Saturday, October 14, 2017

An Experiment in the Sensational - Gerald Cumberland's 'The Cypress Chest'

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In my account of the author and adventurer Charles Welsh Mason, And I’d Be the King of China (reprinted in Haunted By Books , 2015), I exp...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

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The latest newsletter, number Thirty-Five, from the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society , explores her links to other writers and artists. Sylvi...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

The Ten Largest Secondhand Bookshops in Britain

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What is the biggest secondhand bookshop in Britain? I don’t think anyone holds the undisputed claim and maybe it doesn’t matter. These ten ...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

Rex Ryan/R.R. Ryan notices

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I was in the UK last week to attend a couple of conferences in Oxford and Brighton.  While in Brighton I took the opportunity to spend an ho...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Where To Find Second-hand Bookshops in Britain

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In the previous post I reviewed the factual evidence for the number of second-hand bookshops in Britain and suggested that it showed there ...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

The Rise of Second-hand Bookshops in Britain

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There is a general idea that there are fewer second-hand bookshops in Britain than there used to be, and that they are slowly fading away. ...
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Friday, September 8, 2017

Guest Post - The Aickman Archive by R B Russell & Rosalie Parker

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In 2014, after several years wondering why Bowling Green University Library seemed to have such an odd and incomplete collection of materi...
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Monday, September 4, 2017

Victor Gollancz's "Connoisseur's Library of Strange Fiction" and Its Successor Series

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The London publisher Victor Gollancz (1893-1967) clearly had a soft spot for eclectic books, including fantasy. Twice during his lifetime he...
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