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- PublisherW. Shaw
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0907961010
- ISBN 13 9780907961017
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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Rare Books and Rarer People: Some Personal Reminiscences of "The Trade"
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is minor foxing around the block of the book. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 6pbsp
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Rare books and rarer people : some personal reminiscences of 'the trade' / O.F. Snelling
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Book Description 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 256p,[16]p of plates: ill, 1facsim,ports; 24cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: Introduction -- The Hodgsons -- The Job -- Old Jim -- Fred Karno's Army -- Millward, Hatry, and Wise -- Knock and Ring -- Potty -- The Grey Man -- Alice in Plunderland -- The Little Doctor -- A Salutary Story -- The Worst Bidder in the World -- Mr. Poonawallah -- 'Pornography and So On' -- A Note on Bad Taste -- Some Sale Room Eccentrics -- Death of a Bookshop -- The Book Runners -- Bookmen I've Liked -- Book Thieves -- Sotheby's -- My Three Spies -- L'Envoi -- Index. Subjects: Snelling, O. F. (Oswald Frederick) 1916-. Hodgson and Co. Sotheby's (Firm) History. Hodgson and Co. History. Antiquarian booksellers England London. Antiquarian booksellers England London; Biography. Rare books Collectors and collecting England London. Genre: Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. Memoirs. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 330905
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Rare books and rarer people : some personal reminiscences of 'the trade' / O.F. Snelling
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Book Description 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 256p,[16]p of plates: ill, 1facsim,ports; 24cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: Introduction -- The Hodgsons -- The Job -- Old Jim -- Fred Karno's Army -- Millward, Hatry, and Wise -- Knock and Ring -- Potty -- The Grey Man -- Alice in Plunderland -- The Little Doctor -- A Salutary Story -- The Worst Bidder in the World -- Mr. Poonawallah -- 'Pornography and So On' -- A Note on Bad Taste -- Some Sale Room Eccentrics -- Death of a Bookshop -- The Book Runners -- Bookmen I've Liked -- Book Thieves -- Sotheby's -- My Three Spies -- L'Envoi -- Index. Subjects: Snelling, O. F. (Oswald Frederick) 1916-. Hodgson and Co. Sotheby's (Firm) History. Hodgson and Co. History. Antiquarian booksellers England London. Antiquarian booksellers England London; Biography. Rare books Collectors and collecting England London. Genre: Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. Memoirs. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 330905
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Rare Books and Rarer People
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 256pp+illus. VG in dust-jacket, not price-clipped. Front endpapers very lightly tanned, otherwise very clean. An account of the quite extraordinary characters encountered by the author. In 1949 he secured the position of Sales Clerk with Hodgson's Rooms in Chancery Lane, where he spent most of his working life, retiring from Sotheby's in 1981. Some fascinating stories of the auction house, its customers and book collectors, including Isaac Foot and the infamous Krogers. Index. Seller Inventory # ABE-1522833111831
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Rare Books and Rarer People : Some Personal Reminiscences of "The Trade".
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Book Description Cloth, tall 8vo, 25 cm, x, [1], 256 pp, [16] leaves of plates. From the blurb: "Rich men, poor men, beggar-men and thieves - sooner or later they all drift into the auction room. For thirty-two book sale seasons O.F. Snelling sat at his raised vantage-point at the rostrum of Hodgson's and Sotheby's; he advised and observed them all. In 1949 the author secured the position of Sales Clerk with Hodgson's Rooms in Chancery Lane, and it was with Hodgson's that most of his working life was spent. He retired from Sotheby's late in 1981. This is not an autobiography; it is an account of the quite extraordinary characters encountered by O.F. Snelling during his business life. They form an odd and motley gathering. Old Jim, 70 years with Hodgson's, diminutive in stature but a giant in his hatred of books; Potty, the miserly eccentric dealer whose private collection of early-printed books realised £200,000 at Sotheby's after he died; Isaac Foot, father of Michael, who could hardly drag himself away from the auction room; Peter and Helen Kroger, who used bookselling as a front to their spying activities in collaboration with book collector Gordon Lonsdale, master-mind of what came to be known as the Portland Spy Ring. Not since Fred Bason's Diary has there been such a popular book on the second-hand and rare book trade for the general reader. As one of O. F. Spelling's former editors wrote: 'He paints his past acquaintances in the auction game with the skill of a caricaturist and the charm of a bom raconteur'. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # ABE-46382
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First, hardback, no dust jacket, signed by the author. Book sale stamped inside front cover. Prev. owners book plate pulled out. VG+ 7583. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1215525207
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket. 256 pages. Seller Inventory # 003084
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Book Description Condition: Good. Good Dispatched within 1 working day Sold by the UK charity Langdon: supporting young people with disabilities. Seller Inventory # box 847/er 23
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 256 pages. First English edition, first printing. Snelling was a sales clerk at Hodgson's and Sotheby's auction houses in London from 1949 to 1981. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Seller Inventory # 59338827012
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Bookseller's prior price and inventory no. penciled on FFE and RFE. Prior owner's name sticker inside front cover. Contents are otherwise clean and the binding remains tight. DJ is clean with no defects and is in protective mylar. The author recounts his experiences at rare book auctions in London and as a bookseller. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000997
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