tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post205082240112054071..comments2010-10-09T21:07:19.224ZBookridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-84271185973807523322010-10-09T21:07:19.224Z2010-10-09T21:07:19.224ZSolly Pottesman was tall, but not dishevelled! He wore a flat cap, but did not ride a bicycle. He was well loved and is still remembered affectionately by his niece, great niece and nephew. Don&#39;t believe everything Snelling says; that man simply didn&#39;t get Solly&#39;s sense of humour. Solly was well respected by his peers for his encyclopaedic knowledge of incunabla - which as you say, meant he left a very valuable estate. But, he didn&#39;t do it for the money, but for the love of his subject.Carolinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-42217654518282373692009-11-19T13:25:54.604Z2009-11-19T13:25:54.604ZThere is a rather good story about a book-runner in Squire&#39;s A Grub Street Night&#39;s Entertainment who finds the manuscript of Hamlet - fab.Edwin Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-77806763466918083332009-11-19T11:29:21.941Z2009-11-19T11:29:21.941ZIs your bookshop a secondhand shop, Jason Burley? If do, it would be worth notifying http://www.inprint.co.uk/thebookguide/shops/index.shtml<br />for listing.Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-19768559814252561902009-11-19T11:02:08.307Z2009-11-19T11:02:08.307ZThe photo of George at his stalls also caught me in the background with a teetering pile of books in my arms.<br />My bookshop Camdenlock Books is situated not far away from those long vanished stalls, in Old Street Station.Jason Burleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-43284189840593116642009-11-19T06:15:41.947Z2009-11-19T06:15:41.947ZMartin is indeed on Facebook looking more elegant than one could ever have imagined. On a recent visit to Paris I missed him by just a few minutes at Shakespeare&#39;s.Posr Mortem Booksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-19364272920387163702009-11-18T10:28:38.854Z2009-11-18T10:28:38.854ZJoe? That should read &quot;you&quot;.Jameshttp://bookkake.com/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-73569760579468191832009-11-18T10:27:51.956Z2009-11-18T10:27:51.956ZHave just finished - after much prompting from Joe - John Dunning&#39;s &quot;Booked To Die&quot;, full of the deaths of book runners... thanks very much for that!Jameshttp://bookkake.com/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-87030078618064426352009-11-18T01:32:57.044Z2009-11-18T01:32:57.044ZI think Martin Stone is on Facebook - might be a good way of getting touch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com