Fossa Books

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Independent book seller based in Newcastle, UK. I'll be posting about some of the splendid books I have for sale, book reviews, and recommendations. 📚

The cover of Goblins: Verses by Spike Milligan, there is an illustration of a goblin in a blue tunic, red hood, and green hat banging a drum.
A pile of hardback Midnight Louie Mystery books by Carole Nelson Douglas, the spines are various colours and the titles include: - Catnip (1992) - Cat in a Crimson Haze (1995) - Cat in a Golden Garland (1997) - Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt (1998) - Cat in a Jewellery Jumpsuit (1999) - Cat in a Leopard Spot (2001) - Cat in a Midnight Choir (Signed, 2002) - Cat in a Neon Nightmare (2003) - Cat in an Orange Twist (2004) - Cat in a Sapphire Slipper (2008) They are in very good, clean condition.
The CD cover of 28 by Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko, featuring illustration of the artists in blue ink.
The cover of Inshore Craft of Britain in the Days of Sail and Oar volume 1 by Edgar J. March. It's yellow and features a picture of a sailboat on the sea.
The cover of The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V. S. Redick, featuring an illustration of galleon ships on a dark starlit sea.
A pile of William Golding books on a wooden table, including Darkness Visible, Rites of Passage, Lord of the Flies, Pincher Martin, and Close Quarters.
The cover of The Sea and Summer by George Turner, featuring an illustration of a dystopian cityscape and inclement weather.
The covers of White Heat and Never Had It So Good by Dominic Sandbrook, each book features portraits of various people.
Four paperback Kurt Vonnegut novels on a wooden table, including: - Cat's Cradle - Slaughterhouse Five - Breakfast of Champions - Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Stories
A pile of Daphne du Maurier books that includes: - Julius (with an introduction by Julie Myerson) - I'll Never be Young Again (with an introduction by Elaine Dundy) - Castle Dor (with an introduction by Nina Bawden) - The Parasites (with an introduction by Julie Myerson) - The Scapegoat (with an introduction by Lisa Appignanesi) - The Flight of the Falcon (with an introduction by Amanda Craig) - The Rendezvous and Other Stories (with an introduction by Minette Walters) - The Doll: Short Stories (with an introduction by Polly Samson)
The cover of A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz. Bright yellow and featuring a movie clapper board with teeth dripping with blood.
The cover of The Complete Marquis de Sade, translated by Dr. Paul J. Gillette. A yellow cover with an abstract illustration of the Marquis made from stone and brick.
The cover of MILF - Motherhood Identity Love Fuckery by Paloma Faith. The 'I' in MILF is a red lollypop.
Four Angela Carter books on a wooden table, Black Venus, Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories, and Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings.
The cover of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton.
A pile of 21 Inspector Maigret books by Georges Simenon on a wooden table. All the spines are white with black text except A Maigret Christmas, the outlier with a light blue spine.
The cover of Blindness by José Saramago, featuring a silhouette of a woman leading others with their hand on the person in front's shoulder.
The cover of the Vintage Classics edition of The Complete Novels by Franz Kafka.
The cover of The Lost La's compilation album, featuring crude sketches of the band on a blue background.
A pile of P. G. Wodehouse books on a wooden table. Various titles with clean white spines.
The cover of the Cannes Film Festival edition of The Lord of the Rings, black with fiery font.
The spines of three books by Arturo Barea, missing their dust jackets - The Forge, The Track, and The Clash.
A pile of old Marxist books on the living room table. Some of them are a bit tatty because they're old.
The cover of The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry, featuring an amusing illustration of a hippo peeking over the edge of a red bathtub.
The cover of The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer, featuring an illustration of a silhouetted squirrel and a huge orange.
The cover of Rodent Popsicle Records' rare compilation CD Boston Punk 2000, featuring a cartoon sketch of punks doing punk things.
The cover of Fuses' 2005 album Eastern Cities, featuring an illustration of a motorway and an elaborate cityscape.
The cover of And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa by Molefe Pheto, featuring an abstract illustration of an owl in a tree.
The cover of Three Archaic Poets by Anne Pippin Burnett, which is red and features an illustration of a woman playing a lyre.
The cover of Scriptum by Artemisia Rye, deaturing an illustration of a sinister looking character reading from a book.
The cover of the Her Guardian Series 1-4 by G. Bailey, featuring an illustration of a young lady in a white dress in a snowy forest.
The cover of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future volume 35, featuring an illustration of a big robot in the ocean and a boy in a rowing boat.
The cover of The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study by J. R. Watson, featuring an illustration of people leaving a leafy, moonlit church by Samuel Palmer called Coming From Evening Church.
The cover of Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy by Sandra Carvallo, featuring an illustration by Beltrano.
The cover of the auction catalogue for Banksy's The Merrivale Stable that took place at Anderson & Garland Auctioneers in Newcastle on 27th January 2022, featuring a photograph of the work in question, which is a stable.
The cover of Ravens and Black Rain by Elizabeth Sutherland, featuring a picture of the Scottish Highlands and two ravens.
The cover of The Final Journals of William Burroughs, featuring a photograph of William clasping his hands and looking thoughtful.
The cover of The Naked Tourist by Lawrence Osborne, featuring a sepia illustration of a nude lady.
The cover of Before the Feast by Saša Stanišić, featuring a nice sketch of a fox.
The cover of Silverwhite by Lennart Meri, featuring an aerial view of a sparse snowy forest
The front and back covers of Everything We Miss by Luke Pearson, featuring an illustration of a sad looking man in black and autumnal orange colours.
Several piles of vintage Commando comics on a table.
The cover of Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War by Anita J. Prażmowska, featuring a map of war time eastern Europe.
The cover of the 2019 paperback edition of The Bedeviled by Thomas Cullinan, featuring a scary looking illustration of a remote house, gnarled trees an a red sky.
A pile of British Library Crime books, including: - The Measure of Malice: Scientific Detection Stories, edited by Martin Edwards - The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay - The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude - Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon - Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg - The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon - Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay
The cover of The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy & the Politics of the Enemy (2026) by Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval and Pierre Sauvétre.
The cover of Bob Mortimer's latest novel The Long Shoe, featuring an illustration of a CCTV camera and a tower block.
The cover of Roisín O'Donnell's latest novel Nesting, featuring a picture of some rocks and the sea and a bright neon pink border.
The cover of Jen Williams' novel The Sleepless, featuring a rather nice illustration of two of the characters and a dragon
The cover of Adam Phillips' new book The Life You Want, a very pleasing baby blue with a nice illustration of rugged countryside on it.
The covers of five Tuckfield's Australiana Bird Studies albums. A blue one, a green one, maroon one, a purple one, and an orange one, each with an illustration of an Australian bird on it.
The front and back cover of The Snow Goose, a special edition published in 2016 by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, featuring an illustration of a flying goose by Peter Scott.
Two piles of books on the table in Mr Fossa the Book Merchant's book filled living room.
The cover of the 1972 first edtion of The Bone House by William Butler, featuring a very minimal sketch of a red demon by Keith Cunningham.
The cover of Phil Baker's Austin Osman Spare biography, featuring Spare's Portrait of a Young Woman (1933) - a red lipped blonde with quite a prominent chin, pouting and looking sultry.
The cover of Thw Gonzo Papers Anthology by Hunter S. Thompson, featuring a picture of the author on a motorbike.
The cover of Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason.
The cover of Shack's The Fable Sessions CD.
The front covers of Don Patterson's Tales of the RAF books, one, two and three, featuring illustrations of aerial fighting by Sonny Schug.