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Article: Books: Don't bank on rare books' rich rewards; Americans are not coming here to spend good money as they did some time ago and the London book trade is in a parlous state, with some of the finest book dealers strapped for cash Richard Edmonds bemoans these parlous times in the second-hand book market and the loss of wealthy buyers.(ROP)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2003
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Byline: Richard Edmonds
Books, books and more books. Earlier this week Sotheby's threw open their New Bond Street portals to bibliophiles and book dealers in a sumptuous sale headed up by the literary archive of Vita Sackville-West, lover of Virginia Woolf and Violet Trefusis (inter related through past marriages to Camilla Bowles).
The Sackville-West connections have been archived since her death in 1962, at Sissinghurst which is where Vita developed one of the most ravishing gardens in history of English horticulture. It was offered, earlier this week by ...