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Martin stone 11 december 1946, woking, surrey 9 november 2016, versailles, france was an english guitarist and rare book dealer. Martin stone, guitarist and rare book dealer obituary. Find great deals on old, rare, and recent best seller books hard cover and paperback across every. As well as a huge range of vintage books the last count taken instore came to somewhere in the region. Booth and williams is the top rare books dealer offering vintage books online. Beautiful french album of watercolours of lepidoptera after abbot.
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Welcome to the seventh episode of rare book cafe 2. This article will attempt to answer some of those burning questions about. Choose a subject general inquiries order inquiries books to sell web inquiries catalogue inquiries. He first started an antiquarian map and book shop in monaco.
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