We are setting up our shop for the Christmas season. There are a selection of books for Christmas gifts, Advent Calendars by Angela Harding, Emily Sutton and Alice Melvin and Calendars for 2024 including Martin Dust’s Brutal Calendar featuring iconic concrete  buildings for devotee’s of the modernist in architecture. We are also open every Saturday between 10.30am and 5.00pm up until Christmas. Please call by rather than walk by.

We will be exhibiting at the Chelsea Rare Book Fair this weekend. Take a look at a few of the highlights we are bringing on the book fair website. We are at Stand 69 and would love to welcome you to the fair.  For our fair highlights, click here  

Our shop will be open on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th October as part of the York Unlocked programme where buildings of heritage merit and interest are opened to the public. Come and explore our shop and find out a bit more about the history of the building. We are open between 10-00 and 16.-00 both on Saturday and Sunday.

Hope to see you there. Further information about York Unlocked can be found on their website or in the green booklets which most participants have for you to pick up. https://york-unlocked.org.uk/

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It is hard to believe it is that time of the year again. Firsts, the Antiquarian Booksellers Association  book fair ,for 2023, opens at the Saatchi Gallery, just off the Kings, Road, Chelsea. We are getting our stock list together for this event which will go live on this site in the Catalogues section on the day the fair opens.

It is a wonderful place to see some of the fabulous books produced in the past.  In our subject area, we will have a range of modern rarities as well as a few from the past which were at the cutting edge of design in their own time. Come along. Prepare to be amazed.

If you need a ticket, we can send you one or you can get one  from the book fair website which you can link to here. http://www.firstslondon.com

The California Book Fair starts on February 10th and we will be there. Just finished packing up our books to take and they will be winging their way there in the next week. Whilst the fair will be on our shop will be open as usual for those who cannot get to Pasadena and sample the books and the Spring weather. We will be at Booth 507 https://www.abaa.org/cabookfair

CHANGES IN BOOKSHOP HOURS

September 2^nd – 19^th   2022

The shop will be closed on the following days

Friday September 2^nd 2022 from 11.00am [We are exhibiting at the Association of Gardens Trusts Event, North Yorkshire]

Thursday and Friday September 8^th and 9^th [We are exhibiting at the York National Book Fair]http://www.yorkbookfair.com

Wednesday to Friday September 14^th – 16^th [We are exhibiting at FIRSTS LONDON at the Saatchi Gallery] http://www.firstslondon.com

We are sorry for any inconvenience this might cause. Our on line shop is open 24/7 as usual.

If you see something you like in our window, drop us an email and we will reserve it.

books@janetteray.co.uk

Janette Ray Booksellers

September 1^st 2022

The shop continues to be open three days a week Wednesday to Friday 10am to 5pm. We hope to see you if you live, work or visit York. We also open by appointment outside these hours if something can be arranged.

Our new catalogue is progressing and is on Typography and lettering and is a single collection catalogue from the Library of Michael Harvey. Please contact us if you would like a copy and are not generally on our mailing list.

York is looking lovely, so do visit.

We are now open on Wednesdays to Fridays on a regular basis from 10.00am-5.00pm and other times by appointment so please call in.

With Easter on the horizon, we have lots of lovely books for gifts alongside a range of greetings cards. If you are looking for something unusual as a gift, we can often help out.

The Rare Book Fair returns to Chelsea after a two year break at the end of April. We have tickets in the shop or you can get them from the ABA Chelsea Fair website. We are happy to send them by post too, should you want to have one. The Chelsea Website is https://www.chelseabookfair.com/  – we will be there with a range of our stock on art, architecture, design and photography, so please come along. We have some unusual items, not least of which is an early example of flexible glass fibre, illustrated below – a precursor of artificial silk. We are at stand  69.