Short article on old bookmarks and bookstores: Gilbert's Books and Caravan Bookshop
https://open.substack.com/pub/paperbackshow/p/more-bookmarks-and-bookshops?r=ppxw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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New post on the "Writers of the Other Europe" series of books edited by Philip Roth that featured Eastern European writers like Bruno Schulz

https://paperbackshow.substack.com/p/philip-roth-and-the-writers-from

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my review of Peter Ackroyd's recent biography of the poet W. H. Auden

https://open.substack.com/pub/paperbackshow/p/sloven-genius-auden-by-peter-ackroyd?r=ppxw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Hard boiled frankenstein cover by Robert McGuire. 1966

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Snow Country by Kawabat is my April reading challenge novel. Wonderful short novel on love and its deceptions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Seidensticker

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Dover cover art for Sheridan Le Fanu's sensation novels.

https://open.substack.com/pub/paperbackshow/p/cover-of-the-week-guy-deverell-by?r=ppxw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Surprising history of the paperback vending machine.

https://paperbackshow.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-paperback-vending

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Book ephemera: Edinburgh tram ticket 1950's.

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Pocket Books "Book-O-Mat" vending machine.

https://rickygrove.blogspot.com/2026/04/pocket-books-book-o-mat-paperback.html

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