28th May 2019 marks Ian Fleming's 111th birthday.
To celebrate our Founder's eleventy-first birthday The Book Collector is offering the Collector's Edition of Ian Fleming: The Book Collector for HALF PRICE until 3rd June (offer now expired).
This beautiful special edition is comprised of 10...
The ABA's annual flagship event, in its 62nd year and rebranded as Firsts – London's Rare Book Fair, will be opened on Friday, 7th June by Stephen Fry, well-known actor and writer and a book collector himself.
The fair will also host a special exhibition with charity partner Shakespeare's Globe to...
A book fair can be a dizzying experience for the collector of modern firsts, particularly one as big and prestigious as the ABA summer fair, now called Firsts. It’s public, it’s private, it’s whatever you want to make of it but above all, it involves real people. In short it’s not ‘online’, which...
Nowadays our fingers need to be super-featly to get quickly round all the possible moves on one’s device: Alt, Ctrl, Scroll, Insert and the like, sometimes three at a go.
It was not always thus.
To celebrate the olden days a film has just been released in the UK called California Typewriter...
Tacky it may be, but those who are collectors of books are also their buyers and therefore should not sneer at a new book from Alex Johnson called Book Towns: Forty-Five Paradises of the Printed Word, published by Frances Lincoln.
It is, the blurb says, the first such directory and includes both...
The University and State Library of Bonn (ULB) is celebrating the return of more than 600 volumes from its collection that have been lost since the Second World War. Sotheby’s Auction House facilitated the repatriation after discovering the books in a Belgian private collection. Among them are...
208 pages with 25 illustrations
You Can't Do it Alone Lisa Baskin
The Ballerina and the Book Moira Goff
Alchemy in Britain Anke Timmermann
The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar Silke Lohmann
plus six more brilliant articles plus book reviews, auction prices and book chat
The fifth Frome Book Fair will be held on Saturday, March 30th, but this is the first time it will be held at the Cheese and Grain, a larger venue that can accommodate double the previous number of dealers. Built in 1874, it is one of the most widely recognised buildings in Frome.
New exhibitors...