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Post by dem bones on Aug 22, 2011 19:23:05 GMT
sad news, i'm afraid. Though the sign of the twin typewriters still stand on the Bethnal Green Road, they no longer denote a little slice of pulp paperback heaven. Having given it his best shot, Milan is now engrossing himself in a new challenge although he will still have a stall at this years Zardoz Book Fair and there may well be a site on eBay (details when i get 'em). Not my place to state the reasons - it's Milan's business if he wants to make them public - but it is always horrible to lose a bookshop and this was the most special i've hung out in since the Fantasy Centre closed its doors for last time. weird thing, it was two years ago to the day that i first met Milan. i was on some heavy duty Argos business for the bride, thought i'd take a short cut through Spitalfields market and there's this tall, tattooed fellow running a stall that looks Paperback Fanatic come to life! Rummaging through my pockets, i've got a measly £2.50 but that was enough to secure a copy of Brian Ball's long-sought Lessons For The Damned and next visit, i hit his horror stash with a vengeance. i consider myself blessed to have followed the adventure from the market, through the weekend spot at the Old Trumans Brewery and finally onto that weird and wonderful shop. i would like to say a very public "Thank You!", not only to my friend Milan for livening the place up so, but also the strange creatures i'd encounter shambling through the shop who were never anything less than courteous (the Hells A chap from the tattoo parlour a few doors down was charm itself)! i am sure those who were lucky enough to enjoy the full-on TYPE experience will join me in wishing Milan the very best for the future! well done, my friend. it was brilliant while it lasted.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 22, 2011 21:06:51 GMT
These bookshops are like personal friends. Very sorry to hear another one bites the dust.
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Post by killercrab on Aug 22, 2011 23:50:00 GMT
Damn , Johnny buy all his stock then ? KC
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Post by pulphack on Aug 23, 2011 11:57:38 GMT
sad to see this go, although its people like me who don't helps espite being just down the central line i only ever got there once (with the help of Dem and Fosters).
Milan is a diamond bloke and i wish him well in what comes next. to zardoz, then...
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Post by sara on Aug 29, 2011 13:51:38 GMT
This is sad news. I popped in here once on my way Wilton’s and thought it was great – such a wonderful selection of books. Best of luck in whatever they choose to do next.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 29, 2011 15:59:59 GMT
the shop still remains, it's just milan and the books have departed. i hope to see him soon so will pass on everyone's best. see anything good at Wilton's, sara? not been in there for a while but we're practically next door neighbours (the bride and me live high up in one of those oh so aesthetically pleasing crumbling tower blocks at the other end of the alley). when the world catches up, realises how great i am and throws money in my general direction, Wilton's will be vault's for a massive book-fair cum debauch.
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Post by sara on Aug 31, 2011 8:16:20 GMT
Ooh, you’re lucky living so close to Wilton’s – it must be one of my favourite places! Last I was there was to see Marc Almond - there was a magic show too - I think it was a fundraiser for the venue. Yeah, Wilton's would be a great place for a book fair.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 31, 2011 10:34:12 GMT
you know, i might just enquire about that .... those of you who've yet to experience the magic of Wiltons Music Hall, might like to take the VIRTUAL TOUR. i mean, is that the dream vault: in conjunction with Haunted Hearts venue or what?
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Post by dem bones on Sept 13, 2011 5:43:34 GMT
many thanks to my dear friends Milan and Pulphack for the pleasure of their company on Friday afternoon. delightful to see you both again and catch up on everything in a relaxed environment - i.e., the park at back of the now derelict Shoreditch Station. as ever, much swapping and showing of books - Milan had landed a hardback of 'Peter Saxon's The Curse Of Rathlaw - and i am immensely grateful to the gents for another pair of dubious 'Men Of Violence' titles - PF legends Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir's Destroyer 12: Slave Safari and Will Manson's A Talent For Violence - plus that elusive Panther edition of Gillian Tindall's A Handbook On Witches (scans & details to follow). after waving goodbye to Milan, pulps and me thought we'd try Spitalfields Market on the off chance there might be a bookstall or two lurking amidst all the trendy "vintage clothing." There was! A German girl, there for just the day, had a particularly impressive stash of recent raves at a very reasonable £3 a go, so i finally have copies of Chris Priestley's Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror and Tales Of Terror From The Black Ship! Uncle Montague .... provided a dilemma that may well reduced a lesser man to a quivering jelly. The young lady had fiendishly sat a copy each of the two editions side by side to provide a straight choice between the original with David Roberts' gorgeous illustrations, and the recent paperback repackaged for rotten grown ups and including an extra story. Which would win out? Do you really need to ask? Also landed Michael Sims Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseurs Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories (Bloomsbury, 2010 and paperback due around now). A bit of an extravagance this, nothing in there most of you won't have already but a very attractively packaged item and dirt cheap, proved too irresistible. Will post the table of contents, etc., later. thanks for the pint in Dirty Dicks, Andy!
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Post by pulphack on Sept 16, 2011 7:53:20 GMT
it was a pleasurable afternoon, and we'll say nothing of the pre-war Saint omnibus that i picked up and had Dem drooling - he got the Priestley's first, and that evens it up! also nice to see mila and perhaps there will be a rising from the ashes for a few projects as a result of this. we'll see.
sadly for mr m, despite his flashing of the Peter Saxon h/b (a Howard Baker Press - i've seen loads of Blake and Quintain h/bs from him, but never a Guardians! are you reading, Sev? any ideas?), he soon looked a little baffled as dem and self got a bit carried away with tales of non-league football.
day ended in the Great Eastern, where mrs ph used to work back when she was a teenager, so nostalgia all round, really.
while i'm at it, as i can't find the thread despite looking - a kind of vault dyslexia, perhaps - Lord P! sue lloyd of crossroads and corruption fame - indeed, she is superb in the latter, but to me she'll always be dyed blonde and David Hunter's second wife Barbara, a romance novelist. incidentally, she and ronnie (david hunter, The Projected Man) allengot on so well that they ended up married in the real world, and she nursed him through his terminal cancer. this despite him being gay prior to marrying her. a truely crossroads twist to life. (not that his sexuality actually matters, it just seems so very crossie moving into real life)
and finally... those who mock might do well to note that the crossroads carers trust - set up by ATV initially after a storyline concerning a downs syndrome girl* and there to provide respite care for carers and their loved ones - is still going strong, 23 years after the original series went down. is there another soap that has ever done anything so practical?
*played by a genuine downs syndrome actor, too. and eastenders thinks it's so radical...
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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2011 22:28:28 GMT
pulps, most of the Crossroads stuff had attached itself limpet-like to Captain bloody Nice, so i've surgically removed it to a thread of it's own HERE - it's already spilled over onto a second page. That Saint Omnibus looks terrific. i've started trying to match the episodes i particularly like to the Charteris stories they're adapted from, then decide what collections i'm after. i think there are in the region of a ninety odd books and, even in the unlikely event of landing the lot, i doubt i'd wanna read that many.
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Post by severance on Sept 17, 2011 7:40:48 GMT
(a Howard Baker Press - i've seen loads of Blake and Quintain h/bs from him, but never a Guardians! are you reading, Sev? any ideas?) Sorry, feeling a bit dense this morning...ideas about what?
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Post by dem bones on Sept 17, 2011 7:59:30 GMT
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Post by pulphack on Sept 17, 2011 8:09:42 GMT
that's the one! sorry for being obtuse, sev - that fine piece of work comes from a time when i couldn't spend much time looking at the vault and so i missed it! cracking. and it does make you wonder - why most but not ALL guardians in h/b?!
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