Thursday, December 15, 2011

Among Booksellers; Tales told in Letters to Howard Hodgkin

DAVID BATTERHAM  Bookseller  36Alexander St London W2 5NU                                                                                                                                                                                                

  “Among Booksellers; Tales told in Letters to Howard Hodgkin”
With a foreword by Howard Hodgkin
Stone Trough Books 2011 118pp  Paperback  ISBN  978 0 95442 3 4          £9.95

“For thirty five years  bookseller David Batterham has been making buying trips abroad and  describing his adventures in letters to artist Howard Hodgkin. He was looking for Trade Catalogues , fashion magazines and  other illustrated journals but his colleagues  interest him almost as much seen in their homes and shops.  The  visitable bookseller, a vanishing  breed, is here immortalised”  Publishers blurb
  Part diary, part memoir, some  anecdotes and reflections; intended to amuse rather than inform! Designed by  typographer George Ramsden with cover from a painting by Howard Hodgkin(A pdf image can be sent on request) – an elegant little book.
“completely fascinating and totally enjoyable”  Howard Hodgkin
“Its addictive!”James Fergusson
“An extraordinary picture of a strange eccentric world of dealing and collecting with its chance encounters, crazed characters, its obsessions and its loneliness” Margaret Drabble
“wonderfully redolent, skirting Chatwin Country in favour of  Simenon’s Maigret” William Feaver
Copies may by obtained:
In the UK  By sending a cheque for £10 to the above address or by phone or email (or order from bookshops,   or from Abebooks.com)
In Europe  £12.50 post paid (simplest way is to ask me  for a Paypal Invoice)
In USA and worldwide   £14.50 post paid. Paypal the simplest way . In US copies may also be obtained from Oak Knoll Books  (oakknoll@oakknoll.com) or on Abebooks.com
Footnote:
The Bookman bought a copy of this slender (120 pages) memoir and found it fascinating and eccentric.

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