tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768147743754652892024-03-16T01:09:33.281+00:00Withnail BooksI collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith.Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-3751402099062969282024-02-10T14:44:00.016+00:002024-02-10T15:29:02.785+00:00Limited to 250 copies only: REDISCOVERED! DRACULA'S FORGOTTEN BRIDES - DOROTHY TREE, GERALDINE DVORAK, CORNELIA THAW<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;">The week of Valentine's Day 1931: The Release of <i>Dracula</i>, starring Bela Lugosi</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The week of Valentine's Day 2024: The pre-orders announcement of....</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgB_csRHiAHlk3SbjIY4MRgnDyI_zZ3lQ9xpSTsJJIvnNQ1bice8TlotOLVMv_zZc-iLoKC_e2fE37soarvRjBQdeGg7CuXPMe25DB9BLs7s3M1x3kjagh1jONx_zEbH3G6eiKF3ds9Xr1E3OS2amXCZ2kVG0PscjfpAj4VCu6kRuz9yf-ker-KR-b9Y23" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="2364" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgB_csRHiAHlk3SbjIY4MRgnDyI_zZ3lQ9xpSTsJJIvnNQ1bice8TlotOLVMv_zZc-iLoKC_e2fE37soarvRjBQdeGg7CuXPMe25DB9BLs7s3M1x3kjagh1jONx_zEbH3G6eiKF3ds9Xr1E3OS2amXCZ2kVG0PscjfpAj4VCu6kRuz9yf-ker-KR-b9Y23=w400-h272" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;">DRACULA'S</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;">FORGOTTEN BRIDES</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;">Dorothy Tree</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;">Geraldine Dvorak</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;">Cornelia Thaw</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;">A LIMITED EDITION OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;">EACH WITH A SIGNED AND NUMBERED PRINT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">Their combined time on screen is barely more than a minute. They remain entirely silent. Their names do not appear in the credits. And yet, for any viewer of Tod Browning’s classic 1931 film<i> </i>it is impossible to deny the impact of Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw as the brides of Dracula.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">I bid you welcome, to a celebration of those characters, and the lives and careers of the forgotten actresses who brought them to (undead) life...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>A strictly limited, never-to-be-reprinted edition of 250 hand-numbered </b><b>copies for sale.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Featuring a specially commissioned Frontispiece illustration by the World </b></span><b>Fantasy Award-winning artist Les Edwards.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>With rediscovered interview quotes, more than 60 rare photos and illustrations, and new research: never has so much information about these actresses been gathered in one place...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Discover Dorothy Tree's <i>second</i> role in <i>Dracula</i>, Geraldine Dvorak's entanglement with British aristocracy, and the reason why Cornelia Thaw turned her back on Hollywood...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>A5 format, 40pp, printed on uncoated stock, including a cover printed on Rives Shetland paper. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each order also </span>includes<span style="font-family: inherit;"> a signed and numbered print, on heavy laid paper, based on an original linocut by Sharon Gosling.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnsyv3EbBEi4oepQ6YGbTu_jZijfYvtiP9Rk1Wut95DAwuNKVjZJYgsPKPk6mPx4AZp9u7h_Azl_sFBc0oujClrs2cP6D9MX0jgqJJ8aC4LhuKkmMxD37Y2zek3_n5QwC1xsZEhakAAaHDLBUl7FZpvbxfN9NGWlYcX2aSA4htowJa5ROF1pS6kvnZASTB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnsyv3EbBEi4oepQ6YGbTu_jZijfYvtiP9Rk1Wut95DAwuNKVjZJYgsPKPk6mPx4AZp9u7h_Azl_sFBc0oujClrs2cP6D9MX0jgqJJ8aC4LhuKkmMxD37Y2zek3_n5QwC1xsZEhakAAaHDLBUl7FZpvbxfN9NGWlYcX2aSA4htowJa5ROF1pS6kvnZASTB=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">ORDERING DETAILS AND MORE PHOTOS BELOW</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Our previous limited </span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">editions have tended to sell out, so </span>don't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> miss out on this one...</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span><b><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Slave Race</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, featuring Philip K. Dick's first SF tale (not in his Collected Stories), </span>sold<span style="font-family: inherit;"> out in a matter of days (details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2020/10/rediscovered-philip-k-dicks-first.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Our two Lawrence of Arabia titles</span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> </i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>(see details </b><b><a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/02/a-t-e-lawrence-limited-edition-kaer-of.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2019/12/a-t-e-lawrence-limited-edition-125.html" target="_blank">here</a></b><b>)</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">, were described by the T. E. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Lawrence</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Society</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> as "a very beautiful publication" and "a valuable piece of ephemera for your collection". </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><i>The Ghost of the Private Theatricals</i><b>, a newly discovered tale of terror by Mary Shelley, the creator of </b><i>Frankenstein</i><b> (details </b><a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/09/newly-discovered-long-lost-tale-of.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a><b>), was featured in the </b><i>Times Literary Supplement</i><b>, and also sold out quickly, with copies going to every continent except Antarctica!</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span><span><b><i style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Gods of Darkness</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, F. Scott Fitzgerald's </span>never-previously-reprinted tale of a Lovecraftian witch cult (yes, you read that right) was an instant sell-out (see <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2021/10/f-scott-fitzgeralds-forgotten-tale-of.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><b>The 50th anniversary </b></span></span></span><b>souvenir <i>An Appointment with The Wicker Man </i>(see <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2023/07/a-wicker-man-limited-edition-100-copies.html" target="_blank">here</a>) sold out quickly, as did the limited edition of a horror story by Sharon Gosling, <i>Slow Progress</i> (see <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2023/10/50-copies-only-limited-edition-horror.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span><span><b>The last three<span style="font-family: inherit;"> copies remain of <i>At the Door of Darkness</i>, a </span></b></span></span></span><b>forgotten episode from Joseph Conrad's <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, deleted from the published version, and now reconstructed from the original manuscript. 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Huge thanks are due to Sharon Gosling for her linocut which became the cover image, and also the signed and numbered print; to the legendary Les Edwards for his Frontispiece, which was specially commissioned for this publication; to the equally legendary Stephen Jones, for all his help sourcing material; to Martin Stiff at Amazing15.com for his elegant design; to Ted Baehr, for sharing a bit of family history; to Vicki Sinclair for her French translation skills; and to the researchers who have come before me, including Michael G. Ankerich, Melvyn M. Sobel, and especially David J. Skal, to whom this publication is respectfully dedicated. </p><p>DISCLAIMER</p><p>Just to be 100% clear, this publication has not been licensed, prepared, or approved by Universal Studios or Lugosi Enterprises. It is a work of publicity, criticism and review, using fair use and public domain images. Cover image and print © Sharon Gosling. Frontispiece © Les Edwards. Used with permission. Text © Adam Newell. 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A Limited Edition Horror Story, illustrated with a hand-printed linocut.<p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNj5bYxmSPtbmrWu2LCsKouaenTKBD9hDwb6p9-F3wHnW1fbfCyFYqabk76jZQ7OJv8you-0Ct3eMwkeIKP0lsBavMf7SyJiEoxYaG1u-8p5jBJMbM2wvqyavl8J5MvQQwGeBD3aiLKlYofRUcpQ2Kc_iAiPasLPRhIAoDt0_Pi8moBZl8GqnkJsmEBYEw/s4032/IMG7327.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNj5bYxmSPtbmrWu2LCsKouaenTKBD9hDwb6p9-F3wHnW1fbfCyFYqabk76jZQ7OJv8you-0Ct3eMwkeIKP0lsBavMf7SyJiEoxYaG1u-8p5jBJMbM2wvqyavl8J5MvQQwGeBD3aiLKlYofRUcpQ2Kc_iAiPasLPRhIAoDt0_Pi8moBZl8GqnkJsmEBYEw/w400-h300/IMG7327.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b></b></b></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline; text-align: center;"><b><div><b>NOW SOLD OUT!</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>SLOW PROGRESS</b></div></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>A HORROR STORY</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">BY SHARON GOSLING</p><p style="text-align: center;">A LIMITED EDITON OF 50 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES,</p><p style="text-align: center;">EACH WITH A HAND-PRINTED LINOCUT ILLUSTRATION BY THE AUTHOR.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">"If there's pain, there's people. If there's people, there's pickings."</p><p style="text-align: center;">A short, sharp, and previously unpublished tale of post-apocalyptic horror from Sharon Gosling, illustrated by the author.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: start;">Sharon Gosling is the author of over thirty books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her horror writing includes the novel </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i>FIR</i>, and short stories in anthologies such as <i>The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories</i>, <i>The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2</i> and <i>Close to Midnight</i>. Her artwork has illustrated small press publications of the work of Philip K. Dick, Mary Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Joseph Conrad, and has been published in <i>Myth and Lore</i>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: center;">A strictly limited, never-to-be-reprinted edition of 50 signed and numbered </b><b style="text-align: center;">copies for sale.</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Each copy features a laid-in illustration, in the form of an individually hand-printed original linocut by the author.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">A5 format, 16pp (including cover), printed on uncoated paper stock, and a cover printed on heavy Rives Shetland paper. Laid-in linocut hand-printed on </span>uncoated<span style="font-family: inherit;"> stock.</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">TO ORDER</span><br />There are 50 signed and numbered copies, first come, first served. 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Here's one with the original printing block.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Our previous limited </span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">editions have tended to sell out, so </span>don't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> miss out on this one...</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span><b><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Slave Race</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, featuring Philip K. Dick's first SF tale (not in his Collected Stories), </span>sold<span style="font-family: inherit;"> out in a matter of days (details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2020/10/rediscovered-philip-k-dicks-first.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Our two Lawrence of Arabia titles</span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> </i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>(see details </b><b><a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/02/a-t-e-lawrence-limited-edition-kaer-of.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2019/12/a-t-e-lawrence-limited-edition-125.html" target="_blank">here</a></b><b>)</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">, were described by the T. E. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Lawrence</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Society</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> as "a very beautiful publication" and "a valuable piece of ephemera for your collection". </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><i>The Ghost of the Private Theatricals</i><b>, a newly discovered tale of terror by Mary Shelley, the creator of </b><i>Frankenstein</i><b> (details </b><a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/09/newly-discovered-long-lost-tale-of.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a><b>), was featured in the </b><i>Times Literary Supplement</i><b>, and also sold out quickly, with copies going to every continent except Antarctica!</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><i>An Appointment with The Wicker Man</i>, a 50th anniversary celebration of the cult film, sold out in just over a week: details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2023/07/a-wicker-man-limited-edition-100-copies.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span><span><b>Limited<span style="font-family: inherit;"> copies remain of <i>At the Door of Darkness</i>, a </span></b></span></span></span><b>forgotten episode from Joseph Conrad's <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, deleted from the published version, and now reconstructed from the original manuscript. Details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2020/07/limited-to-100-copies-forgotten-episode.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Many thanks to Martin Stiff at <a href="http://Amazing15.com">Amazing15.com</a> for the wonderful design and layout of this publication.</b></div></div>Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-74662630780979881222023-10-03T22:26:00.000+01:002023-10-03T22:26:44.358+01:00Rediscovered! The original Lakeland cottage that inspired Withnail and I. And yes, you can stay there...<p>It's part of the long-established lore of <i>Withnail and I</i> that the writer/director Bruce Robinson took inspiration from the time he actually <i>did</i> go 'on holiday by mistake' to the Lake District with a friend. It was in the winter of 1970 that Bruce and fellow struggling actor Michael Feast headed north in a 'fucked old Jaguar', and found themselves staying in a farm cottage far up a stony track, a mile from the road. Remembering the trip in the book-length interview <i>Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson</i>, he didn't mince his words:</p><p>'The cottage depicted in the film was positively luxurious compared with what Mickey and I actually found when we arrived. It really was bucket by the bed with rain coming in and so cold you could hardly see.'</p><p>Burning furniture to keep warm, and killing a chicken to eat: both actually happened, according to Bruce. As did running outside with plastic bags on their feet to try to remedy the fuel and wood situation. Though he could remember the name of the (are you the?) farmer who owned the place — 'Parkin, which is where I got the name' — Bruce couldn't then recall the name of 'wherever it was — it wasn't called Crow Crag.'</p><p>In the film, Crow Crag was memorably played by Sleddale Hall in Wet Sleddale, near Shap. Much has been written about this wonderful place, and thousands upon thousands of photos have probably been taken of it by now, by the many Withnailers who have made the pilgrimage, not least those who attend the sold-out Picnic Cinema screenings of the film in the yard at the house every summer. (Though pilgrims should note that it is a private property, and not open to the public or available to rent... as yet.)</p><p>But where did Bruce actually stay on that fateful trip in 1970? Which house originally inspired Crow Crag?</p><p>Well, thanks to a detail tucked away in the marvellous new book <i>Withnail and I: From Cult to Classic</i>, we can now reveal <i>exactly</i> where it was that Bruce and Michael Feast ended up, and yes, it's still a holiday let (though presumably now with better plumbing).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQkdujuZOy25yQkFsxeFrmtzclPxuqxkoHpEQhOnqavvUPGavrD-3Ijl02F1ofatrC9nO1jxfebmTTdEwsLgKpN7OCualF7kBNsryWur5qi7biqwmqKlo7BQYp45THXKqSp1QSZrtPwYndpYsrlJzkLZbzEPDhG5O78Qj1ahyQtpZ2e1P_a65d2ETLHRJd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQkdujuZOy25yQkFsxeFrmtzclPxuqxkoHpEQhOnqavvUPGavrD-3Ijl02F1ofatrC9nO1jxfebmTTdEwsLgKpN7OCualF7kBNsryWur5qi7biqwmqKlo7BQYp45THXKqSp1QSZrtPwYndpYsrlJzkLZbzEPDhG5O78Qj1ahyQtpZ2e1P_a65d2ETLHRJd=w240-h320" width="240" /></a></div><br />In the book — alongside interviews and memories from the cast, crew, and famous fans — there is all sorts of wonderful ephemera from Bruce's personal archive, including the first page of a letter he wrote to his then-girlfriend, the actress Lesley-Anne Down, about the 'holiday' he'd just had. He begins by describing the local area: 'In Pooley-Bridge, the nights are nightier — black is blacker, and cold is colder (I forgot — wet is wetter).' He goes on to describe getting to their accommodation, and there, in the letter, is this:<p></p><p>'Auterstone cottage sticks out like a boil on a troubled brow.'</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs4ziAJ4GgKszZA-4FS-lB600w1UYN9BqkAtpeRSW4-lseFDkRsTRMzAnkDNt3eqtW74ZC5A6Yyv62R5op95TWKFxDTpyujKUqRvXiTJonvpqdQdmAmghU13WPOGGnhqLJ3afnuqJAc26wlgS4r1ws-hKynurS88KryxN8pF8qq3szIYEi2f4ddYuAVHZE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs4ziAJ4GgKszZA-4FS-lB600w1UYN9BqkAtpeRSW4-lseFDkRsTRMzAnkDNt3eqtW74ZC5A6Yyv62R5op95TWKFxDTpyujKUqRvXiTJonvpqdQdmAmghU13WPOGGnhqLJ3afnuqJAc26wlgS4r1ws-hKynurS88KryxN8pF8qq3szIYEi2f4ddYuAVHZE=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br />A quick google reveals that Auterstone Cottage is part of Swarthbeck Farm, near Howtown. It overlooks Ullswater, and according to its website is, yes, up 'a long track which can be difficult in snow and ice.' But, it has 'wonderful views over the whole lake from the front.' Sounds lovely. To be fair, even Bruce conceded in his 1970 letter that 'the living room is a picture from a noddy book about cottages.' It appears that no one online, and certainly not the people who own the place (still the Parkins?) has ever made the <i>Withnail</i> connection...<p></p><p>If you'd like to stay there yourself, you can find the details <b><a href="https://www.swarthbeckfarm.co.uk/swarthbeck0204.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. </b></p><p>Why Bruce didn't suggest filming <i>Withnail </i>at the place that inspired it is an interesting question, which I'm not sure he's ever been asked. It's not as if Sleddale Hall is any easier to get to for a film crew, if anything, it's even further from a main road! Having said that, Sleddale Hall (which was found by Unit Production Manager Matthew Binns) was perfect for the film, and it's now hard to imagine Uncle Monty's being anywhere else. But! A film <i>has</i> been made at Auterstone, and a somewhat Withnailian one at that...</p><p><i>Paul is Dead </i>is a short film about the Beatles, and rather than trying to sum it up, it's quicker if you just go and watch it. It's superb on every level, and I'm not just saying that because it was co-written and produced, not to mention production designed, by a friend of mine, Stuart Armstrong.</p><p>Here's the trailer:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OVL-8LHdwqE" width="320" youtube-src-id="OVL-8LHdwqE"></iframe></div><br /><p>... and you can watch the whole short <a href="https://www.polyrockfilms.com/film-tv/paul-is-dead" target="_blank">here</a>. It's now in development as a feature-length version at Polyrock Films.</p><p>The spooky thing is, Stu felt that the spirit of <i>Withnail </i>was with them from the start...</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">'As self-confessed <i>Withnail and I</i> superfans, <i>Paul Is Dead</i> writer/director George and I immediately drew inspiration from the film as soon as our co-writer Ben lit the flame of a comedy short based around the infamous Beatles conspiracy theory. It seemed like a perfect fit; not, that is, because George Harrison himself financed <i>Withnail</i>, but rather where else would one stage the death of Paul McCartney than on a 'musical retreat' in a remote cottage clung to the side of a Cumbrian fell. There was just something about our aim to create fictional versions of the well-loved Beatles through a flawed, ironic and pathetic lens which felt inherently Withnailian. Naturally, we arranged to recce the real life Crow Crag ASAP, and were soon shown around by the welcoming current owner Tim Ellis. However, we found the logistics of getting a film crew up to Sleddale Hall were just too inviable — and this was in 2018, so Christ knows how they managed it in the 1980s! It was at this point we naturally began discussing the making of <i>Withnail</i>, and found ourselves wondering where exactly Robinson took his fated, inspirational holiday — and I'm sure a passing 'wouldn’t it be cool if we ended up filming there' was thrown around. Next on our location scout list was Auterstone Cottage, on the other side of the far eastern Lakeland fells, owned by a Mr. and Mrs. Parkin. Parkin? Like the farmer from <i>Withnail</i>? I recognised it as a local name, but a bell did ring instantly; and George and I immediately shared a knowing glance. A lonely cottage about as remote as you can get, a ripened old farmer who probably looked about the same age in 1969, and who when informed about the subject of our film replied — verbatim — 'The Beatles. Ah yes. Everything was fine until they came along.' We were sure this was the place.' </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Director George Moore adds, 'It immediately felt uncannily like we were living the full <i>Withnail and I</i> experience. The muddy trek up the mountainside was strikingly similar to the film’s impromptu bullring. A step out the door and you’re confronted with the huge, widescreen vista of the lake and fells below, just as Marwood is in the film.' </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Stu continues, 'We ended up shooting <i>Paul</i> at and around Auterstone, but not without running into a few issues, not least of which was a three-day snow-in thanks to the 'Beast from the East', during which we had to march our cast and crew on a six-mile round trip to Pooley Bridge to buy the last remaining potato, black pudding and fine wine on offer in the local post office (and at once pick up the Parkins’ waylaid <i>Daily Mail</i>). But we survived and made it, fittingly, back to London. The film then went on to enjoy great success on the festival circuit and, humbly, something of a cult status online — a privilege which can of course be attributed to the incumbent cultural real estate of the four lads from Liverpool, but one we’re glad to think is also a testament to the continued ability of Bruce Robinson’s masterpiece to inspire filmmakers such as ourselves. And how marvellous that we now have physical proof of the Withnailian heritage we had always hoped to imbue into <i>Paul Is Dead</i>.’</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Yes Stu, it is marvellous! </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Auterstone Cottage: you now have your place assured in <i>Withnail </i>history... nay, British film history... nay <i>British history</i>. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">There should be a plaque, at the very least.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br /></p>Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-74644493665964740952023-08-19T16:10:00.001+01:002023-08-26T21:40:41.678+01:00A Wicker Man Limited Edition: 100 Copies Only<p style="text-align: center;"><b>NOW SOLD OUT</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>AN APPOINTMENT WITH</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>THE WICKER MAN</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>A STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES FOR SALE</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>EACH WITH A HAND-PRINTED LINOCUT FRONTISPIECE</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmSCMBHgpuqLpC4fKim0avuoyBlI3qQVr-59bRYcIhoo4WmtdRL06vZjih38wC88UhEwhvklp-DjOUjbl81glhn4BPKr_Kg6uBSLkDDx7DGc8xbRA8gj3iy0lUzPuo5VoUnZq1QDdIkZx0eRRpYnX2CLQlJRLzM47V3Q9Hmq-6ayEssmcC7berj40pRlhu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmSCMBHgpuqLpC4fKim0avuoyBlI3qQVr-59bRYcIhoo4WmtdRL06vZjih38wC88UhEwhvklp-DjOUjbl81glhn4BPKr_Kg6uBSLkDDx7DGc8xbRA8gj3iy0lUzPuo5VoUnZq1QDdIkZx0eRRpYnX2CLQlJRLzM47V3Q9Hmq-6ayEssmcC7berj40pRlhu=w240-h320" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjH9eMjAOQ1THvppcXcnzZ70T6Ah4As2VU_ggnSrXjlMgqH132dCvT1vTkzun8MJChxawARVE3tljWl5hqhlS2zOQJ3Mx_zQpvAVU_oDn3-zNbgGh6lD5z6DNIAiDcdyWxyhGLreJDIMwZRHZntDg6e8UL9e3oSOhB80wcBVZ_0f3uOFN5Tg7WVoJs7RGiQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjH9eMjAOQ1THvppcXcnzZ70T6Ah4As2VU_ggnSrXjlMgqH132dCvT1vTkzun8MJChxawARVE3tljWl5hqhlS2zOQJ3Mx_zQpvAVU_oDn3-zNbgGh6lD5z6DNIAiDcdyWxyhGLreJDIMwZRHZntDg6e8UL9e3oSOhB80wcBVZ_0f3uOFN5Tg7WVoJs7RGiQ=w240-h320" width="240" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>A strictly limited, never-to-be-reprinted edition of 100 hand-numbered </b><b>copies for sale.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Each copy features a tipped-in frontispiece illustration, in the form of an individually hand-printed original linocut by Sharon Gosling.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>With contributions from Amy Rafferty and Joel Morris.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>A5 format, 24pp (including cover), printed on silk paper stock, and a cover printed on heavy Rives Shetland paper. With a frontispiece hand-printed on uncoated stock, tipped in by hand.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">Like all great cult movies, it’s tricky to explain exactly why <i>The Wicker Man</i> continues to mean so much to its dedicated followers. It’s probably best not to overthink matters, and just revel in it all, which is what a lucky group of fans got to do on May Day 2023, gathering at the original Wicker Man site at Burrow Head in Scotland, exactly fifty years after the events in the film. This limited edition publication is a souvenir celebration of those events, which included the burning of a new Wicker Man created by local artist Amanda Sunderland. Alongside photos of the burning and a brief overview of the weekend, also included is a contribution from Joel Morris, of the band Candidate, who performed songs from the soundtrack, and a poem in the Scots Lallans dialect by Amy Rafferty, who has a very special connection to the film: she appeared as a baby in the churchyard scene. Each copy also includes an individually hand-printed linocut frontispiece of the original Wicker Man. Whether you were there on May Day 2023 or not, this is a unique and very limited piece of <i>Wicker Man </i>history...</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">THIS LIMITED EDITION IS NOW SOLD OUT. MANY THANKS TO ALL THE BUYERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD!</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">MORE PHOTOS BELOW...</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9DKARbyjNc632E0hF8h34_R0yIndcuL38leoS8mzwi9vMX-VyZuHTn_NbUR3t_Bkg3HI3cbuaGNiKToz3KKUu8-45gTxxuCaU84AWEwmSdkjOMe1Qt93VvTqX__2Bx-22NSzFv5ohorw9SQUDWy1_k7hTWz7hgtZ0GY9oOvYNxj2Ok6KuzjU7Dshv9G5V" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9DKARbyjNc632E0hF8h34_R0yIndcuL38leoS8mzwi9vMX-VyZuHTn_NbUR3t_Bkg3HI3cbuaGNiKToz3KKUu8-45gTxxuCaU84AWEwmSdkjOMe1Qt93VvTqX__2Bx-22NSzFv5ohorw9SQUDWy1_k7hTWz7hgtZ0GY9oOvYNxj2Ok6KuzjU7Dshv9G5V=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_DbJmDE5Xz_lmJzZgOaEmvrB88uV8xDgtZNK2912247zWaJeRtLZu8KYj0H7n0vr7jPXUjnStebopTVMxnk9rnD2JCAoUkNAMFZaUoGWViiHTXGvOuFEQ4R62NXC0686MGQ-YEBznGqezt-ijXcyHO0yTkH3JxaMKCsTO7EjenP3L-Ucwxv30vSYVUqb5" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_DbJmDE5Xz_lmJzZgOaEmvrB88uV8xDgtZNK2912247zWaJeRtLZu8KYj0H7n0vr7jPXUjnStebopTVMxnk9rnD2JCAoUkNAMFZaUoGWViiHTXGvOuFEQ4R62NXC0686MGQ-YEBznGqezt-ijXcyHO0yTkH3JxaMKCsTO7EjenP3L-Ucwxv30vSYVUqb5=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each copy comes with an individually hand-printed linocut by Sharon Gosling.<br />Here's a copy next to the linocut printing block. Please note that, as each linocut is printed and inked separately, exact colours and inking density may vary from the prints shown.<br /><br /><br />AN IMPORTANT ERRATUM NOTE!<br />Due to an unfortunate error (completely my fault) the artist who created the Wicker Man for the event, Amanda Sunderland, is incorrectly named (twice!) in the booklet as Amanda Sutherland. Many apologies: and thanks to Amanda for being so nice about it when she gently pointed it out.<br />(Apparently I'm not the first to make the mistake, and I doubt I'll be the last.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Our previous limited </span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">editions have tended to sell out, so </span>don't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> miss out on this one...</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><b><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Slave Race</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, featuring Philip K. Dick's first SF tale (not in his Collected Stories), </span>sold<span style="font-family: inherit;"> out in a matter of days (details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2020/10/rediscovered-philip-k-dicks-first.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><b><i>Gods of Darkness</i>, a never-reprinted tale of a Lovecraftian witch cult by F. Scott Fitzgerald also went out of print extremely quickly (details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2021/10/f-scott-fitzgeralds-forgotten-tale-of.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Our two Lawrence of Arabia titles</span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> </i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>(see details </b><b><a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/02/a-t-e-lawrence-limited-edition-kaer-of.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2019/12/a-t-e-lawrence-limited-edition-125.html" target="_blank">here</a></b><b>)</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">, were described by the T. E. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Lawrence</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Society</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> as "a very beautiful publication" and "a valuable piece of ephemera for your collection". </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><i>The Ghost of the Private Theatricals</i><b>, a newly discovered tale of terror by Mary Shelley, the creator of </b><i>Frankenstein</i><b> (details </b><a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/09/newly-discovered-long-lost-tale-of.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a><b>), was featured in the </b><i>Times Literary Supplement</i><b>, and also sold out quickly, with copies going to every continent except Antarctica!</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><span><b>Limited<span style="font-family: inherit;"> copies remain of <i>At the Door of Darkness</i>, a </span></b></span></span></span><b>forgotten episode from Joseph Conrad's <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, deleted from the published version, and now reconstructed from the original manuscript. Details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2020/07/limited-to-100-copies-forgotten-episode.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></div><br /><br />My thanks go to Sharon Gosling for designing and printing the linocut frontispieces, and to Martin Stiff of Amazing15.com for his sublime design. All photographs are by Sharon Gosling and Adam Newell.<br />Just to be 100% clear, this publication is not licenced, prepared or approved by Canal+/Studio Canal or any entity associated with the film <i>The Wicker Man</i>. Neither is it in any way an 'official' publication of the 50th anniversary weekend that took place in Scotland, or associated fan groups. It is a personal celebration, with huge thanks to Amy Rafferty and Joel Morris for permission to include their written contributions.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-33899332918697942382023-07-08T10:41:00.001+01:002023-07-08T10:42:01.604+01:00WITHNAIL BOOKS IS TEN YEARS OLD!<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNbJnrYgnTYqm2LCthPh3wvyhGfnx9JHhEjZ3kIeQxM4VXmhcfBvvilfjTkTUIGnUGV1DHfWbgyL1CFi1-GWnyZtTb3XzjIi32JIG7ig-0-bTaJrPL78sm_RjiUZi9e43fLRyIqxF7fAWgS2MwABizrLa7oDLIayiwF0ScQGlI9pgm4vnfIY1wUA_qrmCe" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNbJnrYgnTYqm2LCthPh3wvyhGfnx9JHhEjZ3kIeQxM4VXmhcfBvvilfjTkTUIGnUGV1DHfWbgyL1CFi1-GWnyZtTb3XzjIi32JIG7ig-0-bTaJrPL78sm_RjiUZi9e43fLRyIqxF7fAWgS2MwABizrLa7oDLIayiwF0ScQGlI9pgm4vnfIY1wUA_qrmCe=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Ten years ago I opened a second hand bookshop by mistake in Penrith, which obviously had to be called Withnail Books. During that decade I’ve sold (certainly) thousands of books to (probably) thousands of people. Some of them said some pretty memorable things: sometimes to me, sometimes to others, or indeed to themselves, as I sat quietly earwigging.</span><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I just type it down folks… and it's become a book...</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"These books and that? Are they just for decoration?" Actual Customer Quotes from a Secondhand Bookshop</i> only exists as a couple of hard copies I made for my </span>own<span style="font-family: inherit;"> entertainment, BUT, anyone who wants one can have a PDF/ebook version FOR FREE! Just email me at withnailbooks@btinternet.com and I'll send you one.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's a small sample...</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I went out with a girl who smelled of coconut once. Put me off coconut for life.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I can quite accurately date books by their smell. There’s a certain era of American books which are really smelly.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(He’s quite right.)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It’s very hard to find knitted vegetables.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Oh, he was borderline genius. He could read barcodes without the numbers.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To her companion, who remained silent: “I love old books. I love to look at old books. I like the look of them. I’ll not be buying one mind. You’re not impressed by books, are you? I like the look of them though. Looking at them.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“My mate is the world’s leading authority on parasitic wasps.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #040404; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Over his shoulder on leaving, after our long conversation about book collecting:</span></p><p style="color: #040404; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You and me, we’re both patients in the same clinic...”</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXyrlK1PElcPb7lIZINjTDitvB4lwDI9_fbR9G55fwHzwA2KK6IEudGV9hdKqkjg_Zm8V1M5A7IOBridDUD5EsWC5C_dqzsjURBSGz_zlCaSc3ibBJRBbhACcEfV4Ypf3u-FN5Lz9_Cv3nYmTK7Bh5HNKHD2TDZcpuoudEDnyt0yFbdv0h66rt486qY6rL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXyrlK1PElcPb7lIZINjTDitvB4lwDI9_fbR9G55fwHzwA2KK6IEudGV9hdKqkjg_Zm8V1M5A7IOBridDUD5EsWC5C_dqzsjURBSGz_zlCaSc3ibBJRBbhACcEfV4Ypf3u-FN5Lz9_Cv3nYmTK7Bh5HNKHD2TDZcpuoudEDnyt0yFbdv0h66rt486qY6rL=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj77VyB3VAxF--0Scj5-iPXF6j7pN8HVhbkikAKFwLFOhP4Qh5oIqY0JWK74EfJfaSePyRttVR_OGXlVliLSc1Nmt-EhSM8UKVyhXOfekUrxKd3pspR2DcTkA7PKZ9q-QEA-tytWL-tE5NEzg_-FIpibHNM0e0LnhcKLKwsfN_7KxEi_EKVCyhsBQdi-pLL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj77VyB3VAxF--0Scj5-iPXF6j7pN8HVhbkikAKFwLFOhP4Qh5oIqY0JWK74EfJfaSePyRttVR_OGXlVliLSc1Nmt-EhSM8UKVyhXOfekUrxKd3pspR2DcTkA7PKZ9q-QEA-tytWL-tE5NEzg_-FIpibHNM0e0LnhcKLKwsfN_7KxEi_EKVCyhsBQdi-pLL=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDIUPejlzJVRBPWHw87Xp378tPhP8jQLOeWCQMIZm_SB54Nww_Bi6iAhX7YQ2aeqpgD_VbXGqyWLM89EapiKiCGMQqcOWNzBWYqtc2DYccl8on9zrX-Db9Iz3sNb95NKlh_WwVBzRp9h5EUZgwUPfWBcC5DmQmAHtiJqmMGw6Ym4pwQbiL-l9kmUgp5u73" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDIUPejlzJVRBPWHw87Xp378tPhP8jQLOeWCQMIZm_SB54Nww_Bi6iAhX7YQ2aeqpgD_VbXGqyWLM89EapiKiCGMQqcOWNzBWYqtc2DYccl8on9zrX-Db9Iz3sNb95NKlh_WwVBzRp9h5EUZgwUPfWBcC5DmQmAHtiJqmMGw6Ym4pwQbiL-l9kmUgp5u73=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the tenth incarnation of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Doctor_Who)" style="font-family: inherit;">someone I admire</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> once said, “I love a little shop.” In these days of internet-shopping-from-your-sofa-while-tweeting-and-watching-TV, it’s a refreshing change, I think, to occasionally go outside and have a poke about in an actual shop. Perhaps not even looking for anything in particular, but just giving yourself the chance to spot something you might fancy. Something you never knew you wanted.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Withnail Books aims to be this kind of “little shop,” and I’m always very pleased when customers give me unbidden comments along the lines of “what a great shop,” or, “you have an interesting selection of books.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d like to thank all the people who have helped Withnail Books over the last ten years: customers of course, but also friends, family (including my Brunswick Yard family) and supporters on t’internet; too many to list individually, but you know who you are. Thank you all.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Special thanks though to my wonderful wife Sharon Gosling, who has been there from the very beginning, when “Withnail Books” was just words stamped on a leather key fob she’d bought to inspire me, and which is still in my pocket as I type this…</span></p>Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-78169782893953121832021-11-20T14:08:00.003+00:002021-11-21T17:30:09.380+00:00A (Very) Limited Edition Doctor Who Action Figure<p>This is the story of a very, very limited edition Doctor Who collectable (there is only one of them) which also happens to be The Best Present In The History Of Presents.</p><p>As I have mentioned to almost no-one over the years (really, I hardly ever mention it, ever), I WAS IN DOCTOR WHO ONCE!!</p><p>Long story short, I worked for one day as an extra on David Tennant's debut adventure, 'The Christmas Invasion', and am visible in the final scene for very nearly 13 and a half seconds. That's me, top right. I wander across screen, and as I look up at the fallout from the exploded Sycorax ship, I stroke my chin thoughtfully. (This was not in the script by the way; it was all my own work.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgtyFpQCkmN7eaQBhQWnqecDN2oTFrd_G5TKmoJ4GJiNjTA8TcoubfB9ahVbmoDmw4hgb7_cSvTA9H-SubaC4-dGpV5rkI_o34W30zq166udGjrnq87KiVHREqNtoT7Lh0YCeSJCtf3XBY/s1958/chin+stroke+screengrab.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1958" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgtyFpQCkmN7eaQBhQWnqecDN2oTFrd_G5TKmoJ4GJiNjTA8TcoubfB9ahVbmoDmw4hgb7_cSvTA9H-SubaC4-dGpV5rkI_o34W30zq166udGjrnq87KiVHREqNtoT7Lh0YCeSJCtf3XBY/w640-h357/chin+stroke+screengrab.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>If you want to read a very long two-part account of my day on set, you can do so <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2013/11/happy-birthday-doctor.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>, but this post is about how my amazing wife Sharon took this fleeting moment of Doctor Who fame (which I may have mentioned to her occasionally) and turned it into the Best Present Ever, for my 50th birthday earlier this year. Here it is:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1x8bSqmhishqnVQKR6hhUurBWG_scOZd-Pn9d_2bwaNn23RmxWlRxqaFmYX0boW8hEUSwTvnyHKzfFFviXvZh_8yYnurR3RFaN3vTINxAzo_6TD5z-M2pJtIuUTSlpwjyj7gp9dbUJg71/s2048/IMG_9017.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1x8bSqmhishqnVQKR6hhUurBWG_scOZd-Pn9d_2bwaNn23RmxWlRxqaFmYX0boW8hEUSwTvnyHKzfFFviXvZh_8yYnurR3RFaN3vTINxAzo_6TD5z-M2pJtIuUTSlpwjyj7gp9dbUJg71/w480-h640/IMG_9017.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcU5-bpS4WtvLrmYrf9CifbiurnlCbmbSA50Fdarj5WiRFhrcVn40Vc0hyYlyI5tmFePYoEIk_fVyKg4UhjXkC_fXzPu30YVU4mSmZKryoUQmL86DRlB8zswEqo8XaCSpz9WdAM87ndr05/s2048/IMG_9018.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcU5-bpS4WtvLrmYrf9CifbiurnlCbmbSA50Fdarj5WiRFhrcVn40Vc0hyYlyI5tmFePYoEIk_fVyKg4UhjXkC_fXzPu30YVU4mSmZKryoUQmL86DRlB8zswEqo8XaCSpz9WdAM87ndr05/w480-h640/IMG_9018.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>Isn't that something?</p><p>As you can well imagine, I was somewhat overcome when I unwrapped this present (during a Zoom call with my far-flung family, who knew what was coming and wanted to see my expression). Sharon had managed to keep the whole thing, months in the making, totally secret from me. It was a complete and wonderful surprise. </p><p>Once Sharon had had the original idea to create a figure of the Chin-Stroking Man, she co-ordinated with a bunch of people to help bring it into existence. My family helped remember exactly what it was I was wearing that day, down to the colour of my shirt, belt and boots, and the tartan scarf — none of this is actually visible on screen of course, but they got it all dead right. My friends and fellow Whovians Mark, Johnny and Dave were on hand for creative input, including the 'backstory' for the Chin-Stroking Man/Temporal Archivist (originally created by the aforementioned Mark in a not-entirely-serious Outpost Gallifrey post just after the episode's transmission as I recall — seeing my rather relaxed pose, he posited that perhaps this mysterious chin-stroker was another Time Lord...).</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sharon made the (utterly perfect) box entirely by herself, but for the figure, after a key introduction by our mate Steve, she turned to the artist and sculptor Phill Hosking. I emailed Phill to say thank you, and he had this to say:</span></p>"I feel like I know you in a strange kind of way. Was a total pleasure to make the piece. I love working on things with meaning, and was great to see it through from idea right through to final painted model. All took a bit of working out with the clothes etc, so glad it was all accurate. Scarf was particularly interesting to paint. Really glad you liked it."<br /><br />Yes Phill, I do like it. I love it! Phill also kindly shared a bunch of process shots, which I will post below. Sharon gave Phill some photo reference of me to help (as the screen grabs weren't much to go on!), and from the initial digital sculpt, through the 3D printing of the various parts, to the assembly and meticulous hand painting, it's fascinating to see it all come together.<p><span style="color: #26282a;">You can find Phill on Instagram, where he posts his stunning art, both 2D and 3D, as eclecto2d and <span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">eclecto_3d</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">Thanks again to everyone who helped create The Best Present Ever, but especially to Sharon. 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Scott Fitzgerald's Forgotten Tale of a Lovecraftian Witch Cult. A Limited Edition.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>***SOLD OUT!***</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>She began to cry forth again.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>"We'll burn his heart in pig's fat at the <i>Sabbat!"...</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;">— from 'Gods of Darkness' by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCppV7TPzQmamqDjd8l6vb9y9kWXZCcSWSfXKXrKTVeGQ_PtybAucOlc6_Stu05upDzj3_ZQlYzF0Xz_g_6f3YWl_URMVoLJGQjHLcTiKwVKbi4Rm7yy9oNuQMZgNd90ZUfrcdp_OS-knb/s2048/IMG_0297.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCppV7TPzQmamqDjd8l6vb9y9kWXZCcSWSfXKXrKTVeGQ_PtybAucOlc6_Stu05upDzj3_ZQlYzF0Xz_g_6f3YWl_URMVoLJGQjHLcTiKwVKbi4Rm7yy9oNuQMZgNd90ZUfrcdp_OS-knb/s320/IMG_0297.JPG" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S FORGOTTEN TALE OF A LOVECRAFTIAN WITCH CULT, </b><b style="font-family: inherit;">NOT IN ANY EDITION OF HIS COLLECTED WORKS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>A STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>***NOW SOLD OUT***</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>LIKE MOST OF OUR PREVIOUS LIMITED EDITIONS, GODS OF DARKNESS SOLD OUT QUICKLY. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><span><b>Limited<span style="font-family: inherit;"> copies remain of <i>At the Door of Darkness</i>, a </span></b></span></span></span><b>forgotten episode from Joseph Conrad's <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, deleted from the published version, and now reconstructed from the original manuscript. Details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2020/07/limited-to-100-copies-forgotten-episode.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_RTFNFDDEhGdIVKKtTr9Uq9Ljp_Xf72Y7d0JWHoyEpXPsPhqTwN5EMYD2ggaFaGMIkKfKzNU_7Aem92n-1bZ8Jkbcr1pAd6RXzQHb97_oe5zti8tp_zH_CvI6gDvD5yTRn4pIB3gQVloe/s2048/ad+shot.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2048" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_RTFNFDDEhGdIVKKtTr9Uq9Ljp_Xf72Y7d0JWHoyEpXPsPhqTwN5EMYD2ggaFaGMIkKfKzNU_7Aem92n-1bZ8Jkbcr1pAd6RXzQHb97_oe5zti8tp_zH_CvI6gDvD5yTRn4pIB3gQVloe/s320/ad+shot.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;">In the mid-1930s F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of <i>The Great Gatsby</i>, wrote a short story set in medieval France, with a lead character, 'The Count of Darkness', based on the young Ernest Hemingway. It also featured a witch cult, drawn from a research source which greatly inspired the work of H.P. Lovecraft. Fitzgerald's agent, perhaps unsurprisingly, was somewhat nonplussed, but the story was sold for (belated) publication in a magazine. Since then, 'Gods of Darkness' has been forgotten by the reading public, and quietly ignored by Fitzgerald's estate: it has never been included in any collected edition of the author's work. Indeed to my knowledge it has <span style="font-family: inherit;">never been reprinted anywhere... until now.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>GODS OF DARKNESS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><b>By F. Scott Fitzgerald</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Fitzgerald's forgotten story of a medieval witch cult, drawn from a source that also inspired H.P. Lovecraft.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The story has never been collected in any edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, and is reprinted here for the first time.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>With an extended afterword by Adam Newell, detailing the background to the story, and its fascinating links to the work of H.P. Lovecraft, with relevant excerpts from Lovecraft's writings.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>A strictly limited, never-to-be-reprinted edition of 250 hand-numbered </b><b>copies for sale.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Each copy features a tipped-in frontispiece illustration, based on an original linocut by Sharon Newell.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>A5 format, 40pp (over 10,000 words in total), printed on uncoated stock, including a cover printed on heavy Tinteretto Gesso paper. With a frontispiece printed on 300gsm silk stock, tipped in by hand.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Our previous limited </span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">editions have tended to sell out, so </span>don't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> miss out on this one...</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><b><span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Slave Race</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, featuring Philip K. Dick's first SF tale (not in his Collected Stories), </span>sold<span style="font-family: inherit;"> out in a matter of days (details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2020/10/rediscovered-philip-k-dicks-first.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Our two Lawrence of Arabia titles</span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> </i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>(see details </b><b><a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/02/a-t-e-lawrence-limited-edition-kaer-of.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2019/12/a-t-e-lawrence-limited-edition-125.html" target="_blank">here</a></b><b>)</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">, were described by the T. E. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Lawrence</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Society</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> as "a very beautiful publication" and "a valuable piece of ephemera for your collection". </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><i>The Ghost of the Private Theatricals</i><b>, a newly discovered tale of terror by Mary Shelley, the creator of </b><i>Frankenstein</i><b> (details </b><a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/09/newly-discovered-long-lost-tale-of.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a><b>), was featured in the </b><i>Times Literary Supplement</i><b>, and also sold out quickly, with copies going to every continent except Antarctica!</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><span><b>Limited<span style="font-family: inherit;"> copies remain of <i>At the Door of Darkness</i>, a </span></b></span></span></span><b>forgotten episode from Joseph Conrad's <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, deleted from the published version, and now reconstructed from the original manuscript. Details <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2020/07/limited-to-100-copies-forgotten-episode.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></div></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">TO ORDER GODS OF DARKNESS</span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">There are 250 hand-numbered copies, first come, first-served. 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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">A forgotten episode from </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Heart of Darkness</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, cut from the </span>published<span style="font-family: inherit;"> version, now </span></b><b>reconstructed from the original manuscript</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Heart of Darkness </i>is Joseph Conrad's most celebrated story, both as a work of literature, and as the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's classic film <i>Apocalypse Now</i>. Originally published in 1899, the novella's dark tale of madness in the jungle was based on the author's own experience of travelling up the Congo river a decade before. <span style="text-align: start;">Conrad’s journey began when he came ashore on 12 June 1890 at Boma, the seat of government of what was then the Congo Free State.</span><span style="text-align: start;"> He drew on his </span>experiences in Boma to write an extended passage in <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, detailing the true beginning of Marlow's river voyage — but this episode, full of fascinating detail, was deleted from the printed version of the story, and has now become quite literally a footnote, mentioned in a few academic editions, but otherwise forgotten.</span></div>
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<b>This limited edition finally brings the full text of this 'deleted scene' into print, reconstructed from the original manuscript.</b></div>
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<span lang="" style="font-family: inherit;">Each copy of the edition features an original, individually hand-printed tipped-in linocut frontispiece by Sharon Newell, inspired by the baobab tree at Boma, as described by Conrad in the text deleted from the published version of <i>Heart of Darkness</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A5 format, printed on uncoated 160gsm paper, 20pp plus a cover</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> printed on heavy Rives Shetland paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Includes both a transcription of the deleted text from the manuscript, and the heavily edited passage as eventually published in the printed version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A detailed Introduction by Adam Newell gives the background to the text, and reveals an intriguing connection between this lost episode and <i>Apocalypse Now</i>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Features photos of the five relevant pages of Conrad's original manuscript, and rare historical images of Boma, identifying the locations described by Conrad.</span><br />
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As always, I have Sharon Newell to thank for her wonderful linocuts, and Martin Stiff of Amazing15 for his brilliant design and layout. Acknowledgment also to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, which holds Conrad's manuscript.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Nobody knows exactly how many letters T. E. Lawrence wrote in his lifetime. The total number, from childhood missives to his mother, right up to scribbled notes to friends in his final weeks, is undoubtedly comfortably into four figures.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We now know that he wrote three letters dated 30th October, 1931. Two of them, to his Mother and to the typographer Bruce Rogers, have been previously published (albeit in expensive, now hard-to-find books); the other, a fascinating and revealing letter to a fellow member of the RAF, has been uncollected until now. All three are presented here, giving a snapshot into one particular Friday in the 43-year-old Lawrence’s life, including — in the uncollected letter — a story involving Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon, and an unexpected connection to Spike Milligan and John Lennon...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Each copy of the edition features an original, individually hand-printed linocut by Sharon Newell, inspired by Lawrence's adventures in his beloved speedboat, the <i>Biscuit</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A5 format, printed on uncoated 160gsm paper, 16pp plus a cover (in RAF blue</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">) printed on heavy Rives Shetland paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The interior is set in Centaur, the font created by Bruce Rogers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Featuring, as well as the full text of the three letters, a detailed</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Afterword by Adam Newell, giving the background to the letters and their recipients, with supporting illustrations.</span><br />
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Once again I have Sharon Newell and Martin Stiff to thank, for their hard work on making this limited edition a reality. Thanks also the The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust, for their kind cooperation.</div>
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The three books featured below are all British editions of American Western novels. They all have cracking covers, and they are all, as far as I can ascertain, *fantastically* rare.</div>
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I can't find any other copies of any of them for sale anywhere in the world.</div>
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I don't just mean copies that still have dust jackets, but any copies, at all. In these internet days, that's still a rare happenstance. A sort of secondhand book googlewhack. And here are three at once. But will anyone care? I guess we'll find out, as I've just put them on eBay...</div>
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The listing is <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/163747793022" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">HERE</a>. And no, I don't expect to get the full asking price, or anywhere near it, probably. But you can make me an offer...</div>
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<br />Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-45378080144057972962019-06-14T13:54:00.000+01:002019-11-15T17:41:46.812+00:00Who Should Play Jackson Lamb? (Slight Return)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>UPDATE: AND THE ANSWER IS... GARY OLDMAN!</b><br />
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Breaking news <a href="https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/11/15/slow-horses-gary-oldman-joins-apple-tv-spy-novel-adaptation/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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One of the more popular posts on this blog in recent times is <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/04/who-should-play-jackson-lamb.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">this one</a>, which asks 'Who Should Play Jackson Lamb?' in the inevitable TV version of Mick Herron's sublime spy thriller series. To celebrate the release of the sixth instalment of the Jackson Lamb/Slough house saga, Mr Herron is doing a few signings, so Sam the Black Hand Wine Man and I motored over to Forum Books in Corbridge — which, by the way, is an object lesson in how to run an independent bookshop* — to meet the man himself.<br />
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If you're not familiar with Jackson Lamb and his crew of Slow Horses, the <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2018/04/who-should-play-jackson-lamb.html" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">previous blog entry</a> will bring you up to speed. Mr Herron in conversation was fascinating: he talked at length about his writing process ("anyone watching would just think I was a professional-level solitaire player"), his relationship with his characters ("I could never write a female character I didn't like, though that doesn't go for my male characters"), and the yes-it-is-going-to-happen-probably TV series. While conceding that he's been saying for many years that the TV series is looking "probable" it apparently is looking a lot more probable of late. Indeed, he spent several days in the 'Writer's Room' breaking down the story with the guys tasked with bringing the first book to the screen. "We had a different thing for lunch every day! It was fantastic!" he marvelled.<br />
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While he understands the interest in the TV series, and welcomes the attention and sales it could bring, Herron does find it slightly exasperating that a book's success is often gauged by whether it is turned into something else: "You wouldn't say to a painter, 'Oooh, I love that painting. Is it going to be turned into a sculpture?'"<br />
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A fair point, but it doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to Jackson Lamb onscreen! Mick remained tight-lipped about other details, including casting, though it sounds as if they have simply not reached that stage yet.<br />
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One other thing: Herron was hilariously keen to insist, for legal reasons, that the character of Peter Judd was *not* based on any particular politician, when it is very, very clear that he's actually... well, read the books for yourself, and if you have read them, you'll know! (Hint: I'm currently hoping against hope that he's not going be our next Prime Minister...)<br />
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Anyway, we have a new Jackson Lamb novel, which is the main thing! I've not read my copy yet, but I do have a complete set of all the Slough House books to date, all signed by the author, for sale if anyone wants to dive right in!<br />
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*Another reason to visit the excellent Forum Books in Corbridge is that right opposite it is The Oldest Pub In The World: a tiny hostelry built into a Pele tower/fortified vicarage built in 1300. Here's Sam sitting on a throne having a pint. Chin chin!<br />
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This rather lovely book is a recent arrival at Withnail Books, and is evidently a rare survivor. I can trace no other copies available anywhere (it's another ABEwhack (tm)). I can't even find any reference to its existence. The title page has a few clues:<br />
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Charlie McNair, according to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nayesterdays/4580723621/in/photostream/" target="_blank"><b>this page</b></a>, ran the local Post Office and shop (which also served as the savings bank, telegraph station and chemists). He sold postcards of the area, which sometimes appear on eBay described as 'Fairlie, McNair series', and, it would appear, published this book of similar local views. It's beautifully produced, about 5 in x 7in, with a gilt stamped debossed design to the cover, which won't have come cheap. It was probably only ever available in McNair's emporium, as the posh alternative to a postcard for the well-heeled tourist.<br />
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There's no date in the book, but the title page reveals it was 'Photographed and Printed by G. W. Wilson & Co, Ltd, Aberdeen.' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Wilson" target="_blank"><b>Wilson</b></a> was a pioneering Victorian photographer, who popularised stereo views (early 3D prints), and worked for the Queen and Prince Albert, but his company had been wound up by 1908, so we know this book has to be earlier than that. Looking at the clothes in this close up of the image above, I'd guess 1890s to early 1900s was about right.<br />
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(An aside: I've just had it pointed out to me by a regular customer that G. W. Wilson & Co in Aberdeen was once the employer of writer, photographer and entertainingly bonkers cult figure Frederick Rolfe, aka <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Rolfe" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Baron Corvo</a>. In fact, such a dedicated employee was he that he continued to work for them even after he'd lost his job there. They had trouble getting rid of him...)<br />
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Fairlie is a little town in North Ayrshire, on the eastern shore of the Firth of Clyde looking out to Arran. Wikipedia perhaps unfairly dismisses it as 'little more than a commuter town' these days, with Hunterston B nuclear power station, a deep sea shipping terminal and a NATO base all on the coastline nearby. Charlie's little book is a souvenir of a different time, when the pier was still up and running, and the internal combustion engine was still pretty new-fangled, let alone nuclear...<br />
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So here, for what is very possibly the first time in over a century, is the complete Views of Fairlie...<br />
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<b>(2019 update: Every few months since this blog was posted back in 2013 I get an email asking if this book is still for sale. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it sold almost immediately, and went to the USA, as I recall.)</b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">THE YELLOW EARL: IN HIS OWN WORDS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Lost Interview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">— A new limited edition pamphlet, 100 hand-numbered copies only. IT WILL NOT BE REPRINTED.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">— Published on <b>Saturday April 13th</b>— the 75th anniversary of The Yellow Earl’s death in 1944.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Rediscovered after more than a century, this fascinating interview, originally published in a sporting magazine in 1905, allows you to hear Hugh Cecil Lowther, better known as ‘Lordy’, The Yellow Earl, in his own words… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I don’t like the killing of anything… There’s many a fine stag at Lowther which has been covered by my rifle, but which is still sniffing the dawn in the woods!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Adam Newell, the owner of Penrith second hand bookshop Withnail Books, rediscovered the interview in an Edwardian sporting magazine. Newell has previously published limited editions of lost pieces by Lawrence of Arabia and <i>Frankenstein </i>author Mary Shelley, but this time he wanted to do something with Cumbrian appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Says Newell, “The Yellow Earl was a larger than life character, and his personality really comes through in the interview. ‘Lordy’ is still very much a legend in Cumbria, and I’d like to think that this little publication will help to keep that legend alive!”<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">THE YELLOW EARL: IN HIS OWN WORDS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-81175762041545844722019-01-26T10:33:00.000+00:002019-01-26T10:33:14.083+00:00Save the Date! The 2019 Screenings of Withnail at Uncle Monty's<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The ever-wonderful people at Picnic Cinema have announced the dates for the 2019 screenings of <i>Withnail & I </i>at Crow Crag, aka Uncle Monty's, aka (in real life) Sleddale Hall at Wet Sleddale in Cumbria's Lake District. For those if you in the know, the dates and the on-sale date for the tickets is below. For those of you not in the know, have a read of this (lengthy!) <a href="http://www.withnailbooks.com/2014/07/watching-withnail-at-uncle-montys-night.html" target="_blank"><b>blog entry</b></a> from a few years back, which will give you the crack (as they say in these parts).<br />
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So, the all important dates are Friday 28th and Saturday 28th of June.<br />
Tickets will go on sale on Thursday 21st February at 10am (and be aware, in previous years they have sold out in 20 minutes...)<br />
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For more info, and to sign up to Picnic Cinema's mailing list, go to:<br />
https://www.edenarts.co.uk/projects/picnic-cinemaWithnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-41126615512832836322018-09-30T16:41:00.000+01:002018-10-26T17:49:36.507+01:00 Newly discovered! A long-lost tale of terror from the creator of Frankenstein.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>By Mary Shelley</b></span></div>
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Almost entirely forgotten for nearly two centuries, and never included in any collection of Shelley's work, it is now reprinted at last in a limited edition, with an extended Afterword by Adam Newell, giving the background to the first publication of the story, and presenting the persuasive evidence to show that 'M.S.' is, in fact, Mary Shelley. Newell has also uncovered a contemporary review which could give a clue to the story's origins...</div>
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I am very pleased with how this edition has turned out, and I have several people to thank. Firstly, Charles E. Robinson, for inspiring my "literary sleuthing" in the first place. Secondly, Sharon Newell, for labouring over 100 copies of her beautiful linocut illustration (which suits the story far better than Charles Heath's engraving in <i>The Keepsake</i>!). Last, but certainly not least, Martin Stiff at <a href="http://amazing15.com/newmain.html" target="_blank"><b>Amazing 15</b></a> for his typically superb design work. - A.N.</div>
Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-4199895665980355492018-08-19T15:37:00.000+01:002018-08-19T16:11:09.637+01:00A Hand Painted Binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath<br />
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'Breathtaking' and 'exquisite' are words which are easy enough to bandy about (and for the record, the best-ever use of the latter can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EPLY9XG5nU" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">here</a>) but believe me when I say that this book deserves them both, and plenty more superlatives besides. Inside is a common-or-garden Book of Common Prayer from early in the 20th century, but the binding... oh my, the binding.<br />
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Full leather with art deco gold tooling, with a panel to the front board containing a hand-painted design, inlaid with mother of pearl. It is unique, and yes, breathtaking and exquisite.<br />
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It is 'signed' by Cedric Chivers of Bath, though the actual painting, as <a href="http://www.booktryst.com/2010/07/cedric-chivers-art-vs-library-bindings.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">this in-depth blog post at Booktryst</a> will tell you, is likely to be by one of that company's female painters, which included <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_M._King" target="_blank">Jessie M. King</a> </b>among their small number, although this one is perhaps more likely to have been by <a href="http://www.gsaarchives.net/archon/?p=creators/creator&id=547" target="_blank"><b>Dorothy Carleton Smyth</b></a>. The 'vellucent' technique employed in this binding was invented by Chivers, and other examples have not surprisingly become rather valuable collectors' pieces over the years.<br />
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<br />Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-16578742433695248822018-07-28T16:44:00.003+01:002018-07-28T16:44:45.982+01:00Is this the only remaining copy of this book in the whole world?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This beautiful little childrens' book recently arrived on my desk. It wasn't a title or author that I was familiar with, so to google I went, to track down some information. The result was something that happens only very, very rarely in this game: not only could I not find another copy of this book for sale, I could find no record of its existence, period. Even exceptionally scarce titles usually turn up in a library catalogue somewhere; <i>Man the Lifeboat!</i> by F. Hamilton-Knight did not.<br />
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There's an incomplete copy of <i>The Beacon Light</i>, a similar looking title by Hamilton-Knight (and a W.H.S. Thompson, who is an artist) on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B01HXUL9AO/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1531586906&sr=1-2" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> and some *very* expensive copies (£300!) of another Hamilton-Knight storybook, <i>The Turning of the Tide,</i> <b><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Tide-F-Hamilton-Knight/dp/B001OVD0G0/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531586906&sr=1-3" target="_blank">here</a> </b>and <a href="https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=215061009&searchurl=bi%3D0%26ds%3D30%26bx%3Doff%26sortby%3D20%26an%3DF%2BHamilton-Knight%26recentlyadded%3Dall&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title11" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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It's a rather wonderful thing, so here, for the first time on t'internet, is the whole book in all its small but perfectly formed glory. It's not dated, but I reckon it's late Victorian or Edwardian. The quality of the printing is very good indeed. Given his work with Knight on <i>The Beacon Light</i>, perhaps the uncredited artist here is also W.H.S. Thompson.<br />
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It is for sale, but as it's so hard to know what price level to aim for, I'll just say I'm open to offers!<br />
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Withnail Books is five years old today! Happy Birthday to the Little Shop, and as ever, chin chin to all my customers, old and new.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A book which came across my desk today. Look it up: it's actually pretty valuable, due to its connection with the early history of The Oxford Group, and Alcoholics Anonymous.</td></tr>
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<br />Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-4083255134304699672018-07-14T14:16:00.000+01:002018-07-16T09:21:22.319+01:00Fix up the Jag... A unique Withnail Collectible!To celebrate the screenings of a certain film up at Crow Crag this weekend and next, here's a little Withnail treat. A little while back I came across a very special, one-off customised Withnail model Jaguar being offered for sale online, and I had to have it. No burglary was involved, and within days it arrived at the Little Shop. Its creator, the very talented model maker Joe Nagle has this to say about it:<br />
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"It was originally the colour that is underneath the bonnet [red], I went for a matt finish to replicate the Jag in the film, the wheels were wire spoked on the model but I had to hide this, also weathering and rust was matched to the original by using screen grabs. The finishing touches of course were the removal of the driver's side windscreen wiper and the correct number plate, but perhaps the most iconic thing about the car is the removal of the left headlight which just completes that Withnail look."<br />
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Thanks Joe! It's brilliant work, and is now safely in a case and on display at Withnail Books. It is NOT FOR SALE.<br />
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Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-27513470230758515512018-06-16T17:09:00.000+01:002018-06-16T17:09:07.096+01:00Land Rover Approved Implements, Accessories and Special VehiclesThere's no such thing as an indifferent, 'meh' Land Rover owner. They *love* their Land Rovers. When it comes to vintage Land Rover owners, that enthusiasm gets turned up to 11. I've never owned one, but I know several people who can (and have) talked happily for hours about the Mark One, short wheelbases, and things to do with transmissions that I don't understand. But hey, why not? Land Rovers are cool.<br />
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Vintage Land Rover memorabilia is also very cool, so without further ado, feast your eyes on this 1968 advertising folder that has come across my desk this week (if you're very quick, you might get a chance to offer for it <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/163100605184?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649" target="_blank"><b>on eBay</b></a>).<br />
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As any advertising executive knows in his shrivelled heart, no marketing campaign, however swish and expensive, will ever be more effective than good old Word of Mouth. A glowing recommendation from a friend is worth more than a thousand billboards. That's how I found out about Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series anyway (thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/blackhandwine?lang=en&lang=en" target="_blank"><b>Sam</b></a>!), and if you've not come across them yet, consider this my glowing recommendation to you. (If you want another, Val McDermid says "Mick Herron is the John Le Carré of our generation.")</div>
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The series began in 2010 with <i>Slow Horses</i>, and a publisher and trade dress redesign or two later, has really started to reach critical mass with the the fifth book <i>London Rules</i>, just out from John Murray, with a new <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drop-Slough-House-Novella/dp/1473678307/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1523807538&sr=8-2-fkmr3&keywords=dead+lions+mick+herron+hardback" target="_blank"><b>novella</b></a> in time for Christmas and the as-yet-untitled sixth novel proper already scheduled for <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jackson-Lamb-Thriller-ebook/dp/B079WYYD2F/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1523807538&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=dead+lions+mick+herron+hardback" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">June 2019</a>. (Update: I've now discovered there's also a previous novella which features Lamb, albeit in a minor role, called <i>The List</i>).</div>
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I've bought copies of them all, including a signed first edition of <i>London Rules</i>: a snip at £12.99 from Waterstones while stocks last folks. It's a sign of Herron's skyrocketing profile that first editions, let alone signed ones, of the first few books in the series have rapidly become as scarce as the fabled chicken dentition, and copies will now set you back comfortably into three figures. I've inhaled the first two books, and enjoyed them so much that I intend to ration the rest...</div>
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The set up is simple: Slough House is a shabby office block in London, where MI5 sends its problem officers, its screw-ups, to do menial filing work, until they get bored enough to resign (which avoids any messy employment tribunals that might arise from actually firing them). Overseeing these 'Slow Horses' (Slough House/Slow Horse, geddit?) is Jackson Lamb, once a formidable spook in Berlin Station, now a fat, flatulent slob of a man, weak on personal hygiene, but still sharp when it counts, and a black belt in Combat Sarcasm. A has-been leading a team of no-hopers he may be, but Jackson Lamb nevertheless still has fingers in many pies, and it is not wise to underestimate him...</div>
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Frankly I'm counting the hours until a screen adaptation of these wonderful books is announced. One imagines that Mr Herron and his agent are currently sifting offers from movie producers, the Beeb, Channel 4 and Netflix/Amazon/etc. The BBC would be the best fit IMHO, but if someone at one of the streamers decides to throw money at it, Auntie will be left in the dust I fear.</div>
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So to business: who should be cast to play Jackson Lamb? Well, in the first two books at least, Herron helps us gain an image of his hero by comparing him to "Timothy Spall gone to seed", and "Timothy Spall, but with worse teeth." Spall's agent is surely forewarned and waiting excitedly by the phone, ready to hike up his client's price (rather like Robbie Coltrane's agent after J.K. Rowling said she couldn't imagine anyone else playing Hagrid), but it's worth keeping in mind that when Herron wrote that back in 2010/2013, Spall was rather heavier than he is now.</div>
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This is great news for Mr Spall's health and general quality of life, less good for his chances of accurately portraying Jackson Lamb on screen. But they cast Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, so hey. Spall would actually be a great choice, and would be able to pull off the necessary combination of looking like a soft incompetent on the outside, but underneath being steel.</div>
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Mick Herron has been asked by <b><a href="http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2017/07/19/curmudgeon-dressed-as-lamb-sue-de-groot-speaks-to-crime-novelist-mick-herron-about-his-irascible-antihero-in-spook-street/" target="_blank">this blog</a> </b>who he thinks should play Lamb. Interestingly, he avoided any mention of Spall, and sai<span style="font-family: inherit;">d, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“If we went right through anyone who ever lived, it would be Orson Welles in <i>Touch of Evil </i>(1958). Physically, I think he looks like Lamb in that film; and his voice tone would also be about right.”</span></div>
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... and you can watch and hear him in action <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNla0n8nP4A" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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That's quite a presence (and voice!) to match with a present-day actor. My mate Sam says he had <i>The Sopranos</i>' James Gandolfini in his head as a physical match for Lamb, but of course that fine actor is no longer with us. Vincent D'Onofrio is still very much alive, and has even played Welles a couple of times. He could certainly being Lamb to life, but ultimately it would be favourite, surely, to have a Brit actor. The aforementioned Robbie Coltrane would probably be on any casting director's list, though at 68 he's arguably a little on the old side for the character now, especially if the adaptation was planned to run to several series (let's face it though: he'd be wonderful, he always is).</div>
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He's not an especially famous face; in fact he's best known as a voice: the original (and of course best) Ford Prefect in the radio version of <i>The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>. He's also been seen on screen in loads of stuff over the years, more recently including <i>Peep Show </i>(as Uncle Geoff) and the incomparable <i>Toast of London</i>. I'd certainly buy him as a clapped-out spy in a mac covered in curry stains, and I can hear him delivering such withering Lamb put-downs as, <span style="font-family: inherit;">“That is quite possibly the worst cup of tea I’ve had anywhere. And I’m including France in that.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who else might be in the mix? Thinking along the lines of a casting director for a British TV production, then there will presumably be some usual suspects: Bill Nighy, for example (because what British TV production would not want Bill Nighy in the lead?). Much as I love Nighy, he'd be wrong for Jackson Lamb, </span><span style="color: #011932; font-family: inherit;">and anyway, he's already done his wayward MI5 agent in David Hare's </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Worricker-Trilogy-DVD-Bill-Nighy/dp/B00I5Q6IMU" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b>Johnny Worricker trilogy</b></a><span style="color: #011932; font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #011932; font-family: inherit;">UPDATE: In February 2018, Mick Herron was asked on the Spybrary podcast (no. 34) about progress in a screen adaptation. "The wheels of TV grind exceedingly slowly," he admitted, "but they are still grinding. That's probably about as much as I can say on the topic at the moment." When asked about whether Timothy Spall would make a good Jackson Lamb, he added, "I'm sure he would, he's a great actor, and his face was certainly in my mind when I created Lamb, but I do think they are many actors who would able to [play him]."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>A key early piece of writing by Lawrence of Arabia, which originally appeared in <i>Jesus College Magazine </i>in 1913, and is now published in its own edition for the first time</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">As the summer of 1912 began, T. E. Lawrence was a
23 year-old off-duty archaeologist. With his dig at Carchemish closed for the
season, Lawrence went travelling with Dahoum, the young Arab who had become his
constant companion. The pair decided to take in
a site of archaeological interest deep in the Syrian desert: the remains of a
Byzantine palace known as the Qasr of Ibn
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The visit made
enough of an impression on Lawrence that he was inspired to ‘formally’ write up
the experience as an essay, which he sent back to England for inclusion in
a new publication produced by his old Oxford college. Thanks to (presumably) a
slight mangling of Lawrence’s title by the typesetter, the piece duly appeared
as ‘The Kaer of Ibu Wardani’ in <i>Jesus
College Magazine</i> Vol. 1, No. 2, dated January 1913.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This key early piece of descriptive writing by the future Lawrence of Arabia has been largely forgotten, and is not easy to track down. It is now presented in its own, limited edition for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A5 format, printed on uncoated 160gsm paper, 16pp plus a cover (designed to echo the 1935 Trade Edition of </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Seven Pillars</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">) printed on heavy Rives Shetland paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The interior is set in Lawrence's preferred font Caslon, with a recreation of the striking decorated capitals designed by Edward Wadsworth for the 1926 Subscriber's Edition of </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Seven Pillars</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Featuring, as well as the full text of 'The Kaer of Ibu Wardani', an extract from </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Seven Pillars </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">where Lawrence recalls his visit to the Qasr, plus a 'Note on Fonts' and annotations by Adam Newell, with supporting illustrations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm extremely pleased with how this small edition has turned out. I have many people to thank, not least </span>Dr. Robin Darwall-Smith, the Archivist at Jesus College Oxford, who helped me gain access to the original text. I should also thank Robert Athol, the Archivist at Jesus College *Cambridge*, whom (schoolboy error alert!) I mistakenly contacted in the first instance. He soon put me in touch with the *right* Jesus College.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks are also due to Sharon Newell for labouring over 70 exquisite linocuts to act as the frontispieces, Paul Lloyd for creating a digital version of Wadsworth's bloomers, and Martin Stiff of the design agency </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://amazing15.com/newmain.html" target="_blank">Amazing 15</a> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">for his typically superb work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Credits are also due to the Creative Commons photographers </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fulvious, Heretiq, Jim Gordon, 'Upyernoz' and Reibai, whose work I have used for illustrations. </span></div>
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Readers of the edition will see that several key biographies of Lawrence are referenced in my annotations, but in addition I would also like to mention <i style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Not a
Suitable Hobby for an Airman: T. E. Lawrence as Publisher</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;"> by V. M. Thompson as a useful source of information about Wadsworth's work.</span></div>
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In what I'm pretty certain is a first, a selection from the soundtrack to <i>Withnail and I</i> has been chosen as a Desert Island Disc. Everybody's favourite future Bond movie director Christopher Nolan includes 'Marwood Walks' as one of his eight pieces of music to be cast away with (other film-related choices include a cue by his colleague Hans Zimmer, and of course a bit of 007).</div>
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Nolan says of his choice: "It's just a lovely, lovely piece of score. We first saw [<i>Withnail</i>] at UCL [University College London]. These screenings we would do at the Bloomsbury Theatre, and Emma [Thomas, now his wife and producer] and I would put together all-night film shows once a year, and one year we showed <i>Withnail and I</i> from a 35mm print. It's just a film that I connected with, first on the level that's it's an extremely funny film, but over the years it's sort of taken on a much more emotional, much more melancholic feeling for me. I think a lot of that is to do with this beautiful music."<br />
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Hear, hear. 'Marwood Walks' is (I think) the cue heard in the film when Paul McGann emerges from Crow Crag into the daylight the morning after they arrive. Wrapping his overcoat around him for warmth, he looks at the view (which the movie cheats: he 'sees' Haweswater, which is actually miles away from Sleddale Hall).<br />
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The incidental music for <i>Withnail</i>, by David Dundas and Rick Wentworth, is, of course, utterly brilliant. It's easy to downplay its part in the overall effect of the film, but for me, I tend to notice it more and more every time I re-watch the film.<br />
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But what of the gentlemen who made the music? Both sound fascinating fellows. Rick Wentworth is a BAFTA-nominated composer who has worked with all kinds of interesting people, including Paul McCartney, Grace Jones and Roger Waters. Dundas meanwhile is a mate of Bruce Robinson's, in fact it was his house in Camden in which Robinson and various others lived at the fag end of the 1960s. He is now *Lord* Dundas, if you please, and must be the only current member of the upper house to have had a pop career in the 1970s. Here's a clip of his most famous tune, 'Jeans On'...<br />
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The current link to Nolan's <i>Desert</i> programme is <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rwygm" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The BBC usually archive <i>DID </i>to be available 'forever', so this famous fan's little tribute to Withnail should be there for future generations to enjoy... even when mankind has to go live on the other side of a wormhole.Withnail Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276814774375465289.post-66059342482562236932017-12-06T15:00:00.000+00:002017-12-17T10:40:05.400+00:00God's Glory in the Heavens by William Leitch: The First Source To Suggest Rocket-Powered Space Exploration<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">This evidently *very* scarce book (I can find no other non-POD copy currently for sale anywhere online) holds a very special place in the history of astronomy, and space exploration. As the Wikipedia article for its author William Leitch points out:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Space historian </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Godwin" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Godwin">Robert Godwin</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> published in October 2015 his discovery that Leitch gave the first modern scientific explanation of the potential for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_exploration" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Space exploration">space exploration</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> using </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockets" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Rockets">rockets</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1861).</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leitch_(scientist)#cite_note-1" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> He was said to be "a distinguished astronomer, naturalist and mathematician",</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENeatby1976_2-0" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leitch_(scientist)#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeatby1976-2" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and his proposal for rocket spaceflight came four decades prior to more well-known proposals by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Konstantin Tsiolkovsky">Konstantin Tsiolkovsky</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1903), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Esnault-Pelterie" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Esnault-Pelterie">Robert Esnault-Pelterie</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1913), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert H. Goddard">Robert H. Goddard</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1914), and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Hermann Oberth">Hermann Oberth</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1923). Leitch's rocket spaceflight description was first provided in his 1861 essay "A Journey Through Space", which was later <strong>published in his book </strong></span><strong><i style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">God's Glory in the Heavens</i></strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong> (1862)</strong>.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeicht1862_3-0" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leitch_(scientist)#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeicht1862-3" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> This description correctly attributed rocket thrust to the "internal reaction" (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Newton's laws of motion">Newton's laws of motion</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">) and correctly identified that rocket thrust is most effective in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Vacuum">vacuum</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> of space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "'times new roman'" , "times" , serif;">Despite the title, this is not a 'religious' book, but a still very readable trip around the solar system as it was known then. This copy is in Very Good condition overall, with all 12 plates present (and numerous illustrations in the text). The half leather binding looks of the time, and the bookplate has a story of its own: this book's previous owner was John Whichcord, the lauded architect, perhaps best known for designing the Grand Hotel in Brighton, which, despite the efforts of the IRA, still stands to this day.<br /><br />A small piece of history then. (Which, perhaps not surprisingly, SOLD before I had a chance to post this blog!)</span><br />
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