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Friends and Subtle Enemies: Some American Early Bookwomen of the 20th Century
FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: Most Anglophone bibliophiles today with an interest in incunabula will be familiar with Goff numbers (referring to Goff’s Incunabula in American Libraries; a Third Census, 1964). But what fewer may know is that before Goff was Stillwell, compiler of The Second Census, published in 1940. When… Read more >
Bananas – An Ephemeral Shooting Star of the 1970s
FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: In Burnt Diaries (Canongate, 1999), the third volume of her memoirs, the novelist Emma Tennant casts her mind back to moving house from Chelsea to Notting Hill, in 1974 a very different place from the millionaires’ enclave it has become today, and how this became intimately bound up with her idea of founding a magazine. ‘There’s… Read more >
Back Issues: Your PDF Archive Is Back
We’re pleased to announce a new addition to your My Account area: Back Issues — giving subscribers simple access to PDF copies of every issue of The Book Collector, from 1947 to the present. When we launched our new website, we made the difficult decision to retire our previous integrated PDF archive. Over time, the system had become increasingly complex and expensive to maintain, and… Read more >
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Current Issue
Autumn 2026 – Vol 75.3
- Wynkyn de Worde’s The lyff of the faders: A Correction to Duff’s Fifteenth Century English Books John Gandy
- Friends and Subtle Enemies: Some American Early Bookwomen of the 20th Century Rhiannon Knol
- The Sale of the Stowe Papers to the Huntington Library (1925) Susan Finding
- ‘NOT RECOMMENDED’: The Archive of the Associated British Picture Corporation’s Readers’ Department Neil Pearson
- Figgy Fake: The Boswell Brothers Pull a Fast One Terry Seymour
- The Brotherton Gothic: Vampires in Leeds Sarah Prescott and Rachel Eckersley
- The Bindings of Conrad Neidel of Wittenberg, 1538–1565 Chris Arnison
- ‘The Leigh Hunt Collection’ J. E. Smyth
- Restored by Fate: The Author of The White Olive (1899) Henry Gott
- Fuchsia Voremberg, The Markham Interviews (New Series) Sheila Markham
- A Favourite Book G. Thomas Tanselle
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