The lovely Chelsea Book Fair in the Old Town Hall on the Kings Road opens on the Ist of November for two days and we will be there with some of our illustrated books, books on architecture and photography. We will be in our usual corner -Stand 61 in the small hall if you can make it.
Back at the book shop in York we are planning a posters exhibition in the run up to Christmas so watch this space for further updates. Meanwhile we have out lots of our books on wall paper history to coincide with the York Art Gallery exhibition of William Morris Wall papers so come by if this is one of your interests. We always hope to welcome you. If you cannot make it when we are regularly open, please call us. We regularly open by appointment for our customers.
It is only a few weeks away before it is the weekend of the York National Book Fair http://yorkbookfaircom where we hope we will catch up with all of you who intend to visit. We are at stand 72. We have some exciting new material that we will be showing at the fair so please do visit us. We have complimentary tickets at the shop or it is just £2 on the door [ cash only on the door ].
The shop will be open normally the week of the fair – a busy week where we also hope to welcome those participating in the York Antiquarian Book Seminar which is for upcoming booksellers or those who are exploring a business future in the book trade.
Please call in and see us at the bookshop if you find your self in York.
We are always happy to open by appointment, if we can, but are open Wednesdays- Fridays 10.00 to 17.00 every week if you are about then. The shop is crammed with new stock at the moment so maybe you will find a treasure.
We will be at Oxford with a selection of our stock, majoring on photography, stained glass and church monuments on this occasion as well as a selection from the range of books on the arts we have.
A few weeks later it will be Firsts London, our major British event of the year run by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association. At the Saatchi Gallery in the heart of Chelsea it looks like it will be a treat. Held between 16th and 19th May. We hope to have a interesting range of books on the arts including architecture and photography at this event. Our stand is F48 on the first floor.
We will be showing our stock of rare and out of print books alongside new titles on Contemporary Ceramics at the wonderful York Ceramics Fair, held at the Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, YO23 1EXYork. This is a fabulous event where makers from throughout Britain meet and sell their works. There are also great pottery demonstrations and an opportunity to try out a bit of working with clay as well as visiting our book stall for all kinds of titles from “how to do it” to how the experts have crafted their pots. Hope to see you there. More details on our book fairs page or at http://yorkceramicsfair.com
Our shop has returned to its regular opening days Wednesday to Friday between 10.00am and 5.00pm after our longer Christmas seasonal hours. Please come along and drop in. Outside these hours we are still open by appointment. The shop is bursting with lots of new items bought just before Christmas. Our winter period is always a busy one and we will be in California at the book fair in early February and will also be issuing some regular stock lists of books we have for sale. We also plan to continue our ventures in selling contemporary ceramics along side the books. These are curated by Lotte Inch.
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/
