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  • 1891 August Weather

    August, 1891 : A Remarkably Wet Month, With Very Little Sunshine.

    When is a book not a book? When it’s a manuscript! The book fairs have started again and at the very first one I bought a wonderful leather-bound notebook with a record for the weather on every single day between…

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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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  • 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…

  • 1936 District Surveyor map of London

    1936 Town Planner Map of London – in a plain brown envelope.

    21st October 2017

    It’s true. Have a look here, on ebay. People collect maps for all sorts of reasons and those red lines are one of them. Finding the territory of London District Surveyors in the thirties cannot be easy, but here it…

  • Banting on Corpulence, a dieting book for the 1860s

    Banting for A Decent Meal

    20th October 2017

    One of the things I love about book selling is that I’m always learning something new. This week, for example, I learnt that another copy of a book I’ve been trying to flog over the table for £100 was on…

  • Edwardian school wall map of England

    Edwardian school wall map is 21st Century interior design heaven

    19th October 2017

    This is a huge wall map with TWO cute-as-it-gets features. First, it has brass eye holes at the top corners so that it could be hung on the wall. ( You got ten in a box – I had one…

  • An 1843 advertisement for A Christmas Carol

    Too Early For Christmas, Part 1.

    12th October 2017

    It’s terrible, isn’t it. All these retailers attempting to milk as much as possible from Christmas. Take your mind off it with this little curiosity – an 1843 advertisement for ‘A Christmas Carol.’ It was published in ‘Punch’, December 30th,…

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