Edmund Brumfitt
@ebrumfitt.bsky.social
Dealer in rare books, mainly before 1820, mainly European. Plus other distractions.
Not as classy as Wolseleys.
December 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Not as classy as Wolseleys.
Should say on the cork, so that would work. Once had three identical bottles of port with no labels. On opening the first, it turned out to be Niepoort 1966. But any inductive sceptic will know that that tells one nothing about the other bottles...
December 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Should say on the cork, so that would work. Once had three identical bottles of port with no labels. On opening the first, it turned out to be Niepoort 1966. But any inductive sceptic will know that that tells one nothing about the other bottles...
Boringly, it's just a variety of orange: www.agrumeto.eu/prodotto/ara...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Boringly, it's just a variety of orange: www.agrumeto.eu/prodotto/ara...
Sorry to miss it, Simon - had hoped to go but flu had other ideas. Glad it went well!
December 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Sorry to miss it, Simon - had hoped to go but flu had other ideas. Glad it went well!
Even her name is amazing.
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Even her name is amazing.
How have I never come across this person? An example to us all (interpret that as you will).
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
How have I never come across this person? An example to us all (interpret that as you will).
Please post your description when you're done!
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Please post your description when you're done!
As one still scarred by the mockery of the ice cream salesman at Bologna Centrale after I had asked him for a fish flavoured ice cream, I am inclined to agree.
December 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
As one still scarred by the mockery of the ice cream salesman at Bologna Centrale after I had asked him for a fish flavoured ice cream, I am inclined to agree.
Only a matter of time before London is like SF, with them loitering on corners, conspiring.
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Only a matter of time before London is like SF, with them loitering on corners, conspiring.
No idea, but a quick Google of the name suggests that there is form.
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
No idea, but a quick Google of the name suggests that there is form.
Please make more rules.
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Please make more rules.
Of course, if one exhibiting at an overseas fair, one's books are strictly speaking very much *not* for sale.
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Of course, if one exhibiting at an overseas fair, one's books are strictly speaking very much *not* for sale.
Wow. I need to reread this with these voices in my head.
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wow. I need to reread this with these voices in my head.
I was there last month and was actually struck by how much lamb I saw on restaurant menus (struck because it was very much not what I had been used to). Is it having a mini-vogue? (I also know a lot of Americans who won't touch it.)
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I was there last month and was actually struck by how much lamb I saw on restaurant menus (struck because it was very much not what I had been used to). Is it having a mini-vogue? (I also know a lot of Americans who won't touch it.)
If, that is, you're looking for something that does more or less what abebooks does but isn't Amazon.
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If, that is, you're looking for something that does more or less what abebooks does but isn't Amazon.
Oh that is very cool indeed.
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Oh that is very cool indeed.
Am in Detroit at the moment, with a view over the river to Canada, and it seems utterly absurd that we as a species have made it such a rigmarole just to get to the other side (and back). Never have I appreciated Schengen more.
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Am in Detroit at the moment, with a view over the river to Canada, and it seems utterly absurd that we as a species have made it such a rigmarole just to get to the other side (and back). Never have I appreciated Schengen more.
It's nice to be kept in the loop. They are (and I say this with a fair amount of bitterness) the anti-Fedex.
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It's nice to be kept in the loop. They are (and I say this with a fair amount of bitterness) the anti-Fedex.
Will govern myself accordingly, as ABA security messages used to say.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Will govern myself accordingly, as ABA security messages used to say.