-Six Poems, one of 150 signed copies, Officina Bodoni, 1949 (est. £1,000-1,500) • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, illustrated by Barry Moser, Pennyroyal Press, 1983 (est. £1,000-1,500) • Regnier's Le Bon Plaisir, illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage, one of 31 artist's copies and bound in goatskin by R. Marchal, 1929 (est. £1,000-1,500) • Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, Vale Press, 1897, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge's copy (est. £800-1,200) • Several works by Oscar Wilde, including a fine copy of The Sphinx, one of only 25 large paper copies, 1894 (est. £10,000-15,000) • Designer bindings by James Brockman, Elizabeth Greenhill, Pierre-Lucien Martin and Renaud Vernier • Bernard & Annabel Buffet's Le Voyage au Japon, one of 20 signed copies, 1981 (est. £2,500-3,500) • Anton Corbijn's The Rolling Stones, one of 75 copies signed by the band and with a print signed by the artist, 2014 (est. £4,000-6,000) • Design for the frontispiece to A Dream of John Ball, after Edward Burne-Jones, Kelmscott Press, 1892 (est. £2,000-3,000) • Stunning large pen and ink drawing by Jessie M. King, The Lament, [1890s] (est. £10,000-15,000) • Fernand Leger's Cirque, 1950 (est. £10,000-15,000) • Helmut Newton's Sumo, 1999 (est. £3,000-5,000) • 3 works illustrated by Picasso - Roy's La Guerre et La Paix, 1954 (est. £2,500-3,500); Cocteau's Picasso de 1916 a 1961, 1962 (est. £2,000-3,000); and Reverdy's Sable Mouvant, 1966 (est. £8,000-12,000) • Mirbeau's Le Jardin des Supplices, the only book illustrated by Auguste Rodin, 1902 (est. £2,000-3,000) • Whittington Press, Matrix, deluxe set, 1985-2011 (est. £5,000-7,000) • First American edition of Albert Camus' The Stranger, rare signed presentation copy, New York, 1946 (est. £5,000-7,000) • Crowder's Henry Music, one of 100 copies, Hours Press, 1930 (est. £1,500-2,000) • Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, first English language edition, 1912 (est. £1,500-2,000) • Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940, signed by the author (est. £1,500-2,000) For full catalogues, details of viewing times and other information, please visit www.forumauctions.co.uk

 

UK: A Johannes de Laet book was stolen from a stand at the PBFA Fair, ILEC  Conference Centre, Ibis London Earls Court Hotel, London on 2 June 2017 Johannes de Laet: De Imperio Magni Mogolis, Sive India Vera Commentarius. Leiden: Elzevier. 1631. Second edition. 24mo. (110x55mm). pp. [8], 285, [16]. Contemporary brown sheepskin with upper and lower covers lavishly decorated with gilt fleur de lys pattern inside a decorated border. Spine has five compartments and four raised bands. Second compartment has abbreviated title stamped in gilt. Other compartments are tooled in gilt. All edges gilt. Title page has an engraving by Cornelius Claeszoon Duysend with a portrait of the Great Moghul. This is the second edition which was published in the same year as the first edition and with the same text but slightly reset resulting in 285 pages rather than the 299 of the first edition. The lovely binding is in fine condition and the contents have only very minor foxing. The book comes with a tan morocco slip case signed R Wallis, Binder.   Anyone with information is asked to contact: Philip Austin or Thomas Austin, Fine Art Specie Adjusters Ltd. Tel: +44 (0) 2380 428833. Quote Ref: FASA18111358 Email: office@fasadjusters.co.uk  Web: www.fasadjusters.co.uk

 

UK:  D&M Packaging Supplies Limited This month sees the publication of the company's latest catalogue for 2019. This edition includes number of new products:   These include a number of new book repair tapes, book covers and a new antique supplies section.   Jacket Covers Archival Films Exercise Book Covers Paperback Covers Book Mailers Conservation Supplies Repair Materials Library Supplies Book Tapes If anyone requires a free copy call 01924 495768 or email info@care4books.com.

   
 

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.   UK: Industry & Idleness We welcome a new blog by Marc Harrison, of Harrison-Hiett Rare Books and Past Chairman of the PBFA.  Click on image to read his latest news.

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. Note: [number of titles included in catalogue] are being added where known. If you use an iPad and have had difficulty in seeing PDF files, please download iDownloader to your device first. UK: Claude Cox Old & Rare Books (The Bookplate Library of Peter Allpress, Bookplates, Heraldry, Medals & Books about Books)  [504] To download these and all others - there is a large number om the site to view and the list is updated weekly - 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, some longer when requested.   New catalogues are always welcome. If you have one, then please send it to us at: office@sheppardsworld.co.uk Note: Prefer files 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. 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.]   No letters this week. To browse the list and to see more details, go to www.sheppardsconfidential.com - View Books Wanted. Users can sort titles, authors, and publishers into alphabetical order.  Do check as new book titles appear from time to time. To see the publisher and author for the titles shown below - click here.   If you have a copy for sale then notify the dealer by sending your e-mail address via this site. Latest additions to the list are shown in bold. Sheppard's Confidential © No. 595 4 January 2019 Published by Richard Joseph Publishers Ltd, Torrington, Devon, EX38 8JH England Contributors: Bon Summers, (Ancient City Booksellers, Florida). Send all contributions and letters to The Editor: editor@sheppardsconfidential.com  To receive extra copies register on: www.sheppardsconfidential.com  To opt out of receiving this e-mail: optout@sheppardsconfidential.com Read our Privacy Policy - for Dealers.  And for Collectors and members of the trade.