Had a friend who worked in foyles packing mail outs. He used to get his jollies writing author sigs and dedications on the books.
Married a bookseller who worked at skoob, Sicilian avenue. The owner had worked next door to 84 charing cross road. We avoid second hand bookshops now, you can grow out of them.
Everyone raves about hay. The QT is on petersfield and the honour box system.
Petersfield is a wonder. The way it unfolds. I saw a full folio copy of Dante's Divine Comedy with Doré's woodcuts in there for £80... three decades ago? I'm still kicking myself that I didn't buy it.
Same here for a bookshop in Brisbane with pugin architectural drawings, and a bookshop in York which had Mervyn Peake original pencil drawing of his son for £300 in 1981
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Had a friend who worked in foyles packing mail outs. He used to get his jollies writing author sigs and dedications on the books.
Married a bookseller who worked at skoob, Sicilian avenue. The owner had worked next door to 84 charing cross road. We avoid second hand bookshops now, you can grow out of them.
Everyone raves about hay. The QT is on petersfield and the honour box system.
Petersfield is a wonder. The way it unfolds. I saw a full folio copy of Dante's Divine Comedy with Doré's woodcuts in there for £80... three decades ago? I'm still kicking myself that I didn't buy it.
Same here for a bookshop in Brisbane with pugin architectural drawings, and a bookshop in York which had Mervyn Peake original pencil drawing of his son for £300 in 1981
Damn. A reputed Mervyn Peake life drawing sold at auction in the UK in the past few weeks and I was severely tempted. No spare pennies unfortunately.
It sounds like you and I have very similar tastes. I've been amusing myself recently by asking AIs to draw Gormenghast. None of them get the scale.