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Olympia Book Fair 2011

Olympia Book Fair 2011 Video

Over 160 antiquarian booksellers as well as private presses, bookbinders and other affiliated trade exhibited last week from the 9th to the 11th June 2011 at the world’s oldest antiquarian book fair, the London International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia.

Watch the Olympia Book Fair 2011 video here: http://www.olympiabookfair.com/index.pl?id=2578;

 

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wells mr britling

‘The best book written during this accused war' (GORKY)

First edition in Russian in book form (it was serialized in Letopis’ in the second half of 1916) of Mr Britling sees it through (1916), in Gorky’s words ‘the best, most daring, truthful, and humane book written in Europe during the course of this accursed war’ (Selected Letters, 1997, p. 195).

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Child! do not throw this book about; / Refrain from the unholy pleasure / Of cutting all the pictures out! / Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

Hilaire Belloc, dedication,  A Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)