The Half Pint Press

@brucemitchell77 Hi - I'm afraid I don't know of any copies for sale at present. Sorry!

Will you look at that! Come and join Ben @didnotchart Tim @halfpintpress Steve @Eddiemacca and John @wiaiwya at @thelexington in a month We all bought some new records since we last saw you

@KirkdaleBooks If you like that you should keep an eye out for Tuffi und die Schwebebahn: abebooks.co.uk/9783870930028/…

As of June 2023, this book sadly remains out of print

@Stanley_Bad Likewise! FOB were a proper treat.

@halfpintpress Lovely to see you in Trimley. I’ve spent this morning admiring Imaginary Letters. I also have Vacation in Brittany, thanks to Roland.

@GarryPCox @Unwise_Trousers @KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @kaggsy59 @dailetong @GrantRintoul @JacqBetula @damiankelleher @rclesham @ds228 @CharcoPress Colourway aside, the only difference I can see is the price going up from £8.99 (green) to £9.99 (red) so I’m guessing the 93 was a mistake they took the chance to fix on a second printing?

@Unwise_Trousers @halfpintpress @KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @kaggsy59 @dailetong @GrantRintoul @JacqBetula @damiankelleher @rclesham @ds228 @CharcoPress I suspect tricksters. You any good at numerology, James? Maybe there be meaning in the numbers.

Reading In The Hold this #TranslationThurs - written by Vladimir Arsenijevic in 1994 and translated by Celia Hawkesworth, it's surprisingly funny.

@KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @GarryPCox @kaggsy59 @Unwise_Trousers @dailetong @GrantRintoul @JacqBetula @damiankelleher @rclesham @ds228 @CharcoPress Tiny new gremlin: previously we'd only found a green edition of "Nine Faces of Kenya" numbered 93, even though it's in the lists as 102. We thought there was no 102. At the weekend I saw a copy in a red colourway numbered 102. Exciting times.

@KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @GarryPCox @kaggsy59 @Unwise_Trousers @dailetong @GrantRintoul @JacqBetula @damiankelleher @rclesham @ds228 @CharcoPress As of this morning the site has front and back photos of every numbered leopard I know of: 300oddleopards.wordpress.com . We are only missing the yellow colour way of Life A Users Manual! Thanks everyone for your help with this, I'm weirdly proud of it.

excited to have an intimate show with @humanfranklin and Rob @the14icedbears at @the_betsey in a couple of weeks tickets are here - wegottickets.com/event/559786

'He has a journalistic eye for detail, snapping word-images in lieu of photos and placing scene after scene in front of the reader with aplomb.' - I'll take that! S.D. Stewart's thoughtful and generous review of my novel, The Edge of the Object: lostgander.wordpress.com/2022/05/21/the…

@Unwise_Trousers @damiankelleher Oh, *now* you find one. It's made me wonder (relatively idly) whether there are any colours we don't know about.

@damiankelleher The Harvill Grail

Found a yellow version. $6

@damiankelleher @GarryPCox @JacqBetula @J_Zuckerman @kaggsy59 @shauntranslates @ds228 @shelfrisch @KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @Unwise_Trousers @dailetong @GrantRintoul @rclesham @CharcoPress @ezrafitz @bookboy99 Pics (front and back please) or it didn’t happen.

@GarryPCox @JacqBetula @halfpintpress @J_Zuckerman @kaggsy59 @shauntranslates @ds228 @shelfrisch @KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @Unwise_Trousers @dailetong @GrantRintoul @rclesham @CharcoPress @ezrafitz @bookboy99 Until we know otherwise, he did

@dailetong @bookboy99 I know! Thanks again @bookboy99

@bookboy99 @halfpintpress OMG

@J_Zuckerman @kaggsy59 @shauntranslates @ds228 @shelfrisch @JacqBetula @KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @GarryPCox @Unwise_Trousers @dailetong @GrantRintoul @damiankelleher @rclesham @CharcoPress @ezrafitz @bookboy99 @awildslimalien thequietus.com/articles/31438… ...and here's the Perec piece.

@J_Zuckerman @kaggsy59 @shauntranslates @ds228 @shelfrisch @JacqBetula @KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @GarryPCox @Unwise_Trousers @dailetong @GrantRintoul @damiankelleher @rclesham @CharcoPress @ezrafitz @bookboy99 ... and while I'm thinking about Perec, let me remind you that @awildslimalien has an excellent piece on Perec at The Quietus right now. Dan's brilliant book, The Edge of the Object is freshly available in electronic format and I have a very few hard copies left.

@GarryPCox @KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @kaggsy59 @Unwise_Trousers @dailetong @GrantRintoul @JacqBetula @damiankelleher @rclesham @ds228 @CharcoPress A good friend of mine knows someone who has a friend who has a friend who once posted a picture of a yellow copy of Life A Users Manual online. I am trying to chase down the connection but it's tenuous at best.

@GarryPCox @KatyaTaylor @john_self @tomwtn @kaggsy59 @Unwise_Trousers @dailetong @GrantRintoul @JacqBetula @damiankelleher @rclesham @ds228 @CharcoPress Cor! It never cropped up with a number on any of the lists I saw.

Can't imagine whoever we might take to be the British equivalent of Georges Perec ending up on a Royal Mail stamp. Only in France... My essay on Perec's A Man Asleep - and how it inspired my novel The Edge of the Object - is now available at thequietus.com/articles/31438…