Expressions of interest in, and requests for items from, Alan Gradon Thomas's catalogues
Scope & Content:
Given the varying filing methods employed by Thomas and his staff over the years correspondence with correspondents in this sequence may also be found in other correspondence sequences (particularly Add MS 89159/1/1-200 and Add MS 89159/1/201-218).
Alan Gradon Thomas's Antiquarian Booksellers' Association papers
Scope & Content:
Includes ABA minutes, newsletters, and correspondence, and papers relating to the organisation of book fairs and events, and lost and stolen items reported by members. Thomas served as ABA president for 1958/9.
Includes papers relating to collections for retiring members of the trade, obituaries and memorials, and papers relating to the Bibliographical Society, the William Morris Society, and trade congresses and events (other than those of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, for which see Add MS ...
Pottesman (1904-1978) was an antiquarian bookseller whom Alan Thomas admired and whose obituaries he wrote. Thomas appears to have acquired some of Pottesman’s papers. Contains some of Pottesman’s own notes and notebooks, some cash books from Pottesman's business, and correspondence and other pa...