Field Drif (22 results)

Unknown Binding. Condition: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 464p,80p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Antiquarian booksellers Great Britain Directories. 3 Kg.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 464p,80p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Antiquarian booksellers Great Britain Directories. 1 Kg.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. The used book business, auctions, and chicanery in London, including Michael Milkin, Richard Bergman, and others. Illustrations by Abbo. Crease along spine, else fine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two books in one. How to find a book, 80 pages and Drif's Guide, 464 pages.

First edition. Softcover in illustrated, glossy wrappers. Bookstore sticker to rear cover, edges lightly bumped. Near fine.

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 28 unnumbered pages, 162 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Bergman, Richard; Milken, Michael; E. Joseph (Firm); Antiquarian booksellers England London; Booksellers and bookselling England London; Securities industry Corrupt practices United States; Booksellers; Bookselling. 3 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Revised Edition. Inscribed by Author. "To Paul M. Duke, I have uttered some low insults in my time, but never have I spoken so badly of anyone as to falsely accuse them of wearing an amorak. drif field" Multiple copies available this title. Uncommon . Quantity Available: 2. Category: Books on Books; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0951000535. ISBN/EAN: 9780951000533. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22576.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Please come back Drif! This wonderful guide was needs to be updated. The usual sardonic style. pp307.notes.register. Little used; nice copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. If you have ever wandered into a second-hand bookshop and wondered whether the proprietor was a misunderstood genius, a benevolent eccentric, or someone who actively resents the existence of customers, then Drifs Guide 1995-97 may be the field manual you never knew you needed. Published in 1995, this gloriously idiosyncratic guide is nominally a directory of second-hand and antiquarian bookshops across Britain and Ireland. In reality, it is something far stranger: part travel guide, part social commentary, part prolonged argument with the entire book trade. Drif Field became legendary among book collectors for his brutally honest assessments of shops, stock, pricing, opening hours, and the peculiar habits of booksellers. His reviews were often less "consumer advice" and more "literary character assassination." Long before online reviews allowed everyone to complain about poor service, Drif was already doing it professionally and with considerable enthusiasm. This guide roams across the British Isles cataloguing dusty treasures, hidden gems, and establishments that appear to have given up on commerce sometime during the Wilson government. The result is a book that is frequently funnier than many books intentionally written as humour. There is a wonderful irony in the fact that a guidebook intended to help people find second-hand books has itself become a sought-after second-hand book. Many of the shops listed have vanished, some have moved, others have probably been converted into flats, coffee shops, or artisan candle boutiques. As a result, the guide now serves as an accidental time capsule of Britain?s book trade in the years just before the internet changed everything. What makes Drif?s work memorable is the voice. Modern guidebooks strive for neutrality and balance. Drif preferred colourful opinions, cryptic abbreviations, sharp observations, and occasional flights of eccentricity. Reading it feels like being driven around the country by a particularly knowledgeable friend who has spent decades buying books and has developed strong views about virtually everyone involved in selling them. For book collectors, bibliophiles, historians of the trade, or anyone fascinated by Britain?s disappearing landscape of second-hand bookshops, this is a genuinely entertaining artefact. For everyone else, it remains an unexpectedly funny snapshot of a world where finding an obscure volume required shoe leather, persistence, and occasionally the ability to decipher the temperament of the shop owner. This copy is in good condition and comes from a period when guidebooks were printed on paper, navigation involved maps, and customer reviews required the inconvenience of actually publishing a book. As sold by Crappy Old Books, it offers a nostalgic journey through a lost kingdom of dusty shelves, improbable opening hours, and booksellers who may or may not have wanted your custom in the first place. A guide to bookshops, certainly. A guide to human nature, arguably. A guide to diplomacy when asking for a discount from an antiquarian bookseller, absolutely not.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. A worn copy, with a grubby, well-thumbed fore edge. Lower corner of p.253 is creased. Bookshop guides to Lewes, Sussex & Kent, & St Albans are loosely inserted.

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 28 unnumbered pages, 162 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Bergman, Richard; Milken, Michael; E. Joseph (Firm); Antiquarian booksellers England London; Booksellers and bookselling England London; Securities industry Corrupt practices United States; Booksellers; Bookselling. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Come back Drif! I wish that this wonderful guide was updated. Super sardonic style. pp307.notes.register. Astonishing condition. Unused copy; as new. Where was it stored?

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Two volumes, 12mo, pp 208; 258, a little used and thumbed internally, paperbacks, the covers rather rubbed and worn. [Early volumes of the famous, scurrilous, but sometimes all-too-accurate guide to bookshops and their owners. Now, collector pieces in themselves !].

First edition of the third iteration of this notorious publication, extensively updated and rewritten from the earlier such guides. Octavo. 288 pages of acerbic wit, resentment and vitriol. In other words a largely accurate assessment of the secondhand bookshops of the time, before the internet wiped out most of them. Wrappers.Crease to bottom corner of rear cover. Very good.

Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. PBO SOFTCOVER, March 1994, Stated 1st Edition, 1st Printing, FINE/FINE- ,AS-IS, PAPERBACK, Binding is small 8vo., stiff papeR wrappers, 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 in. LIGHT rub,Wear, Interior nice tight Clean, Light soil to outer bottom corner edge, .A tale of high finance, intrigue and court cases, In 1989 Richard Bergman, an American Multi-Millionaire Accountant bought E. Joseph, an old Established London Based Antiquarian Booksellerss, so that he could help hide Money for Michael Milken. Bergman worked with Milken on the special partnerships in Beverly Hills which were used to criminally benefit Milken. 48 Charing Cross Road was where Emmanual Joseph chose to open his Antiquarian Bookshop in 1887. It was a Large Corner Shop at the junction with Great Newport Street. Later the Underground opened less than 50 yards away.