iscriptorium

Ever since I started book-selling one piece of advice was persistent. Specialise. And so 5 years later, even though I knew from the start it was good advice, I am specialising.

The Occult Sciences, Gothic Literature, Fantasy Literature, Symbolic Literature of The Renaissance and Bizarre and Controversial Books.

Only about 25% of my limited stock currently falls under [...]

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them; that is, all but one sort of men, with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers and others that make a trade, and gain out of them; have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind, that they have [...]

Just returned from Italy. While in Venice for the day encountered the most beautiful book shop in the world
well not really, mostly paperbacks and textbooks but it does have one rather [...]

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The 241-year-old reference authority is looking for the oldest complete set in private handsWell not the oldest but the last to be published in [...]

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I had an email this week from the Peaceful Arts Association requesting that I not sell The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones. They say that book has caused offence and they want it withdrawn. It is a work of fiction. I am sorry that people are offended by it but I would have no problem [...]

This Illustrated Edition of magica Sexualis of which a Limited Number have been Privately Issued by the Falstaff Press is intended for circulation only among members of the learned professions, mature scholars of the sexual sciences and other educated [...]

Hi,

I work opposite the Natural History Museum archive building in Kimber Road SW18.
They are throwing away old books into two huge skips in their yard which is
shared with the Access Storage company. I think it is utterly criminal to throw
books away and I wanted to publicise this as effectively as possible. Access
Storage is on the Kimber [...]

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