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| The very familiar Enid Blyton hardback shelf |
Today I visited the Cottage Bookshop to stock up my bookshelf, it's a wonderful second hand bookshop which many people come to from miles around. For me, it's like an Aladdin's Cave of books- a treasure trove of books! As it's quite an old building its a fantastic place to explore with creaking staircases and rooms filled with bookshelves and books piled up on the floor too in every nook and cranny. I found out today that there are a total of 65,000 books and it's quite a small building too. It makes me wonder how long some of the books have been there, hidden behind 2 rows of books in front of them! Any type of book you could ever want is there, it's a book lover's paradise.
They have a large section filled with Enid Blyton books there and over a few years I collected around 100 of them which I still have. There are also many children's classics there too such as Little Woman, some of them are very old and valuable editions. I found many rare hardback Angela Brazil girl's school stories today, one of them was printed in 1926, possibly a first edition?
I could spend all day in there reading and exploring but the amount I spend there is always more than I expect it will be! Here are some photos that I took there to share with you and of me reading
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| Looking down the staircase |
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| Me caught reading |
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| A 1st edition Angela Brazil book |
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| Upstairs corridoor |
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| Part of the children's section |
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| The books that I bought |
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Me looking out of the window  |
Do you have a favourite second-hand bookshop near you?
