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Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson
£8.00Bloodaxe Books, 2000. First edition. 21.5cm by 13.5cm. 80 pages. The “terse brilliance” [Peter Levi] of Stevenson’s style is on display. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Covers slightly sunnned with a little edge-wear.
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town by Charles Bukowski
£10.00City Lights Books, San Francisco, [1988]. Reprint paperback 20cm by 13.5cm, 240 pages. A collection of 30 short stories. Condition: Very Good tight, bright copy. Spine sunned, slight soiling and shelf-wear to pages.
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Don’t Forget the Couscous by Amir Darwish
£5.00Smokestack Books, 2015. First edition paperback. Almost 20cm by 13cm, 83 pages, illustrated wraps. A book about exile and home by a British/Syrian poet of Kurdish origin. Condition: Covers slightly curling but almost as new.
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Five Stories About Michael Portillo Remembered by James Johnston
£10.0014.5cm by 10.5cm black and white stapled booklet, 12 pages. Privately printed. Illustrated by Emily Ross. I picked up this booklet in The Left Luggage Room, a bar on Monkseaton Metro Station in North East England in 2018 or 2019. Condition: one tiny beer stain on front cover.
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Hemy by Theresa Easton and Ian Horn
£20.00Limited edition 4/12 signed by the artist and printmaker Theresa Easton. Created [2011?] as part of The Sunderland Book Project. 18.5cm by 18cm blue illustrated boards, concertina book.Thomas MM Hemy (1852-1931), a local Sunderland based artist, was commissioned in 1895 by Sunderland AFC to paint a picture of the team in action. The painting of…
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Basil Bunting a northern life by Richard Caddell and Anthony Flowers
£8.00Newcastle Libraries & Information Service, 1997. First edition. 25cm by 20.5cm, 64 pages, illustrated wraps. There are some fabulous photos in this book, including Tony Harrison sat next to Bunting in a Newcastle pub with a pint and Allen Ginsberg in a Northumberland field. Buy it to see more! Condition: some shelf wear but overall…
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Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
£5.00Bloomsbury, 2002. Uncorrected Proof Copy of UK first edition. 23.5cm by 15cm, colour illustrated wraps, 447 pages. Condition: Slight edge-wear and soiling with age. Remains of price sticker in the bottom right hand corner of the rear cover.
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Recherches botaniques et zoologiques effectuées, en 1926 et 1927
£10.00Rouen, 1926. 25cm by 17cm, printed pages numbered from 140 to 203 with four black and white plates. Full title: Recherches botaniques et zoologiques effectuées, en 1926 et 1927 dans le cirque d’Espingo et la partie supérieure du val du port de Vénasque (canton de Bagneres-de-Luchon, Haute-Garonne). Stamped with the “Society For British Entomology” throughout….
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Pieter Bruegel and the fall of the art historian by John White
£8.00University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980. 21cm by 15cm cream wraps, 28 pages with eight black and white plates. The 56th Charlton Lecture on Art delivered in the University of Newcastle on the 30th November 1978 by John White , Durning- Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at University College, London. The Charlton Lecture…
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James Hawker’s Journal: A Victorian Poacher
£3.00Oxford University Press, First paperback issue, 1978. Edited and Introduced by Garth Christian. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb. 19.5 cm by 13cm colour illustrated wraps, 113 pages. Condition: Sunning to cover edges and some spotting to page edges.
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Leonard McComb Drawings Painting Sculpture catalogue 1983
£15.00Catalogue of UK touring exhibition 1983-84 organised by the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and the Arts Council of Great Britain. 27cm by 22cm grey wraps, 85 pages, includes colour and black and white photos of McComb’s work plus a piece on the artist by Richard Morphet. The exhibition visited London, Oxford, Sussex, Manchester and…
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Both by Paul Metcalf
£15.00The Jargon Society, North Carolina, 1982. First Edition. 28cm by 22cm black boards in dustwrapper, 113 printed pages. Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose and was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville. This book is about J.W. Booth, who assassinated American President Abraham…
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Patagoni by Paul Metcalf
£18.00Small Publishers Company, New York, 1971. First Edition. The Jargon Society, Penland, North Carolina. 26cm by 17.5cm yellow boards in dustwrapper, 140 pages. Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose and was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville. This copy is from the library…
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Genoa by Paul Metcalf
£20.00Jonathan Williams Publisher, 1965. First Edition. Jargon 43. 26cm by 17.5cm yellow boards in dustwrapper, 190 pages. Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose and was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and…
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The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim and Ron by Ron Padgett and Jim Dine
£15.00Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First edition. 27.5cm by 20.5cm colour illustrated wraps. Unpaginated (120pp.). Poems by Padgett and illustrations by Dine. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Cover edges and spine slightly worn. Pages slightly browned with age.
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Svetislav Stefanovich signed card plus book
£45.00Svetislav Stefanovich (1877-1944) was a poet, critic, translator, essayist, drama writer and doctor. He was founder of the Department of Pathology and President and founder of the Yugoslav Medical Association. Stefanovich participated in the Balkan Wars and the First World War and was decorated several times. During WW2 he was accused of defamation of the…
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The Other Wing by Louis MacNeice
£25.00Faber and Faber, 1954. 21.5cm by 14cm blue wraps in envelope. An Ariel Poem, part of a series including Auden, Eliot and Spender illustrated by artists including John Piper, Edward Ardizzone and David Jones. MacNeice’s poem is illustrated with two black and white drawings and one full page colour illustration by Michael Ayrton. Condition: Pamphlet…
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The Collected Poems 1955-1995 by Anne Stevenson
£10.00Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1996 but labelled as published by Bloodaxe in 2000. 20cm by 13cm colour illustrated wraps, 276 pages. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Slight wear to covers and light yellowing with age to page edges.
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Out Loud by Adrian Mitchell INSCRIBED
£15.00Cape Goliard Press Limited, 1969. Second edition. 25cm by 16.5cm colour illustrated wraps with red endpapers. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is inscribed “Peace Adrian Mitchell” with a ink drawn elephant on the title page. Condition: Cream covers browned and soiled with age….
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Dying by John Hinton
£2.50Penguin, 1967. A Pelican Original. 13cm by 11cm, 208 pages. Title page has the following quote: “Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye,” La Rochefoucauld 1613-80. Condition: Covers creased and edge-worn, pages browned with age.
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Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole
£7.00Methuen and Co, 1982. Reprint paperback. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour images throughout. A Magnet Book. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Features Bod on a snowy Christmas Eve, taking a present to…
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Lavengro by George Borrow
£5.00George G. Harrap, 1947. Reprint. The Holborn Library edition. 18cm by 12cm red cloth boards, 548 pages. From the author of The Romany Rye. Condition: Board edges slightly sunned, some browning to prelims and dusty top edge.
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The Romany Rye by George Borrow
£8.50John Murray, 1907. Reprint. Sub-titled “A Sequel To Lavengro” this is “a new edition containing the unaltered text of the original issue, with notes, etc, by the author of The Life of George Borrow.” 20.5cm by 13cm blue cloth boards, 403 pages. Condition: Spine and board edges sunned, weak hinge to rear board, scattered foxing…
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A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Issac Bashevis Singer
£2.50Penguin 1980, 18cm by 11cm 303 page paperback reprint. Singer was winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. Condition: Covers worn and there is the remains of water damage to the last five pages.
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Eve Was Framed by Helena Kennedy
£3.00Vintage, 1993. 19.5cm by 13cm colour illustrated wraps, 285 pages. Sub-titled ” Women and British Justice” this is an impassioned exposé of British justice by then barrister and Queen’s Counsel and now Baroness and Labour member of the House of Lords, Helena Kennedy. Condition: Covers slightly edge-worn and pages unifromly browned with age.
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Begat by David Crystal
£4.00Oxford University Press, 2010. First edition. 22cm by 14cm blue boards in illustrated wrapper, 327 pages. Sub-titled “The King James Bible and the English Language.” Condition: minimal shelf-wear to board edges and wrapper. Appears unread.
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Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster
£3.00Penguin, 1990. Reprint paperback. 20cm by 13cm coloured illustrated wraps, 251 pages. Described by Anita Brookner as “An extremely skilful and angry novel…” Condition: Minimal edge-wear to covers and page edges uniformly browned with age. Appears unread.
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Mantissa by John Fowles
£3.00Triad Grafton Books, 1988. 18cm by 11cm, colour illustrated wraps, 190 pages. Condition: Minimal shelf-wear, page edges uniformly browned with age. Appears unread.
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Jung by Anthony Storr
£3.00Fontana, 1986. Reprint paperback, 19.5cm by 13cm, 124 pages. Fontana Modern Masters series. Editor: Frank Kermode. Condition: Some wear and creasing with use to covers, pages uniformly browned with age, previous owner has turned over a few page corners and left a neat ink signature on the fly-leaf.
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Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
£3.50Penguin, 2000. Reprint Penguin Modern Classics. 19.5cm by 13cm illustrated wraps, 288 pages. Introduction by Paul Bailey who writes of this novel: “a timeless masterpiece…every page is informed by her profound scholarship…” Condition: Slight shelf-wear with light browning with age to page edges. Appears unread.
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Gilbert and Sullian The Savoy Operas
£3.00Macmillan, 1967. A Macmillan Papermac. Sub-titled: “The Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1896 by Sir W.S. Gilbert.” Lyrics only. This is not a music score. 18cm by 11cm, coloured illustrated covers, 660 pages. Condition: edge-wear to covers and page edges, fly-leaf/possibly half-title page torn out.
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Smack Family Robinson by Richard Bean
£4.00Oberon Modern Plays, [2003]. A play presented at Live Theatre, Newcastle and first performed there 20th May to 14th June 2003. This 21cm by 13cm, 88 page paperback lists original cast and production staff and includes the script of this “darkly disturbing comedy” set in Whitley Bay. Condition: Ticket for the play from 28th May…
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The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda
£3.00Graywolf Press, [1990s]. Reprint paperback, 21.5cm by 13.5cm, 201 pages. Translated and with an introduction by David Rosenthal. Gabriel García Márquez is quoted on the cover: “The most beautiful novel published in Spain since the Civil War.” Condition: Covers a little faded and shelf-worn but book appears unread.
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The Man Who Was Loved by Kay MacCauley
£3.00Telegram, London, W2 5RH, 2006. First paperback edition. 20cm by 13cm illustrated wraps, 392 pages. Robert Plant is quoted on the covers: “A breathtaking debut.” Condition: Shelf-worn with slight water damage to top edge of front cover and fly-leaf. Book appears unread.
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The Renaissance by Walter Pater
£2.50Oxford World’s Classics, [1990s]. 18.5cm by 11.5cm paperback with colour illustrated wraps, 174 pages. Edited with an Introduction by Adam Phillips. Condition: Some edge-wear to covers and pages uniformly browned at edges. Appears unread.
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves by Sarah B. Pomeroy
£4.00Pimlico, 1994. UK paperback. 21.5cm by 13.5cm, 265 pages. Sub-titled “Women in Classical Antiquity,” Mary Beard describes this as “The classic, groundbreaking account of women’s lives in Greece and Rome…” Condition: Crease to front cover plus slight edge-wear to covers and browning with age to pages.
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
£3.00Harper Perennial, 1992. US paperback reprint. 20cm by 13.5cm, 452 pages. Condition: Page edges uniformly browned with age. Appears unread.
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The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
£3.00Vintage, 200. Reprint paperback. 20cm by 13cm, 241 pages. Described in a Times review as “fine, rich, satiny and unpredictable as the vintages that it describes…” Condition: some shelf wear and pages uniformly browned. Appears unread.
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Madness A Brief History by Roy Porter
£3.50Oxford University Press, 2002. 17cm by 12cm illustrated wraps, 239 pages. Oliver Sacks described this as “ delightfully easy to read, witty, and small enough to fit in one’s pocket…” Condition: Minimal shelf-wear.
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You Speak in Constellations by The Poetry Society 2020
£3.00The Poetry Society, 2021. 17cm by 12cm colour illustrated laminated wraps, 36 pages. Anthology of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2020 featuring Lauren Lisk, Leandra Li, Daniel Wale, Libby Russell and more. Condition: as new.
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The Penances by Iain Sinclair INSCRIBED
£30.00The Many Press, 40 Walford Road, London, N16 8ED, 1977. Published in an edition of 200 copies. 21cm by 15cm brown wraps in cream illustrated dustwrapper. Cover and drawing by Donal Ryan. This copy from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is inscribed but not dated by Sinclair…
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poems (1962-1997) by robert lax
£15.00wave books, seattle/new york, 2013. First edition. 23cm by 13cm white wraps, 353 pages. Edited by John Beer. Robert Lax (1915-2000) was an American poet, known in particular for his association with Thomas Merton. Condition: slight soiling and edge-wear to wraps.
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Strix magazine No. 5 Autumn 2018
£5.00Poetry and Short Fiction magazine printed in Leeds, 2018. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Ian Harker, Arji Manuelpillai and more. Condition: Covers slightly soiled and edge-worn.
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Strix magazine No. 6 Winter/Spring 2019
£5.00Poetry and Short Fiction magazine edited by SJ Bradley, Ian Harker and Andrew Lambeth and printed in Leeds. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Lydia Harris, Avril Joy and more. Condition: Minimal edge-wear to covers. Near Fine.
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Strix magazine No. 3 Spring 2018
£5.00Poetry and Short Fiction magazine edited by Ian Harker and Andrew Lambeth and printed in Leeds, 2018. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Glyn Edwards, Tom Kelly, Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Jayne Shipley and more. Condition: Minimal edge-wear to covers. Near Fine.
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Bod’s New Leaf by Alison and Lo Cole
£5.00Contender Entertainment, 2003. 16cm by 16.5cm white illustrated boards. In 2002 and 2003 Contender published Bod’s Way and Bod’s New Leaf , written by Alison Cole and illustrated by Lo Cole. The books revived their parents’ much-loved creation – the book and TV character Bod. The books explore the quirky world of Bod and his…
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Under Berlin by John Tranter INSCRIBED
£10.00University of Queensland Press, 1988. First edition. 19.5cm by 13cm, green illustrated wraps, 119 pages. Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) with the following inscription on title page:“To Ric Caddell, greetings from Sydney, John Tranter 8/8/88” Condition: some…
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A Kumquat for John Keats by Tony Harrison
£15.00Bloodaxe Books, 1981. First edition. 21 cm by 13.5cm orange laminated wraps, 10 pages. Condition: Covers a little creased, edge-worn and sunned towards spine. There’s a 0.5 cm tear to bottom edge of final page.
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The Garden A Theophany by Martin Corless-Smith INSCRIBED
£12.00Spectacular Books, New York 1998. 14cm by 11cm cream illustrated wraps. Martin Corless-Smith is an English poet and painter who lives and teaches in Boise; Idaho.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) with the following inscription on fly-leaf:“To Ric with love from Martin Corless-Smith Durham Feb…
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Komorni hudba by James Joyce [Czech version of Chamber Music]
£10.00Dauphin, 2000. 19cm by 11cm cream wraps. This version of Joyce’s Chamber Music was translated by Petr Mikes with an Epilogue by Matthew Sweney, writer, editor, translator, and Assistant Professor of English at Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is…
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Quirky Wedding Gift for a Bridegroom
£5.00A 6cm by 9cm card with printing on one side only. Dates from the late 1950s/early 1960s. This item was unearthed in Tyne and Wear, UK but origin unknown. Condition: printed words a little bit smudged and slight soiling with age to the card.
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The Birth Rug by Iain Sinclair
£30.00Albion Village Press, 1973 in an edition of 200. Blue and silver wraps and blue pages filled with poetry and images, 21.5cm by 14.5cm. From the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) Condition: There are brown marks on spine plus front and rear wraps from sunning but contents clean an…
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Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole 1975
£10.00Methuen and Co, 1975. First paperback edition. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. This first paperback edition came a decade after the…
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Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire
£10.00University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991. First paperback printing. 23cm by 15cm, 513 pages in yellow wraps. Translated by Anne Hyde Greet with an Introduction by S.I. Lockerbie. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Spine is uniformly sunned, there is slight edge-wear to covers…
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The Tale of Driver Grope by Richard Ingrams and Ralph Steadman
£28.00Dobson, 1969. First edition. 29cm by 21cm blue boards illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. It might have been published by a children’s publisher but this is a title for adults to read, digest and act on. Richard “Private Eye” Ingrams wrote this messed up fairy tale of greed, capitalism, and environmental concerns. Ralph Steadman provided…
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Clangers Annual 1971 by Postgate and Firmin
£22.00Odhams, 1970. 31cm x 22.5cm, colour photo boards illustrated throughout with colour and black and white images. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin gave us Noggin the Nog, Pogles Wood, Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and The Clangers. This beautiful TV tie-in shows you how to make a felt Clanger toy. A friend of ours was lucky…