An old Journey to a New world

Here's a classic and no mistake, Arthur Conan Doyles 'The Lost World'. The founding piece for an entire genre of long lost Dinosaurs and secret worlds.

This classic piece of pulp is not only worth a read but worth a good look as it is filled with illustrations or 'photographs' from the fateful expedition.

This is more of our recent expansion out into Science fiction and pulpy classics. Check us out on Biblio for this and other fantastic books

Magnificent facial hair

Illustrated throughout

New Stock

Had a whole load of fresh books arrive today, a good assortment of Literature and Natural Science. This lot gave us some grief to get back to the office but I'd say it was worth it in the end. As always you can expect to find these up on the Website and Biblio within the next couple of weeks after we've given them a good dusting and check up.

Here's just a few of the treasures we found:

• A four volume Cuvier, published by Henderson.

• Edward Donovan's 'History of British Insects'.

• Hibberd's 'Familiar Wild Flowers'.

• A variety of Anne Pratt wild flowers.

• An early Bentley edition of Jane Austen 'Sense and Sensibility'.

• Culpepper English Physician, enlarged - 1676.

A perfect gift, a long time ago

Tis that season, cards need to be sent, birds need to be stuffed and gifts need to be given.
And what better place to go purchase some nice, family friendly entertainment then your local Boots department store.

Yes that's right, if you wanted good quality books and toys you would go to your local Boots store. for those unfamiliar boots is a big pharmaceutical chain here in the UK, known for their drugs, their cosmetics and that's about it.

But in the golden age of illustration they would have a whole lending library section for the paying public, and when that festive time rolled round they would put out illustrated collections of their most popular titles. For the modest price of 15 shillings you would have a large, colourful collection of stories that would no doubt entertain various family members, before they started scribbling in the margins and using it to prop up the wonky set of cupboards.