foyle william alfred (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. 16mo. Red cloth-covered boards (7 in. x 5 in.) with gilt foil paste-on, lettered and bordered in black. Minor rubbing to extremities, corners and spinecaps. Touch of sunning to spine. In original patterned glassine wrapper with chipping to the spine and corners. With frontis photo of William Alfred Foyle. About 14 unpaginated leaves (24 pp.). The history of one of the most successful Twentieth-century London book purveyors. William Alfred Foyle (1885-1963) founded London's famous Foyles Bookshop in 1903. William and brother Gilbert opened their first bookshop in Islington, moved to Peckham and then Cecil Court, already a street of bookshops. In about 1907 they moved to Charing Cross Road, where the bookshop stayed, with many extensions to the building. It was only in 1912 that the shop began selling new books, prior to that all books had been second-hand. The Manette Street extension was built and opened in 1929, and in 1945 he bought the abbey at Beeleigh for his home and library, an exceptional, in quality and size, collection of antiquarian books. Good Plus in Good Glassine Jacket.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black buckram cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, deckle page edges, produced on Abbey Mills, Greenfield Crown Paper. 8vo. 10¼'' x 6½''. The full story of the two famous booksellers, brothers William & Gilbert Foyle, whose great bookshop on Charing Cross Road in London is known all over the world. Contains frontispiece, 56 pp with monochrome photographs of key employees throughout. SIGNED to the dedication leaf 'William Alfred Foyle' (co-founder of Foyles) and' Gilbert Foyle' (Brother), SIGNED below each monochrome photograph 'Sincerely yours Gilbert H. Fabes' (Author), 'Frederick C. Reed' (General Manager), 'William Ferrier' (Science Department Manager), 'Charles Halkett' (Educational Department Manager), 'Edward Bradley' (Buyer and Valuer), 'J. P. Flood' (Library Department Manager), 'James Dowsett' (Technical Department Manager), 'C. S. Gill' (Naval and Military Department Manager), 'John Hughes' (Welsh Company Managing Director), 'B. Goldberg' (Foreign Book Department), 'James M. Kelsey' (Music Company Manager), 'Thomas E. Gale' (Educational Manager), 'George Duncan' (Theological Department Manager). Rubbing of the cloth to the spine edges and corners. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper).