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Month: August 2016

¡Gracias y adiós!

Update includes the top 10 posts at time of closure.

Selling well off the top of the street organ in London

Clarence Day’s This Simian World.

Chinese tourist detained in German refugee centre after trying to report wallet theft

Take at least a phrasebook, if not an interpreter, if you come from Distantlandia and want to visit the German police.

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  • John Rutter: Delineations of the North Western Division of the county of Somerset and of its antediluvian bone caverns (1829) £160.00
  • Frank Stevens, Heywood Sumner: Stonehenge today and yesterday (1916) £7.07
  • Nicholas Barrington: The caves of Mendip (1957) £28.00
  • Leonard Woolley: Ur excavations Vol 4 the early periods (1956) £200.00
  • Louis Deglatigny: Documents et notes archéologiques, 1e fascicule (1925) £16.00

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