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Author, bibliophile and antiquarian of 1st Edition Books.
https://www.bbrarebooks.com
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Forum Rare Books
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Have you already signed up for our
#newsletter
? If you have, expect our short list Fine bindings in your inbox any moment now. You haven't? Check the footer of our website. Want to find out right away about these bindings? Check the highlight section of our website!
#rarebooks
#finebindings
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Rob Gotobed
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Just received the weirdest message on my computer!
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New York Review Books
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"...there is no better place to find the materials for that cosmopolitan education in poetry than by reading through the poems that make up the anthology At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, Another review from Ancci in
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The Universal Amplified | ONLY POEMS
The Universal Amplified — A Review of At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, edited by Antoine Caro, Edwin Frank, and Donatien Grau
https://onlypoems.com/blog/at-the-louvre-poems-by-100-contemporary-world-poets
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Forum Rare Books
13 days ago
A definite highlight in our upcoming short list Fine Bindings is this rare first poetry collection of child prodigy Clara Feyoena van Sytzama (1729-1807), published when she was seventeen, in a deluxe presentation binding by the so-called "Groningen Bird Bindery."
#womenhistory
#rarebooks
#poetry
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Blackwell's Bookshops in Oxford
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Hinterlands
8 days ago
The Half Light. The Teign Gorge, Dartmoor. Trudging up the trail through the woods to the lip of the Gorge. Early morning, ever so quiet.
#Landscape
#Photography
#dartmoor
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What Bird? ❤️🦜
about 1 month ago
What bird am I? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌍
#WhatBird
#BirdID
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#birdsoftheworld
#birds
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London Review of Books
about 1 month ago
‘For much of the 1980s, it was seen by critics as a white elephant. It connected the declining city of Hull with the empty expanses of North Lincolnshire: nowhere with nowhere.’
@tom--white.bsky.social
on how the Humber Bridge was built.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tom White · Short Cuts: A Bridge across the Humber
In 1966, as election day approached, Labour dispatched MPs and ministers to Hull, including Tony Benn, Tony Crosland,...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n22/tom-white/short-cuts
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Kimberly Baer_Author
about 1 month ago
Today's word: BLUE. Excerpt is from my romantic suspense novella SNOWDROP DREAMS, CHERRY THUMBPRINT SCREAMS.
#bookqw
#excerpt
#romanticsuspense
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The New York Review of Books
about 1 month ago
“I have always felt removed from [tuberculosis], as though it were a curious relic of medical history rather than a contemporary plague. But early in my first pregnancy…my own blood tested positive for TB.” —Pria Anand
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The Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand
As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/18/the-plague-that-wont-die-everything-is-tuberculosis-green/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-12-10_Anand-Tuberculosis-3
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London Review of Books
about 1 month ago
‘Frost talked and wrote about what he called a poet’s “freedom of the material”, the freedom to “move about” within a wide range of reading, “to establish relations in it regardless of time and space”.’ Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
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Clare Bucknell · Discord and Fuss: Robert Frost’s Ugly Feelings
Robert Frost’s poetry has a way of lifting its gaze – with a heightening of register, a grand image, a weighty...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n22/clare-bucknell/discord-and-fuss
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Frédéric Moreau
about 1 month ago
From Lexit to Reform. The reliably brilliant James Meek on Blyth.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Barack Obama
about 1 month ago
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
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Steve Shilstone
about 1 month ago
THE FAR SIDE
#cartoon
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If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
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If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these two books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal and cerebral.
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Rob Gotobed Books
about 2 months ago
No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour. Amazon:
bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple:
bit.ly/3K6WdB9
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Rob Gotobed
about 1 month ago
Every Christmas, when I see Santa Claus for the first time, I always say, "Hi Santa, how long has it been?" And he always replies, “A year!
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Rob Gotobed
about 1 year ago
One of my sister’s kids has just brought me two bottles of bourbon and said, "Here's your Christmas juice uncle Rob," and now she's the one I'm leaving everything to.
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Blackwell's Bookshops in Oxford
about 2 months ago
Next January, Simon Winchester joins us
@blackwells.bsky.social
discussing 'The Breath of the Gods' Tickets now on sale
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The New York Review of Books
about 2 months ago
Our Holiday Issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood,
@luxante.bsky.social
on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plundering museums,
@paisleycurrah.com
on the attack on trans rights,
@agordonreed.bsky.social
on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, and much more.
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December 18, 2025 Holiday Issue
Table of Contents
https://www.nybooks.com/issues/2025/12/18/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-11-27_12-18-25-issue-reveal
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social
on the green energy transition and North-East England Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
on American post-liberalism and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel. Read online at
www.lrb.co.uk
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Forum Rare Books
about 2 months ago
On this day in 1641, Nürnberg poet & jurist Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, sent 3 polemic pamphlets on the Ottoman Empire to Calvinist Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, which led to the publication of these remarkable graphic and typographic artefacts, early examples of colour printing.
#otd
#rarebooks
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Richard Castlemaine
Forum Rare Books
about 2 months ago
It is a pleasure to present our catalogue for
#FirstsHongKong
. Almost 50 interesting
#rarebooks
#maps
#manuscripts
, etc, concerning Art, Asia, China, History, Linguistics, Music, Natural History, Religion, Science & Medicine, Trade, Travel & Exploration, and more. Check our website for more info.
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Richard Castlemaine
Forum Rare Books
about 2 months ago
Random highlight from our catalogue for
#FirstsHongKong
:
#firstedition
(Venice, 1590) of famous work by Cesare Vecellio (ca. 1530-1600) on ancient and modern costumes, with hundred of woodcuts, bound in splendid gold-tooled morocco by Hardy-Mennil with arms of Prince d'Essling.
#rarebooks
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Blackwell's Bookshops in Oxford
3 months ago
Upcoming Events at Blackwell's, Oxford
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Blackwell's Bookshops in Oxford
2 months ago
Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with
@philosophybites.bsky.social
(and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and
@philosofemme.bsky.social
) Featuring
@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social
Clare Carlisle
@manongarcia.bsky.social
and
@anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now
@blackwells.bsky.social
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Dr Victoria Bateman
2 months ago
If you’re in Oxford TODAY, it will be lovely to see you
@blackwelloxford.bsky.social
at 5.30pm 📗
#Economica
#womenwealthpower
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Blackwell's Bookshops in Oxford
about 2 months ago
Join us on Sunday 14th December at 11am for a free and festive morning with
@acaseforbooks.bsky.social
as she takes us back to Wonderland
@blackwells.bsky.social
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why'
@harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
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If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
‘The world may be waiting for the war to start,’ Patrick Cockburn wrote, ‘but here it's been going on for 20 years.’ Episode 2 of our new podcast series ‘Aftershock’ looks at the unravelling of the occupation, Iraq in chaos, and the genesis of the Forever Wars.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Episode 2: The Frog and the Scorpion
Podcast Episode · Aftershock: The War on Terror · EP2 · 1h 9m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-2-the-frog-and-the-scorpion/id1853047396?i=1000738694895
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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic
2 months ago
A reimagining of The Snow Queen, set in England, Eire and Scandanavia.
www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.fr/-/en/Suzy-Da...
www.amazon.ca/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.com/Snow-Queen-S...
#paranormal
#occult
#kufree
#freebooks
#yabooks
#christmasbooks
#christmasromance
#magic
#teenreads
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~ Shanna Lee James~ Author
about 2 months ago
#Bluesky
#SelfPromoThursday
#writingcommunity
I would love to write a book but I'm nobody special. Probably only my cat would read it. I wouldn't even know where to start! But WAIT! "You don't Have to Be a Star to Shine" was written for you! Follow link to find out!
amazon.com/author/shann...
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The Martian Diaries 👽 The War Of The Worlds Sequel
about 2 months ago
NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time
buff.ly/9wMRaYm
Captured 55 times over two Martian years of observation, this interesting report explains how the recordings were collected. Skip to the last 3 paragraphs for the implications.
#Mars
#Space
#SpaceExploration
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NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time
A lonely rover toiling among the sands of Mars has now answered an age-old question: If lightning crackles on the red planet and no one hears it, does it still make a sound? In recordings obtained by…
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-recorded-lightning-crackling-on-mars-for-the-first-time
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Sandra Cruz
about 2 months ago
Pearl is bringing an outdoor ice-skating rink to San Antonio, & the first-ever Taste of Pearl Festival. Skating, lights, music, food, shopping.⛸️🎄
#SanAntonio
#PearlSA
#HolidaySeason
#IceSkating
#TasteOfPearl
#SATXEvents
#FamilyFun
#SAHolidays
Get the full scoop 👇
saexaminer.org/2025/11/28/h...
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Holiday Magic Arrives at Pearl With New Ice-Skating Rink and Festival
Pearl launches a first-ever outdoor ice rink. Photo: Pearl, used with permission. Pearl Unveils New Outdoor Ice-Skating Rink for the 2025–26 Holiday Season SAN ANTONIO — Pearl is bringing even more…
https://saexaminer.org/2025/11/28/holiday-magic-arrives-at-pearl-with-new-ice-skating-rink-and-festival/
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Red Squirrel
about 2 months ago
Mandrin duck
@mybirdcards.com
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H. HOSSAMELDIN
about 2 months ago
——— Greater Flamingo -——
#bird
#oiseaux
#nature
#capture
#naturephotography
#naturelovers
#birdphotography
#wildlifephotography
#planetbirds
#waterbirds
#wildlife
#art
#photography
#photographie
#foto
#bluesky
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#flamant
#flamingo
@mybirdcards.com
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What Bird? ❤️🦜
about 2 months ago
What bird am I? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌎
#WhatBird
#BirdID
|
#birdsoftheworld
#birds
❤️🦜
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G. Lawrence 📚💙📚💙📚
about 2 months ago
#BookSale
! Just 99c! Daughter of the nobility, cousin to a fallen Queen, Catherine Howard survives a dangerous childhood, forging a path to the
#Tudor
Court... Shadow of Persephone
#Free
#KindleUnlimited
!
#Histfic
#KU
#Books
#Tudor
💙📚💙📚💙
www.amazon.com/Shadow-Perse...
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Shadow of Persephone (The Story of Catherine Howard Book 1)
Amazon.com: Shadow of Persephone (The Story of Catherine Howard Book 1) eBook : Lawrence, G., Design, Amelie: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Persephone-Story-Catherine-Howard-ebook/dp/B07P5CGY2P
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Rob Gotobed Books
about 2 months ago
Now for the first time you can experience Rob Gotobed live in the comfort of your own home as the stand-up comedian narrates his hilarious first audiobook, The Canyons Of Rob Gotobed’s Overactive Mind. Very funny and guaranteed to make you lol!! Amazon:
amzn.to/4obJSd0
Apple:
bit.ly/3K6WdB9
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Mainly Museums
about 2 months ago
Wonderful sculpture is only a part of what you will see as you follow David through this museum.
#museums
#museumfromhome
#romania
mainlymuseums.com/post/1401/je...
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Jean Mihail Palace: Museum of Fine Art
https://mainlymuseums.com/post/1401/jean-mihail-palace-museum-of-fine-art/
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
‘One of the ways in which we in the rich global north deal with our waste problem is by exporting that problem to other generally poorer parts of the world.’ On the podcast,
@brettchristophers.bsky.social
and
@moonjets.bsky.social
discuss where our waste goes.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Steve Shilstone
about 2 months ago
COMEDY LEGENDS
#mel
#sid
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Steve Shilstone
about 2 months ago
MICHAEL HEDGES - COUNTRY LIVING 20 💙🎨
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Steve Shilstone
about 2 months ago
EARLY KLEE 1905 - UNEDUCATED COUPLE 💙🎨
#art
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Greg 🤍 MidwestUSA
about 2 months ago
Spooky walk in the Forest for an escape of the crazy world in Minnesota 🌳
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#ForestFriday
#Nature
#Minnesota
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Little Thoughts Press
about 2 months ago
Our latest newsletter is chock-full of
#kidlit
news, interviews with our contributors & the 1st installment of our Your Turn feature of at-home/classroom activities to pair with poetry & prose from our past issues! Check it all out & subscribe here:
littlethoughtspress.beehiiv.com/p/a-feast-of...
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A Feast of Kid-Lit News and Links
Preorders, a new submission opportunity, at-home activities and more
https://littlethoughtspress.beehiiv.com/p/a-feast-of-kid-lit-news-and-links
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