Author: Gail PirkisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Slightly Foxed - But Still Desirable
Author: Ronald SearlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
As any, even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the 'cognoscenti' and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look like something out of Enid Blython. Without a smattering of inside information, the baffled but hopelessly-bitten book buyer is drifting unarmed and unprepared into a minefield whose perilous complexities will usually only be made plain when an eagerly awaited parcel of dream volumes arrives and mangled contents are revealed in all their deceptive glory.... But all is not lost. Help is at hand! After a lifetime of avidly scanning the frequently poisonously-tinted pages of innumerable book catalogues, Ronald Searle has become expert in the art of decoding those esoteric, poetic and usually approximate, descriptions of literary come-ons. Now, licking his wounds, he publishes his hard-earned findings in this fully illustrated pioneer guide, designed to foil the devious machinations of scheming and wicked booksellers for ever more. No longer will the innocent book collector need to puzzle over the finer meaning of 'old half road', 'good working copy', blind tooled', or 'tail-edged shaved'. The unvarnished truth is here exposed at last, both in the shocking explicit drawings and in the devastatingly frank glossary whose revelations will startle even the most battle-scarred of bibliophiles. The result is one of the funniest, most entertaining books to have emerged from the brilliantly perceptive pen of the master. No book collector, and certainly no bookseller, can afford to be without it - even the wicked ones.
Slightly Foxed
Author: Gail PirkisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Slightly Foxed (38).
Author: Slightly Foxed
Author: Slightly Foxed
Author: lSlightly Foxed LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780954826802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Slightly Foxed
Author: Slighty Foxed LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780955198717
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Slightly Foxed 4
Author: Gail PirkisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780954826833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Slightly Foxed
Author: Jane LoveringPublisher: Samhain Pub Limited
ISBN: 9781605043098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
They say you'll know when you're in love. What if you don't? Alys, a single parent and certified romantic disaster area, is always falling for unattainable men-the latest one being the dead author of a "borrowed" book of poetry. When she reluctantly returns the book to its rightful owner, she meets Leo. He's very much alive, very much attracted to her and, well, it's love at first sight. Isn't it? After all, she's a single mum with a boring job in a bookshop and, as her daughter puts it, gravity's not going to hold off forever. Leo's got the financial stability she's been craving and he looks like an aftershave advert. So it must be love. Mustn't it? Then there's Piers, whose spontaneity draws her like a magnet. But is it love she feels, or just his infectious love of life? Before she can choose, an unexpected source threatens to lay bare the lie she has been living for the last sixteen years. With happiness close to slipping out of her grasp, Alys is forced to ask herself whether she's ever really been in love at all.
Piccadilly Notes
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description