The Genesis of the SocietyReprinted from BiblioNews: Monthly Letter to Members April, 1949 (Vol. 2 No. 4)(This is reprinted from a copy that once belonged to the late John Fletcher and was given to me by his wife, Elizabeth Fletcher, in 2007. There are pencilled changes made in a hand that is certainly not John’s. … Continue reading The Genesis of the Society (Walter W. Stone, 1949)
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The Genesis of BiblionewsReprinted from Biblionews, 200th IssueOctober, 1962, 1949 (Vol. 15 No. 10)(This is reprinted from the photocopy of the original two-page issue of Biblionews for October 1962, supplied by Jeff Bidgood to the audience at the inaugural Walter and Jean Stone Memorial Talk in June 2009. In retyping it I have followed Walter … Continue reading The Genesis of Biblionews (Walter W. Stone, 1962)
One year less than thirty years ago, in March 1947, Biblionews, unannounced, and perhaps unwelcome in some quarters because of its lack of distinction, was mailed to members of the Book Collectors’ Society which had already exceeded the life span predicted for it by various individuals— six months, they said, it would last. What they overlooked was that its nucleus was a group of collectors which gathered regularly each Saturday afternoon in the back of Buddy Larsen’s Bond Street bookshop to munch a pie and drink a cup of tea and show off the morning’s trophies—not that they amounted to much in the dark days of World War II. But talk we did and sometimes of a Book Collectors’ Society; but some grew tired of talking and sent out invitations to people we knew who might be interested, inviting them to an inaugural meeting. That was in April 1944.