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  • Royal Pavilion Map

    The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

    Brighton has always been synonymous with commuting and railways. This map is taken from ‘The Official Guide to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway’ and was published by Cassell in 1913. It is the tenth edition and surprisingly difficult…

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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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  • PBFA Hay Book Fair 2025

    PBFA Hay-On-Wye Book Fair – Bringing Books to the Book Town.

    19th July 2025

    Hay-On-Wye is the world’s first ‘book town,’ and a focal point for book lovers from all over the world. It all started in 1962 when Richard Booth realised that an otherwise ordinary town could be rejuvenated if it became a…

  • Fantastic books

    Flying Saucers From The Moone: 1620 and 1980!

    7th July 2025

    It’s intriguing to think that these two very different collections were sitting there, virtually next-door, until I came along to buy them. I’ve been a full time, professional book buyer for a decade now and I’m still amazed at what…

  • 2025 Book Collecting Competition

    Win Money For Collecting Books!

    16th June 2025

    Being paid for what you love doing sounds like a dream, but in this case it’s true. If you collect books, your collection could win you £250! The 2025 PBFA Book Collector of The Year Competition is now open, and…

  • See Bath by Electric Car

    Bath And District By Electric Car… in 1913!

    11th June 2025

    I was very excited when I found this little booklet at a book fair recently. The front cover is rather grandly titled ‘Visitor’s Guide to Bath and District by Electric Car and Motor Bus’ and it was issued by ‘The…

  • Oxford Guide, 1843

    Oxford, or, Paper Beats Stone.

    21st April 2025

    Just a brief post as we are in the middle of a particularly busy time for fairs. As the image suggests I am off to Oxford next week for the two-day PBFA Oxford Premier Fair, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th…

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