The Book Addict

Coffee-lover. Collector, dealer & blogger on illustrated & finely bound books, pictorial bindings and literary mysteries. Literary detective. #beautifulbooks.

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

@patricksrarebks Oh, that’s easy. No contest. Trimmed. Whatever you do dust gets into the deckles and the pages tan. Give me trimmed edge every timed. Preferable sprayed. Or marbled. Or gilded. But defo trimmed.

[Catherine Hawley @juxtabook]

Ilkley Book Fair returns this month https://t.co/0qxKFcNBJ7

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

Another one for the #beautifulbooks shelf.

[Kerria @Kerria]

My lovely 1946 edition of Arabian Nights illustrated by Earle Goodenow.

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

@arealmofwonder I’m betting that @DanielDVince might like to see this.

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

@PenguinHuddleUK Looks fab. Can I get one? Might just tempt me to reviewing again.

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

#beautifulbooks from @foliosociety

[The Folio Society @foliosociety]

One hour until The Great Gatsby Limited Edition launches! ✨ Bound in goatskin leather with artwork by Yuko Shimizu and a new afterword by Chuck Palahniuk. Only 500 signed copies available. Like Gatsby’s finest soirées only a few will get in.📷📚
https://t.co/bgtTCNJxDe

[Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell]

sometimes we just need to conjure our inner bunny power

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

It's not hoarding if it's books

🎨Elisabeth Alba

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

These are among the books we've added to our stock today. Any one who emails to order any book over £10 showing on website and says XApril will get 10% discount. https://t.co/DAumwGKHT2

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

Not my story - it was told to me - but so funny.
A second hand bookshop customer asks for discount on a book as it has a couple of tears. The owner explains condition is taken into account when pricing. The customer says "well, not these tears, because my son just did them!".

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

Just to say, we remember our visit to @MarshsLibrary very fondly - such a warm and friendly welcome as well as the #beautifulbooks. We're planning a return in the autumn but in the meantime really enjoy your posts.

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

The title page of our first edition of John Evelyn's pioneering work on forestry, Sylva, printed in 1664 #InternationalDayofForests

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

Seriously #beautifulbooks

[Stella & Rose'sBooks @stellarosebooks]

Happy Birthday Jessie M. King born on this day in 1875.
She was an illustrator and designer and a member of the Glasgow Girls group of artists. https://t.co/XcrU5DzFZ2

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

@The_PBS Let's see a pic of the board? Or perhaps a webcam feed?

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

My favourite book from yesterday's cataloguing - for the wonderfully decorated covers. #beautifulbooks
https://t.co/y4QrqI6NXE
Follow and RT for £10 off. Pls DM today if interested.

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

@BooksYare @booksaremybag Wishing you all the best with the second #bookshhop (ad)venture. We know just how tough it is but also how important vibrant high streets and serving #booklovers is. Will follow updates with interest - and let us know if there's anything we can do to help. Would love to visit!

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

We knew the librarian Mary Pollard had a printing press in Marsh's Library in the 1970s on which she printed poetry and other single-sheet items. We DIDN'T know until just now that she printed early Seamus Heaney poems and he signed them.....

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

JOB OPPORTUNITY. Part-time WP support required in #Chartham Hatch, Kent. Ideal for student. Local person preferred. Immediate start possible, flexible working, lots of potential with established independent ecommerce book business. DM me for details.

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

Part-time WP support required in Chartham Hatch, Kent. Ideal for student. Local person preferred. DM me for details.

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

Cataloguing books today...ideally warm work for freezing weather. I thought 'Fiddler's Frauds' was going to be my title of the day but, wait! No...definitely 'Queer Fiddles for Queer Fiddling'.! I kid you not.

[The Book Addict @BookAddictUK]

Beatrix Potter - Les Champignon https://t.co/TOPq3K3ppM
Constantly struck by the beauty of her illustrations - and diversity of Beatrix Potter's talent.