Keen to read but a little terrified as signed first that needs to keep in good condition. Despite having been in book trade for so many years anything I get my hands on shows a clear history of several days meals etc #firsteditions #mickherron
Another quandary. Love to look at Ithell Colquhoun pack but if I open value drops by half ! Offers ? #IthellColquhoun #OldBooks #Tate
1862 Workshop Companion. Perfect gift for those who hope to be in bunker post world war 3 ? #OldBooks #MechanicalScience
1647 book left over from shop. No binding so quandary is should I bother to get bound ? #OldBooks #Bookshops
1893 1st of Rip Van Winkle a nice find today #oldbooks #WashingtonIrving
V & A Store House …. Stunning #London #Museums
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Very unassuming book that I am searching for & when I say searching I mean 10 years & customer not given up on me yet !
Today is Benjamin Zephaniah day so try to be nice. Especially to Turkeys. #BenjaminZephaniah #Poetry
Thank you to Best Thriller Books for this terrific review of FEVER BEACH!
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Rereading Carl Hiaasen as so very pleased that a new novel out shortly ! #CarlHiaasen #CrimeFiction
Picked up a couple of Kurt Jackson Thames project books c2006. If you happen to be in St Just (and who wouldn’t) strongly recommend popping into his lovely gallery just of the square #Thames #KurtJackson
Took advantage of locals offer to visit Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens. Second homes get everywhere 😁 #Penzance #Cornwall #Sculpture
Two weeks today I’ll be putting the case for Oliver Stone’s 1991 Jim Morrison biopic The Doors to Neil Fox from The Cinematologists Podcast at Newlyn Filmhouse - tickets now on sale.
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Our view 7 years ago today #Penzance #Cornwall #StMichaelsMount
On my way to my shift at Trengwainton NT bookshop. Worth a visit for this tree alone #OldBooks #Gardens #Cornwall
Been a bit quiet on here as recovering from minor operation but back to normal almost. Hard to be a book enthusiast when not allowed to pick up more than one at a time & no big ones
Typical of book I am left with after closing shop though to be honest the odds on someone interested in Urals Metal Work spotting it now it’s in my loft not much different #OldBooks #Books #MetalWork #Urals
Surely these reviews are fake unless a really good medium out there ? #cremation
I can barely understand a word a page but love this book for the quality of the paper ! Watermark reads Riccardi Press #Latin #Opera #OldBooks
Susan Bill & The Wolf Dog by Malcolm Saville 1st 1954. I loved Malcolm Saville as a child & can remember reading this on bus back from library #MalcolmSaville #ChildrensBooks #OldBooks
A the train inside of which is an addition of Moby Dick. The binding is made out of white goat leather to resemble the skin of a whale. Incised in the leather are the lines or wrinkles aroubd an eye of a whale and set into the leather binding is a glass eye that protrudes from the flat cover of the book. The effect is as if you were looking eye to eye with a whale.
Another highlight of my day was the Moby Dick book arts exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum. My favorite was this binding by Susan and Chaim Ebanks.
Needing some light reading while recovering from recent operation I thought would give this a go. Struggling to get past first chapter but to be fair to Simon Mason might be the pain rather than the book #Books #SimonMason
COVID was in full flow when my lease ended & failed to clear the general book stock .. haunts every inch of storage I have. So hard to dump books ! Yes they are saleable but estimated having to live to about a 1000 to achieve clearance #OldBooks #Books #Bookshops
I can only guess that they were so very disappointed with this Penzance venue ? #Rowing #Sailing #Cornwall #Penzance
I may of sold them cheaply but met the couple that bought her house in Paul who chucked a lot of works in the loft out with the rubbish !
Big Ithell Colquhoun exhibition due soon at Tate St Ives. I bought a number of her paintings 30 years ago for next to nothing & sold them cheaply. Pleased I hung onto this one #StIves #Tate #Cornwall #Art #IthellColquhoun
Selections from Irish Poetry by Kuno Meyer has been reprinted but nice to have the 1928 1st edition. #IrishPoetry #OldBooks #Poetry
Old Newlyn Speech. Ben Batten in 1984 privately published this slim book & saved a little by of Cornish history #Cornwall #Cornish #Newlyn
