Left to right centre and back: Stella Graham, Heather Cockrell, Jaga Sczaniecka, Chris Newell, Mark Bone, Alison Park, Chris Harrington, Peter Adams, Ros Clark, Frances Morris-Jones, David Clark, David Jackson, Gerald Bartlett (manager). Front row: Nick Walsh, Diane Samuels, Helen Burgess, Marie Davis.

Gerald Bartlett first came to the Bookshop in 1954 at the age of 19. He became deputy manager in 1965 and General Manager in 1968 when Ms Kvergic, the first and only other Manager, retired. He admits that he gets monomaniac about bookselling and that as a result his family probably suffers. His dedication and his knowledge have led him into a leading part in the affairs of the British Booksellers' Association, of which he is currently Treasurer and Second Vice-President, the youngest Treasurer ever to hold the post. He is editor of the Better Bookseeling Series published for the Booksellers' Association by Hutchinson, and is the autor of two contributions to the series. In 1969 he was awarded the Butterworth Prize for Literature by the Society of Young Publishers, an award offered annually for the most constructive published contribution to progress in the book trade by someone under the age of 35.' Extract from 'The Economists' Bookshop' LSE Magazine, December 1970, No40, p.7

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