"Bookman's Holiday The Private Satisfactions Of An Incurable Collector" 1942 STARRETT, Vincent Decorative Bindings

"Bookman's Holiday The Private Satisfactions Of An Incurable Collector" 1942 STARRETT, Vincent Decorative BindingsSTARRETT, Vincent [312] pp. Random House 1942 First Printing 9" x 6 1 4" Jacket design by Paul Galdone VG VG A potpourri of book tales ranging from Chinese detective stories, Sherlock Holmes, a fictional tale of bookselling to original research on Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND.

Downtown Athletic Club

while maintaining his social facade

It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming

Robert Perrier

he was elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1926 and exhibited at the Royal Society and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

Sz: 6"H x 4 1/2"D

Old Virginia Foxhunter by Charles Cary Rumsey on cover

and entertaining a circle of Bright Young Things

a custom which The Savoy continue to this day under the direction of the head barman

Sz: 6"W x 8"H x 6

Sz: 2-7/8"H x 4"W

Classic c1900 lithograph portrait by "SEM" aka Georges Gousat (1863-1934) depicting Sampieri from the folio Album Le Turf in period gilt frame from Copenhagen