Beck Valley Books & more: December 2010

For Bloggers Beck Valley Books is an influential book review site and book tour host - Book Reviewer Yellow Pages A dream to work with, professional, helpful beyond measure plus working with her is one of the best things I've done to promote my eBook - author Lisa Consiglio Ryan I love working with you - you're kind, encouraging and effective! Thanks for all you do for all of us authors! - author Kaira Rouda I knew I had met someone who would handle my books like they were her own. Truly a pleasure doing business with you! - author Melissa Foster Your service and perseverance to assure that the tour ran smoothly enabled its success. I cannot express my appreciation enough - author Joyce Strand Amazingly organized, efficient and stays on top of the details. Her professionalism is outstanding, communication skills unparalleled and she's even rather adept at hand-holding when it is necessary - author Barbara Boswell Brunner Thanks so much to you and all of your wonderful reviewers! I've had phenomenal success from this blog tour - author Delia Colvin

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Merry Christmas

We would like to wish all our customers -

A Very Merry Christmas

and

A Very Happy New Year x

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Rare Books added today to www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk

Rare Books added today to http://www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk/

Branigan, James J The Reformation in Yorkshire - H262

Childrens Special Service Mission Choruses - Music and Words

Cook, Robin Stockton Past in Old Picture Postcards

Crosthwaite, Richard Ancient Cleveland From The Air

Gilchrist, R Murray Ripon and Harrogate - Beautiful England

Gradidge, Emily Nell The Clowns Wife or How The Poor Help Each Other

Haydn, J The Creation - An Oratorio in Vocal Score - Novellos Edition

Stevenson, R L The Merry Men and Other Tales - Tusitala Edition - Volume VIII / 8

Temple, Crona About the Feathered Folk - The Quiet Hour Series

The Power Gas Corporation and Ashmore, Benson & Pease & Company The Stockton Scene

Various Nature - A Weekly Journal of Science - Volume 152 - July 3 1943 to December 25 1943

Friday, December 17, 2010

Books added today to www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk

Books added today to http://www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk/

Barker, Pat Life Class

Ford, G M A Blind Eye

Heyer, Georgette Cotillion

Heyer, Georgette These Old Shades

Hornby, Nick Juliet, Naked

Kellerman, Faye The Ritual Bath

Moore, Rachel A Cornish Maid

Nesbo, Jo The Redbreast

Rowling, J K Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Ryan, Chris The Increment

Sergeant, John Give Me Ten Seconds

Southgate, Gareth Woody and Nord - A Football Friendship

Tolkien, J R R The Two Towers - The Lord of the Rings Part 2

Vernon, Tom Fat Man on a Roman Road

Wight, Jim The Real James Herriot - The Authorized Biography

Monday, December 13, 2010

Books added today to www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk

Books added today to http://www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk/

Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Burke, James Lee Jolie Blons Bounce

Coelho, Paulo Veronika Decides to Die

Connor, Ken Ghost Force - The Secret History of the SAS

Cornwell, Bernard Azincourt

Douglass, Keith Seal Team Seven - Under Siege

Ghosh, Amitav Sea of Poppies

James, P D The Private Patient

Lazenby, John Test of Time - Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend

Ryan, Chris Land of Fire

Smith, Andrew Moondust - In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

Tolkien, J R R The Hobbit

Wingfield, R D A Touch of Frost

Wingfield, R D Hard Frost

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Books added today to www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk

Books added today to http://www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk/

Bellamy, David Jolly Green Giant

Dewar, Isla Secrets of a Family Album

Ford, Richard The Lay of the Land

Goldstone, Lawrence The Anatomy of Deception

Jacobs, Gerald Sacred Games

Langdon, John Wordplay - The Philosophy, Art and Science of Ambigrams

Lillywhite, David Aston Martin - The Complete Story

Pepper, Andrew Kill-Devil and Water

Pitman, Jenny On the Edge

Porter, Valerie Tales Old Country Vets

Smith, Ed On and Off the Field

Spalding, Frances Paper Darts - The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf

Friday, December 10, 2010

Books added today to www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk

Books added today to http://www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk/

Alcott, Louisa M Jos Boys - Blackies Famous Books

Davidson, Lillias Campbell Uncle Joshuas Heiress - Which Shall it Be ?

Heyer, Georgette Arabella

Heyer, Georgette The Black Moth

Kingsley, Charles Westward Ho !

Lee, Laurie Cider with Rosie - Folio Society with Pictorial Box Sleeve

Parkin, Ray The Sword and the Blossom

Ransford, Oliver Livingstones Lake - The Drama of Nyasa

Rockwood, Roy Bomba The Jungle Boy

Shakespeare, William Shakespeares Comedy of A Midsummer Nights Dream - Folio Society with Box Sleeve

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Rare Books added today to www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk

Rare Books added today to http://www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk/

Cassell and Company Pictorial London

Cocking, W T Wireless Servicing Manual

Elias, Eduard Holland

Everett, J D Deschanels Natural Philosophy - Volume I / 1

Lavington, G W The Latest Radio Inside Out 1942 - 1943

Lewis, E J G Radio Receiver Servicing and Maintenance

Rolfe, R T Foundry Work and Metallurgy - Volume II / 2

Wastell, W L F The Ensign Handbook of Photography

Wittich, W M Wittichs German Tales for Beginners

Wright, Lewis The Induction Coil in Practical Work

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Rare Books added today to www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk

Rare Books added today to http://www.beckvalleybooks.co.uk/

Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue The Commonwealth Catalogue of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Postage Stamps 1954 - Coronation Edition

Ronald, Landon The Music Lovers Portfolio - Volume 1

Ronald, Landon The Music Lovers Portfolio - Volume 4

Royal Air Force Royal Air Force Fitters Handbook

Thackeray, W M The Newcomes - Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

Twist, B P W The Autocar Handbook - A Guide to the Modern Car - Twelfth Edition

Watts, Isaac Watts on the Improvement of The Mind and a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth

Whitfield King & Co Standard Catalogue of Postage Stamps 1919

My Book Vow

I will continue to treasure my books every day

To admire them all on display

There gilted titling on colourful covers and spines

There beautiful designs that seem to come to life

To cherish my most precious book

To hold it in my hands and connect to the story and characters

Escaping into another world as

You gently turn each page

Feeling the books own unique history

The smell of the old pages and print

Books are our history, present and our future

Without them the world would be a very sad place indeed

by Sharon Martin

Our Favourite Book Quote

We were reading a book the other day and laughed out loud when we realised we could of been reading about ourselves or any other bookseller for that matter, we thought you might enjoy the little snippet....

However dull and dingy the shop may have appeared in the eyes of most people, to one person it was the most delightful spot on earth, and that person was none other than the owner of this collection of literature, some of which was remarkable for its antiquity if nothing else.

Bartholomew Stranges whole world was in his shop, beyond it he had no ambition, no affection, no desires. He loved his books simply for their own sakes, not for what he got by them, indeed it cost him such a pang to part with them, that if it had not been a necessity he would have refused to do so. Often if anyone wished to purchase a favourite book he would put a large price on it so as to keep it in his own possession, and be willing to wear the scantiest clothes, and live on the plainest food, if by this means he could keep his precious treasures.....

From Beckie's Mission or Mr Bartholomew's Little Girl by L Marston, published by John F Shaw & Co, circa 1919