Mentors and Friends. Short Lives of Prominent Publishers and Booksellers I have Known.
Book Description
The 'Great and the Good' of the publishing and bookselling world of the 20th. Century. One of 210 numbered copies, this signed on the title page. WITH a copy of 'The Rise and Fall of the British Book Trade in 3½ imperfect sonnets'. A bifolium by Ian Norrie inscribed by him and signed 'Ian' (This has a small mark on the '4th. page') WITH a double sided typed letter from Norrie to a book trade friend (in publishing and antiquarian bookselling) in which he discusses friends in the world of publishing and bookselling, convivial lunches (including with the recipient of the letter) and his irritation with certain parts of the book trade in the year 2000.
Dealer Notes
#25179
Author
Norrie, Ian.
Date
2006
Binding
Hard cover, lettered in gilt, and in faded and slightly worn dust jacket.
Publisher
Elliott & Thompson, London.
Condition
A good clean copy.
Pages
272pp. 21.5cm. Sources. Bibliography. Index.
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