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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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  • Entitled to Love, or Egyptian Love.

    8th February 2017

    ‘Happily Ever After’… ‘The Devil Shed Tears’… ‘Love in Morocco’… she could conjure up a good title, could Countess Helene Magriska. Including her own, as it happens. Know as Enid Brockies to her friends, the pseudonymous scribe made East meets…

  • 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…

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