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• Gon by Masashi Tanaka

  

  25-11-97 Dear Audrey, THIS Book Is Yours, as am I, Love Max Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Strangers in Paradise – The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950 by John Russell Taylor

  

  Christopher Webb 1983. I met John Russell Taylor in Hollywood in around 1975. I was introduced to him by John Kobal, who owned the Kobal Collection of film... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Selected Poems of John Keats

  

  Christopher Webb 2012 To Chris, For your guilty little pleasure time! Love Karolina Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Revival of Interest in the Dream – A Critical Study of Post-Freudian...

  

  To Doug In appreciation for my revival of interest in the dream. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Faber Book of Diaries Edited by Simon Brett

  

  I had this book for Christmas ‘887. I finished it Christmas ’88. Which is, I suppose, quite reasonable, really. Christopher Webb Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Final Cut – Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate by Steven Bach

  

  If you aware that Stephen Bach is gay it makes the book funnier. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• People Will Talk by John Kobal

  

  Christopher Webb. When John Kobal died of Aids last year I went to his funeral. A high Catholic requiem Mass. Very solemn. However the organist having played... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Goodnight iPad by Ann Droyd

  

  Grandma – merry Christmas! Even though you could’ve gotten this book right on your ipad we decided you might like the real one! We love you very much! Love,... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Truth of Power – Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House by...

  

  Enemies of A. Giddens would be well-advised to post him this book. It may well prompt him to leap from the LSE roof. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

  

  Happy Birthday B[?] – Don’t read it all at once! Hannah Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poems of John Keats

  

  2nd July 2014 For Garo, I know not when your birthday is, but here is a small gift, a sign of appreciation of many years of enduring friendship affinity. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 1066 And All That by W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman

  

  To Dear Stephen, proto martyr and friend to a very grateful neurotic. Look after yourself. J of the Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  

  12.8.06 Dear Friend I think you probably already know how this story ends… but happy reading anyway! much love Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Memoir of Old Humphrey by Mr. George Mogridge

  

  [Signature] W.W. James, fils de mm James 6th Sept. 1900 from Cousin Elizabeth York. Formerly belonging to Uncle [?] James of [??] Whom [?] she thinks he... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How to Lose Friends and Other Social Graces by Hans Lehmann

  

  For the Stephen Grosz family, who obviously have made too many friends and need to learn how to lose some. Enjoy! Hans Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Visiting Mrs. Nabokov by Martin Amis

  

  “Would you please keep it down up there??? I’m trying to sleep. This is Norma.” – the stunted mutterings of my jerkass landlady about the time things were... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Byron by André Maurois

  

  To Stanley Margaret With love from Beatrice In memory of Ralph 4th March 1979 Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison

  

  Dear L didn’t wrap this, not a proper present ‘cos bought it from 2nd hand shop, but you can’t have a present that does not include a book! It’s a book I just... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse

  

  BRILL 1930 WHA [?] 1978/9? a brilliant collection. Worth recommending to the unconverted. re-read May ’87, Feb ’90, Sept ’93, mid-July 2000, Summer 2003 P.18 – ... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jesus Lived in India by Holger Kersten

  

  Hi Old! I mean old Friend Not that [benite?] saying that regurjitates [sic] itself for to [sic] many times, I have bought this present with hope’s [sic] that... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE