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...
Charlotte Brontë's unpublished miniature manuscript and the last known in private hands will be the highlight to see at the 62nd New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, held at the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...
128 pages, 16 illustrations.
Pre-order the most unusual book about James Bond yet to appear: Bond Behind the Iron Curtain, by James Fleming. Previously unseen illustrations and material translated from the languages of Russian and its communist satellites, detailing their attack on capitalism and character and morals of 007. An astonishing story.
Special discounted price, usually £25 excluding postage.
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...