I reviewed this title last year and noticed recently that the publisher has had to reprint. In case you missed it first time around here it is again.........
“For thirty five years bookseller David Batterham has been making buying trips abroad and describing his adventures in letters to artist Howard Hodgkin. He was looking for Trade Catalogues , Fashion Magazines and other illustrated journals but his colleagues interest him almost as much, seen in their homes and shops. The visitable bookseller, a vanishing breed, is here immortalised” Publishers blurb
Part diary, part memoir, some anecdotes and reflections; intended to amuse rather than inform! Designed by typographer George Ramsden with cover from a painting by Howard Hodgkin – an elegant little book.
“...a gallery of eccentrics with Batterham himself the most notable, drunk, often penniless... ...lucky Hodgkin to have received these letters ” Alan Bennett in London Review of Books
“Its addictive!” James Fergusson (he also chose it as one of his “books of the year “ in TLS)
“An extraordinary picture of the strange eccentric world of dealers with its chance encounters, crazed characters, its obsessions and its loneliness” Margaret Drabble
“wonderfully redolent, skirting Chatwin Country in favour of Simenon’s Maigret” William Feaver
“beguiling. I couldn’t put it down” Simon Hoggart in the Guardian
“completely fascinating and totally enjoyable” Howard Hodgkin
“this book is a cracking read” Amazon readers review
To order:
In the UK By sending a cheque for £10 to the above address or by phone or email (or order from bookshops, or from Abebooks.com or Amazon)
In Europe £12.50 post paid (simplest way is to ask me for a Paypal Invoice)
In USA and worldwide £14.50 post paid. Paypal the simplest way . In US copies may also be obtained from Oak Knoll Books (oakknoll@oakknoll.com) or on Abebooks or Amazon
Trade terms on four copies or more
“Among Booksellers; Tales told in Letters to Howard Hodgkin”
Stone Trough Books 2011 118pp Paperback ISBN 978 0 95442 3 4 £9.95