This week, we can share some great news – we have a new editor! Many of you will already know David Pearson, who has spent the last 40 or more years enjoying...
The Book Collector is a literary journal founded in 1952.
We publish quarterly and in addition to our articles on all aspects of the writing, publishing and collecting of books, we carry news about booksellers and their catalogues, book reviews, interviews with librarians and obituaries of scholars and collectors. Our archive contains all our work since the beginning.
Like our founder, Ian Fleming, we are as no other.
Current Issue
Spring 2025 - Vol 74.1
- James Fleming Fergus Fleming
- How the Enigma Story Was Told, Part 1 Mark Baldwin
- Coded Postcards Mark Baldwin
- Alice in I.D. 25 Mike Barbakoff
- Napoleonic Notes Adam Meredith
- 'We Do Not Understand Ourselves': Parodies of Modernist Poetry Henry Gott
- Cinemania: The Forgotten Film Books of Lorrimer Publishing Irfan Shah
- A Fantastic Copy of Breton's Fantasticks Rachel Eckersley
- Peter Kraus, The Markham Interviews (New Series) 33 Sheila Markham
- The Fellows' Library, Dulwich College: Unfamiliar Libraries, XL F. Witts, P. Fletcher, R. Weaver, C. Lucy
- A Capital Project: Decorated Book Papers at the University of Edinburgh Alan Isaac
- Simon Raven: The Man and His Roman-fleuve Philip Gooden
- Lost Friends, Part 11 Brian Alderson
- An Embroidered Binding for the Last King of Poland, c.1790: English and Foreign Bookbindings, 157 Mirjam M. Foot
- James Fleming, Editor and Friend Victoria Dailey
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It is with great sadness that we have to let you know that our much-loved editor, James Fleming, passed away last week after a sudden illness.
James took on...
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How was the fair for you? Well, book collecting can be a solitary affair: our partners may think that shelves exist for other purposes. But here everyone is on...
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Silke Lohmann speaks with Leo Cadogan about their latest catalogue, Treasures.
1. Your latest catalogue, beautifully designed by the way, covers ten...
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Peter Harrington's specialists Sammy Jay and Dr Philip W. Errington have chosen Keats's words as the title for their latest catalogue A Thing of Beauty –...
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Recent Acquisitions: English, American & Continental Law, 1487–c.1920 - 30 Items
The Lawbook Exchange Ltd.
Date uploaded: 24/3/2025
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Edinburgh 2025
Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Date uploaded: 19/3/2025
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The Rare Book Collection of Dr. Felix Guggenheim
Mark Funke Books
Date uploaded: 19/3/2025
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Economics & Commercial Law - 30 Items
The Lawbook Exchange Ltd.
Date uploaded: 18/3/2025