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The Book Collector Spring 2025

Spring 2025 - Vol 74.1

  • James Fleming Fergus Fleming
  • How the Enigma Story Was Told, Part 1 Mark Baldwin
  • Coded Postcards Mark Baldwin
  • Alice in I.D. 25 Mike Barbakoff
  • Napoleonic Notes Adam Meredith
  • 'We Do Not Understand Ourselves': Parodies of Modernist Poetry Henry Gott
  • Cinemania: The Forgotten Film Books of Lorrimer Publishing Irfan Shah
  • A Fantastic Copy of Breton's Fantasticks Rachel Eckersley
  • Peter Kraus, The Markham Interviews (New Series) 33 Sheila Markham
  • The Fellows' Library, Dulwich College: Unfamiliar Libraries, XL F. Witts, P. Fletcher, R. Weaver, C. Lucy
  • A Capital Project: Decorated Book Papers at the University of Edinburgh Alan Isaac
  • Simon Raven: The Man and His Roman-fleuve Philip Gooden
  • Lost Friends, Part 11 Brian Alderson
  • An Embroidered Binding for the Last King of Poland, c.1790: English and Foreign Bookbindings, 157 Mirjam M. Foot
  • James Fleming, Editor and Friend Victoria Dailey

News, Features & Interviews

Our News page includes interviews with librarians, book dealers and others from the book trade, as well as details on events, announcements and developments from the literary world.

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  • Morgan Library Exhibition: Belle Da Costa Greene

    The Book Collector interviews Philip Palmer, co-curator of the Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, open...

  • Serge Plantureux in Conversation with Sheila Markham

    Sheila Markham Interviewed Serge Plantureux in June 1994.

    There are various versions of how I got started in bookselling. The one I choose today goes...

  • Interview with a Librarian - Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros

    The Society of Antiquaries of London is well-known to bibliophiles, regularly hosting meetings and offering access to a rather remarkable library in Burlington...

  • Bill Fletcher, Sheila Markham

    ‘I sold my first book in 1914 when I was eight years old. After school, I went to work for my father in Porchester Road. It never occurred to me to do anything...

  • The Cecil Beaton List

    We like the sound of the Cecil Beaton catalogue Beaux Books are launching at Firsts London this year and have talked to Clare Trimming about it.

     

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Latest Catalogues

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  • Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Oxford 2025

    Oxford 2025

    Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

    Date uploaded: 17/4/2025

  • Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Devotion, Liturgy, Theology - A New List of Rare Books

    Devotion, Liturgy, Theology - A New List of Rare Books

    Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

    Date uploaded: 15/4/2025

  • Lawbook Exchange Ltd.  Incunabula: 15 Items

    Incunabula: 15 Items

    The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

    Date uploaded: 15/4/2025

  • Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers. Rare Book & Collectors Sale April 30th & May 1st

    Rare Book & Collectors Sale April 30th & May 1st

    Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers

    Date uploaded: 11/4/2025