Where can you find Paolo Sarpi and Mick Jagger, the earliest book peddlers and Nazi's, comfort reads and medieval marginalia, bouqinistes and UNESCO bookstalls, shy nerds and arrogant pedants? The answer is...in Martin Latham's book. Not only is the subject matter varied, but so too is the wide variety of characters you meet along the …
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The genius of a British Mad Hatter
I will eat my hat, if you don't find yourself purchasing a hat, making a hat or simply having a ball leafing through this eclectic collection of hats by British Milliner Stephen Jones OBE. In the late seventies and early eighties, you would have run into Mr. Jones at the Blitz Club in London, along …