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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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  • Positive change - Brighton Pride, 1995

    Brighton Pride – ephemera with a long lasting impact…

    Brighton Pride is this weekend. They have been building the multi-stage site in Preston Park all week. This beer mat is from 1995 when the event was somewhat smaller – just a few pubs and clubs and a carnival procession….

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  • Britain Needs Books - and so do I!

    Britain Needs Books?

    19th May 2026

    ‘A noble declaration of the importance of books to the community and to the future of civilisation’ reads the strap line on this thin little book published in 1942. At the time Britain was at war and paper for books…

  • Booth Museum, Dyke Road, Brighton.

    A Book About Brighton’s Dyke Road Museum, 1876.

    23rd April 2026

    I bought this book recently from a house in Patcham, Brighton. I have had it before, and sold it, so I was particularly pleased to find another copy. It is by E. T. Booth and is ‘A Catalogue of the…

  • Lewes to Littlehampton

    From Lewes To Littlehampton – With Tent And Boat!

    12th March 2026

    Here’s a photograph album from 1904. It records what looks like An Awfully Big Adventure: the hand painted title reads ‘With Tent & Boat From Lewes to Littlehampton.’ The journey was made in September 1904 but unfortunately there are no…

  • Maps old and new – from Sussex to Cambridgefhire

    19th February 2026

    Here’s a very brief post to say that our next book fair is in Cambridge – tomorrow, the 20th February. Last week we were in Tunbridge Wells and I have been so busy I have not had a lot of…

  • Shelf Improvement

    Shelf Improvement: A Talk about Book Collecting.

    4th February 2026

    I have just taken part in a talk titled ‘Shelf Improvement.’ The title says it all: it was aimed at young book collectors who wanted to win a prize for their book collection. It was a joint venture between The…

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