Late Booking First Twenty Five by Paul Minet (16 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1989; Old Knowle; yellow glossy paper dust jacket with red titles; dust jacket contains very light sun damage with color fading on spine; otherwise dust jacket is in like new condition; interior pages contain spotting and foxing on outer edges; otherwise interior is clean and unmarked in very good condition; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 199 pages.

1st Edition, 8vo; red cloth covered boards, hardcover; 199 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; a very good, tight, clean copy in a very good dustjacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. DJ with mild edgewear or bumping. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, 199 pages, index. "Details of Richard Booth, Peter Eaton, Edward Martell, Covent Garden Bookshop etc, etc.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Old Knowle, Frant, East Sussex, U.K: Frantic Press, 1989. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Protected by a removable mylar clear-plastic sleeve. NO chips. NO tears. NO fading. NOT price clipped (£12). NOT a library discard. A square, tight copy. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1989. First Edition. Bound in the original red boards, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Details of Richard Booth [Hay on Wye], Peter Eaton, Edward Martell, Covent Garden Bookshop, etc., etc. Written on a sabbatical in Greece in 1983/4, LATE BOOKING covers the career up to that point of one of the most assiduous secondhand booksellers since the last war. Paul Minet has struggled for 25 years, with very varied success, to re-create the browsing bookshops he loved as a boy. Whether 'running' books from shop to shop in the West Country, dozing behind market bookstalls, up to his armpits in old books in an unlit cinema in Ilfracombe or running one of the largest bookshops in London, the author is the perennial optimist in his chosen field. Most people have at one time or another fancied running a small bookshop. LATE BOOKING is essential reading for anyone who is seriously considering doing so. To all those others who only dream, it is the perfect antidote, a way to participate in all the rush and excitement of the author's numerous adventures without actually risking anything oneself. Paul Minet was the founder of the ANTIQUARIAN BOOK MONTHLY REVIEW and has contributed a widely read column to its pages for the past fifteen years. As well as the definitive account of this venture, LATE BOOKING includes an important chapter on his spell as Managing Editor of THE NEW DAILY and a major account of Richard Booth, the 'King' of Hay-on-Wye and a friend and rival for many years. Dozens of other booksellers, be they born dealers, wild eccentrics or quiet intellectuals, also flit through these pages. LATE BOOKING is bound to become one of the classic works in a field which has not seen many detailed memoirs this century.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. (viii), 199pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING.NEASR FIEN HARDBACK IN NEAR FIEN DUSTWRAPPER.A NICE COPY. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. First Edition. LATE BOOKING My First Twenty Five Years in the Secondhand Book Trade. Paul Minet. Frantic Press, Frant. 1989 First edition 200pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in MINT condition in a MINT unclipped dustwrapper. Laid in is a flyer for this book. In this candid and amusing autobiography we learn how the author struggled for twenty five years with very varied success to re-create the browsing bookshops he loved as a boy. Whether 'Running' books from shop to shop in the West Country, dozing behind market bookstalls, up to his armpits in old books in an unlit cinemain Ilfracombe or running one of the largest bookshops in London, the author was a perennial optimist in his chosen field. Ref H7.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The memoirs of a longtime London bookseller and columnist for ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS MONTHLY and BOOK SOURCE MONTHLY, with details of Richard Booth and Hay-on-Wye, Peter Eaton, and many other figures in the 1970-80s British book trade. A fine copy.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, without dedication on front endpaper. Signing reads, 'Signed at a meeting of the/York Bibliographical Society/Paul P B Minet/12.xii. '00'. Illustrated with photographs. The autobiography of secondhand bookdealer Paul Minet (1937-2012). With Index. A fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of the first edition, first printing. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. For my money, the best book on the general secondhand book trade ever written, full of anecdotes and the nuts and bolts of the trade. As well, this is an excellent history of bookselling in the U.K. fro, the Sixties through the Eighties, before the internet came along. Clean, unmarked and tight.

First edition. 199 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. "Details of Richard Booth, Peter Eaton, Edward Martell, Covent Garden Bookshop, etc etc." Dated (13.x.'01) and INSCRIBED by Minet.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrations in text. Red cloth, spine gilt. Yellow dust-jacket, titled in red. A near fine copy. Presesentation inscription to Bob and Eileen Foster, 14.x.97.

Frantic Press, Old Knowle 1989. 8:o. Illustrated. 199 pp. Hard cover with dustjacket. 22,5 x 16 cm.[#\115534].

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Firsr Edition. Inscribed by author on fep , dated 22. . IX . 08 A crisp book in a like dj . Pics available Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.