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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly, thank you!!

The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

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

Paper Bag Book Club - Atonement

paperbagbookclub.co.uk

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 6d

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!

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 13d

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

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 15d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 15d

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!

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 15d

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

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 15d

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!

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 16d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 16d

A story in three diary entries...

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 18d

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!

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 21d

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

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 21d

Today's #ThingsThatFallFromBooks

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 22d

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

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 22d

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

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