DRIF'S GUIDE : Just when you thought he'd gone a way ! 2 co...

Hammer

£80

DRIF'S GUIDE : Just when you thought he'd gone a way ! 2 copies of the Guide 1984 and 1991 first and third editions. Pocket size paperback. With - The Antiquarian and Second Hand Book Fortnightly, No 21 of 22 magazines. Issues no. 2 - 22 lacking no. 10, published from January - November 1986. A rare survival of this fascinating, idiosyncratic magazine. *[Described as : The most insulting, self-indulgent filled, inaccurate, best informed, most thorough, funniest guide to secondhand bookshops ever published] ... A dapper dresser and vegetarian, pre-Internet Driffield travelled the country attempting to visit every second hand bookshop on a pedal cycle with a wicker basket strapped to the handle bars to hold his purchases, catching the train if distance defeated him. Death threats were not infrequently issued to him, probably with good reason, after the publication of each edition, which struck like acts of vengeance and delighted retribution against the sloppiness of the world that sustained him.