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First Editions, each Limited to 650 copies. octavo, cloth in dust jackets. 161, 142, 126 pp. Holmes Publishing Company, A collection of articles by the English writer and rare book dealer, G.F. Sims. Although these articles have appeared in periodicals such as "The Book Collecor," "Antiquarian Book Monthly Review," and "London Magazine," some are printed in their entirety for the first time here. In "The Rare Book Game," Mr. Sims recounts his experiences over a thirty-year period as a rare book dealer who purchased material from Alida Monro (wife of Harold Monro, proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop), Richard Aldington, Helen Thomas (wife of Edward Thomas), Vyvyan Holland ( son of Oscar Wilde), and the family of Eric Gill. Sims also gives his impressions of noteworthy antiquarian booksellers including C.S. Millard, Everard Meynell, Douglas Cleverdon, Percy Muir, Bertram Rota, and Norman Colbeck, and draws other vivid biographical sketches from which interesting facts emerge about Leonard Smithers, Ian Fleming, A.J.A. Symons, and Oscar Wilde. This first volume of the series is limited to 650 copies and is SIGNED by Sims. Also, inscribed and signed by the publisher to the proprietors of The Colophon Book Shop, Bob and Christine Liska, dated 10 May 1985, [With] More of the Rare Book Game, a continuation of Sims's 1985 publication, The Rare Book Game. The contents include essays on Vincent O'Sullivan, Martin Secker, The Benson Papers, C.W. Beaumont, Alyse Gregory (Mr Llewellyn Powys), J.M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, and Max Beerbohm. Mr. Sims has included two reflective pieces entitled "A Likes and Dislikes Book" and "The Fifteith Catalogue" in addition to two of his most delightful short works, "Day in the Life of a Rare Book Dealer" and "A Collector's Piece." Inscribed and signed to the proprietors of The Colophon Book Shop, Bob and Christine Liska from the publisher David J. Holmes, 17 January 1989." [With] Last of the Rare Book Game, the third, and final, collection of essays and reminiscences written by the English writer and rare book dealer, G.F. Sims. Included are articles on Arnold Bennett's Riceyman Steps, the publisher Grant Richards, Henry James' play Guy Domville, Ross Macdonald, Rex V. Pemberton-Billing, Harley Granville- Barker, Stephen Crane, Oscar Wilde's last days, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Robert Gathorne-Hardy and the Mill House Press, The Yellow Book, and "John Oliver Hobbes." All three volumes in very fine, clean condition. First Editions, each Limited to 650 copies.
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