A popular catalogue for trade enquiries, see below, from 136a Darlinghurst Road. 'Despite the occasional friction natural to two stubborn and greedy book buyers whose tastes overlapped a bit too much we had some fun with our joint catalogues; but the jokes didn’t travel well. We both thought it was very funny to take the title page of some near impossible rarity and scribble over it with a large biro inscription and some child’s crayon and texta. The bookseller’s nightmare. We chose the 1865 Alice in Wonderland and made it a catalogue cover, paying extra for colour – the biro and crayon. All we got were faxes (remember faxes?) from English and American dealers complaining that they couldn’t find the book in the catalogue; was it still available?' Richard Neylon
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