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This week's Podcast comes from our Spring issue of 1965, a first hand account of the life and times of one of America's greatest female collectors, Countess Carrie Estelle Doheny.
Mrs EL Doheny, a devout Roman Catholic, shared her fortune generously and lived a life of Christian service, ministering directly to the homeless and sick and weaving...
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Across the world museums, galleries and libraries are relying more than ever on social media and the internet to stay connected to their followers and share their work. This week one museum has received one of ‘the internet’s highest honour’ in recognition of the great work it is achieving through its social media accounts.
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This piece, as well as an extract coming in our Autumn 2020 issue, is dedicated to the memory of Madeline Kripke, ‘the doyenne of dictionaries’ who passed away on 25 April 2020 at the age of 76.
“What slang really does is show us at our most human” says Johnathon Green, aka ‘Mister Slang’, a scholar of slang for over 40 years.
Since the...
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The Book Collector was launched by Ian Fleming in 1952 at about the same time as he started working on his first James Bond novel. A new book is now giving some insightful information on Fleming and his biographer John Pearson - a book about writing a book.
Ian Fleming - The Notes by John Pearson refers to his notes while he was researching The...
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This week's podcast comes from our popular Polar issue of Autumn 2018. 'Scribes in Ice and Darkness' was written by Fergus Fleming, a renowned travel writer who has penned several books about polar exploration, including Ninety Degrees North, and Barrow's Boys.
This article looks at the Polar newspapers, the people behind them, and the...
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In March 1789, a weekly journal edited by James Austen, The Loiterer, received a long letter criticising its lack of suitable and engaging content for women. The letter was signed by 'Sophia Sentiment', though the true identity of the writer has never been firmly established.
Our latest Podcast features an article from The Book Collector's ...
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While flicking through the latest Quaritch catalogue, 'The English & Anglo-French Novel 1740-1840', I spotted a footnote that took me back to my student days and I thought it was worth using this as an opportunity to highlight the importance of reference books to collectors and dealers alike.
The majority of the 120 books included in the...
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This weekend would have seen the opening of the Salon International Du Livre Rare in the Grand Palais in Paris, but it is of course now postponed to September, 4th to 6th.
Hervé Valentin, President of SLAM, announced that SLAM will create a Virtual Grand Palais on the fair website, this special catalogue will launch on the 23rd April at 5pm,...
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Published in our Summer issue for 2011, the obituary of Burton Weiss - the eccentric San Francisco bookseller - was written by Ian Jackson and is read here by John Windle.
If you enjoyed this Podcast, you may be interested in this profile of Burton Weiss from Curtis Faville at The Compass Rose, which includes images of ...
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‘A letter from the Lazaretto’ was researched, written and is read by Sheila Markham, the librarian at the Travellers’ Club in London. This piece, which has not yet appeared in The Book Collector, looks at quarantine conditions for 19th Century travellers, including those kept in isolation at the Lazaretto in Malta, where Lord Byron carved his name...