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Chapter VIII ‘A Few Oughts’

Denis Constanduros

Some of my grandfather’s quotations from Dickens were developed and amplified into the form of small dramatic performances in which the whole table took part and gave their allotted responses. There was one special favourite from The Pickwick Papers which went, as…

‘Excellent choice of contributors . . .’

P. Eastlake, Northumberland

'I have just been reorganizing my library at home; not enough shelf space and totally disorganized. Now my SF magazines and books are in order on two shelves. This got me re-reading SF magazine no. 1; it brought back all the memories of when I got that first edition from you. I promptly went on to ABE Books and ordered second-hand copies of . . . '

Sherry Wine and Roses

Hazel Wood on Denis Constanduros, My Grandfather & Father, Dear Father

Not long after we launched the Slightly Foxed Editions, we came across a little gem of a book, first published in 1948 and long out of print, which we decided we must reissue. My Grandfather, as its title indicates, is a portrait of the author’s maternal grandfather, who, though surviving sturdily into the reign of George V, was to his grandson a character from the ‘warm, gas-lit, stable-smelling past’ of the Victorian age.

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