Foyles Fifty Years 1904-1954
W & G Foyle
Published by W & G Foyle, 1954
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First edition, first printing. Small hardback, in glassine wrap. 18 × 12cm, 12pp + 8 pages of plates. A brief history of the famous London bookshop, starting in 1904 when William and Gilbert Foyle decided to sell their Civil Service text books. They soon realised that he book trade offered them a good business opportunity. Their first bookshop was their parents' kitchen and catalogues were written by hand. By 1912 they were on Charing Cross Road and never looked back. This book describes that history, the staff, the writers, and the premises. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Condition: The book is in good condition, though with some light tanning to the pages and sunning to the red boards. The glassine wrap has loss to the top edge but is mostly there. Seller Inventory # 015016
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Title: Foyles Fifty Years 1904-1954
Publisher: W & G Foyle
Publication Date: 1954
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Edition
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Foyles Fifty Years 1904-1954
Published by
W. & G.Foyle, 1954
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Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. 1954. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Red pictorial boards with black lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine. Seller Inventory # 1702637903CAB
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FOYLES FIFTY YEARS (1904-1954)
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W. & G. Foyle Ltd, London, England, 1954
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo. Red cloth-covered boards (7 in. x 5 in.) with gilt foil paste-on, lettered and bordered in black. Minor rubbing to extremities, corners and spinecaps. In original patterned glassine wrapper with small chips along spine. With frontis photo of William Alfred Foyle. About 14 unpaginated leaves (24 pp.). The history of one of the most successful Twentieth-century London book purveyors. William Alfred Foyle (1885-1963) founded FLondon's famous Foyles Bookshopin 1903. William and brother Gilbert opened their first bookshop in Islington, moved to Peckham and then Cecil Court, already a street of bookshops. In about 1907 they moved to Charing Cross Road, where the bookshop stayed, with many extensions to the building. It was only in 1912 that the shop began selling new books, prior to that all books had been second-hand. The Manette Street extension was built andopened in 1929, and in 1945 he bought theabbey atBeeleigh for his home and library, an exceptional, in quality and size, collection of antiquarian books. Good Plus in Good Glassine Jacket. Seller Inventory # 86975
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