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Table A

Scribner’s Catalogue 124 (1940)

A summary table of all items from Scribner’s Catalogue 124 from 1940, with buyers’ names and Scribner’s cost prices. See details in the article ‘PMM and Scribner’s Book Store Revisited’ by Sandy Malcolm in our Winter 2024 issue.

FREE to download

Table A

Table A

A concordance of the numbering systems in the various catalogues of Printing and the Mind of Man using the 424 entries for 1967 as the base.

With the additions from 1963, errors, corrections and the entries from the Ian Fleming Collection.

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Table B

Table B

Details of 282 titles from the Percy Muir archive that were offered by booksellers for inclusion in Printing and the Mind of Man and rejected by him.

They are shown here with entry numbers in the Scribner’s catalogues 113 (1937) and 124 (1941) and the prices asked.

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Bond Behind the Iron Curtain, the audiobook

Bond: Behind the Iron Curtain, the audiobook

Written and read by James Fleming.

On Audible

Bond: Behind the Iron Curtain

Bond: Behind the Iron Curtain

“One of the best things I have ever read on Bond” - The Guardian, 6/10/2021. Bond Behind the Iron Curtain, by James Fleming.

£25.00 postage not included

Valuing A Presidential Library

Valuing Nixon

In 2020 The Book Collector published three remarkable articles by John Payne, the man appointed to value the Nixon presidential archive, in which he set out the criteria central to the valuation of any presidential archive.

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Lefty Lewis and the Waldegraves

Lefty Lewis and the Waldegraves: Collecting, Obsession, Friendship

Charting a 50 year friendship, an unfolding drama in the history of collecting.

£16.50 postage not included





18th Century Issue

18th Century Issue

196 pages, 38 illustrations.

Dr Johnson and his household/The Library at Strawberry Hill/The Tonson Publishing House and much more

£20 Price inc. delivery





Women’s Issue

Women’s Issue

208 pages with 25 illustrations.

You Can’t Do it Alone, Lisa Baskin / The Ballerina and the Book, Moira Goff / Wilde Women and the Sunflower Apostle, Victoria Dailey and more.

£20 Price inc. delivery





Polar Issue

Polar Issue

256 pages with 21 Illustrations.

The Arctic Narratives of John Murray, Publisher to the Admiralty Anne Peale / Frankenstein, Sammy Jay / Scribes in Ice and Darkness, Fergus Fleming / and much more…

£20 Price inc. delivery





Ian Fleming Issue

Ian Fleming Issue

In 2017 The Book Collector marked the 65th anniversary of its birth with an issue devoted to Ian's role in the world of books. Edited by James Fergusson, The Book Collector Volume 66 No. 1, March 2017

This issue has now been reprinted.

£30.00 postage not included





Collector’s Edition

Collector’s Edition

Limitation of 150 copies

TEN articles from the Ian Fleming issue, reprinted in hot-metal Monotype letterpress on 150gsm Bockingford White paper and bound by Ludlow Bookbinders. Signed by James and Fergus Fleming, bound in red cloth with gold blocking.

£150 SOLD OUT

Collector’s Edition

Collector’s Edition

A limitation of 27 copies half-bound in black cloth on marbled paper and lettered A-Z, with the inclusion of an extra symbol - 'lol' - following a reprisal of Fleming’s 1947 competition to find the 27th letter of the alphabet. Each copy contains a facsimile of the 1957 promotional leaflet for The Book Collector written by Fleming and designed by his friend Robert Harling.

£275 SOLD OUT

Back Issues

Back Issues

We retain physical stock of some back issues, but not all, as the texts are available in their entirety online. Please contact us to enquire if you would like a specific print issue.