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  • Estra Clark's 1947 map of York.

    The 2025 Book Fairs Begin – I’m On The Road!

    The 2025 P.B.F.A book fairs have begun, and there’s a clue in the map: I’m away at York until the 13th at a huge fair at the racecourse. This lovely pictorial map is by Estra Clarke, by the way, and…

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  • Books I have bought recently.

    Books, maps, ephemera and more needed urgently – can you help?

    The seasons change, but book fair season never seems to end! I have had one practically every weekend since September, including the Brighton fair last Saturday the 26th October. Next week I’m back in London for the ETC Bloomsbury Fair,…

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  • Flyers are also free tickets!

    Free Tickets to the Brighton book fair!

    This is just a short post to let you know the flyers have arrived and soon I’ll be putting them in the shops all around town. Each one is a free ticket and you can also find a free ticket…

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  • Books

    The 2024 Brighton Book Fair is approaching – and I need to buy books!

    Great news for book lovers – the Brighton Book Fair returns to the main hall of Brighton Racecourse on Saturday October 26th. This is our fourth year there and as the manager I’m really looking forward to meeting my fellow…

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  • A selection of books.

    Busy Buying Books

    I have been very busy with book fairs which I’m thoroughly enjoying at the moment. I have three in July so I need new stock now just as much as ever. Please get in touch if you have any old…

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  • 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…

  • 1936 District Surveyor map of London

    1936 Town Planner Map of London – in a plain brown envelope.

    21st October 2017

    It’s true. Have a look here, on ebay. People collect maps for all sorts of reasons and those red lines are one of them. Finding the territory of London District Surveyors in the thirties cannot be easy, but here it…

  • Banting on Corpulence, a dieting book for the 1860s

    Banting for A Decent Meal

    20th October 2017

    One of the things I love about book selling is that I’m always learning something new. This week, for example, I learnt that another copy of a book I’ve been trying to flog over the table for £100 was on…

  • Edwardian school wall map of England

    Edwardian school wall map is 21st Century interior design heaven

    19th October 2017

    This is a huge wall map with TWO cute-as-it-gets features. First, it has brass eye holes at the top corners so that it could be hung on the wall. ( You got ten in a box – I had one…

  • An 1843 advertisement for A Christmas Carol

    Too Early For Christmas, Part 1.

    12th October 2017

    It’s terrible, isn’t it. All these retailers attempting to milk as much as possible from Christmas. Take your mind off it with this little curiosity – an 1843 advertisement for ‘A Christmas Carol.’ It was published in ‘Punch’, December 30th,…

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