Pocock Rare Books

Bookdealer. Oft NSFW.
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[Pocock Rare Books @PocockRare]

"You always had such a well put together air about you, like you knew what you were doing, and now you're just a book dealer" - @FrostRareBooks

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Spring has arrived early at Pocock Rare, and to celebrate having our ankles out we've got a discount code for the website - 20% off any item over £20! Use the code SPRINGCLEAN25 at checkout to redeem until 15th March.
https://t.co/j8tA0WKjoW

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@pocockrare.bsky.social

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A few highlights for the upcoming @yorkbookfair: A Gigantic Child, early acrobatics & tableaux vivants, and originals from the the father of Sexology...
https://t.co/GWYe2K1qth

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

[Pocock Rare Books @PocockRare]

Using real Word for the first time in years and this new AI inclusivity check is COMING FOR ME on a Havelock Ellis piece. It is quite offended.

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We've got a new database (on which we must reformat every single entry individually).

We've got a new biblio (for which we must reformat every single photo individually).

But we have a biblio, and we have a system!

First 30 live: https://t.co/QDmYsZtYr0

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

This is NOT a ghost. This is someone who's locked themselves out of their Nan's house.

[Pocock Rare Books @PocockRare]

Hope everyone is keeping sufficiently cool today.

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@antiquarian Ooooh good to know, thank you!

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What web-based cataloging systems are people using these days? I'm due a change and I am out of the loop.

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Modest highlights list out in anticipation of @pbfaorg & @ABARareBooks Bath Book Fair at the end of the month: https://t.co/MutvprQZiY

I've also smartened up my website a little, where all previous catalogues (and new stock!) can be found: https://t.co/j8tA0WKjoW

[Dan Schreiber @Schreiberland]

It’s publication week. Impossible Things a book for 8-12 year old is out THIS THURSDAY. I have a two copies give away (which I will sign with a message to you/the kids in your life)

Just RT this tweet and I’ll randomly select two people in the morning.

[Pocock Rare Books @PocockRare]

Spent an inordinate amount of time googling the history of pruning shears so far today.

[Crouch Rare Books @crouchrarebooks]

As we build up to @firstslondon next week, we'll be showcasing London's beauty through our maps, prints, and views. 

This aquatint shows Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral in the background, dated 1803. This was the third bridge to be built to cross the Thames.

[Stef Dickers @stefdickers]

A business card with a difference!
Always one of my favourite items in the #archives @BishopsgateInst

[Pocock Rare Books @PocockRare]

Anyone else always think it was Little Lord FLAUNTeroy, flaunting it about? The book didn't feature in my childhood, but the phrase certainly did. Today years old etc:

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@patricksrarebks Should have sat her on a book really:

[Tom Lintern-Mole @TomAntiquates]

Today is the day!

The 2024 @pbfaorg Oxford Book Fair opens at noon, at the Sir Kenneth Weare Hall, Oxford Brookes Headington - easiest entrance off Gipsy Lane.

1000s upon 1000s of rare books, maps, prints and ephemera!

Still need a ticket? Just show this picture on the door!

[Pocock Rare Books @PocockRare]

@JarndyceBooks Fortunately eBay's AI describer-bot hasn't evolved quite that far yet...

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Got the Booksellers Guide out to check if there was a difference between 'distressed' and 'both covers entirely detached and 2/3 of the spine missing', or if I'm just being fussy.