Thursday, December 01, 2011

Exhibition of Pooh

Peter Harrington today Wednesday 30 November opened an exhibition and sale of a very comprehensive collection of Winnie-the-Pooh books and associated artwork. It includes more than one hundred items gathered together over twenty years by American football legend Pat McInally. McInally was the first Harvard graduate to play in the Super Bowl. 
 The collection includes fine examples of all the Pooh books, important inscribed copies, correspondence and photos, toys, and original artwork. One of the highlights, is a presentation copy of Winnie-the-Pooh inscribed from Milne to both Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. The collection is estimated to be worth £2 million. 
The exhibition is being held at 100 Fulham Road, London until Wednesday the 14th of December. The exhibition is free and open to the public. 
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The Barrow in Newport Court 
A Memoir of the Rare Book Trade
by Anthony Sillem


Anthony Sillem worked in the rare book trade in the West End of London for twenty years and here he gives his account of two exceptional shops dedicated to the buying and selling of modern literature during the 1970s and 1980s.

We learn the inside story of the rise and fall of the Covent Garden Bookshop and its extraordinary proprietor, Dr. Simon Nothmann, and go behind the scenes at Bell, Book and Radmall, the business created by two young men who quickly found themselves in the vanguard of the boom in collecting first editions. An introductory chapter describes the author's uneasy apprenticeship at Howes in Hastings, one of the last of the great provincial bookshops.

There are moments of hilarity but also of tragedy and along the way we meet many of the dealers and customers, several of them notable eccentrics, who helped make up the varied world of the London book trade as it was before the coming of the internet. In addition the author discusses, both as a dealer and a reader, many of the books that came his way during these years.

Available now. Cloth. 167 pages.
Price: £14.95

Please send a cheque including £3.00 postage to The Hungry Hornet Press, 9 Tackleway, Old Town, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3DE. Tel: 01424 446602. 


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