The Stammering Librarian

Essays by Timothy D’Arch Smith. Edited by Edwin Pouncey & Sandy Robertson

In the long–awaited followup to his famed 1987 anthology, Books Of The Beast, writer, legendary bookseller and cricket enthusiast Timothy d’Arch Smith steps up to the crease with The Stammering Librarian, another diverse collection of erudite essays all told with forensic detail, tenderness and an acerbic wit.

Among other absorbing topics, Timothy D’Arch Smith lists an A to Z of naughty public-school slang in use between 1950 - 1954.

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"BALL FIGHT. A scrap where opponents aimed for each other's testicles and squeezed them agonizingly hard.
KEEP IT DOWN. An admonishment to a schoolfellow to desist from sexual day-dreaming.
MOB UP, v. To tease.
OLD MAN. Penis.
SHAGSPOTS, n., pl. Acne."

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Timothy d’Arch Smith (born 1936), a well known antiquarian book seller and book collector, is the great-grandson of the popular Edwardian writer “Frank Danby”; his grandfather and aunt were the equally successful novelists Gilbert and Pamela Frankau. His interests are cricket and the nineteenth-century Occult Revival.

Edwin Pouncey is a writer, musician and collector, perhaps best known for his illustration and artwork as Savage Pencil. Sandy Robertson is an author and music writer whose work has appeared in Sounds, Penthouse, NME, The Lancet, Starlog and many others.
Available in a hardback edition of 500 copies only from SAP.

192 pp.
133 x 203mm
Illustrated, index