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armchairbooks

  1. When I'm through with you, you're gonna need a new spine! #booksellingthreats
  2. PSA: we aren't buying textbooks, at least not ones that look like textbooks. We don't really sell many. Suggest @blackwelledin, who do.
  3. As Major Major said, "my job is tough enough already without having to deal with a lot of PEOPLE who all WANT something."
  4. Sex! Not the popular act, but odd (heavily illustrated) book by Madonna (not the Blessed Virgin, obv.). It has METAL COVERS. £60 #newbooks
  5. Soft leather Ancient Mariner; ills + lettering by Pogany. 1910. £260. VG+. #newbooks #collectible
  6. @JohnnyHistone hey, ya want qualified surgeons, don't go to a bookshop; ya want French political text, don't go to the hospital. Unless...
  7. Heeey, whyn'cha buy a book already? What are you, cheap? These books is cheaps but they's good, real good.
  8. Who knew net book taxonomy could be such FUN?
  9. Bookselling #ff @mybookhell @misscourtneys @SeagullAndChips @EdinburghBooks
  10. Yeah, well, do your precious Oxfam pencil sarcastic asides in the prelims of their books? Fucking thought not.
  11. #newbooks Boris Johnson - Seventy Two Virgins. Comic terrorism thriller. S. Times says 'reminiscent of Tom Sharpe' £2.50 WHOSE FAULT IS THIS
  12. @Neal_Photos Saw that quote on a poster on the Tube once. Someone had written underneath 'THAT'S WHY I TAKE THE DISTRICT LINE'. Fantastic.
  13. AB endorses The Maun Safety Rule for measuring books. Don't know what it's keeping us safe from, but it must be working!
  14. Note to humourless corporate litigation-bots: previous tweet was a joke, obviously.
  15. AB unlikely to get corporate sponsorship for being on Olympic Torch route. Wish I cd say we're OFFICIAL 2ND-HAND BOOKSTORE FOR LONDON 2012
  16. @misscourtneys Thanks! I try...
  17. @SeagullAndChips The worst are the divorced men here to rebuild collection + tell me about their divorce. BITCH TOOK MY SHITTY PAPERBACKS
  18. Never good to be asked by one's boss if one is making monkey noises at work. It was the intro to Watermelon Man ACTUALLY.