Proof copy. Organised by bookseller David Holmes and printed by Alan Anderson of Tragara Press in an edition of 20 copies. Contributions from nine friends celebrating the bookseller's 75th birthday. The books and related materials, with background and circumstances of purchase added, are Finibus Cantat Amor: an Episode by Charles Kairns Jackson, Despair by Vladimir Nabokov (John Long, 1937), Burns' Poems with the suppressed appendix (1802), Goethe as the Sage by T.S. Eliot, notebooks by Llewelyn Powys and Edward Thomas, and George Sims' papers 'as an author of mysteries'.
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