K Books Ltd

Selling second-hand & antiquarian books & prints for 55+ years. We buy large & small book collections. We’re an ABA (Antiquarian Book Association) member.

[K Books Ltd @KayeBarrie]

Wishing you a Happy New Year & all the very best for 2024. May it be filled with love, peace, happiness & good health. Thank you to everyone who has bought a book/print from & corresponded with us. We’re a small family business & REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT #HappyNewYear

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Happy Christmas everyone. The cats are loving the presents and the wrapping paper in particular! #happychristmas #christmascats #christmascatsofinstagram #christmaspresents

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Happy Christmas - we’re all settling down for ‘Carols at Kings’, even Petal the Cat! #ChristmasEve #christmascats #christmastree

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The story of old, tells of Madelon, a shepherdess, tending her sheep as the wise men passed taking their gifts to baby Jesus. Madelon had nothing to give & as her tears fell to the ground, an angel parted the snow to reveal her gift for the new baby, a Christmas rose. #nativity

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Wishing you a blessed Winter Solstice … a great opportunity to share a wassailing related book, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. #AdventCalendar #wassailing #WinterSolstice #WinterSolstice2023 #antiquarianbooks #arthurrackham

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Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas. May 2024 be happy, healthy, lucky & peaceful for you and your family & friends. Thanks for your support in 2023. With all Barrie, Sue, Steve & Jane Drawing by Steve of our old bookshop on Fossgate, York

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RAF Middle East, 1941. TA Agius’s Wartime Christmas
I heard the planes go over
With shuttle and with roar;
The moon looked down on Dover,
And lit the winding shore.
It filled the night with beauty,
Our tired world’s release:
Old wardens at their duty
Invoked a prayer for peace.

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A gaggle of geese for the middle of the month … #adventcalendar #gaggleofgeese #gooseattack #birds #geese #geeseofinstagram

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A wonderful selection of old Christmas cards #adventcalendar #christmascards #oldchristmascards #christmasgreetings #vintagecards

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Fourteen legendary tales set against the backdrop of the Revolution with original colourful wrapper bound in … #adventcalendar #christmasbooks #christmasreading #legends #christmasillustration

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“The coach was crowded, both inside and out, with passengers principally bound to the mansions of relations or friends, to eat the Christmas dinner. It was loaded also with hampers of game, and baskets and boxes of delicacies …”#adventcalendar #washingtonirving #christmasbooks

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“Christmas is still a period of delightful excitement in England…the preparations making on every side for the social board that is again to passing and repassing, those tokens of regard, & quickened of kind feelings.” #adventcalendar #christmasbooks #washingtonirving

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Christmas floral decorations to help you get into the festive spirit - found in one of our many books … #AdventCalendar #christmasdecorations #festiveflowers #christmasflowers #FlowersOnFriday

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On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me seven swans a swimming … #christmasadvent #morrisbirds #benjaminfawcett #naturalhistoryillustration #swans #seventhdayofchristmas

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“On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me six geese a laying …” #adventcalendar #morrisbirds #benjaminfawcett #birds #geese #christmascarols #sixthdayofchristmas

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“She’s behind you!” Getting ready for #panto season? Here’s the actress #agnesfraser all dressed up for #thebabesinthewood at #drurylanetheatre #adventcalendar #theatre #pantomime #christmastime #christmasshow

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“This Lady White whose frigid face
Turns from the sun with chilly grace
Has for herself a single duty:
The world to rest in icy beauty.”
(BOUCHARD, Don. Lady Winter) #winterpoetry #winterpoem #jackfrost #ice #frost #leaves🍁

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“The holly bears a berry
As red as any blood
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good.”
#adventcalendar #christmas #holly #greenandred #snow

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“On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree … #morrisbirds #benjaminfawcett #benjaminfawcettdriffield #antiquarianbooks #adventcalendar #ilustration #birds #partridge

[York National Book Fair @yorkbookfair]

Just over a week to the start of this year’s major book event - the York National Book Fair. Free tickets via the website. Nearly 200 bookshops in one room! Prices from a few pounds to tens of thousands… come and explore, and buy. Opens 12 noon Friday 15th.