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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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  • East Meets West; or, The Lady in the Veil

    7th February 2017

    In the first half of the twentieth century ‘East Meets West’ was a familiar theme in popular fiction. Written mainly by white women, a great deal of it was set in India and centred on the thrills ‘n’ spills of…

  • Libavius on Alchemy; or, Tome For Chemistry

    6th February 2017

    Book Experts call this a ‘properly old’ book. It dates from 1615 and is about one of the most desirable of all subjects: alchemy. The hand-written spine reads ‘Libavii Opus Chimic To. 1’ This tells us that the author was…

  • Love, The Book: The Ladies’ Oracle of Destiny

    5th February 2017

    ‘Shall I soon be courted?’ is the first question in this little book and it’s aimed squarely at women as the gilt illustration on the front cover shows. That’s the purported author, Cornelius Agrippa, divining the future with symbols and…

  • Love, The Books: Ovid’s Art Of Love

    4th February 2017

    Do you know your “Ars Amatoria?’ Written by Ovid 2000 years ago, ‘The Art of Love’ still contains much sensible advice today, although frankly the bit I looked at was a stiff read. Anyway, it’s apparently very important to remember your wife’s…

  • The Gentle Art of Cookery

    A Recipe for Collectors; or The Gentle Art of Cookery

    3rd February 2017

    Trends and fads come and go in the world of book-collecting, just as anywhere else. Authors, subjects and eras rise and fall in price like stocks and shares, but one subject remains legendarily popular – cookery.  This beautiful book is…

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