James Fraser
@glasskeybooks.bsky.social
Owner of The Glass Key bookshop in the Cité de l’Ecrit, Montmorillon, France. I sell secondhand and antiquarian books from my bricks-and-mortar shop and also via the internet.
After Trump’s ignorant rudeness and Vance’s puerile inaninities it’s good to see Britain (and Starmer) have the sense and courage to offer Zelensky a proper welcome.
March 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
After Trump’s ignorant rudeness and Vance’s puerile inaninities it’s good to see Britain (and Starmer) have the sense and courage to offer Zelensky a proper welcome.
Amazing. Steve Bannon is not all bad!
January 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Amazing. Steve Bannon is not all bad!
The perfect Christmas gift for an elderly relative?
December 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM
The perfect Christmas gift for an elderly relative?
It may not be Angel Adams but it is a full moon - and the last in 2024
December 16, 2024 at 8:10 AM
It may not be Angel Adams but it is a full moon - and the last in 2024
Interviewed a schoolgirl who wants to come and work for a week as a school project. After the family left I noticed that prominently top of a pile of books awaiting cataloguing was a copy of Lolita! I did not suggest a lake swim with her mother!
November 27, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Interviewed a schoolgirl who wants to come and work for a week as a school project. After the family left I noticed that prominently top of a pile of books awaiting cataloguing was a copy of Lolita! I did not suggest a lake swim with her mother!
Listing a book on Torquemada I found a note bound in
"When the binders came to bind the last 500 copies they found that all the illustrations which were stored in another warehouse, had been destroyed by enemy action. It has unfortunately proved possible to replace only the frontispiece."
"When the binders came to bind the last 500 copies they found that all the illustrations which were stored in another warehouse, had been destroyed by enemy action. It has unfortunately proved possible to replace only the frontispiece."
November 24, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Listing a book on Torquemada I found a note bound in
"When the binders came to bind the last 500 copies they found that all the illustrations which were stored in another warehouse, had been destroyed by enemy action. It has unfortunately proved possible to replace only the frontispiece."
"When the binders came to bind the last 500 copies they found that all the illustrations which were stored in another warehouse, had been destroyed by enemy action. It has unfortunately proved possible to replace only the frontispiece."
Today was a genuine Black Friday event at The Glass Key: not only did not a single customer enter the shop, but I saw not a single person walking past on rue de la Poelerie
November 23, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Today was a genuine Black Friday event at The Glass Key: not only did not a single customer enter the shop, but I saw not a single person walking past on rue de la Poelerie
Only the French…… you can get a job at the hospital in Montmorillon and immediately go on strike!
November 16, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Only the French…… you can get a job at the hospital in Montmorillon and immediately go on strike!
“There must be somewhere out of here” said the joker to the thief.
November 16, 2024 at 1:46 PM
“There must be somewhere out of here” said the joker to the thief.