Tag: Bookselling
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David Hockney and George Lawson
David Hockney needs no introduction. I have always loved his work and had the pleasure of meeting him briefly a couple of times. When my brother was at an exhibition at the Tate Gallery Hockney suggested they go outside together and have a cigarette on the steps. A coachload of Japanese tourists pulled up and…
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One hundred years of bookselling. December 2023, the original version
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. December 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. November 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. October 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. September 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. August 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. July 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. June 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. May 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. April 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. March 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. January 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling – an introduction and quick guide
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited, founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings” all…
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Rude Poems
Herrick (Robert). The Hesperides & Noble Numbers [Works] . Edited by Alfred Pollard, with a preface by A.C. Swinburne. Engraved frontispiece. Lawrence & Bullen, The Muses’ Library, 1891. First Edition thus. One of 200 numbered Large Paper copies. Two volumes. Quarter parchment, spines lettered in gilt, . green cloth sides, top edge gilt, others uncut. …
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Brian Phelan, Rest in Peace, 1934-2024
Brian Phelan died, at home, a few days ago on May 8th. His stepson, Josh, was kind enough to let me know almost straight away. I had seen quite a bit of Brian over the last few months. We first met some twenty years ago. My wife, eldest and then only daughter and I went…
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Pixie Bks
During our firm of booksellers’ centenary last year, I sent out monthly reminiscences and reflections on my time in the trade. The March issue was about Private Presses, where I wrote this: For many years we operated, for two American universities, Brigham Young (under the leadership of Scott Duvall) and Wisconsin-Madison (Yvonne Schofer), a ‘blanket…