tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420358.post4200063560842068751..comments2023-10-29T10:30:24.415+00:00Comments on fretmarks: This damp, autumn morningPluvialishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13215485499944146575noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420358.post-53555058684110685012012-08-14T10:01:11.961+01:002012-08-14T10:01:11.961+01:00One of the other oddities about Derek was that he ...One of the other oddities about Derek was that he wouldn't touch American books. Hated them.Ian Pattersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420358.post-61251770225538264882007-10-14T18:59:00.000+01:002007-10-14T18:59:00.000+01:00I've known Derek Gibbons for forty-two years, meet...I've known Derek Gibbons for forty-two years, meeting him first at his Little Goat Lane bookshop in Norwich 1965. He was a brilliant antiquarian bookseller specializing in rare and collectible children's books as well as anything else that caught his fancy. It was in the early to middle 1970s he relocated to Stansted and then Cambridge. He was eccentric, like all great specialists, but he knew his books as well as his customers. One would need to chat him up until he felt you'd be a good caretaker and protector before he would show you something special amongst his rarities. Lucky for me we got along well together as over the years he sold me first editions of LITTLE BLACK SAMBO (1899) and the first privately printed TALE OF PETER RABBIT (1901) paid for by Beatrix Potter's family one year before the 1st trade edition came out by Frederick Warne. Yes, dear Derek was a great dealer, and indeed, his passing marks the slow fading away of an era. He will be sadly missed by many who loved him.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448913564165919644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420358.post-65042138751269813212007-10-11T19:35:00.000+01:002007-10-11T19:35:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chas S. Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420358.post-75078930017034559322007-10-11T17:59:00.000+01:002007-10-11T17:59:00.000+01:00I bow to your superior knowledge, Reid: although t...I bow to your superior knowledge, Reid: although this one really was genuinely crazy, rather than crazed. <BR/><BR/>More sad news: the bookshop I used to work in has just closed: went past it today and it's been emptied. I expect a lifestyle shop selling hessian sofas, distressed white-painted wardrobes and expensive soap to open there any minute. Sad sad sad.Pluvialishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13215485499944146575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420358.post-51213559616281382452007-10-10T18:43:00.000+01:002007-10-10T18:43:00.000+01:00The crazy archaeologist **************************...The crazy archaeologist <BR/>********************************<BR/><BR/>Aren't "crazy" and "archaeologist" redundant?Reid Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18382498430164817928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420358.post-32359097664326052772007-10-10T16:47:00.000+01:002007-10-10T16:47:00.000+01:00Marvelous story! Sorr the English bookselling wor...Marvelous story! Sorr the English bookselling world has lost such a character.Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02344497395150400085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420358.post-58871965885389330382007-10-10T13:03:00.000+01:002007-10-10T13:03:00.000+01:00Now that's an obit!Now <I>that's</I> an obit!Matt Mullenixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11198069782508775543noreply@blogger.com