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The deadline for the 2022 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is on the 15th June.
The sixth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize offers a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the United States.
The prize was founded in 2017 by Heather O’Donnell of Honey & Wax Booksellers...
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Charlotte Brontë's unpublished miniature manuscript and the last known in private hands will be the highlight to see at the 62nd New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, held at the Park Avenue Armory from 21st to 24th April 2022.
The work titled "A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Brontë, Sold by Nobody, and Printed by Herself" is smaller...
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Oslo auction house Sagen & Delås will be selling the Polar Library of Otto Norland on the 2nd April 2022. We have spoken to Fredrik Delås to find out more about the man behind the collection and some of the highlights.
Otto Realf Norland was born in 1930 in Oslo. He studied in Bergen and started working for Hambros Bank in London in 1953 as a...
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This spring, a new exhibition will reveal the stories behind the novel which began Charles Dickens’s literary career and set him on the path to fame. Exploring the artworks which contributed to the novel’s instant and everlasting success, Picturing Pickwick: The Art of the Pickwick Papers will present a wealth of original sketches and...
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"A Catalogue of Early Twentieth Century Russian Avant-Garde Publications" is the latest printed catalogue by Marcus Campbell Art Books.
We asked Daniel Wilson, graphic designer and researcher for this catalogue, a few questions about the highlights, background of the collection and his approach to cataloguing.
You don't usually produce...
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Two years on from the start of what will one day be called 'The Covid Years' we can look forward to two book fairs opening this month. One, in the USA, is a return to the traditional book fair as we used to know it…live and in person; the other, in Germany, still has to stick to the new format of online with a digital catalogue, due to another...
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Tomorrow, the 27th January, sees the anniversary of the publication of Daniel Defoe's classic Moll Flanders. James Joyce called Defoe the father of the English novel: “The first English author to write without imitating or adapting foreign works,... to devise for himself an artistic form which is perhaps without precedent...” and Defoe's position...
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Last Thursday, 18 November 2021, saw Sotheby’s auction off an exceedingly rare first-edition printed copy of the United States Constitution. The document went for $43.2million, a world record for any book, manuscript, historical document or printed text.
It is one of just thirteen copies of the Official Edition of the Constitution surviving...
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On 23rd October 2021, The Book Collector sat with Clive Farahar, the prominent book dealer, at his stall in the Saatchi Gallery in the midst of Firsts London Rare Book Fair.
James Fleming, our editor, spoke with Clive about their latest collaboration: a new 12-part Podcast Series of Fred Bason's Diary.
Clive provides the voice of Fred Bason...
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FREDERICK THOMAS BASON
Born 29 August 1907, died 3 July 1973
Fred Bason always considered himself a cockney, having been born in Walworth in south London. A bookish child, the only son of elderly parents, he began work in a barber’s shop and later with a carpenter. Then he found that he could buy books for pence at jumble sales and the...