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  • Beach Head Lighthouse 1902

    Belle Tout, Birds and Beachy Head Lighthouse in 1902

    Like a lot of book dealers I cannot buy stock at the moment due to the lockdown*. I never seem to have much left over at the end of the month as I sell it all at book fairs and…

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  • PBFA Cambridge book fair 2020

    That’s TV West Anglia report from Cambridge PBFA Book Fair.

    If you’ve never been to a PBFA book fair, look at this! It’s an excellent report about the recent Cambridge fair from That’s TV West Anglia. I’m the PBFA’s publicity officer and told reporter Mirva Villa all about the wonderful…

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  • Mystery Cross Dresser

    A Cross-Dressing Mystery From 1830

    ‘You never know what you’ll find’ is more than just a slogan when it comes to P.B.F.A. book fairs. The range of stock is so large and the quality so high that even the professionals are often surprised, and this…

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  • 1920 Faery Calendar and York Preview

    Meet The PBFA 2: York January 2020 Book Fair and Bernard Sleigh’s 1920 Faery Calendar

    ‘You never know what you’ll find’ is a great way to describe our book fairs and it’s especially true at York – our January extravaganza is the UK’s biggest one day book fair! Over 120 professional dealers bring more than…

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  • An unrecorded image of a Victorian transvestite turns up at a PBFA book fair.

    Meet the PBFA Episode 1: The best book fairs in the country!

    I’ve always loved book fairs. You never know what you’ll find because the quality and variety of the books, ephemera, maps and prints is simply staggering. In the last year alone I’ve bought and sold Elizabethan vellum documents, unique diaries,…

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  • Lucy Mander

    Bablake School, Coventry: A Former Pupil Writes.

    20th April 2018

    Two of us, to be accurate. I turned up at Bablake School one September morn in 1974 along with 119 other 11 year-old boys. Much the same thing had been happening, we were told, since 1344, which didn’t make the…

  • Phonetic Reading in 1860 and 1960

    Fonetik Spelin, Or, Reading is Fnu.

    24th March 2018

    Words fail me. Certainly words like ‘ritten’ and ‘alfabet’. Mangled spellings abound in both of these well-meaning text books published a hundred years apart. The first is a very rare early example of a phonetic alphabet published by Pitman in…

  • An Impartial Account of Books Lately Printed in All Parts of Europe

    Europe Then and Now: The Works of Ye Learned, 1704, Vs. The Work of The Ignorant, 2019

    23rd March 2018

    As you may have read recently the European Union are planning to restrict the import and export of any cultural artefact manufactured over 250 years ago. It includes art, maps, prints, ornaments, furniture, jewellery and of course that most ‘umble…

  • The Yellow Brick Road To Driving Success

    How To Pass The Driving Test; Or, Look out for that octopus!

    23rd March 2018

    It’s two years since I passed the Driving Test, which would be cool if I were 20 years old. As I’m considerably older than that it’s deeply unimpressive – but I’ve got an excuse. It was all those lessons, see….

  • The wrong type.

    Eric Gill; or, The Writing on the Wall.

    11th March 2018

    I was offered a very rare and valuable Eric Gill book recently and did not buy it. I could have made a good profit; I could also have been left with something I could barely give away. As I write…

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