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  • Brighton Book Fair In The News

    Brighton Book Fair in The News – Antiques Trade Gazette

    This is just a short post to let you know that the PBFA Brighton Book Fair is in the news! The image shows the full page article from the May 15th Antiques Trade Gazette. The ATG is essential reading for…

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  • PBFA Book Fair

    Follow the PBFA Brighton Book Fair on Facebook!

    I have set up a facebook group for the PBFA Brighton Book Fair. I’ll be posting all sorts of interesting material on the group page as well as the latest news and details about the fair. There has not been…

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  • Brighton In Books

    A Book Fair Comes To Brighton – October 30th, 2021

    Here is some good news! I am very pleased to announce that on Saturday October 30th there will be a PBFA Book Fair in Brighton at the Racecourse. A book fair is like a huge second-hand bookshop coming to town…

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  • Shoreham Bungalow Town

    Shoreham on Sea: Lights! Camera! Glamour!

    The story of Shoreham’s bohemian seaside village is well known but still remarkable. In the 1880s the shingle spit between the River Adur and the sea was used by fishermen, some working from old railway carriages bought from Brighton. One…

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  • Baxter colour print of the Lewes Avalanche

    The Lewes Avalanche of 1836, Colour Printed by George Baxter.

    On the 27th December 1836 a huge wall of snow slipped off the Cliffe above Lewes, killing eight people. This unusual event was portrayed by local printer and inventor George Baxter in the image here. At first glance it does…

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  • Children come out to play as the workmen have a break in the pub on Monday July 10th 1911.

    The Murrell Arms, Barnham, Monday 10th July 1911

    19th December 2019

    This wonderful image is from an album of 24 large, sequential photographs taken between the 28th of June and the 21st of July 1911. They show a gang of workmen laying a water pipe along the Yapton Road, Barnham, Sussex….

  • Gift books in typically beautiful bindings from Books As they Were Bought Part Ten, the 1880s.

    1880s Publishers’ Bindings : Books As They Were Bought, Part 10

    8th May 2019

    The 1880s was when the modern world began. Socialism, mechanisation and mass consumerism came of age, not necessarily in that order. And cheap books, published in their millions, flooded onto the market everywhere from railway platforms to Royal Galas. We…

  • Sussex maps

    ANLAOB Episode 10 : Sussex Maps and Women’s Cricket

    18th March 2019

    You never know what you might find at a book fair. Here are some maps of Sussex including unique sketch maps of Rye and Winchelsea, a geological work of art, a view of Eastbourne, a present from Brighthelmstone and a…

  • The Wasp Factory

    The Wasp Factory: Lost Movie Script Discovered at Book Fair

    22nd November 2018

    First, the good news: it’s true. This really is it. It turned up in July 2018 at The ETC Bloomsbury Book Fair at The Royal National Hotel, in London. (As I may have mentioned a few times before, you never…

  • Brighton Panto at Lewes Book Fair

    ANLAOB Episode 3 : The Lewes Book Fair and The Highdown Bindery

    13th November 2018

    In this episode we visit the Lewes Book Fair, one of the best and most popular regional fairs in the country. Busy book fairs like this one are the heart of the trade and superb places for beginners and seasoned…

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