Thomas Thorp Guildford (4 results)

130 pages. 2927 lots. 8.25x5.25", printed wrapper. Staples bit rusty, light crease, corner nick, else VG.

60 pages. 1212 lots. 8.5x5.5", printed wrapper. Trifle soiled, edge wear, VG.

12mo, 2 pp. Good, on lightly-aged and creased paper. Giving the details of three titles from Thorp's 'large catalogue' which he hopes are still available (one is ticked in pencil and the other two marked as sold). 'Also can you let me have a cheap copy of John Masefield's "Sea Life in The Time of Nelson" and J. R. Hutchinson's "The Press Gang Afloat & Ashore." Publishers and prices of both items are noted in pencil, with 'Cheque Noted' in margin.

See Sheila Markham's interview with Thorp's grandson Jim in 'The Bookdealer', April 1995, and the report 'Now it's the end of the Thomas Thorp story', Surrey Live, 17 January 2003. 132pp, 8vo. Stapled. Pagination includes grey printed wraps, with title and first and last entries. On cheap discoloured paper, with slight wear to bottom corner of first few leaves; spine worn and chipped, covers detached. Undated, but with no item found dated later than 1929. Fifty-one pages (33-83) of bookplates in small print. Expensive items include: Durandus, 'Rationale Divinorum Officiorum' (1470), £90; Empson's 'Narratives' (1836), £36; Evelyn's diary (1818 ed.), £35; a presentation copy of Conrad's 'Lord Jim', £8. Also Graves 'Good-Bye to All That' (1929), 'FIRST ISSUE OF FIRST EDITION, with the Sassoon References which were deleted in later copies', £8 ('Only a few copies of the first edition were published before references were deleted, and these have become very much sought after.').