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Independent book seller based in Newcastle, UK.
I'll be posting about curious and rare books I have for sale, book reviews, and recommendations. πŸ“š
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Now available from Fossa Books!

A lovely collectable hardback edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, with gilded page edges, a marker ribbon and a William Morris honeysuckle cover design.

In excellent condition and only Β£9.50 + shipping!

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February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Now available from Fossa Books!

A signed and dated hardback copy of Sixty Minutes with Winston Churchill by his former security officer of eighteen years Detective Inspector W. H. Thompson, published in 1961.

A collectable bargain, only Β£12 + shipping!

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A copy of Sixty Minutes with Winston Churchill by W. H. Thompson, standing up showing the front and rear covers abd spine. The title page of the book, signed by the author. The book on its side showing the spine and cover. The book on its side again but showing the page edges.
February 1, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Now available from Fossa Books, a very rare, limited edition paperback copy of Lord of the Rings, published exclusively for the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Peter Jackson's film adaptation in 2001.
In excellent condition and only Β£135 + shipping!
#LotR
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February 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Now available from Fossa Books!

A first edition hardback copy of A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Society by Christoph Schuringa, published by Verso Books in 2025.

In great condition and only Β£12.50 + shipping!

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January 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Now available from Fossa Books!

The Naked Machine: Selected Poems by MatthΓ­as Johannessen - Paperback (1988)
Signed and inscribed by the author and featuring illustrations by Manfred Fischer.

In great condition and only Β£30 + shipping!

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The cover of The Naked Machine: Selected Poems by MatthΓ­as Johannessen, featuring a postmodern illustration of a man by Manfred Fischer. The back of the book and a little blurb. A scrawled dedication - Durham '93 - and a personal message and the author's signature. The title page featuring a closer look at the guy on the front cover.
January 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Here's a rather lovely thing available now from Fossa Books!

A first edition Hardback copy of The Solitaries: Poems by Red Walker, published by Jonathan Cape in 1967. I really like the dust jacket art work.

In very good condition for its age and only Β£22 + shipping!

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The cover of The Solitaries: Poems by Ted Walker. It's an orangey brown colour with a rather lovely sketch of an otter and a bird on it. The back of the dust jacket featuring another otter. The spine of the book. The book opened up so the front and back can be seen, revealing the full extent of the ottery on the dust jacket.
January 4, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Look what you get from Fossa Books!

A paperback copy of One Foot on the Mountain: An Anthology of British Feminist Poetry 1969 - 1979, edited by Lilian Mohin and published by Onlywomen Press in 1984.

In really good condition and only Β£15 + shipping!

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The cover of One Foot on the Mountain: An Anthology of British Feminist Poetry, edited by Lilian Mohin. A pair of hands in red ink come together to form a shape that resembles a woman's thingamajig. The rear cover of the book with the Onlywomen Press logo and a brief bit of bumph. The spine of the book, a little faded but not creased. A view of the page edges, which are really clean considering the book's 42-years-old
January 4, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Now available from Fossa Books!

A first edition hardback copy of The Great Miss Lydia Becker: Suffragist, Scientist, Trailblazer by Joanna M Williams (2022)

A fine biography of a legendary but sometimes overlooked pioneer of the women's suffrage movement.

Only Β£12.76 + shipping.

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The cover of The Great Miss Lydia Becker: Suffragist, Scientist & Trailblazer by Joanna M. Williams, featuiring a portrait of Lydia. The back cover of the aforementioned book, featuring another portrait of Lydia. The spine of the book. The inside front flap of the dust jacket, giving a synopsis of the book.
January 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Here's a nice thing from Fossa Books!

The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects From The Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by Jasper Bernes.
A first edition hardback published in 2025 by Verso for only Β£11.75 + shipping.

Support small independent booksellers folks!

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The cover of The Future of Revolution, a book by Jasper Bernes. The rear cover of the aforementioned book, featuring praise by the author's peers. A view of the spine of the book, it's as good as new. The inside of the front dust cover flap, a synopsis of what the book is all about.
December 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Look at what you can get from the Fossa Books ebay shoppe if you're quick!
A SIGNED first edition hardback copy of The Wisdom of Crowds, the third and final novel of Joe Abercrombie's The Age of Madness trilogy. In great condition and only Β£26.75 + shipping.
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The cover of The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie, featuring a green flag with a golden lion on it amidst a fiery battle scene. Joe Abercrombie's frankly unimpressive signature on the title page of the book. It looks like 'Jull', perhaps a portmanteau of Jethro and Tull, and a tribute to the band. The spine of the book at a slightly diagonal angle. There's a golden lion on that as well. The inside front flap of the dust jacket which provides a synopsis of the book, that I can't be arsed to type out. Brock and Savine are having some kind of disagreement about the way things should be going or something.
September 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I hope so. The pluralisation of the title promises a minimum of at least TWO devils.
September 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Currently available from the Fossa Books ebay shoppe!
A SIGNED first edition hardback copy of The Trouble With Peace, the second novel in Joe Abercrombie's The Age of Madness trilogy. In great condition, collectable, and a real bargain at only Β£21.50 + shipping.
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September 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Now available from the Fossa Books ebay shoppe!
A first edition hardback copy of Joe Abercrombie's latest novel The Devils. There's a little scuff to the dust jacket, but otherwise it's in great shape, and only Β£14.75 + Β£2.94 shipping.
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September 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Look at what you can get from the Fossa Books ebay shop right now.
From the Eagle comic archives, a two volume set of the Dan Dare adventure Voyage to Venus by Frank Hampson, in lovely condition and only Β£38.75 + shipping..!
#PilotOfTheFuture
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Two nice and shiny hardback Dan Dare Books, one featuring Dan Dare and the other featuring The Mekon. The cover of a Dan Dare book, Voyage to Venus part 1, featuring Dan grinning in his green uniform against a background of yellow rocket ships. The cover of Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus featuring The Mekon looking quite menacing. The two Dan Dare books again, stood up side by side on horrowfide's tatty living room table.
September 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Now available from Fossa Books!
A bundle of eight of BBC Radio 4's dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels on twelve CDs, starring Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe.
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August 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Madchester music fans, look what you can get from Fossa Books! A signed first edition hardback copy of the Happy Mondays' maraca monkey Bez, for only Β£16.13 + shipping! πŸ“š

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The cover of Bez's autobiography, featuring the man himself shielding his eyes and peering at the viewer. Bez's drug addled signature on the title page of his book.
July 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Now available from Fossa Books!
A scarce first edition hardback copy of The Amazing Journey: How Newcastle United Conquered Europe by Matthew Watson-Broughton, published in 2019. In brand new condition and Β£39.68 + shipping.

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The cover of The Amazing Journey: How Newcastle United Conquered Europe by Matthew Watson-Broughton, featuring JΓ‘nos GΓΆrΓΆcs and Bobby Moncur shaking hands in front of the referee and linesmen. The back cover of the aforementioned book, which reads as follows: THE MIGHTY WYN'S impact on Dutch Total Football; how opposing players started a fire inside St James' Park during a game; and how Newcastle United handed Europe's best team a remarkable cup-final thrashing. These are just three of the incredible stories we discover as we tour Europe with the men who defied the odds and brought home the INTER-CITIES FAIRS CUP fifty years ago. The reader is a FLY ON THE WALL at the club's celebration banquet, listening in to players' conversations as they relive their sensational year of glory. NOSTALGIA AND INSIGHT pour from the pages as we read this unique account of that famous 1968/69 season, based on dozens of interviews with players, journalists and fans and a huge number of contemporary media sources. So step back in time with us and discover how Bob Moncur's men felt as, match-by-match, they CONQUERED EUROPE. The spine of the book with the title in yellow and white text. The book's contents page, which reads as follows: CONTENTS 5 7 PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: FIRST ROUND NEWCASTLE UNITED VS FEYENOORD 17 CHAPTER 2: SECOND ROUND SPORTING LISBON VS NEWCASTLE UNITED 51 CHAPTER 3: THIRD ROUND REAL ZARAGOZA VS NEWCASTLE UNITED 87 CHAPTER 4: QUARTER-FINALS NEWCASTLE UNITED VS VITΓ“RIA SETÚBAL 119 CHAPTER 5: SEMI-FINALS RANGERS VS NEWCASTLE UNITED 155 a W CHAPTER 6: THE FINAL NEWCASTLE UNITED VS ÚJPESTI DΓ“ZSA 189 CHAPTER 7 CELEBRATION DAY 247 EPILOGUE 259 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 269
July 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Lots of new stuff listed on the Fossa-Books ebay site! Take a look , I really need the money. πŸ“š
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May 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Great news for fans of contemporary horror literature!

You can get a copy of Mark Z. Danielewski's extraordinary and epic cult status horror novel House of Leaves from Fossa Books for a mere Β£15 + shipping.

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March 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Now available from Fossa Books on ebay!

A paperback copy of Newcastle United: Manager Menagerie, Kenneth H Scott's thoroughly researched study and biography of #NUFC managers from 1895 to 2015, featuring some fascinating tables of statistics.

Only Β£6.50 + shipping.

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March 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Now available from Fossa Books!

A paperback copy of Yevgeny Zamyatin's celebrated dystopian Sci-Fi novel We, published by Penguin Classics in 1993 - described by Ursula K. Le Guin as "the best single work of science fiction yet written".

Β£8 + shipping

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Paperback, 1993) | eBay
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">A paperback copy of Yevgeny Zamyatin's celebrated dystopian Sci-Fi novel We, published with an introduction by Clarence Brown by Penguin Classics in...
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December 18, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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Here's a really nice, collectable thing for horror fans from Fossa Books!

A first edition hardback copy of Hasty for the Dark: Selected Stories by Adam L.G. Nevill, published by Ritual Limited in 2017 and limited to 300 copies.

Β£80 + shipping.

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Hasty for the Dark by Adam L.G. Nevill - Limited First Edition Hardback (2017) | eBay
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">A first edition hardback copy of Hasty for the Dark: Selected Stories by Adam L.G. Nevill, published by Ritual Limited in 2017 and limited to 300 co...
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December 18, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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Now available from Fossa Books!

A signed, special edition hardback copy of The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab. published by Titan Books in 2019 and featuring a new introduction, a Q & A with the author, and the short story 'The Ash-Born Boy'

Β£65 + shipping.

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The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab - Signed Special Edition Hardback (2019) | eBay
A signed, special edition hardback copy of The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab, published by Titan Books in 2019. - A new introduction by V.E. Schwab. - A new map design of the town of Near, illustrated by ...
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December 18, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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I am aware of that, we are the same person.
April 10, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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Learning German at school was when I first realised that inanimate objects were gendered, that's wild.
April 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM