{"title":"Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) was the British monthly of the antiquarian and second-hand book trade from 1974 into the 1990s: articles on collectors, authors, private presses and bibliography, alongside book-fair news, auction reports and booksellers' advertisements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBulk enquiries welcome from collectors, libraries and the trade: \u003ca href=\"mailto:pigeonhousebooksdublin@gmail.com\"\u003epigeonhousebooksdublin@gmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"antiquarian-book-monthly-review-abmr-volume-xviii-number-6-issue-no-206-june-1991","title":"Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) Volume XVIII Number 6 Issue No 206 June 1991","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) Volume XVIII Number 6 Issue No 206 June 1991, published by ABMR Publications in 1991.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ABMR Publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 1991\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e Used - Very Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeonhouse Books, Dublin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55606123561287,"sku":"2026-10-24-118","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/7474\/2572\/files\/91hD9dlEz8L.jpg?v=1793187703"},{"product_id":"antiquarian-book-monthly-review-abmr-magazine-july-1991-vol-xviii-no-7-issue-207-john-russell-smith-bibliographer-of-kent-charles-gilson-gregynog-tragara-and-alembic-press-reviews","title":"Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) magazine, July 1991, Vol. XVIII No. 7, Issue 207: John Russell Smith, Bibliographer of Kent; Charles Gilson; Gregynog, Tragara and Alembic Press reviews","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR), July 1991, Vol. XVIII, Number 7, Issue 207 (cover price £1.80) – the Oxford monthly of the antiquarian and second-hand book trade, edited by John Kinnane. Features: 'John Russell Smith: Bibliographer of Kent, Publisher and Bookseller' by Anthony Lister (page 298), on the Victorian London bookseller and county bibliographer; and 'Charles Gilson' by William H. P. and R. D. Crewdson (307), on the boys' adventure writer. Also Press Books (314), Forthcoming Book Fairs (312), ABMR Diary, Notes and Queries, Letters and the Crossword. Book reviews: Barry Newport on Gwasg Gregynog: A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog 1970-1990 (David Esslemont and Glyn Tegai Hughes), A Month in the Country (J. L. Carr), The Tragara Press 1979-1991: A Bibliography (Alan Anderson), The Alembic Press Guide (Claire Bolton), Two Against the Tide (Adrian Wilson) and Private Press Books 1988 (ed. Philip Kerrigan); John Kinnane on Marbling Methods and Receipts from Four Centuries (ed. Barry McKay); Ron Winch on Sheppard's Book Dealers in Australia and New Zealand; Anthony Lister on Forged Documents: Proceedings of the 1989 Houston Conference. Columns: The New Book Scene (Piers Brissault), Common Market (J. J. Peachum and Renata Ting), Trade Tales (Peter Eaton), Words (James Morton), Book Chat (Paul Minet), Auctions (Liz Merry), Catalogues (James Fergusson, Renata Ting), Postscript by William Safire, and booksellers' classified advertisements. Cover: Madonna Icon by Vladimir Sulyagin. Published by ABMR Publications Ltd, Cowley Road, Oxford; printed by Bocardo Press, Didcot. ISSN 0306-7475. About 48 pages, 19 x 25.5 cm, stapled. THEMES: antiquarian book trade, private presses, bibliography, book collecting, bookbinding and marbling, forgery, bookselling history, 1990s book trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Kinnane (ed.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ABMR Publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 1991\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Single Issue Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e Used - Very Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeonhouse Books, Dublin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55606125953351,"sku":"2026-10-24-401","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/7474\/2572\/files\/719Qquw5YLL.jpg?v=1793187740"},{"product_id":"antiquarian-book-monthly-review-abmr-magazine-january-1988-vol-xv-no-1-the-sphinx-of-modern-life-ada-leverson-the-cordell-collection-of-dictionaries-bodleian-library-baron-corvo","title":"Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) magazine, January 1988, Vol. XV No. 1: The Sphinx of Modern Life – Ada Leverson; The Cordell Collection of Dictionaries; Bodleian Library, Baron Corvo","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR), January 1988, Vol. XV, Number 1 (cover price £1.10) – the Oxford monthly of the antiquarian and second-hand book trade, edited by John Kinnane with associate editor Stuart Bennett. Features: 'The Sphinx of Modern Life: Ada Leverson (1862-1933)' by Dr Julie Speedie (page 8), on the novelist and wit whom Oscar Wilde called 'the Sphinx'; and 'The Cordell Collection of Dictionaries' by David E. Vancil (16). Book reviews: Giles Mandelbrote on The History of the University of Oxford, Volume III (ed. James McConica) and Volume V (ed. L. S. Sutherland and L. G. Mitchell), The First Printed Catalogue of the Bodleian Library, 1605: a Facsimile, Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to Thomas James (ed. G. W. Wheeler) and The Bodleian Library in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Ian Philip); Anthony Lister on The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library (Kenneth E. Carpenter); Donald Weeks on The Venice Letters by Baron Corvo, Frederick Rolfe (ed. Cecil Woolf). Columns: ABMR Diary, Letters, Common Market (Anatole Braun), Talking Point (J. Peachum), Paul Minet's Book Chat, Globetrotting (Stuart Bennett, Ron Winch), Auctions (Stuart Bennett), Catalogues (James Fergusson, John Stephens, Anatole Braun), and booksellers' classified advertisements. Cover: E. T. Reed's illustration to Ada Leverson's parody of 'The Sphinx' (Punch, 1894). Published by ABMR Publications Ltd, 52 St Clements Street, Oxford. ISSN 0306-7475. The contents page prints 'Issue 164', the same issue number as December 1987. About 40 pages, 19 x 25.5 cm, stapled. THEMES: antiquarian book trade, Ada Leverson and Oscar Wilde, dictionaries and lexicography, Bodleian Library, Oxford and Harvard library history, Baron Corvo, book collecting, 1980s book trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Kinnane (ed.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ABMR Publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 1988\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Single Issue Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e Used - Very Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeonhouse Books, Dublin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55606126117191,"sku":"2026-10-24-402","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/7474\/2572\/files\/81gTzqb88lL.jpg?v=1793187743"},{"product_id":"antiquarian-book-monthly-review-abmr-magazine-december-1987-vol-xiv-no-12-issue-164-james-barrie-and-the-boy-castaways-directory-diversions-rupert-masefield-punch-cover","title":"Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) magazine, December 1987, Vol. XIV No. 12, Issue 164: James Barrie and The Boy Castaways; Directory Diversions; Rupert, Masefield, Punch cover","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR), December 1987, Vol. XIV, Number 12, Issue 164 (cover price £1) – the Oxford monthly of the antiquarian and second-hand book trade, edited by John Kinnane with associate editor Stuart Bennett. Features: 'James Barrie and The Boy Castaways' by George Sims (page 452), on J. M. Barrie's privately printed photographic book of the Llewelyn Davies boys' games, the seed of Peter Pan; and 'Directory Diversions' by Grant Uden (462). Book reviews: David Ashford on Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (Denis Gifford), More Adventures of Rupert, The Rupert Annual and Words to Rhyme With (Willard Espy); Angus O'Neill on Paris: A Literary Companion (Ian Littlewood) and Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors (Joseph Connolly); Toby English on John Masefield: A Bibliographical Description of His First, Limited, Signed and Special Editions (Crocker Wight). Columns: ABMR Diary, Letters, Globetrotting (Dennis Butts), Paul Minet's Book Chat, Ephemera (Graham Hudson), Common Market (Anatole Braun), Written by Hand (Avril Pedley), A Winter Frivolity, Auctions (Stuart Bennett), Catalogues (James Fergusson, Stuart Bennett, Anatole Braun), and booksellers' classified advertisements. Cover: a winter tobogganing cartoon from Punch, January 1894. Published by ABMR Publications Ltd, 52 St Clements Street, Oxford (publisher Stef Mulkey); composition and page artwork by Comersgate Art Studios, Oxford; UK subscription then £13 a year. ISSN 0306-7475. About 40 pages, 19 x 25.5 cm, stapled. THEMES: antiquarian book trade, J. M. 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