''Slightly Foxed'' is a British quarterly literary magazine. Its primary focus is books and book culture. 2016 saw the publication of its fiftieth issue. Notable authors to have written for the magazine include Penelope Lively,

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, Diana Athill, Ronald Blythe and Robert Macfarlane. Instead of books currently marketed by big publishers, ''Slightly Foxed'' tends to examine older and more obscure titles. Its title comes from the term "slightly foxed" as a description of a book's physical quality, commonly used in the second-hand book trade to describe minor foxing, the occurrence of brown spots on older paper. As well as the magazine itself, ''Slightly Foxed'' has a books imprint, and between 2009 and 2016 ran a bookshop on London's Gloucester Road.Slightly Foxed Bookshop to close at the end of the month
''The Bookseller''. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016. The magazine offices are based in

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