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Withnail Books: February 2015
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Saturday, 21 February 2015. Read that Lost Sherlock Holmes Story, And Why It's Not Really Sherlock Holmes At All. What a treat to wake up to the news that a previously lost, and indeed unrecorded Sherlock Holmes story has been rediscovered. Yesterday The Scotsman. This Holmes, apparently, lives in Sloan Street. He owns a complet...
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Withnail Books: January 2015
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Sunday, 25 January 2015. Han Solo and the Lost Hungarian Legacy. In tests, it has been scientifically proven (probably) that the coolest Star Wars character is not that default answer of callow youths — Boba Fett — but is in fact the scruffy lookin' nerf herder himself, the Corellian smuggler Han Solo. Well back in the early 1990s I...
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Withnail Books: December 2014
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Monday, 15 December 2014. Taschen's The Complete Little Nemo: The Missing Strip. Under our Christmas Tree this year, if it fits (it's bloody huge! Will be a copy of this. Labels: Little Nemo 1905-1927. Missing Little Nemo strip. The Complete Little Nemo review. Sunday, 7 December 2014. The Collected Poems of William Kean Seymour.
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Withnail Books: These 1960s British 'Battle' Trading Cards Make 'Mars Attacks' Look Tame
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Sunday, 5 July 2015. These 1960s British 'Battle' Trading Cards Make 'Mars Attacks' Look Tame. No relation) presented to their hungry young readers, but turned up to 11. They are also quite evidently inspired in some cases by Topps' 'Mars Attacks' cards from 1962 (in my opinion). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). James Bond, eh?
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Withnail Books: The Perfect Double Bill? Withnail and An American Werewolf At Somerset House
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. The Perfect Double Bill? Withnail and An American Werewolf At Somerset House. You’ll be thankful to be spending a night on the town after this double-bill reveals the dangers of the countryside" says the blurb advertising this upcoming outdoor screening. An American Werewolf in London. An Evening at the Crow.
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Withnail Books: August 2015
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Saturday, 29 August 2015. A Collection of Edwardian Postcards. Anyway, Withnail Books has a collection 94 of mostly Edwardian postcards currently on eBay. And here they are. Mostly comic, with a few WW1 ones, a few foreign ones, and a few frankly rather politically incorrect ones. Sunday, 16 August 2015. Recently Time Out New York.
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Withnail Books: May 2015
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Sunday, 31 May 2015. Jack the Ripper is coming. The Independent on Sunday. Has a brief new interview with Bruce Robinson today, which you can (and should) read in full here. You can read more about the project, and SPOILERS a *possible* candidate for the person Robinson is going to unveil as the Ripper, in my previous blog entry here.
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Withnail Books: July 2015
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Sunday, 26 July 2015. James Bond, eh? Quite what the Estate will make of the book pictured above. Surely just the first of many new 'James Bond, eh? Titles, being advertised on Amazon.ca, a website visible to people outside Canada, who can (presumably) also order it, remains to be seen. The publisher ChiZine says:. In the meantime, ...
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Withnail Books: October 2014
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I collect books. I've got too many of them. So now I've opened a bookshop by mistake. In Penrith. Watching Withnail at Uncle Monty's: A Night at Crow Crag, aka Sleddale Hall. Tuesday, 28 October 2014. A New General and Universal Atlas, Maps by Andrew Dury, London, 1761: Complete. I know: you wait months for a post about old maps, and then two come along at once. UPDATE: The atlas has now sold. I didn't think it would last long, and indeed it didn't! 18th century maps of the world. Sunday, 19 October 2014.