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today's events include finding someone has added a "poisonous" book into stock and now I guess we have to do a whole staff meeting about why we cannot sell poisoned

today I get to discreetly drop off a package of occult books at a train platform in an exchange with the butler of a man I've never met which should

I cannot believe I need to say this but no we cannot find you the first edition of the bible it doesn't matter how much money you offer I beg

there's an old lady who's been selling books to us for as long as anyone can remember because no-one is able to say no to hershe crushes the will to

hello welcome to a thread on busted stuff we keep around the bookstore here is our stuffed owl, several busts and the thing we use to crush books that misbehave/get

it's been years and I still cannot get over the fact that the rare book industry basically survives on Book Fairs, which are like dusty, suspiciously hidden conventions where everyone

lots of people on our feed today who seem to think (for some unfathomable reason) that structural racism isn't an English issue. I'd like you to consider that I've been

so the hashtag #ProudToBeEnglish is trending this morning and as a company which has been on the streets of london meeting y'all daily for several centuries I can assure you

dear rich people with lots of moneyyou should buy some needlessly expensive books from us so you can show them off to people who come by you don't even have

I'd like everyone to stop for a moment and spare a thought for all the commercial twitter accounts who need to bravely pretend the world is not in fact imploding

the other day someone sent us an email just saying "I SEE YOUR BOOKS ARE STILL EXPENSIVE" and yes cornelius the price of rare and hard-to-find books is still high

one of my neighbors has started her own black market egg syndicate by 'infiltrating' a battery hen farm because the local stores kept running outanyway quarantine is going fine and