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  • Mystery Cross Dresser

    A Cross-Dressing Mystery From 1830

    5th February 2020

    ‘You never know what you’ll find’ is more than just a slogan when it comes to P.B.F.A. book fairs. The range of stock is so large and the quality so high that even the professionals are often surprised, and this…

  • 1920 Faery Calendar and York Preview

    Meet The PBFA 2: York January 2020 Book Fair and Bernard Sleigh’s 1920 Faery Calendar

    9th January 2020

    ‘You never know what you’ll find’ is a great way to describe our book fairs and it’s especially true at York – our January extravaganza is the UK’s biggest one day book fair! Over 120 professional dealers bring more than…

  • An unrecorded image of a Victorian transvestite turns up at a PBFA book fair.

    Meet the PBFA Episode 1: The best book fairs in the country!

    24th December 2019

    I’ve always loved book fairs. You never know what you’ll find because the quality and variety of the books, ephemera, maps and prints is simply staggering. In the last year alone I’ve bought and sold Elizabethan vellum documents, unique diaries,…

  • 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…

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