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  • Shelf Improvement

    Shelf Improvement: A Talk about Book Collecting.

    I have just taken part in a talk titled ‘Shelf Improvement.’ The title says it all: it was aimed at young book collectors who wanted to win a prize for their book collection. It was a joint venture between The…

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  • Buying old books in Hove

    Buying Books in Brighton and Hove, Actually…

    The new year is here and I am already buying old books. My first two house calls were in Hove, very close to home in Brighton. I bought a large and expensive collection of travel books in one house and…

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  • Brighton Aquarium Invitation

    A Request For The Honour Of Your Company…

    This is just a short post to invite you the fifth PBFA Brighton book fair! We’ll be in the main hall up at the Racecourse this Saturday the 25th October. You can get a free ticket at eventbrite, here, or…

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  • Free Ticket

    Free Tickets For The 2025 Brighton Book Fair

    Good news – the Brighton Book Fair is back. The south coast’s biggest and best second-hand book fair will be held in the main hall at Brighton Racecourse on Saturday 25th October. There are links to FREE TICKETS below. But…

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  • PBFA Hay Book Fair 2025

    PBFA Hay-On-Wye Book Fair – Bringing Books to the Book Town.

    Hay-On-Wye is the world’s first ‘book town,’ and a focal point for book lovers from all over the world. It all started in 1962 when Richard Booth realised that an otherwise ordinary town could be rejuvenated if it became a…

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  • The cure to quarrelling, swearing and drunkenness.

    Quarrelling, Swearing and Drunkenness; or, Brighton Beach

    1st March 2018

    Can you believe it? ‘… there was a time when a part of the beach at Brighton exhibited a scene of quarrelling, swearing and drunkenness, such as was seldom witnessed.’ So claims the introduction to this 1863 book, ‘Lectures on…

  • A murdered author writes his own bibliomystery

    A Spooky Bibliomystery: Post Mortem by Guy Cullingford

    24th February 2018

    ‘Post Mortem’ by Guy Cullingford is an excellent bibliomystery. Un-likeable author Gilbert Worth is shot dead at point blank range and his death looks very much like suicide. Only his troubled spirit knows  he was murdered – but whodunnit? The…

  • A Vampire Revealed

    Hammer Horror Vampire Lesbian Sex Film Keyword Scandal Part 1

    23rd February 2018

    The Hammer House of Horror produced dozens of X-certificate horror romps in the sixties and seventies and their vampire movies were their most popular line. This 1971 production was a follow-up to ‘The Vampire Lovers’ and features many of the…

  • The Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, seen here in action..

    Concerning Ye Ancient Order of Froth Blowers.

    14th February 2018

    Do You Gollop Your Beer With Zest? If so, ‘You should become a Member of Ye Ancient Order of Froth Blowers!’ claims this small booklet I discovered recently. As it concerns two of my favourite places, Sussex and drunk, I’m…

  • Alice in Wonderland from 1869

    Sixteenth Thousand Alice in Wonderland

    22nd October 2017

    That ‘Sixteenth Thousand’ means just what it says – the batch of books this one came from completed a run of 16,000 copies. It would be easy to say that this was therefore the 16th edition if we knew that…

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