Bailgate Books

01/11/2023

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30/10/2023

If you have US$7.5 million going spare....

La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen knew there was something unusual about the nautical chart he spotted at a Getty estate sale. His careful eye uncovered a 14th century treasure he purchased for a relative steal.

24/10/2023

Grab and Go at Batley Library.

"Misinformed" customers walked off with many titles from Batley Library's stock, a volunteer says.

23/10/2023

Swollen River Idle at Mattersey

14/10/2023

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13/10/2023

Happy Birthday Paddington, 65 years old today.

Inspired by a lone teddy in a shop, Michael Bond’s courteous and clumsy hero from Peru has struck a chord with every generation. What is the secret to his enduring popularity?

23/09/2023

Eye-watering estimates modern first editions at the Christies Charlie Watts auctions:
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Charlie Watts (1941-2021) made his first appearance with The Rolling Stones in 1963, and for almost sixty years provided the steady heartbeat to the ‘Greatest Rock n Roll band in the world’. Outside of fame his great lifelong loves were Literature and Jazz, passions forged in childhood and this ...

20/09/2023

Novel fund raising for Ukraine:

Organisers are also seeking artworks and manuscripts while authors are invited to donate signed first-edition copies of their books for an online auction in November

16/09/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/16/bible-margin-father-english-history-venerable-bede-manuscript

Annotations in eighth-century manuscript point to work of revered English monk, scholar and saint

05/04/2023

Everyday discount at ebay

05/04/2023

Amazon closes The Book Depository - are other Amazon owned companies at risk?

Here’s the thing: Publishers have for decades allowed Amazon to so dominate the market that it can, and does, call the shots. If and when Amazon decides Audible and the Kindle Store will offer unlimited streaming across all its titles, what exactly will publishers do? Publishers and sellers have j...

26/03/2023

Crime in the Book Publishing World

See:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/book-manuscripts-wire-fraud-1.6706270

Filippo Bernardini impersonated hundreds of people in the publishing industry to obtain work by Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney and Ian McEwan, but never intended to leak the books