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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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  • Worthing in about 1845

    Talking About Old Books At The Worthing Collectors Club

    2nd February 2022

    The Worthing Antique, Arts and Collectors Club meet on the first Tuesday of the month in Field Place, Worthing – and this month I was the guest speaker. This was great fun and I need to thank the tireless secretary,…

  • Brighton Book Fair Bargains.

    Brighton Book Fair In The News

    28th October 2021

    Here it is – all you need to know, and the Brighton and Hove Independent’s top story too! Thanks to Phil Hewitt for his time and we’ll see you all at the Racecourse on Saturday 30th.

  • Brighton book Fair flyers

    Brighton Book Fair flyers!

    2nd October 2021

    The flyers have arrived! Thanks to my great pal Simon Fenton of sfcreative, I’ve now got five thousand of these eye-catching flyers! I’ll be distributing them at book fairs this month (Lewes and London) and all around Brighton, Lewes and…

  • Brighton Fantasia

    Fantastic Fantasia at Brighton Book Fair!

    20th September 2021

    Groovy Baby! This is a gorgeous technicolour A5 poster to advertise Disney’s Fantasia in 1970. The border has a space for the local cinema details and in our case it was the Brighton Film Theatre in North Street. Apparently the…

  • 1891 August Weather

    August, 1891 : A Remarkably Wet Month, With Very Little Sunshine.

    18th August 2021

    When is a book not a book? When it’s a manuscript! The book fairs have started again and at the very first one I bought a wonderful leather-bound notebook with a record for the weather on every single day between…

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