#antiquarian bookshop

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.”

― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops.

Bare with me I think we may have a copy…

#old #books #old bookshop #bibliophile #old books #antiquarian bookshop #michaelmoonsbookshop #c s lewis #lionel richie #whitehaven #findingnewhomesforoldbookssince1970 #Jen Campbell #wierd things customers say in bookshops

[dustyatticrarebooks]

Berlin.📚📚📚

#rarebooks #antiquarian #antiquarianbooks #bibliophile #bookworm #library #booklover #books #bookstore #bookshop

[theselkiesea]

Scotts Poetical Works

With a dedication from 1852

#old books #antiquarian books #rare books #bookblr #booklr #book community #donated books #poetry books #charity shop books #pretty books #reader #bookseller #bookselling #bookshop #book girl #booklover #book stuff #books #book tumblr #dark academia #dark aesthetic #dark acadamia aesthetic

[without-ado]

London's oldest occult bookshop on Cecil Court

#book #books #bookworm #library #libraries #bookshop #bookstore #antiquarian books #quirky #london

[e-kati]

source: @stachmann

#library #antique #books #vintage #dark academia #academia #aesthetics #budapest #hungary #street photography #moby dick #darkacademia #streetphoto #bookstore #typography #book #antiquarian #booklover #bookshop #bibilophile

[aneverydaything]

Day 1478, 10 July 2022

#shop #book shop #bookshop #bookseller #books #reading #secondhand #antiquarian #Hay-on-Wye #Hay on Wye #Powys #Wales #Cymru #UK #windows #glass #booksellers

[tudorblogger]

Release a volume 2 please @harpercollinsuk - hilarious! Would thoroughly recommend, had me in stitches and @heartlesspage snorting with laughter 😂 #bookstagram #librorumridiculorum #bizarrebooks #books #harpercollins #brianlake #moreplease #bookshop #antiquarianbookshop #antiquarian https://www.instagram.com/p/CmutKB6IK79/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bookstagram #librorumridiculorum #bizarrebooks #books #harpercollins #brianlake #moreplease #bookshop #antiquarianbookshop #antiquarian

[the-busy-ghost]

Bonus of daydreaming about decorating the study when I‘m away from home- I tend to underestimate how much space there is up there, so I can daydream to my heart’s content and everything I want to put in should hopefully fit

Downside of daydreaming when nowhere near the room itself- the stairwell is TINY. A human being can turn round in there and that’s about it, so anything that goes into that upstairs room has to be small enough to fit up that stair or it has to be flatpacked. And the current range of (affordable) self-assembly armchairs on the market are not necessarily the most aesthetically pleasing beasts... 

#Earth & Stone #I'd hoped to even manage to squeeze a fold-down armchair bed in there so I could use it as a spare bedroom if anyone came to stay #But those things are hefty beasts and the ikea flatpack ones are sadly extremely unattractive #The rest of the house is sparsely furnished and that actually suits me (though it must look weird to visitors) #Because I don't need a lot of Stuff and though maximalism is attractive it's also a lot of stress #But that little tower room was half the reason I bought the flat so you can bet I will be making it as aesthetically pleasing as possible #I'm talking secondhand bookshop crossed with Victorian gentleman-antiquarian's study vibes #It also means I can have people in for tea and coffee and still be cosy even though it will be years before the living room gets a sofa #But I don't have enough spare beds for my family at the moment so if they're all over I was hoping that one could have my room #And I could seal myself off in the study #Which is entered by a different door to the front of the house and very cold by nature so I wouldn't put a guest in there #Hence I'm dreaming of the impossible- a flatpack armchair bed that doesn't look extremely modern and basic #I also think if there's one room that will make me feel more at home in the new house it is that one #I can lock myself in and I will be able to wear my headphones to block out my neighbours' noise #Without getting paranoid that someone will be able to sneak up on me #I really am getting quite silly about my security though #I live in perfectly normal house with normal neighbours there is no reason for me to feel this paranoid about safety #I'm fine in my bed thank goodness

[graaaaceeliz]

Micheal Moon's Bookshop - "Happily Immune to the Tidying Disease"

From the book cover: to Joe, with the best of good wishes for Xmas from Auntie Lonnie & Uncle Willie,22 Bunkdale St, Cheetham Hill, Xmas 1918

#bookshop #antiquarian books #england #micheal moon's

[alexis-royce]

It drives me a little spinny when I see people posting “Why Aziraphale doesn’t just keep his books at home if he doesn’t want to sell them” because it seems to me to so clearly be a riff on real life antiquarian bookshops?

I worked in a used and rare book shop for five years, and have frequented them since I was young, and Aziraphale is like, a type of guy who just exists. An older fellow who refuses to keep his books in any sort of order, neglects to write prices in, opens at wildly varying hours, and by all accounts does not seem to want to be in business at all. The answer I found, by the end, was because many of them were doing it as a sort of retirement hobby. They made enough money to keep the lights on and to buy new rare books to look at.

I swear to you: nobody in the book business would bat an eye at Aziraphale. Especially if his shop had been there for generations. They would assume that the occasional loose encyclopedia plate sale would be enough to make rent, or that Mr. Fell had business and land holdings elsewhere.

And I assume that though he doesn’t want to sell them, he would LOVE a curious browser. Antiquarian vendors often adore it when you ask how to find a rare book, because the thrill of the hunt is often better than actually owning the volume. Anyone can have a private library, but owning a quaint little bookshop is a saucy way to brag and chat with other book lovers, and you can’t put that on your shelf at home.

#Good Omens #aziraphale #Anyway go visit Redux Books in Grand Rapids MI #The owner and his family are absolutely lovely #When I came out of the closet every one of them made a point to stop by my desk and inform me in no uncertain terms #That my job was safe and they would keep me safe if I was ever in trouble

[wordacrosstime]

Bookshop - Any Amount of Books, London

[Any Amount of Books, 56 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0QA]

Any Amount of Books [AAOB] in the centre of London (local tube station Leicester Square) is a bookshop selling secondhand books.

It's well-known for the green boxes of books outside, at £1.50 each. Inside are two floors of - very literally - wall-to-wall books, across pretty much every category one can think of.

An earlier article about the shop at https://wordacrosstime.tumblr.com/post/152692234989/bookshop-any-amount-of-books-london describes it more fully. Not much has changed in the range of books, but the interior has been entirely re-done to create more space for customers to move around and to get more easily to books. Like many secondhand bookshops, people like to be able to spend time finding what they want, and it's a friendly place with no-one pressing to sell books and hurry people along.

AAOB says it wants to provide a wide range of secondhand books that meet 'the kind of needs people don't know they have', with a general direction - but not exclusively - of 'the humanities'. Books are 'reasonably priced' with the aim of being 'the best-priced bookshop in London, with something for almost everyone'.

[Images: with thanks to the copyright holder/s]

John Park

Words Across Time

20 June 2023

wordsacrosstime

#Any Amount of Books #Words Across Time #wordsacrosstime #June 2023 #John Park #Bookshop #Secondhand Books #Literary Fiction #Decorative Books #Novels #Historical Novels #Antiquarian Books #Dime Novels #Books #Charing Cross Road #Leicester Square #Soho #Chinatown #Bryan Forbes #Christopher Lee #Film Shoot #Film Set #TV Stage Design #Stage Set #Interior Design #Leather-Bound #Rex Warner #The Aerodrome #Frank Harris

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Bats, 19th century illustrations

Sold

#old #books #old bookshop #bibliophile #old books #antiquarian bookshop #michaelmoonsbookshop #vintage #whitehaven #antique #findingnewhomesforoldbookssince1970 #bats

[dustyatticrarebooks]

Armchair Books📚📚📚

#rarebooks #beautiful #antiquarian #antiquarianbooks #bookshelf #booklover #bibliophile #books #bookworm #bookshop #bookstore

[earlgreyaesthetic]

Second-hand book heaven 🤎📚 ————————————————————————— #bookstagram #bookstagramuk #bookshop #oldbookshop #scotland #travel #inverness #antiquarian #darkacademia #lightacademia #travelphotography #photography #travelblogger (at Leakey's Bookshop) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpNwpNLtNGv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bookstagram #bookstagramuk #bookshop #oldbookshop #scotland #travel #inverness #antiquarian #darkacademia #lightacademia #travelphotography #photography #travelblogger

[e-kati]

source

#bookworm #books #antiquarian #dark academia #academia #budapest #hungary #bookstore #bibliophile #darkacademia #street photography #cityscape #travel photography #aesthetics #architecture #goodreads #bookshop #library #street photographers #antique

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Good Omens graphic novel update: February 2024

Happy February 29th. A day that only happens once every four years deserves something special, so let’s dive right in.

ComicScene Awards win!

Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel won the award for Best Crowdfunder at the ComicScene Awards! We want to say a huge THANK YOU; it’s an award voted for entirely by comics fans, so we appreciate the continued enthusiasm and championing of the Kickstarter. You can read more about the award here. A nice companion to the Comedy.co.uk Award win for Season 2 as Best TV Comedy Drama, and the British Film Designers Guild Planet Positive Award. Wahoo.

PledgeManager.

We’re happy to say that the PledgeManager launch is coming in a few weeks. With our monthly update in March, we’re planning to move to the next stage of the campaign: here you’ll be able to add your shipping addresses, pay for shipping, and add any additional items that you might have missed during the campaign. We’ll have FAQs available once it is launched.

Now to the new stuff…

Ready to rep the world’s best antiquarian and unusual bookshop? The first of our A.Z. Fell & Co merch has arrived: bookmarks are here and looking tip top. 

Our A.Z. Fell sample socks have, ironically, gone walkabout before we got a picture, however, here's a very quick snap of the Crowley pair.

Artwork, artwork and… some more artwork.

The prints keep on coming and this time we’ve got four in one. Behold, Anna Morozova’s take on the four horsewomen of the apocalypse in one glorious image:

The large-scale map of Tadfield (and the rest of the planet) by Julien Labit is underway, so here are a couple of sneak peeks at different locales from the world of Good Omens in their earlier design stages:

When we say it’s large-scale, wait until you see the full one. Huge! So much to explore.

And, in terms of artwork, we’ll end on a few inked previews from the graphic novel by Colleen Doran of our favourite Angel and Demon:

And… how would we describe it? A little mishap regarding losing the antichrist?

More pins.

You didn't think we could go this whole update without pins, did you? You can see updates of the pins outside of Kickstarter at goodomenshq.com. But for now, here's a few:

Future items…

Another ongoing thanks for sharing what you’d like to see in the eventual Good Omens merch store. We’ll have a few new things available via the PledgeManager directly from your suggestions - mainly alternative designs and variants for some add ons, with ambitions for plenty more on the official store. The list you’ve helped us put together is quite ambitious, but we’re up to the challenge *looks up how to make actual angel wings* 

(joking… we think?)

Moving forward, piece by piece. 

p.s. Another little preview.

Until next time.

#graphic novel #good omens #good omens graphic novel #graphic novel kickstarter #wahoo! :)