Frost Rare Books

Based in Liverpool, north-west England. Once described as ‘The archetypal maverick book dealer’ (not a compliment). Books and manuscripts bought and sold.

[John Atkinson Books @jatkinsonbooks]

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[the needle-felted head of joyce carol oates @queenofbithynia]

rip to as byatt about whom I have always taken a tone of offensive familiarity I must assume she would not have liked. but it couldn't be helped, I understand her & there's nothing to be done about it
stringing together some past byatt thoughts & notions, to remember I had them--

[the needle-felted head of joyce carol oates @queenofbithynia]

oh my god she sent him one
only a velvet ribbon but ordered him to wear it always "and whenever you see or feel the collar you will remember that I am your mistress and you will have to do what I order you to do for ever and ever"

anyway this man invented some famous bombs

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

@PocockRare Please do add me to the select group who will be privileged to have the first gander at your carefully curated selection of wonders.

[Petersfield Bookshop @The_PBS]

It is as important to know what you aren't collecting as what you are.

A collection without defined boundaries becomes an accumulation or a hoard.

That's fine of course. Accumulate away, be a hoader, have at it... but don't call yourself a collector.

[Ephemeracity @ephemeracity]

I was charmed by this quite sentimental pen and ink WWI themed illustration, which has an attribution to a “J.W. Jeens”. The addition of the little Scottie dog adds to the tension I think. I’ve not been able to find out anything about the artist (*puts on begging face)

[the needle-felted head of joyce carol oates @queenofbithynia]

do you think there is a sketchy curator version of classic teen shoplifting tumblr somewhere, where they trade tricks & tips & stealer ethics codes on how it’s obvs ok to knock over like the british museum or the bible museum but v uncool to steal from independents

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

@MaryWyrd Much bruising & 4 stitches, truly book dealing does sometimes involve actual blood, sweat & tears!

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

People: “trust your judgement”

Me: (after 2 days packing & moving 170 18kg boxes of books 3 times & no sleep) “I absolutely can hurdle that that wet 3 foot high wall without breaking stride…”

[the needle-felted head of joyce carol oates @queenofbithynia]

google books......thank you
you didn't have to choose this particular copy of emerson venable's The Hamlet Problem and Its Solution (1912) for preservation. yet you did

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

Duchess of Dope

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

Of all the Victorian ads to come across unprepared Monkey Brand are the worst!

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

This modest pocket sized hymn book, printed in 1838, once sat in Liverpool’s pro-cathedral, St. Peter’s, which was demolished in 1922 but whose site is still marked. Might obtain some Victorian clothes, go and stand with the book on the spot like a ghost & belt out a few hymns…

[Ephemeracity @ephemeracity]

Part of a lovely collection of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp posters and ephemera I’ve just picked up, as well as other political and anarchist ephemera from the period. Will post more in the next few days

[Petersfield Bookshop @The_PBS]

The Haynes Manual of Motor Lawnmowers was so popular they released a sequel.

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

@MaryMWalsh Maybe, or that I value the space that parting with them will give me more, enough to include the time and labour of packing and posting them in the tenner! I've been tidying and they all piled up from various corners, hadn't seen some of them for a long while!

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

People of Britain, for the £10 cost of posting them, does anyone want this accumulation of odds & ends from 3 years of house calls, which have seemed too good, interesting and/or explicit to give to a charity shop, but also that I’m doing absolutely nothing with?

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

And, they are gone!!

[Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks]

@RobDexES I'm afraid not, they barely lasted a minute!