Newsletter for October 2025 |
All being well, and the creeks still don't rise, we will be exhibiting at five book fairs this month. |
On Saturday, 4th October we’ll be exhibiting at the Hornby Book Fair being held at The Institute, Main Street, Hornby LA2 8JR.
Open from 10am till 4pm there will be around thirteen dealers offering second-hand, antiquarian and collectable books and ephemera.
The village of Hornby, with the River Wenning running through and overlooked by the picturesque Hornby Castle, is situated on the A683 road and within easy distance of Lancaster, Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton.
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There is a café serving excellent home-made food and nearby car parking.
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On Sunday, 5 th October we’ll be at the Buxton Book Fair being held at the St. Anne’s Parish Centre, Hardwick Square West SK17 6PX.
Around twelve exhibitors with secondhand and collectable books.
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On Saturday, 11th October we’ll be exhibiting at Barton Book Fair being held in the Village Hall, Garstang Road PR3 5AA.
Around eighteen dealers with a good range of secondhand, antiquarian and collectable books and ephemera. Café and a large free car park.
Barton is situated on the A6 just a short distance from Preston and Junction 32 of the M6 motorway and providing easy access to Garstang, Lancaster and the Fylde coast towns of Lytham, St. Annes and Blackpool.
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Local attractions include the popular Barton Grange Garden Centre at Brock and the Beacon Fell Country Park near Goosnargh.
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On Sunday, 12 th October we will be exhibiting at the Manchester Book Fair being held at The Monastery, Gorton Lane, Manchester M12 5WF.
After the inaugural event in 2019 and with two years hiatus due to covid restrictions, the book fair has become an established event in the magnificent setting of the Great Nave at The Monastery.
With around twenty dealers exhibiting for sale a wide range of secondhand, antiquarian and collectable books and ephemera there is sure to be much of interest to new and regular visitors.
The Monastery in the Manchester suburb of West Gorton is easily reached via Hyde Road (A57) off Junction 24 of the M60 motorway.
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There is a café serving light refreshments and a large car park onsite.
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On Sunday, 26th October we’ll be at the Clapham Book Fair being held at the Village Hall, Cross Haw Lane LA2 8DZ.
Around eight dealers with a good range of second-hand books, maps and ephemera.
The pretty village of Clapham is located just off the A65 between Settle and Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales, with the attractions of Ingleborough and Gaping Gill close by.
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Café serving excellent home-made food and parking nearby.
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Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by S. C. Roberts Oxford University Press, reprint 1960
No. 528 in Oxford's The World's Classics series, this copy in the publisher's quarter leather binding.
Hardback. Red leather spine with gilt title and decoration, over orange-red cloth boards; patterned endpapers; gilt to top edge of page-block; sewn-in ribbon page marker. In a publisher's slipcase with label to top end. pp xxiv, 435, [1] colophon [printer's code 10.60 to lower margin of p.435]. Size: 6 x 4 inches approx. (154mm x 101mm).
Slipcase shelfworn.
Overall, a particularly well preserved copy - quite lovely and very presentable
£45 |
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Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter and introduced by Sarah Waters The Folio Society, 1st printing 2021
Originally published 1984 by Chatto & Windus, this Folio Society edition first published 2021 with illustrations by Eileen Cooper.
Hardback. Publisher's turquoise cloth with gilt title to spine; illustrations in black and gilt to spine and boards; blue-green endpapers. In a gold papered slipcase. pp xviii, 352, including b/w illustrations plus colour plates. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx. (239mm x 162mm).
A little light shelf wear to slipcase but otherwise a lovely, clean copy in near new condition.
£50 |
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Oxford Complete Edition The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. Henry Frownde at Oxford University Press, 1908
A very presentable binding with a lovely Art Nouveau style decorative vellum spine. Presented to Doris Moody as 1st Prize for General Progress July 1908 at Stourbridge Girls' Secondary School.
Hardback. Vellum spine with gilt title on red leather label, with gilt and red decoration; pale red cloth boards; gilt to top edge of page-block; sewn-in ribbon page marker. pp viii, 970, [1] colophon, plus b/w portrait frontispiece. Size: 7.5 x 5 inches approx. (190mm x 129mm).
Spine a little discoloured and marked; cloth a touch dusty and lightly shelf worn. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers, particularly front; school prize label to front paste-down; occasional dustiness, mark, and corner creasing, but pages generally very clean throughout; gilt to top edge a touch dusty and dulled.
Overall, light wear but otherwise a particularly nicely preserved copy - lovely indeed.
£75 |
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Irish Myths and Legends
by Lady Gregory, preface by W. B. Yeats The Folio Society, 2011
Originally published 1904 by John Murray, this Folio Society edition published 2011 with an introduction by Colm Tóibín and illustrations by Jillian Tamaki.
Hardback. Publisher's green-brown spine with gilt title, over buff papered boards with illustration in black, white and gilt to front and rear; brown end papers. In a light brown papered slipcase. pp xxix, [xxx], 351, plus colour illustrations. Size: 10 x 7 inches approx. (252mm x 178mm).
Light shelf wear to slipcase, and some scratching to front panel.
Overall, a nice, clean copy.
£95 |
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Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll, illustrations by John Tenniel Macmillan and Co. Limited, [reprint] 1942
Never as popular as Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland but still worthy of being a children's classic. Originally published in 1872 [1871], this copy being a 1942 printing.
Hardback. Publisher's red cloth with gilt title and rules to spine; gilt ornament to centres and blind rules to margins of front and rear boards; gilt to top edge of page-block; plain endpapers. pp xiii, [3], 227 [228], 2 publishers list, [1] colophon, including b/w illustrations. Size: 7.5 x 5.25 inches approx. (190mm x 130mm).
Lightly sunned to spine, nothing too bad however. Boards a little bruised to corners and edges. Endpapers tanned and foxed; pages a touch dusty in places, occasional mark or spotting, occasional creasing or wear, but generally very clean throughout.
Overall, showing some light wear commensurate with age and handling otherwise a particularly nice, clean copy - attractive.
£95 |
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David B. Derbyshire & Julie Eyles
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