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Category Archives: Personal rant
Primary Source Edition
I recently bought a book on Ebay which the seller had described as a ‘primary source edition’. In the area of military history it was a well-known title, ‘The Secret War 1939-1945’ by Gerald Pawle, an account of a department … Continue reading
Posted in Book stock, Books, Bookselling, Personal rant
Tagged demand, edition, on, Primary, print, print-on-demand, source
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Plus ça change
Happy New Year! The French have a much more picturesque and simpler way of saying ‘the more things change, the more they remain the same’. I was sorting out some ephemera and this Emmwood cartoon depicting Ike and Kruschev in … Continue reading
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Tagged Arsenal, Ephemera, Football, Politics
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Political confusion
This is NOT a political point but despair at a further example of the misuse and confusion about our language. One of our up and coming politicians, in quite an important and powerful government position as Chief Secretary to the … Continue reading
The sad shorthand in our evolving language
I need to catalogue some stock that I have been passing over for some time and this morning I was flicking through an early edition of Byron’s ‘The Bride of Abydos’. I found that one of the leaves was marked … Continue reading
Amazon
Booksellers can sell via Amazon’s ‘Marketplace’. I don’t but many of my booksellling colleagues do and Amazon are currently doing themselves no favours by their latest action.