[Louis Bondy, London antiquarian bookseller.] Printed handbill, with biography and photograph, endorsing ‘Louis W. Bondy’ in the 1953 Holborn Borough By-Election, ‘South Bloomsbury Ward - E’. With Autograph Note Signed to Andrew Block.

See Nicolas Barker’s obituary of Bondy in the Independent, 27 June 1993. The obituary of the recipient Andrew Block (1892-1987) in ‘The Private Library’ was subtitled ‘the doyen of booksellers’; his business was established in 1911. An evocative piece of booktrade and London local government ephemera. 2pp, 8vo. Printed on a leaf of shiny art paper. Worn and creased; folded twice. On one side ‘L. W. Bondy’ addresses the ‘Elector’, beginning: ‘You are being asked to vote again on June 25th because the Conservatives have made one of their newly elected Councillors an Alderman.’ Boasts that Labour ‘gave Holborn many new things’ when it controlled Holborn council between 1945 and 1949: ‘London’s best Council flats, the Oasis, a children’s library, the Darby and Joan Club and Social Centre, the St. Giles Children’s Playground, entertainments’. In the margin is a biography (ends: ‘During the War was engaged in Political Intelligence work. Worked actively for Spanish Medical Aid during their Civil War.’) and photograph of him holding a pipe. Label on page addressed in autograph to ‘Mr. Andrew Block / 4 Bloomsbury Crt. / W.C.1.’ In autograph at foot of page: ‘Hope you are back from your Holiday, Andy. Trust you enjoyed it. / Louis.’ Reverse headed ‘What LABOUR Did . . . / What LABOUR Will Do for HOLBORN’, with sections on housing, requisitioning, baths, the Holborn Borough Club, playgrounds, the library.