Saumarez Smith Ed John (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Frances Lincoln Ed. 191 pages. Illustrated. Letters.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First. Small 8vo, black cloth, d.w., cloth very lightly soiled. (London): Frances Lincoln, (2006). Very good Signed by John Saumarez Smith.

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175pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. First edition, signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 126, [1]. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering, fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Edition limited to 400 copies.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 191pp., b/w pls. & ills., indexes,

Top edge spotted else Near Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition. Signed by Saumarez Smith on title page with Signed Nine line postcard of the Bookshop. While compiling and editing The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street, described as 'a little gem' by the Sunday Times, John Saumarez Smith discovered that one side of that 'elegant and entertaining' (Spectator) and 'thought provoking and É laugh out loud' (Country Life) correspondence, had been to some degree plagiarised from letters that he himself had sent to Heywood Hill, former owner of the shop. His own account of day-to-day life in one of London's best loved and most stylish bookshops had been used to flesh out Hill's glittering correspondence with Nancy Mitford who referred to him as 'the spy in the bookshop'. So here is the real thing. A lively, alarming and candid account of life behind the counter in a fashionable west end bookshop, where all was most definitely not what it seemed, and where deep passions and often irrational animosities flourished and occasionally broke the surface, to the alarm of customers, staff and owners alike. Witty, stylish and full of insights into literature, the book trade and miscellaneous human weaknesses, this correspondence between the new blood and the retired former owner provide further entertainment, and wisdom, about the surprisingly turbulent world of literary bookselling in the very recent past. ISBN 0711226989.

Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pages bright and clean. Binding firm. Occasional light spotting throughout. Light spotting to endpapers. Light tanning and spotting to edges. Light-moderate shelf wear. Size: 8vo. Signed.

Bookplate of Lord Carrington, Near Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. Signed Presentation from John Saumerez Smith to Lord Carrington inscribed on half title 'For Peter, from the Editor, Publisher and his Friend John'. Limited to 400 copies. ISBN B006OR7A1U.