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by WINKWORTH, STEPHEN:

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Fore-edges slightly aged,minimal shelf-wear to top+bottom dw/dj edges.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,263pp includes appendix and an index. 'Welsh schoolmaster in urgent need of alpenhorns', 'Box R wants to hear from anyone who has made friends with a toad'.The Personal column of The Times is famous for tantalising advertisements like these.As British as county cricket or Oxford marmalade,it held until 1966 pride of place on the newspaper's front page.Morecambe and Wise,Charles Dickens and Jacqueline Kennedy have all advertised in it.For many - Surtees, Cardinal Newman, Hardy, Queen Victoria, Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie,even to the present Queen Elizabeth,to name a few - it has been favourite reading,a storehouse for the imagination. Poets and novelists can find here the seeds of every form of literary expression: romance, farce, tragedy,pathos,the humurous and the wildly eccentric.It is also a place where spies,secret societies and detectives exchange cryptic messages.A comprehensive work,which delves into the origins of the column in 1785,when it was the mainstay of the newspaper, and comments on the cream of the two million or so advertisements which have appeared there. WINKWORTH has traced the tortuous mental processes of Charles Babbage,the mathematician who delighted in interpreting lovers' codes and upsetting their rendezvous; he tells of Ignatius Pollaky,the Victorian detective; of E.J.Wilson the manic customs official; and of the extraordinary use made of the column by the 19thC explorer Captain Collinson.He finds real-life parallels for Sherlock Holmes stories,marvels at the bizarre proposals of inventors from 1802 to modern times,and pursues the preposterous 'Colonel Croucher' through the roaring twenties.All these,and adventures from Brazil to the Arctic,start here. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Title
ROOM TWO MORE GUNS - The Intriguing history of the Personal Column of THE TIMES
Author
WINKWORTH, STEPHEN:
Book Condition
Used - Near FINE.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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Hardcover
ISBN 10
0048080551
ISBN 13
9780048080554
Publisher
LONDON.ALLEN & UNWIN,1986.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
October 16, 1986
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