Saturday, November 07, 2020

First Bookhunt After Melbourne Lockdown Ends

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After more than 110 days confined to our homes, with nightly 8pm curfews and a 5km radius (and more recently 25km) outside of which we were ...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

New Bond Paperback In My Collection

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It's the AFL Grand Final long weekend and normally I'd be in Metung, Gippsland with my wife and sister-in-law on our annual getaway ...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Elusive Pan Cover

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It's not a first.  It's not even a second.  But when I saw this "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" published by Pan Boo...
Friday, September 11, 2020

RIP Dame Diana Rigg

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In 1969 a strong, free-thinking, independent female character appeared on the silver screen and during the course of the film saved the lif...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Book Hunt North Of The Yarra

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Sometimes life gets in the way of collecting.  Currently my sister-in-law is in hospital and the last thing I'm thinking about while st...
Friday, July 31, 2020

A Few Previous Book Shop Visits

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Here's some more book store visits I made prior to the covid lockdown here in Melbourne.  The first is Helena's Curiosity Shop in Be...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Abra Card Abra Bookshop Visit

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I'm catching up on book store visits I didn't get around to posting earlier this year, and this week it's Abra Card Abra Roycr...
Monday, July 06, 2020

Alice's Bookshop Will Rise Again

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Back in November last year I visited Alice's Bookshop in Carlton North with my wife.  To my dismay the building was up for auction and ...
Monday, June 29, 2020

First Book Store Visit In A While

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Since the Covid-19 restrictions came into force here in Melbourne I'd resorted to searching for books online (more on that in a future ...