Sunday, August 8, 2021

'Surrealism' in Scarborough

›
Many universities and public libraries in Britain are getting rid of a lot of their stock. Some of this is picked up by big book warehouses ...
2 comments:
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Russel Crofoot and Jurgen

›
Russel Crofoot did the (admirably restrained) artwork on the first edition of Jurgen (1919) by James Branch Cabell. It's rather nice, a...
2 comments:
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

The Return of The Book Guide - Secondhand Bookshops in Britain

›
The Book Guide is back! Book collectors in Britain and Ireland were for some years able to plot their foraging expeditions using an exc...
3 comments:
Monday, July 26, 2021

the seven greek vowels

›
Ever since I found it (in the basement of the Bayntun Consulate), the folded art exhibition brochure from 1967 has seemed to me a talisman o...
5 comments:
Saturday, July 24, 2021

White Spines - Nicholas Royle

›
All book-collectors, all list-makers, all minimalists, all monomaniacs, all connoisseurs of second-hand bookshop owners and of things peop...
6 comments:
Thursday, July 22, 2021

The Sky Cage - Ann Prior

›
Bayntun’s bookshop in Bath, in pale stone, with its pointed gables, arched bays, latticed windows and dark railings, might be the sleepy c...
Monday, July 12, 2021

The People of the Ruins by Edward Shanks

›
The Stokes 1920 dust-wrapper The People of the Ruins is a sort-of scientific romance by Edward Shanks (1892-1953). It was first serialized ...