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  • On The Road again

    The Roads of England, Or; Maps and Satnavs

    From a King to a Queen Just a short post to let you know that I’m on the road! Which is to say, I’m out and about buying books again. I’ll be using the satnav rather than this 1838 map…

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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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  • Progressive Politics; or, The Labour Party in 1895.

    24th February 2017

    It’s not all frivolous stuff here you know. Today’s book is incredibly important. It’s the first ever Labour Annual, subtitled ‘A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare.’ It is a very early account of the gradual consolidation of…

  • Theme of The Crime; or, Murder Goes To School.

    23rd February 2017

    There are approximately 112,000 different crime fiction titles listed on ‘Crime Fiction IV’, edited by Alan J Hubin and known to Book Experts as ‘Hubin’. Many of the stories have a strong background or setting reflected in the titles and…

  • The Daily Mail Cookery Book; or, Add Quip To Taste.

    21st February 2017

    Oh dear. Look what’s on the menu today. Bile, with a soupçon of snide racism. A healthy dash of red-faced outrage to go with your hypocrisy; a double helping of standards, lashings of lashings…Mmmm. Give it all a good stir….

  • Warwici Inhabitatus; or, The Saxton Map Of Warwickshire

    20th February 2017

    Are you on the map? This one of Warwickshire dates from 1607 and my photo shows the traditional centre of England, Meriden, apparently now usurped by a field in Leicestershire. Damn computers. The map was published originally in 1579 by Christopher…

  • Kiss The Book; or, Not a Bibliomystery.

    14th February 2017

    Valentine’s Day! Time to kiss the one we love – in my case, a book. And what a great title for a book lover. I couldn’t wait to read it. A mysterious bible that curs’d the lips that touched it?…

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