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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Jim Chambers. 28 Nov. 1988. Want to win 250? Then pop into Robin Waterfields bookshop in Park End Street, Oxford, and try your hand at an unusual literary competition. The firm has just extended its ground floor to three times its previous area, commissioned one Oxford artist William Bird to do the signwriting and another Cally le Poer Trench to produce a painting to hide an unsightly meter cupboard (she and the painting are pictured, right). It looks like a genuine bookcase and is stuffed with a large number of amazing but mostly non-existent books. The competition is to explain why as wittily as you can! – the books are in the case. The closing date is February 1 1988 and says Peter King of Waterfields only frivolous correspondence will be entered into.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Jim Chambers. 28 Nov. 1988. Want to win 250? Then pop into Robin Waterfields bookshop in Park End Street, Oxford, and try your hand at an unusual literary competition. The firm has just extended its ground floor to three times its previous area, commissioned one Oxford artist William Bird to do the signwriting and another Cally le Poer Trench to produce a painting to hide an unsightly meter cupboard (she and the painting are pictured, right). It looks like a genuine bookcase and is stuffed with a large number of amazing but mostly non-existent books. The competition is to explain why as wittily as you can! – the books are in the case. The closing date is February 1 1988 and says Peter King of Waterfields only frivolous correspondence will be entered into.
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Dimensions: 17.6 x 17.6 cm
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