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London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 5.5" X 8.5. 206pp. The autobiography of a man in the British book trade. A clean and sound condition first edition with just light handling wear to the dust wrapper. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. Please email with your queries. 5.5"x8.5".
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- Title Mostly Joy: A Bookman's Story
- Author Thomas Joy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 206
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Michael Joseph, London
- Date 1971
- ISBN 9780718108830 / 0718108833
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 78589951
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Michael Joseph Ltd, London, first edition, 1971. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 206 pp, 15 plates. From the blurb: "Thomas Joy is one of the best known and best loved figures in the book trade. This is his autobiography. Far from being just a record of a 'specialist' world, Mostly Joy is a richly human story of one man's success, told with endearing frankness. From his very first sentence Thomas Joy plunges the reader straight into the world of old Oxfordshire. His narrative is full of local lore, homely anecdotes and descriptions of the life of a happy family in the days when money was less easily come by, but pleasures were cheap. It is in Oxford that he began his career as a bookseller, starting at the bottom of the ladder which was to lead him to Harrods, the Army & Navy Stores (of which he became Deputy Managing Director) and, finally, to Hatchards, where he is today Managing Director. He gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at a big store and writes absorbingly of wartime…
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London: Michael Joseph, 1971. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket (missing), very good condition, black & white photos, frontispiece cartoon, light foxing edges, boards slightly marked, faint foxing few pages, owner's written name. 205 pp. Autobiography of the noted British librarian and booksellers (Hatchards). About a lifetime spent with books and book lovers.
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