Thursday, January 22, 2015

AND I'D BE THE KING OF CHINA

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AND I’D BE THE KING OF CHINA The Strange Life of Charles Welsh Mason Mark Valentine The astonishing story of the Eighteen Nineties writ...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Edward Lloyd's Penny Bloods

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It's sometimes said that the popularity of cheap penny literature in Victorian England was very much a London phenomenon, however is cle...
Sunday, January 4, 2015

Nugent Barker as Illustrator

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Nugent Barker (1888-1955) is best remembered for his collection of twenty-one short stories, Written with My Left Hand (1951). This rare vo...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

THE COMPLETE STORIES OF MARY BUTTS

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One of the last but most welcome publications of 2014 is The Complete Stories of Mary Butts , issued by Mcpherson on 15 December. After a l...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Michael Birch Collection Auction

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Last weekend Sydney Rare Book Auctions sold the vast book collection of Australian academic, Michael Birch, in 700 lots, including many rar...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

ARTHUR MACHEN COLLECTION AT RISK

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The public library at Newport, Gwent, houses a splendid Arthur Machen collection, including rare items, some donated by his admirers, frien...
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Friday, December 12, 2014

A VITAL VOICE: EDGAR JEPSON

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A popular novelist and raffish man-about-town, whose novels are rarely read today, Edgar Jepson was also a loyal friend of writers less bel...
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Thursday, December 4, 2014

THE CORVO CULT by Robert Scoble

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Frederick Rolfe, the self-styled (for a time) "Baron Corvo," lived from 1860 to 1913 and published a  handful of unusual books tha...
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