Les Ashton of Ashton Rare Books will be bringing several highlights to the fair, the following are just a selection. Please check the Exhibitors page nearer the date of the the fair for Ashton Rare Book’s Stand number. The Great Gatsby .F.Scott.Fitzgerald. First edition .Grey Walls Publishers.1948.Near Fine Book in like wrapper. Wrapper Designer George Woodman’s […]
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Mark Richardson of MR Books will be bringing to the Summer Fair: Railway Machinery -A Treatise on the Mechanical Engineering of Railways: Embracing The Principles and Construction of Rolling and Fixed Plant by Daniel Kinnear Clark, Blackie and Son, 1855. Recently rebound in Leather. It is highly unusual to see both volumes of this sought […]
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Our fair on May 26th, was another busy event. Exhibitors with books, maps, prints and ephemera were present, visitors had lots to view and buy. Each month sees new exhibitors and this month was no exception with a new specialist ephemera dealer, and a new book dealer to our event. Our next event is the […]
Michael Sassen of N1 Books will be bringing to the Summer Fair : Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes etc etc. From Drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch etc. Containing One Hundred Plates with a Supplement of New South Wales. London, Edward Orme, 1814. First edition. Half title, title page, (cxl), 100 finely hand-coloured […]
Michael Kemp Bookseller at stand number 51 will have the following Len Deighton collection on offer, details as follows: all signed and/or inscribed to Liz and Derek Jewell including the very rare screenplay for Oh What a Lovely War. Description of the screenplay below. Images attached. DEIGHTON, Len Oh, What a Lovely War, Screenplay from […]
Lisa Tao Fine Art will have on offer at the Summer Fair : Photographic art treasures; or, Nature and Art illustrated by art and nature’, part 1, date October 1856 , 4 photos all by Roger Fenton. comprising ‘York Minster (From Lendall.)’, ‘Cedars, Monmouthshire’, ‘Raglan Castle, Porch’ and ‘Water Gate, – Raglan Castle’, Photo-galvanographs, three […]
James Howell Books, Dublin will also have the following book for sale at the Bloomsbury Summer Book Fair: Thomas, Dylan, Twenty Five Poems, London, J.M.Dent & Sons 1936. First Edition, the author’s second collection. Very Good + in similar wrapper. Light foxing to pre-lims. Neat signature of previous owner dated November 1936 two months after […]
James Howell Books, Dublin will have the following books for sale at the Bloomsbury Summer Fair. Check Summer Fair Exhibitors page nearer the date of the fair for James Howell’s stand number. For further information prior to June 9th: Tel: 00353 1 2982426 Glasgow, Ellen, 4 Volumes, The Old Dominions Edition, Doubleday Doran & Company 1934. […]
Mark Richardson, trading as Mr. Books Bookshop in Kent will be bringing along a copy of Goodbye Mr. Chips by John Hilton; Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. First edition in unclipped dust jacket signed by the author name only, £1,495. Check Summer Fair Exhibitors page nearer the date of the fair for Mark Richardson’s tand number.
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Check the exhibitors tab above for the latest list for this Sunday 26th May, in the Galleon Suite, of the Royal National Hotel. As usual expect a good mix of books, maps, prints and ephemera. Doors open 10am, entrance £1.