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Frost Rare Books

@FrostRareBooks

Based in Liverpool, north-west England. Once described as ‘The archetypal maverick book dealer’ (not a compliment). Books and manuscripts bought and sold.

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Me, buying an old book with deckle edges: “Nice!” Me, collating an old book with deckle edges: 🤬


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IT’S GREY TUESDAY!!! Use the following code for a whopping 25% off everything on the website: 78um5n2m #books

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rip to as byatt about whom I have always taken a tone of offensive familiarity I must assume she would not have liked. but it couldn't be helped, I understand her & there's nothing to be done about it stringing together some past byatt thoughts & notions, to remember I had them--


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oh my god she sent him one only a velvet ribbon but ordered him to wear it always "and whenever you see or feel the collar you will remember that I am your mistress and you will have to do what I order you to do for ever and ever" anyway this man invented some famous bombs


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Literally just bought a first edition of this for my shelf because it was so formative in my reading

My horror reading roots began here

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It is as important to know what you aren't collecting as what you are. A collection without defined boundaries becomes an accumulation or a hoard. That's fine of course. Accumulate away, be a hoader, have at it... but don't call yourself a collector.


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I was charmed by this quite sentimental pen and ink WWI themed illustration, which has an attribution to a “J.W. Jeens”. The addition of the little Scottie dog adds to the tension I think. I’ve not been able to find out anything about the artist (*puts on begging face)

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do you think there is a sketchy curator version of classic teen shoplifting tumblr somewhere, where they trade tricks & tips & stealer ethics codes on how it’s obvs ok to knock over like the british museum or the bible museum but v uncool to steal from independents


People: “trust your judgement” Me: (after 2 days packing & moving 170 18kg boxes of books 3 times & no sleep) “I absolutely can hurdle that that wet 3 foot high wall without breaking stride…”


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google books......thank you you didn't have to choose this particular copy of emerson venable's The Hamlet Problem and Its Solution (1912) for preservation. yet you did

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Of all the Victorian ads to come across unprepared Monkey Brand are the worst!

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This modest pocket sized hymn book, printed in 1838, once sat in Liverpool’s pro-cathedral, St. Peter’s, which was demolished in 1922 but whose site is still marked. Might obtain some Victorian clothes, go and stand with the book on the spot like a ghost & belt out a few hymns…

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Part of a lovely collection of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp posters and ephemera I’ve just picked up, as well as other political and anarchist ephemera from the period. Will post more in the next few days

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The Haynes Manual of Motor Lawnmowers was so popular they released a sequel.

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Annoying when an auction house breaks up a group of connected material, & you leave low bids on the 2 out of 3 lots you’re most interested in, not expecting to win, but do, then see that the lot you were least interested in, but now are as part of the other 2, also sold cheaply.


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Half the pages in this book appear to have turned back into the rags they were made from.

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