 Calling all Indiana Jones fans! This is a fantastic book about everything you've always wanted to know about the thrilling classic movie series Indiana Jones, starring the brilliant Harrison Ford! Foreword by director Steven Spielberg; preface by George Lucas (Star Wars) and many, many sketches, storyboards, set pictures, interviews, posters and much, much more! £25 + £5.50 P&P, second class medium parcel, Royal Mail (UK). Please note that there is a small tear and slight fraying in one corner of dust jacket. If interested, contact us on twitter or facebook @ArcanePub You can watch a detailed (and illustrated) review of the book by an expert below:            This is a terrific book for fans of the iconic 1960s TV series The Avengers! Everything you've always wanted to know about the making of the superb English series! Loads of great promo pictures, set photographs, cast credits, and synopses of each episode - all 161 of them! Starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed, Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale, Diana Rigg as the uber-iconic Emma Peel and Linda Thorson as Tara King. The book touches rather briefly on 1976 The New Avengers series featuring Joanna Lumley (no pictures). £12 collection from Fortuneswell, Dorset OR £14 including P&P anywhere in the UK, second class Royal mail!
      Following up on our previous blog, we've gone out and bought some MORE stock... We just cannot help ourselves! We really need to open this online bookshop, don't we?  Brand new stock ready to be catalogued and priced up! In the meantime, next week, we'll be adding a few items to our shelves in the unit we share with Matt ArtPix... Do you love the new series of ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL on Channel 5? We loved the first episode and cannot wait to see the next ones! So why not read the books which have inspired the series? We have just acquired seven books by James Herriot! Five lovely little paperbacks with cover illustrations by one of our favourite artists, Thelwell (we collect his books!). I cannot think of an artist more appropriate for this series of books! They will be sold as one neat little bundle.  And we've got two more substantial hardback books of his too!
 Now for something completely different: We have acquired a 1984 edition of the DUNE trilogy. The very same year, cult director David Lynch made the movie inspired by the books! It is being remade again for modern audiences and should be released sometime soon... It probably won't be as crazy as the 80s one, though.
9/2/2020 New in stock... And... I have done it again! Our shelves are absolutely packed full of books - the Arcane Books stock (Arcane Books is what I am calling the pre-loved, vintage and rare book trading side of Arcane Publishing). As all the events we were supposed to attend with Matt ArtPix have been cancelled, we have all our stock safely at home waiting for the online bookshop to open. We've had to postpone this because of the very uncertain climate, but we hope to be able to open a "proper" online shop in 2021 in order to sell all our pre-loved, vintage and rare books as well as our vintage ephemera. So we were not going to get any new stock until things are up and running properly again but, of course, as we've started to venture out, we've found some lovely items to add to our shelves (and to Miss Gish's collection...) Here are the brand new items we've acquired which will be added to the stock shelves! We will do more details posting when they are on sale - at an event or in the online shop next year... First of all, cinema books... This is our biggest section - just because we do love classic cinema and always end of acquiring yet more books about what the French call "the 7th Art"!
If you read Miss Gish's blog posts, you'll know that she has her own collection of illustrated books, children's books and others (she also has an extensive collection of art books and ... cinema books!) We have acquired a nice little stash of lovely vintage booklets and small books - some a bit knackered but most full of great illustrations or pictures.
 Fab mid-century find! A gorgeous little illustrated catalogue for "Andrew Merryfield Ltd, Kensington, London, makers of Furni-Kit.  A look back at the 1970s. 8/6/2020 The Right Place: new pub date! We have now worked out a new publishing schedule for Miss Gish's first Dorset-based third novel, The Right Place.
It will be published in January or February 2022 (if everything goes well and we have the funds!). We are making plans going forward but at the moment, it is very difficult to plan ahead and start implementing projects, so we are being very patient and cautious... Watch this space! 7/26/2020 We're back! Watch this space... After taking a short break, we are back!
A lot of things are happening at the Arcane/ArtPix HQ, and we will be spending the next few weeks plotting our next moves, even though things are still pretty much up in the air with the pandemic... Miss Gish is still aiming at completing the first draft of The Right Place in December 2020 with a provisional pub date of January 2022. We have decided to wait until next year before we launch the Arcane Publishing online shop as things are still too vague at the moment with the COVID-19 crisis and Brexit. Watch this space! 7/10/2020 Introducing... The ArtPix Magazine! Matt ArtPix, who is also the designer and typesetter for all our books, flyers, promo material and more, has just completed his lockdown project: Issue 1 of his very own magazine! The ArtPix Magazine is a "Vintage-themed magazine by Matt ArtPix, with articles and features including music, classic movies, retro football, plus photos and digital artwork." Have a Look-see, it's rather fab! The focus of the mag is colourful design, and Matt has designed the pages to all look different, and he has experimented with various styles... Issue 2 is already being put together as we speak! It has given us the idea to produce a teaser booklet for our third publication The Right Place on Issuu, hopefully by the end of August. Watch this space! You can read the full magazine for free HERE! Here's a sneak preview of a few pages...     6/29/2020 Discount on damaged copies of The Book of Thoth and more novels in our unit in West Bay... A burst pipe in the Arcane Publishing office has damaged some of our stock!
2020 just keeps on giving, doesn't it? We therefore have nine copies of The Book of Thoth for sale at a massive discounted price and I will be putting them in our unit in West Bay this week. This breaks our heart as printing this book has been a big expense, but we do not wish to flog damaged copies at full price. We are also freeing some shelf space in our HQ and will be adding loads of novels to the bookshelf in the unit. The selling prices will be between 50p and £2, so if you are on holiday in West Dorset and haven't got anything to read, then head down to West Bay this weekend and you'll find some replenished shelves waiting for you! We are a bit gutted as we have lost three pretty good items of stock due to the leak, but it could have been worse. And we've had to empty the whole office so we've got a lot of sorting out to do once the floorboards and carpet have dried out! 6/19/2020 SPRING SHOPPING 22 - Camp by Mark Booth
#25 Camp 1983 1st edition Fair condition Some tearing, fraying and slight yellowing on dust jacket Hardback, dust jacket W.H Smith/Doubleday Book Club edition originally slightly damaged in transit. What is "Camp"?This book's aim is to explore the meaning of the word, identify what "Camp" means and explores the "Camp" phenomenon in history, art, fashion, music, society and beyond. FOR SALE £15 (This includes P&P within UK, sent by Royal Mail second class.) If you wished to get this item, please DM us on Twitter or Facebook. If sold, I'll indicate this by editing the post. 
        #24 Twiggy: A Life in Photographs 2009 Excellent condition Hardback This National Portrait Gallery publication, now out of print, was published in conjunction with a small exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. It is full of wonderful colour and black and white photographs of the internationally famous model who was THE face of the "Swinging London" of the 1960s. FOR SALE £15 (This includes P&P within UK, sent by Royal Mail second class.) If you wished to get this item, please DM us on Twitter or Facebook. If sold, I'll indicate this by editing the post.              |
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