Cloth Bags
Edinburgh Books cloth bags are now available for mail order. They feature our beloved Clarence, and you can buy 2 for £5 in the UK, or £7.50 in the rest of the world. Postage is included.
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- Why did the mouse die in the Scottish Room? It was found next to Society of Antiquaries volumes. Bored to death.... ?
- They seek him here, they seek him there...blasted Orwell. No consideration. Could be anywhere - in Spain, down a mine etc etc. Not on shelf
- Just found a deid mouse in the Scottish Room. Puir Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie. An ex-mouse.
Recent blog entries
- In the beginning...
It has gone out of fashion in these post-modern times, but stories used to begin with a beginning, progress to a middle and conclude with an ending. Open-minded as I am, I have never minded a slight twist in the…
- Book Inscriptions # 1
You find all sorts of inscriptions in books, usually on the front endpaper, from the plain name and address to pledges of undying love. I came across one today at the front of a copy of ‘Grammont’s memoirs of the…
- A Scotch Carol
You find all sorts of interesting things stuck inside books: letters, tickets, obituaries, even money.
Today I found a Carol – a Scotch (or Scots) Carol in fact which I will now commit to cyberspace. It was typed on a small… - Move over skinny dog
Some customers are just funny. Funny peculiar I mean, not Funny ha-ha, though we have our fair share of those too.
One peculiar thing that these funny customers do is to go straight to a section where somebody else is already… - Dirty rotten thieves.
I don’t think we have a huge problem with theft but then again, I just don’t know. There are eight fairly sizeable rooms in the shop with thousands of books in each of them and although I try, it’s impossible…