Catherine Hawley

Book seller: first editions, signed books, academic arts and humanities, children's books, crime fiction. PBFA. #Dyslexic

[Catherine Hawley @juxtabook]

New Stock and Website Updates in our latest book newsletter. Link below...

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

How many children ever noticed that ‘Mother’ and Red Riding Hood’s Granny had the exact same tea-set?

Artist: Harry Wingfield

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

At opposite ends of the world, in Wellington, New Zealand and Haworth, Yorkshire, the childhood homes, now museums, of 19th century women writers who died young: Katherine Mansfield, and the Brontë sisters. Small rooms in which their minds and literary imaginations were formed

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

The modern world in old Ladybird.
"The blacksmith's trade is an old one which does not change" (1954)
Artist: Septimus Scott

[Catherine Hawley @juxtabook]

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[Catherine Hawley @juxtabook]

Looking for a bit of escapism? We have quite a few British Library Science Fiction Classics in stock. Link below.

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

Sometimes I get the feeling that certain places are merely bobbing up for air before slipping back beneath the currents of the past. St. Oswald's in Ashbourne is a remarkable medieval church where centuries of memory remain latent within its walls.

[Susan @Booksmiscellany]

#ThomasHardy
Thomas Hardy : Born on this day in 1840. My copy of his poems, bought in 1973.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Today, being the first day of Meteorological Summer, I bring you the covers of the 4 seasons books.
But which is your favourite?
My favourite season is Spring (but my favourite of these books is probably Autumn)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Peter and Jane’s Irish Setter Pat
(And the ‘real’ Pat)
Artist: HarryWingfield

[North West Book Fairs @NWBF_BookFairs]

GARGRAVE BOOK FAIR

Saturday, 6th June at the Village Hall, West Street BD23 3RD ~ around 18 dealers with secondhand & collectable books ~ café/car park.

https://t.co/54NBj0paxC

#volumesofvolumes #Gargrave #Skipton #Settle #YorkshireDales #A65BookFairs

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘May’
Artist: SR Badmin
(Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs, 1958)

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Wall Maps, Eric Ravilious, 1941. Made during his time as a War Artist in the early years of #WW2 it depicts the Home Security Control Room located deep below Whitehall in #London. The original artwork is in the collection of @I_W_M.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

“The clifftop is at its most beautiful in May. Sea-pink, white sea-campion, the white flowered stonecrop and the kidney vetch - all these flourish best in sea breezes”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson

[D B Derbyshire 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 PBFA @dbderbzbooks]

...and all set up at the Kirkby Lonsdale Book Fair.

#booksarebrilliant

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Mackerel Sky, Eric Ravilious, 1938. Painted at Tollesbury in #Essex. Thought lost, it is now known to be in a private collection, was exhibited for the first time in many years in 2021 and is currently on display at @TownerGallery in the new Ravilious Gallery.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

‘The Farm’ (1958)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

[Andrew Cusack @cusackandrew]

Title of the next Wes Anderson film just dropped.

[Inspector Whatman: Sleeper Squad @govauctionnews]

I didn't expect to see a woolwork Lowry today - and neither did I expect to love it. But I do. I really think it works.

[Print. Mostly. @MostlyPrint]

The Once and Future King, fantasy tales about the court of King Arthur, first pubd 1958. Title refers to the legend that Arthur will one day return as king. By T H White, born #OTD in Mumbai in 1906 (died 1964). An inspiration for many, with his science fiction & fantasy writing.

[Jem Bloomfield @jembloomfield]

New post - "Off to the Races", on the inconvenience and fun of finding horses named after books...
(link in next)