Example images from Lukas Birk's Polaroids From The Middle Kingdom: Old & New World Visions Of China #SecondhandBookshopFinds

Swains Lane, Highgate

Tall Italianate Houses

North London Trains

Untitled Cornish landscape

Another illustrated Betjeman, this time Summoned By Bells with watercolours and line drawings by Hugh Casson #SecondhandBookshopFinds #JohnBetjeman #HughCasson

Jericho

Scout

The Cherwell

Trinity College

A 1979 edition of a John Betjeman book, An Oxford University Chest, originally published in 1938 and chiefly of interest to me because most of the photographs are by László Moholy-Nagy #SecondhandBookshopFinds #JohnBetjeman #LászlóMoholyNagy #Oxford

Alexandra Exter's set design for a production of Romeo & Juliet, 1922

Front cover

Catalogue for Art In Revolution: Soviet Art & Design Since 1917 at the Hayward, London, 1971 #SecondhandBookshopFinds #Constructivism #SovietArt #HaywardGallery

Interior of the chapel

Front cover, with David Jones' Tabernacle At Capel-Y-Ffin

Jonathan Miles' Eric Gill & David Jones At Capel-Y-Ffin, a useful-looking if at times necessarily hair-raising primer #SecondhandBookshopFinds #EricGill #DavidJones #EwyasValley

Rope-making with horse hair, South Uist, 1936

Front cover

Michael Russell's A Different Country: The Photographs Of Werner Kissling - Kissling a German aristocrat who became an ethnographer and photographer in the Hebrides in the 1930s. He blew his fortune and ended up dying in a Dumfries care home. #SecondhandBookshopFinds #WernerKissling

Detail of one sketch

Front cover

Playful, characterful and so fresh they jump, or perhaps gambol, off the page #SecondhandBookshopFinds #HenryMoore #Sheep

The Last Of England (1855), inspired by emigration to Australia

Cover on gorgeous heavy textured paper

Catalogue from Ford Madox Brown exhibition at the Walker, Liverpool, in 1964. Beautiful simple cover and, within, an astonishing painting #SecondhandBookshopFinds #FordMadoxBrown #WalkerArtGallery

Cover, showing a church tower in sunlight on a distant horizon

Farmhouse on a hillside divided up by low stone walls

Cobbled alley way

Sunlight through woodland canopy

Fay Godwin & Ted Hughes' Remains Of Elmet (1979) #SecondHandBookshopFinds #FayGodwin #TedHughes

Cover

Camden Lock, 2010

Lithograph of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Covent Garden, 1980

Wood engraving for a press ad for The Sunday Telegraph, 1961

David Gentleman's My Town: An Artist's Life In London, published in 2020 #DavidGentleman #SecondHandBookshopFinds #London

Laytons typesetters, London EC4

Obviously this doesn't look like much, but I just like the idea of there having been a National Book League

Everetts advertising agency, using WG Easton's illustrations

WS Cowell graphic design, Ipswich

... and finally from Alphabet & Image, four ads #AlphabetAndImage #Advertising #GraphicDesign #SecondHandBookshopFinds

Front cover

From Simon Nowell-Smith's article The Phonotypes Of Robert Bridges

From Simon Nowell-Smith's article The Phonotypes Of Robert Bridges

From AF Johnson's article Fat Faces: Their History, Forms & Use

An extended selection from Alphabet & Image issue 5, published September 1947 (tbc) #SecondHandBookshopFinds #AlphabetAndImage #Typography #RobertBridges #EdwardJohnston

Front cover, featuring the photograph Four Trees, Rannoch Moor

Stones Of Stenness, Orkney

Boardale, Cumbria

Barbary Castle Clump, Spring

Fay Godwin's photobook Land, published in 1985 #FayGodwin #LandscapePhotography #SecondHandBookshopFinds

Catalogue cover

Roger Fry, not to mention two unacknowledged women, in the Omega Workshops

Duncan Grant's Pamela (daughter of Roger & Helen Fry), 1911

Vanessa Bell, Abstract Composition, 1914

A catalogue for the exhibition The Omega Workshops: Alliance & Enmity In English Art 1911-1920, held at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in 1984 #OmegaWorkshops #BloomsburyGroup #RogerFry #VanessaBell #DuncanGrant #SecondhandBookshopFinds

I'm going to try to use this account to post pictures from volumes found in secondhand bookshops using the hashtag #SecondhandBookshopFinds