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The Times Deceas'd. The Rare Book Department of the Times Bookshop in the 1960s (signed copy)

£75.00

D'ARCH SMITH, Timothy SKU: 21554

Settrington: Stone Trough Books, 2005.

First Edition. Light blu cloth with the excellent dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author "to Giles, a fellow cricket fan, with all good wishes, Tim", to first free endpaper. A Fine copy. Memoir of bookselling in London in the Sixties, with excursions in to the worlds of Aleister Crowley, the Uranian poets 1890-1930, the ridiculous affectations of his bookroom colleagues, and nods to the many dealers, spivs and collectors of the day.