Welcome to ABfaR.......

ABfaR Blog

With approaching 10,000 books we carry a reasonable level of stock for sale in...
 

Military and Naval History, mainly of WW2 but with a reasonable selection on earlier and later periods...

North East Suffolk History and Topography - some old, mostly collectable with a few modern titles...

Early to mid-20th century popular fiction, eg. Dornford Yates, Edgar Wallace, Nevil Shute, PG Wodehouse, etc...

 
....and also carry general fiction and smaller quantities of stock in many differing subject areas including biographies, children's and illustrated, British and European history, essays, drama, poetry, travel, transport, etc...

Please browse our catalogues, use the search facility and enquire if you are not sure. Enjoy...!

Some highlights from our stock.....

 


The Lady's Monthly Museum - Six issues of the ladies' monthly magazine from 1800 each with an original coloured fashion plate

 

Brookes' General Gazetteer - of the known world of 1794, with six folding maps, a recent rebind

 

Robert Hichens : We Fought them in Gunboats - the John Spencer / Badger Books issue of the classic account of Coastal Forces with the censored bits restored

 

 

Edward Planta : A New Picture of Paris - the 14th edition of 1825, the compleate guide to Paris for the traveller

 

 

Tobias Wolff : Ugly Rumours - the American author's first book, a novel of the Vietnam war, which he later repudiated

 

 

 

A Collection of 19 Chapbooks, priced at 1d, 2d and 3d, dating from about 1830-55, bound in a single volume

 Page last amended: 26th October 2009