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  • Cambridge PBFA Book Fair.

    I Need Books For Book Fairs!

    It’s one book fair after another at this time of year. In the photo you can (just!) see my stand at Cambridge, which this year was in a new venue. It’s always been popular with younger customers and this year…

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  • Tunbridge Wells in 1844.

    A New Look At Tunbridge Wells 180 years ago.

    Here’s a lovely thing which I am going to take to the Tunbridge Wells PBFA Book Fair on Saturday 3rd February. You can find out more about the fair here. It’s just one image from an album of 24 sketches…

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  • The Faery Calendar

    December Sleep; or, My Favourite Book

    As I write this we are just a week or so from the winter solstice and the end of another year. And what a busy year it’s been! According to my diary I have visited over 60 houses to buy…

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  • The Antiquarian Book Club

    The Antiquarian Book Club goes to Worthing!

    I’m proud to be a member of the country’s largest organisation of professional book sellers, the P.B.F.A. The association was established in 1974 to ‘bring books to the people’ and that’s exactly what we do at book fairs across the…

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  • Brighton Book Fair 2023 free ticket

    2023 Brighton Book Fair: Saturday 28th October, Main Hall, Brighton Racecourse.

    The 2023 PBFA Brighton Book Fair is coming up fast. It’s the biggest and best book fair on the south coast and we’re now in our third year. Look out for these flyers around the south – each one is…

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  • The wrong type.

    Eric Gill; or, The Writing on the Wall.

    11th March 2018

    I was offered a very rare and valuable Eric Gill book recently and did not buy it. I could have made a good profit; I could also have been left with something I could barely give away. As I write…

  • 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…

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