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This week seems to be a return for many to 'normal' life here in the UK. Most children are back at school, many businesses seem to have asked their employees to return to the office and the first in-person book fair opens in York on Friday!
As much as the international book collector scene fully embraced the joys (and pitfalls) of buying books...
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Tomorrow, 22 July 2021, the Transatlantic Book Fair will open at 2pm (mid-Atlantic standard time) for the first time and run until the 27th July. It is a joint venture of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) and the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) and brings together over 150 rare book dealers from 15 countries,...
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As we are all waiting for book and art fairs to open again, I report from London Art Week (LAW) with my other hat on. The event, taking place in galleries around town, has the advantage over fairs that it offers a more COVID-secure environment.
This summer LAW runs from 2nd to 16th July and several dealers are showing works with a literary...
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This week the Bibliomaniacs have released what may be their most ambitious catalogue yet, with all items being for sale by silent auction.
The youngest antiquarian booksellers in the world have pledged to donate a fifth of all winning auctions to Helen & Douglas House, the children's hospice in Oxford.
The auction details are live on the...
Interview
This month we had the pleasure to talk to Meghan Constantinou, who has been Librarian of the Grolier Club since 2011 and a club member since 2013. She holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of Delaware and a M.L.S. in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute. Her interests focus on the history of private collecting, women's...
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This week, The Book Collector spoke to Ed Maggs, of Maggs Bros Ltd, about his latest catalogue Oscar Wilde & His Circle. This is the first of a series of catalogues from the extensive collection of Phil Cohen's fin de siècle books.
Your catalogue Oscar Wilde & His Circle is the first part of The Cohen Collection. Please tell us a little bit...
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Earlier this year we announced the winner of our Banquet for Bibliophiles creative writing competition. The winning entry, ‘Dining with Samuel Rogers’ by Martin Brayne has been published in our Summer 2021 issue (out now).
To coincide with the arrival of this Issue, we share below two more entries from the runners-up. ‘Bound Together’ by...
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Thought lost for almost a century, the Honresfield Library was assembled with passion by self-made Victorian industrialists Alfred and William Law at the turn of the 20th century and has since been maintained with care by generations of the Law family. A unique treasury replete with cornerstones of British culture, its re-emergence after almost...
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We are pleased to continue our series with Mike Widener. It was our final chance to interview the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s rare book librarian before his retirement at the end of last month, after 15 years at Yale. He will, however, remain very much involved in the Rare Book School course, “Law Books: History & Connoisseurship,” and will...
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This summer's Firsts Online features talks with The Book Collector and Stephen Fry picks his Fair favourites
We are delighted to announce that we have worked with the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) on some online talks for this summer's Firsts Online programming schedule to coincide with the Fair held from the 20th to 25th May 2021...