An Orme Collection
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Born #OTD in 1950, Jeremy Sinden, actor, son of Sir Donald Sinden. Died too young in 1996. Boy Mulcaster in Brideshead, Crossroads, Danger UXB, Star Wars, Chariots of Fire, etc. And here an early stage performance 1968 in Fritz Hochwaelder’s translated Das Heilige Experiment.
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Stiff Upper Lip, one of Lawrence Durrell’s – less familiar - humorous Foreign Office tales. Illustrated by Nicolas Clerihew Bentley, who was born #OTD in 1907. Bentley was also a publisher and writer (eg light-hearted satirical poems in Lilliput 1939). He died in 1978.
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Famous illustrator in the 1960s, Nicolas Clerihew Bentley, was born #OTD in 1907. Bentley was also a publisher and writer. Here a bold cover for 1961 Penguin edition of Nancy Mitford’s Pigeon Pie (a jolly spy romp which includes tea at the Ritz) – written *before* Christmas 1939.
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Born #OTD in Leeds in 1943, Malcolm McDowell - English actor & producer.
#BooksintoMovies A pair of cult classics.#clockworkorange #caligula
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David Hockney 1937 - 2026
Muswell Hill homage...
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Dorothy L Sayers was born #OTD in Essex in 1893, died 1957. Her crime novels, very much of their age, often featured amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Her plays included Zeal… about the building Canterbury Cathedral’s choir. Proto-feminist, Christian and Guinness copywriter.
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Jun 13
“What else have I to spur me into song?”
A later melancholic poem The Spur recalls the passionate young man.
William Butler Yeats (born #OTD in 1865, died 1939)
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“Remember, Gentlemen, you were all young writers once, and the most experienced veteran of your corps may, by recollecting his first publication, renovate his first terrors, and learn to allow for mine.”
Born #OTD 1752 novelist and dramatist, Fanny Burney. Died 1840
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“He opened a book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps”
The Human Factor, Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)
First published 1978, this Penguin reprint 1983. Cover by Paul Hogarth.
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“The great thing in life, Jeeves, if we wish to be happy and prosperous, is to miss as many political debates as possible.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Much Obliged, Jeeves
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David Hockney 1937 - 2026
A fascination for fifty years...
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Happy discovery on a dark shelf of an aged cousin.
Midsummer Night's Dream 1908
#Shakespeare #Rackham
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orange and white – general fiction,
green and white – crime fiction,
cerise and white – travel and adventure,
dark blue and white – biographies,
red and white – drama,
purple and white – essays,
grey and white – world affairs,
yellow and white – miscellaneous.
The first 10 #Penguin #paperbacks spotted at the @natlibscot #Edinburgh first printed in July 1935 for sixpence-the cost of a cigarette pack, democratizing #literature. As the story goes, publisher #AllenLane was on a way back from a visit to see #AgathaChristie. having nothing to #read, he used the time on the train back to #London (from Exeter) to draw a plan to publish reprints of the best hardbacks in attractive, easily & cheaply available paperbacks. He would call these books #Penguins (of course among the first lot were Christie’s books).
And to think both I and my brother @j_bindra have published with @penguinrandom ! @PenguinIndia @PenguinBooks @PenguinUKBooks
#Libraries
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His 1960 self-portrait is magnificent.
Norman Rockwell was a great American master. People sneer at him because much of his best work was in the illustration industry; much like sneering at movies because they are a "new" art form. Lucas and Spielberg are both great fans; sometimes their movies look like Rockwell!
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