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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  • Fold the Corner - Interview with The Book Collector

    Interview

    This month we have been talking to two young booksellers Rebekah Cron and Mark Baczoni, who founded Fold the Corner Books. We discuss their processes for working on their catalogues, combining both old and new.

     

    1. Rebekah and Mark, you recently started Fold the Corner Books and have published four catalogues so far. You have both been...

  • It is with great sadness that we have to let you know that our much-loved editor, James Fleming, passed away last week after a sudden illness.

    James took onThe Book Collectoras proprietor in 2016 and later editor in 2018, returning the publication to the Fleming fold. He loved his work and the journal with a passion and felt very much at home...

  • The Little Red Book collection from Peter Harrington

    At Firsts Hong Kong this December, Peter Harrington is offering for sale the world’s largest and most wide-ranging collection of editions of Quotations from Chairman Mao, also known as the “Little Red Book”. Silke Lohmann spoke with their Asia Specialist, Dr Matt Wills, who has been cataloguing the collection over the past year, to find out how it...

  • News Story

    How was the fair for you? Well, book collecting can be a solitary affair: our partners may think that shelves exist for other purposes. But here everyone is on our one and only wave length. There are no spouses loitering by doorways hoping to escape, or refugees from the weather. No, at book fairs like this, the punters are like kids in a candy...

  • Bukowski Collection - Bellmans

    Article

    David Kotthoff is a collector of all things Charles Bukowski and will be selling part of his collection in Bellmans' rare book auction in December. He first came across Bukowski in Germany where he was brought up, but he then travelled the world and now lives mainly in Malaysia.

    ‘The day that I first came across Bukowski is a day I will never...

  • Treasures

    Interview

    Silke Lohmann speaks with Leo Cadogan about their latest catalogue, Treasures. 

     

    1. Your latest catalogue, beautifully designed by the way, covers ten treasures from 1480 to 1700. What's your personal favourite?

    I probably have two favourites at the moment. One is a 16th-century lawbook that an owner has assembled by putting parts of...

  • A Thing of Beauty - Catalogue from Peter Harrington

    Interview

    Peter Harrington's specialists Sammy Jay and Dr Philip W. Errington have chosen Keats's words as the title for their latest catalogue A Thing of Beauty – celebrating the art and craft of beautiful book production and exceptional private press works.

    The catalogue includes several Kelmscott Press books, which are undoubtedly a high point in the...

  • Janette Ray, in conversation with Sheila Markham

    Interview

    'I came into bookselling through a route taken by many specialist dealers, approaching from knowledge of my subject rather than experience of the trade. In my youth I wanted to be an urban designer, and studied town planning at university. I was doing academic research when I met Peter Inch. We were both very interested in books and wanted to find...

  • Captain Bligh - Part 3

    Article

    By the time Bligh returned a year later, having finally brought the breadfruit to the West Indies, the tide was out. Rather than great public acclaim and a grand official account of his success, he was reduced to conducting a small and strangely ineffective pamphlet war with Christian’s brother, the lawyer Edward Christian.[1] In reply, one of...

  • Jarndyce Catalogue of Detective Fiction

    Interview

    Jarndyce have just published their latest catalogue on Detective Fiction. It includes an impressive 356 books with prices ranging from £10 to £8,500 and covers books from 1827 to 1967, with the bulk of titles from between the 1880s through the 1910s. If you would like to receive a copy of the catalogue please email books@jarndyce.co.uk.

    Our...