Historical papers relating to H. G. Commin's bookshop
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Papers relating to Commin’s bookshop before Alan Thomas’s ownership. Includes correspondence with customers, profit and loss accounts for the final four years of trading before Thomas’s acquisition of the business, and an itemised valuation of the Commin’s stock in 1934 carried out by E. Joseph ...
Includes papers relating to the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, book fairs, the Biographical Society, other trade organisations, and trade figures and companies.
Alan Gradon Thomas's Antiquarian Booksellers' Association papers
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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.