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More absolutely fabulous #spredges gorgeousness: the paperback edition of Olivia Lang's The Garden Against Time, out this week from Picador

#books #livres #OliviaLang #TheGardenAgainstTime #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

top down and slightly to the side view of a stack of copies of The Garden Against Time, to show off the colourful spredges (painted edges of the pages)

How fantabulously fab is this Penguin Classics hardback of L Frank Baum's fantasy classic, The Wizard of Oz (plus Emerald City, & Glinda)? The spredges are like a frieze, with scenes and characters running around from the bottom to the side to the top

#books #livres #Oz #fantasy #spredges #LFrankBaum# #TheWizardOfOz #PenguinClassics #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies

front and side view of the special Wizard of Oz hardback, showing the painted edges (spredges)

side on view of the painted edges (spredges) on the special hardback Wizard of Oz

Front cover, suitably in emerald green shades, for a hardback of The Wizard of Oz

How fantabulously luscious is this new TJ Klune novel, The Bones Beneath my Skin, with amazing, colurful spredges ?

Out now from Macmillan /Tor Books

#books #livres #fantasy #TJKlune #TheBonesBeneathMySkin #spredges #FantasyBooks #Tor #Bookstodon #bookshops #librairies

hardback of The Bones Beneath my Skin, the new TJ Klune novel, held at an angle to show both the cover and the spredges (painted page edges)

Super shiny collector's edition klaxon 🚨!!!

Gorgeous signed version of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, with spredges and a new short story.

#books #ScienceFiction #livres #romance #TimeTravel #TheMinistryOfTime #KalianeBradley #SphereBooks #bookshops #librairies #SignedBooks #CollectorsEdition #spredges #shiny #bookstodon

very shiny, silver cover with colourful writing for a collector's edition of Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, outside the Edinburgh Bookshop

How gorgeous is this new Wendy Cope Collected Poems edition, complete with floral spredges?? Just arrived from Faber Books.

#poetry #books #livres #ChooseBookshops #WendyCope #CollectedPoems #FaberAndFaber #bookshops #librairies #spredges #bookstodon

A copy of Collected Poems by Wendy Cope, in a black covered hardback with colourful tulips on the cover, and another tulip painted on the black-edged pages, outside the Edinburgh Bookshop

How utterly fantabulous is the signed, Independent Bookshop Edition of TJ Klune's Somewhere Beyond the Sea ??? Limited numbers, get them quickly!!

(and yes, we are singing *that* song now, of course we are)

#books #livres #fantasy #ChooseBookshops #TJKlune #SomewhereBeyondTheSea #spredges #fantasy #bookshops #librairies #EdinburghBookshop #Tor

End-papers for the signed, independent bookshop edition of TJ Klune's Somewhere Beyond the Sea hardback, depicting flames

signed, independent bookshop edition of TJ Klune's Somewhere Beyond the Sea hardback, with spredges depicting flames, outside the Edinburgh bookshop

Admiring the rather fabulous spredges on The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable, just arrived from Bloomsbury

#books #livres #ChooseBookshops #TheInstrumentalist #HarrietConstable #Spredges #fiction #roman #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Cover for The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable, with a scene of a violinist in Venice, drawn within the outline of a violin, tilted to one side to show the colourful spredges (sprayed edges) of the pages.

How gorgeous are the spredges on Benjamin Myer's new Rare Singles from Bloomsbury ???

#books #livres #BenjaminMyers #spredges #PaintedEdges #fiction #RareSingles #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers, light, sky blue cover with clouds and birds, held side on to show the spredges (painted edges) depicting more sky and a bird

How fantabulous is HQStories's hardback edition of Ellie Keel's Four?

Spredges! Colours! Maps! Lovely endpapers!

Signed copies in stock now!!!

#books #livres #ChooseBookshops #EllieKeel #Librairies #Bookshops #Spredges #TheFour #HQStories #bookstodon

black and white etching style illustration of large country house and surrounding estate with clock tower, streams and other buildings

Side-on view of the cover of Ellie Keel's novel The Four, the title in a piece of sky, boxed in on all four sides (of course!) by identiacal looming walls of a grand country house.THe edges of the pages are "spredges" (sprayed edges), coloured a dark purple, with interlocking pattens, between which is a descending set of Roman numerals from 1 to 4

Bright, purple endpapers in Ellie Keel's new novel, The Four, main image is a line drawing of an imposing clock tower, birds circling around it

#Spredges alert!!!

How gorgeous is this Indy Edition of Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead from Scribner? And how appropriate to have a book on Persephone & Demeter as we enter spring?

#books #livres #ChooseBookshops #RachelLyon #FruitOfTheDead #Persephone #Demeter #Mythology #novel #Fiction #bookstodon

Full colour spredges (sprayed edges) of the novel Fruit of the Dead, depicting a close up from a renaissance painting

Cover for Fruit of the Dead, using a classic painting of Perspehone and Demeter

"Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones 🦴..."

How fabulous is our little skeleton chum on the spredges of Crypt, by the fabbity-fab Professor Alice Roberts ?? Just arrived from Simon & Schuster

#books #livres #History #histoire #spredges #Crypts #HistoryBooks #AliceRoberts #Medieval #NewReleases #spredges #skeleton #bookstodon

Angled side on view of Crypt by Alice Roberts, to show the cover, with golden foiled skeletons in their tombs, and the side of the book with "spredges" (sprayed edges), done in black with a white skeleton image

Out There Screaming: just arrived, this fabulous anthology of Black Horror Writing from Picador Books , edited by the amazing Jordan Peele, including authors like Nnedi Okorafor and N K Jemesin..

We have a handful signed by many of the authors, with these delightfully creepy spredges & endpapers.

#books #livres #Horror #JordanPeele #HorrorBooks #ShortFiction #anthology #HorrorAnthology #BlackWriting #BlackHorror #BlackHorrorBooks #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #ChooseBookshops #OutThereScreaming #NKJemesin #NnediOkorafor #spredges

multiple signatures inside the anthology, from many of the writers featured.

Cover to Out There Screaming, editied by Jordan Peele, artwork like a rippled, bashd piece of cooking aluminium foil, ripped to infer eyes and a mouth.

Side view of the book showing the spredges (sprayed page edges), in red with eyeballs printed on them running down the length of the book

Spredges porn!!! How gorgeous are the spredges (sprayed edges) on Jessie Burton's paperback edition of House of Fortune from Macmillan???

#books #HouseofFOrtune #JessieBurton #livres #spredges #bookstodon #pineapples

Paperback edition of Jessie Burton's novel House of Fortune, with sprayed edges depicting leaves and pineapples

#WhatWereReading : Joe loved Emily St John Mandel's compelling and beautifully crafted Sea of Tranquility, now out in paperback from Picador Books (with gorgeous spredges!)

#books #ChooseBookshops #SeaOfTranquility #livres #bookshops #librairie #spredges #EmilySaintJohnMandel #RecommendedReading

Bookseller Joe holding up paperback of Emily St John Mandel's novel Sea of Tranquility (complete with blue "spredges" - sprayed page edges) to recommend it

We cannot resist a good spredges shot! Lizzie Pook's Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter just arrived from Picador Books, and is looking rather fetching

(spredges are sprayed page edges, if you've not heard the term yet, all the rage!)

#books #Spredges #ChooseBookshops #PaintedSpredges #LizziePook #MoonlightAndThePearlersDaughter #livres #bookshops #librairie

Copies of Lizzie Pook's Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter, with painted spredges (sprayed page edges)

If I do say so myself, they really are very handsome spredges. Funfact: The Pepys Library in Cambridge kindly provided the sample of Pepys' actual handwriting that you see there, scanned from the original.
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