Can we just get this straight please... a "full-cast audiobook" is not an audiobook at all, it's a radio drama. Don't at me!

During the set up for Halloween it appears some of the pumpkins may have taken on a life of their own!!

Just a stab in the dark but I feel like we may have our big halloween thing coming up again!

Pearson's Sixpenny Novels were some of the first steps in publishing towards the paperback format we know today. Always cheaply produced they rarely survive in good condition. This is a story by an author with something of a cult following, Richard Marsh.

As the storm rages outside we are all ready to host our monthly Dead Poet Salon and Open Mic. Tonight we will be invoking Edmund Spenser, he of the epic "Faerie Queene"

Latest additions to my #tolkien collection thanks to @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social

No so much a #BrokenBookOfTheDay, more a battered one and a lonely one. One volume only of this series on Ruined Abbeys of Britain from c.1870. Still has all six beautiful chromolithographs of the six ruins it covers.

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A copy of the first edition of The Science of Discworld signed by all three authors, including the Pratchett himself...

"I hope your rabbits die" Well, thank you Ethel!

Accquired a great bunch of James Bond vintage Pan paperbacks from the 60s today. No first printings but some great covers and in good nick too!

Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" illustrated by Eric Gill and published by the Golden Cockerel Press,1931 Four volumes bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. No. 215 of 500 copies. Largely regarded as one of the masterpieces of this important private press.

Very often the back of old postcards is more interesting than the front. These two both mention "The Comet" .. "Have you seen the comet yet?" .. "just been to a glorious lecture by Professor Ball on the comet" It's early 1910 so this is Halley's Comet the time before last!

I am enjoying flicking through this travel guide to Cornwall from 1876. "A Week at the Land's End" by J T Blight, complete with fold out map and engraved illustrations.

From 1921 comes everying you might want to know about flies ... if you are a dry fly fisherman. The idea of coloured plates in a book like this doesn't have quite the same vibe as in a wild flower book.

Published by Esso, this 1932 illustrated guide to Britain is full of the most amazing illustrated maps by A. E. Taylor. So very of their period and now it seems very scarce indeed

An old skool start to the day here ..

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No prizes for guessing what's in this box. "Winnie The Pooh" first delux edition from 1926 in full red leather. This copy is immaculate, largely because for a hundred years it has been retained in its original box and, even more scarce to see, its original glassine wrap.

A beautiful and very scarce collection of engravings of 'Costumes from the Papal Court' dating to c.1850. All hand-coloured and probably engraved/published by Liberali. Normally seen in a smaller scale production bound concertina style this is larger and in marbled paper boards.

OG followers will know how I feel about large books. But I am willing to give this one a pass. "The Homecoming" by Harold Pinter created in an edition of 200, standing over 18" tall, with lithographs by Harold Cohen and SIGNED by both the author and the artist.

A collection of books by Yves Bonnefoy, one of France's most respected modern Poets, here produced in beautiful English translations by the Seagull Press.

Coming up On November 6th we are the venue for this new charity bookclub event. Themed entertainment, light refreshments, a goody bag AND the book club experience all for charity. If you are local have a look at their website. paperbagbookclub.co.uk

Many of the books in this shop are more well travelled than I am. This book was published in New York in the 80s and has, at the very least, travelled to Japan and the to Britain.

The Ethics of Ambiguity By Simone de Beauvoir The Philosophical Library, New York: 1948. First edition One of the foundational texts of Existentialism and one of the first to be published in English.

One of the fab things about being a generalist in this trade is the huge variety of books we deal with, vis this collection of books about the French Foreign Legion!

A selection of the beautiful and often heart-wenching poetry of Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), one of the most respected and celebrated Arab Poets of the 20th century and often described as the Palestinian National Poet.

It is a beautiful, fresh, and sunny day on the South Downs. Nick Drake is playing gently in the bookshop, and I have just listened to Saturday Live talking about the importance of human connection, and shops... so come experience it all, here, sometime today.

Got one of 'those' requests. Customer is after a book remembered as 'A [or The] Woman of...' set in Hampshire and maybe dating just pre or post WW2. That's all we got... will pass on any helpful suggestions.

Why do the boxes in our storeroom look so worried all the time!?

A brilliant collection of 19th century possibly French crochet lace samples all stitched into a book either for reference or as a record of learning.

This little treasure is a 40 page chemist's recipe book from 1894 including such must-haves as Cow Drench, Nipple Ointment, and Cough Balls!

We can begin today with the cutest #ThingsThatFallFromBooks this is a 1970s photograph maybe of a toy or model Rolls Royce.

One of the antiques shops we visited in Lewes at the weekend had a packet of Walker's crisps in a glass cabinet, signed by Gary Lineker!

Still in its gorgeous and tactile original binding, if a little fragile, this is 'Rider's British Merlin', an almanac essentially, from 1712. I thought you might enjoy the September pages.

A story in three diary entries...

A little Sunday afternoon book buying in curious corners of Sussex. I suspect you will be seeing the inside of some of these quite soon!

This sumptuous binding is by Riviere and Son, one of the very best binders of last century and before. It is a 1929 copy of La Morte Darthur with illustrations by Russell Flint.

Damaged and delicate, but this is an incredibly rare edition of H G Wells's The War of the World's published as a pulp paperback c.1920

Today's #ThingsThatFallFromBooks

This style of stapled paperback book with paper that browned crumbled as soon as it saw sunlight were popular at the time of WWI but barely ever survive looking nice today. These covers look amazing but the books themselves are a friable mess.

Would the person who shelved the book on The Cockleshell Heroes under Natural History please take a bow!!

Booksellers 'maths'... just written this in a book description: ([20], xxvi, [4], 360) + (388, [32])

A bundle of prospectuses, catalogues, sample pages, and other ephemera from the Rampant Lions Press run by Will Carter and his son Sebastian.

Still a few seats left, let us know if you would like to come along...

If you want to start a collection of affordable but interesting antiquarian books, you could do worse than making a collection of British topographical books. Prices are currently very low, beautiful books can be had very reasonably. This is Great Britain Illustrated from 1830.

Irish interest. This slim book was published in 1938 by the Gayfield Press. This copy is gifted by Beatrice Salked, who ran the press & would go on to marry poet & IRA volunteer Brenden Behan, to a member of the Ussher family who were hugely important in the Celtic Revival SCARCE

Two interesting things about this 1772 Book of Common Prayer. 1. Its contemporary binding, roughly done at the time, the two cartouches are barely oval & one of them is upside down 2. It was still in use nearly 25 years later when the pasted addition to the title page was needed.

Dreams: A Jungian Approach A Talk by Dr Bernhard Kelley-Patterson Thurs 18th September, 7.30pm. £5 After the talk anyone who wants to stay behind can join in group discussions, led by Dr Kelley-Patterson, to which you are invited to bring a dream of your own to share. DM to book

Sometimes, no matter how efficient you are trying to be listing books online, you find you have paused to read something that catches your interest. Already today I have read some beautiful Bedouin poetry, and about the medieval myth of Melusina!