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Memoir, Part 1: My Bookish Youth Emil Offenbacher 1

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Children’s Books and Book Collectors Brian Alderson 2

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Edwin Bloemsaat in Conversation with Sheila Markham: The Markham Interviews (New Series) 26 3

Book Piracy in Poland 1977–1989 Błaz˙ej Mikuła

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Revolution in Legal Publishing: The Earliest Booksellers’ Catalogues of English Law Books, Part 1 Anthony Taussig 5

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‘Elegant Presents for Young Persons’: Marketing Children’s Books in Edinburgh, 1819 Alastair MJohnston 7

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The New Incunabula Matthew Haley 9Annals of Bookselling, Part 2. Heartbreak: The Later Years John Windle 9

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Sylvia Plath’s A Winter Ship: An Inventory Peter KSteinberg 10

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Lost Friends, Part 2 Brian Alderson 11

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Six Careful Owners Liam Sims 11

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The Libraries of Twelve Early Members of The Club, Part 6: Thomas Percy Stephen Clarke 11

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Binding by Francis Bedford, between 1851 and 1883 English & Foreign Bookbindings 149 Karen Limper-Herz 12

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news & comment 12● catalogues & sales 15● obituaries 16● book reviews 17● notes on contributors 18● notes for contributors 18● in the next issue 18● list of advertisers 19

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