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  • The Rolling Stones, May 4th 1963

    May the force be with you: The Rolling Stones sixty years ago.

    On May 4th 1963 photographer Philip Townsend took the first official photographs of the Rolling Stones. His brief was to make them the opposite of the Beatles. He told them to wear their normal clothes and walked them around the…

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  • Brighton Festival, 1969.

    Brighton Festival And All That Jazz…

    ‘You never know what you’ll find’ is an excellent way to sum up book collecting and, indeed, collecting in general. Walking into a book fair is like a new adventure every time. I buy stock to sell at book fairs…

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  • These shelves are now practically empty.

    The Book Fairs Have Started, And I Need To Buy Books!

    I sell a lot of old books at book fairs and need to buy old books in Sussex.

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  • Flyers are free tickets!

    Look out for a flyer – it’s your free ticket to the Brighton Book Fair.

    The flyers and posters have arrived! I’ll be putting them around Sussex this month so look out for one. Each flyer is a FREE ticket to the fair. You can also find a free ticket here on facebook. Book-lovers love…

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  • Off To The Brighton Book Fair

    We’re off to the Brighton Book Fair, Saturday October 22nd 2022.

    Off To Brighton! This image is from 1862 and shows Brighton’s crowded seafront. As you can see there’s no room to move on the pavements, everyone is wearing the latest fashions, wheeled vehicles are fighting for space on the roads…

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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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