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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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  • Middle Class Cookery

    Middle Class Cookery Book

    6th October 2017

    Mutton dressed as lamb, anyone? This is a wonderful book from the thirties and not uncommon either, although this one is in great condition. It’s refreshing to see such an honest title too. All cookery books are middle class: today…

  • The ultimate bibliomystery title, a first edition from 1937

    The Library Of Death

    28th September 2017

    I’ve been working on my website and have made a whole new section devoted to one of the loves of my life. Me and bibliomysteries have been together for over 20 years now and we’re still going strong. We’ve had…

  • Aubrey Beardsley

    9th September 2017

    When is a Beardsley not a Beardsley? Fans of the decadent artist will find little they recognise in this slim pamphlet privately printed in Brighton, almost certainly in 1889. The cover carries the statement ‘Reprinted from the 1888 Xmas Entertainment…

  • Books As They Were Bought Part Ten, the 1880s, in yellow.

    Books As They Were Bought by Mavis Eggle

    7th September 2017

    Books As They Were Bought is the very best guide to publishers’ bindings and I’m proud to sell copies at book fairs. Many people collect books in their original paper or cloth bindings and more and more universities are displaying…

  • Ye Ancient Tome

    6th September 2017

    This wonderful ancient vellum tome will quicken the pulse of any antiquarian seeing it on my shelf. Usually the pleasure is short lived as books like these often turn out to be very dull inside, such as a boring religious…

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