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The UK-based vintage paperback book subscription box and online bookshop. Find our subscriptions and books for sale at https://prudenceandthecrow.com - and shop our art prints and stationery at https://mymble.com !

My hand holding the red vintage hardback European Journey, by Phillip Gibbs
Five SFF magazines, the top one is April 1967, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, featuring Dawn "a new novelet by Roger Zelazny", cover illustration by Gray Morrow.
Prudence, a large, soft, orange teddy bear in a smart white dress with a navy blue bow, is sat on a purple bench on a round floral cushion. She is smiling proudly at a little brass plaque which states "Prudence and the Crow: The Vintage Paperback Subscription Box Service".
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A copy of the film tie-in edition of Wuthering Heights open on a white duvet and red blanket
The Girl from Jupiter, by Isaac Clarke
Naughty cat Mog dashing off with colourful paper chains wrapped around her!
Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski, a huge grey hardback American edition
A friendly-looking tomt with a long white beard, red hat and green tunic is petting a good dog on the nose as he enters a festively-decorated house.
A beautiful needle-felted scene with a fieldmouse, weasel and badger carrying lanterns through a little woodland trail.
A red-faced Father Christmas with full white beard, a sack of presents over his shoulder, a flask visible in his satchel!
The Jolly Postman, in a snowy scene, above the text, "A book in a book!" says the Gingerbread Boy, "What a simply delicious surprise!" (But if only he knew, he's in one too - That really would open his eyes.) Then...a bucket of tea for the Postman. And four and twenty mince pies.
A close-up of a group of people with happy faces holding candles, dressed in colourful winter wear, singing together.
The White Witch, with a piercing stare, sits, a menacing figure, dressed in furs, with a sharp white crown on her head.
Babar, on skis, in a snowscape, beholding a group of elves who are in disarray...
At least six bunnies, maybe more, are running about engaged in a game. One has a neat red and gold blindfold about its eyes.
A close-up illustration of a Christmas tree decorated with lots of little angels holding candles in various stances. Very sweet, detailed style.
A stylised illustration of a group of children huddled in an archway, seemingly under attack from a flock of crows during a snowstorm.
A happy-looking goose is hanging a little angel on a string of Christmas decorations.
A watercolour of a small child in pyjamas (made of collaged patterned paper) sits in a fluffy bed looking out of the window at a snowy scene.
A black and white drawing: the excited faces of three hungry-looking, stylised wolves in the foreground; two girls in the distance on a snow-covered hill take each other's hands and run!
Adorable tiny woodland creatures are clustered in front of Mole and Ratty, stood in the doorway of Mole End.
Noggin the Nog, resplendent in golden crown, holds court in a grand stone hall.
A hardback copy of Soonchild, with a soft pencil illustration of a polar bear on the cover. In the photograph, our smooth polar bear figurine is positioned next to the book, as if looking curiously at a portrait of himself.
A small girl in a red coat smiles at a little robin on a branch. She's stood in a snowy woodland scene.
A little girl in a blue woollen hat and red jacket pulls a Christmas tree determinedly on a rope. Her beloved stuffed pig, Bamsen, is having a ride on the tree.
Two small children look happily at each other over a beautifully-decorated gingerbread house.
A delicate colour illustration of a little girl in a blue coat and red hat walking down a snowy hill towards a street of houses.
A small girl accessorised with a pirate hat and cutlass over her green top and red skirt has opened tall French windows to a tall man clad in a green hat, overcoat and suit. He tips his hat to her. It's snowing outside, and inside a thin Christmas tree is decorated. It's the beginning of something interesting.
A paperback copy of Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto, surrounded by three cups, one of espresso, one double decaf espresso, and a pint of peppermint tea.
Frontispiece of The Two Towers, by JRR Tolkien, 1978 hardback edition. Decorated with runes and elvish script.
The front cover of a fat hardback edition of Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards, sat on a soft stripey IKEA blanket
A man in a grey suit with navy tie serves himself from a table with five baskets of some kind of food laid out at place settings. There's an ominously red table cloth. Crucially, in the centre of the table, is what can only be described as an unpainted, alarmed-looking merry-go-round-style horse's head sticking out of a heap of red flowers. The caption explains: Serve a simple meal-in-a-basket supper in style if it's your husband's night to entertain his friends. Masses of red geraniums grounded in a mound of wet sphagnum moss and topped with an interesting figurehead make an impressive and masculine centre decoration. Be sure to protect the table top by placing centrepiece on a board.
The front cover of Better Homes and Gardens, September 1957. Headlines include "IDEA HOME FOR 1957 - See it in full colour!", "It's news - "Preventative Housekeeping"" and "Have a back yard you can brag about", along with "Foods with flair from a famous Texas restaurant".
My hand holding up Iain Banks' A Song of Stone (in front of my very healthy spider plant ).
Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa - Absolutely On Music, and Derek Jarman's a finger in the fishes mouth, on a blanket on my lap
The front cover of Our Street, by Jan Petersen. A Left Book Club edition, "not for sale to the public" soft back, from 1938, orange cover with black font.
The Penguin Classic edition of More of the Good Life, by John Esmonde & Bob Larbey, adapted from the TV series by Christine Sparks. The cover shows Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith in the BBC-TV production of The Good Life. BBC copyright photograph by David Edwards. Cover lettering by Shirtsleeve Studios.
The hardback edition of Woodworking, by Emily St. James.
A gold-framed portrait of Jerome K. Jerome, dressed in pleasant cream shirt and coat, painted realistically, with warmth and softness.
A brand new copy of The Murderbot Diaries: Vol. 1: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. From the picture you can infer that I'm tucked in bed under nice fresh sheets...
A stack of books - from bottom to top: Bob Mortimer's autobiography, a Murakami diary from 2020, Antonia Fraser's The Weaker Vessel, Tales from King Arthur, The Once and Future King, Graded Literature Readers - Fifth Book, Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, Kitty Villiers by Lewis Gibbs and a collection of Chesterton essays and poems.
The cover of Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, by Biz Stone. It's a large red book with a weird shadowy background picture of a man stretching his hand towards the camera. Unsettling in a cyberpunk kind of way...
My hand holding open Sunrise on the Reaping on the train
The cover of The Talk of the School by Alys Chatwyn - it features a small oval picture of a line drawing of a very surly girl looking out with a side-eye
A copy of Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed, purple-ish cover and red-stained edges, being held by me over a similarly-coloured blanket.
The title page of A Child's Garden of Verses, with a facing colour plate illustration of a child looking out of their bedroom window into a beautiful garden.
Books stacked in heaps in a large living room, too many to count, just thousands of books in stacks, how could anyone ever sort them out?
1950s Corgi edition of The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke "A magnificent novel of struggle for survival on the Red Planet" - magnificent colourful cover of the red planet and a grand rock structure against a backdrop panel of rockets taking off. Also some colourful connected circles overlaid on top, possibly to suggest Science.
Zenith Books - Value For Money: 101 Ways to Stretch Your Bridget by Elizabeth Gundrey. Front cover features a very 1960s High Street supermarket, including adverts for Heinz Large Salad Cream. A stack of silver coins on the left completes the suggestion this book knows what it's about. Original cost 5/-.
The first 16 books in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. They're all paperbacks but in at least four different editions, including some which are notably pocket paperback size, so this all looks awful.
A man, arms raised in hopeless fear, as an apparently red planet/meteor/thing hurtles towards him! The Big Eye, by Max Erlich's, published by Corgi Books. Cover quote: "The world faced with annihilation... and only two years left for all the laughing and loving of a lifetime'
Want to know when we list books for sale and get exclusive offers? Prudence and the Crow: the Vintage Book Subscription Service. Text accompanied by the graphic of Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie and Oscar Wilde.
The cover of Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne, Cover text s "Now a 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope Picture" and "A Masterpiece by a Classic Writer". The cover features a still from the film of Pat Boone and James Mason - as Axel and Lidenbrock. Axel is shirtless - of course - and bringing a bowl to Lidenbrock, looking very helpful whilst he does it. Next to the book are two clementines, and a nice cup of black coffee.
The title screen of Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake. Master Chalk, the white crow, flies towards the distant city...
Tom Baker as the bedraggled Marshwiggle Puddleglum, screwing his face up, concerned as ever
My thumb propping up Ancient Sorceries, by Algernon Blackwood. A highly aesthetic, simplistic drawing disproportionately large black cat stands on the black of a blue armchair, which is surrounded by rising flames.
The TV, showing Jill and Eustace hiding from the bullies...
A paperback copy of Ancient Sorceries, by Algernon Blackwood - the new 2024: Penguin Weird Stories edition with an illustration of a large black cat on the back of an armchair on fire on the cover (illustration by Kate Dehler ).