This week Silke Lohmann has interviewed Neil Pearson about his latest catalogue, which covers the great and the good in the performing arts. It's a catalogue co-production by Neil Pearson Rare Books and Thomas Carter Rare Books and here Neil describes some of the highlights.

Neil, congratulations...

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 until 4th May 2025. Philip is Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head of Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

Belle da Costa Greene: A...

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 something like this. When I was about eight years old, a relative died leaving a house stuffed with interesting bits and pieces. I remember going to...

The Society of Antiquaries of London is well-known to bibliophiles, regularly hosting meetings and offering access to a rather remarkable library in Burlington House. This month, our Librarian Interview is with Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros, Head of Library and Museum Collections.

The Society has such a...

‘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 else. I was born into the book trade and, in those days, you just got on with it. My father marked the books and I sold them, learning as I...

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.

Please tell us where the collection is coming from, is it a private collection or have you collected it over the years? Is it being sold as a whole or...

We are excited to have started our Librarian interviews again -  if you would like to be interviewed, please get in touch!

Technically, this month's interview is not with a librarian, but we have asked Błażej Mikuła, who has been a contributor to The Book Collector and James Fleming's Bond Behind...

Timothy D'Arch Smith was interviewed by Sheila Markham for The Book Collector Winter 2011

I derive my bookishness from my mother’s side of the family, the Frankau gang, as I call them. They originated in the German town of Frankenau and came to this country in the 1840s as tobacco merchants. My...