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...
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.
This week Silke Lohmann talked to Emma Walshe at Peter Harrington about their latest catalogue for the first Climate Change Collection: 'One Hundred Seconds to Midnight – Sounding the Alarm for Climate Change'.
The landmark collection is valued at $2.2m (£1.65m) and hopes to attract rare book...
DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, an exhibition of fine bindings of La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation, will be shown at Maggs Bros. Ltd. Rare Books and Manuscripts in London from 4 to 25 October 2021.
Twenty-five binders from the US, Canada and the UK were commissioned to bind a copy of this facsimile of the...
The Book Collector presents an astonishing new book on Bond.
Bond Behind the Iron Curtain is written and edited by James Fleming.
The story starts with the full-page attack on James Bond, Ian Fleming and the film of Dr No that appeared in Izvestiya even before the film had been released. The whole...
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...
128 pages, 16 illustrations.
“One of the best things I have ever read on Bond” - The Guardian, 6/10/2021. 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.
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...
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...
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...