From little acorns...

RM • July 11, 2025

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

The young (18 year-old) but highly motivated Philip Ward writes about his founding of the Private Libraries Association in the Harrow Observer & Gazette on 17th May 1956. Little did he know then how the Association would grow and flourish, and not just be a 'book pool' but become a book publisher.

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