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News and happenings from the book collecting world.
Unfolding Time
27th February, 2025
This week Silke Lohmann caught up with Sarah Griffin, curator at Lambeth Palace Library, to discuss her latest exhibition featuring a precious collection of rare medieval folding almanacs. Unfolding Time is your…
Fold the Corner Books
16th January, 2025
This month we have been talking to two young booksellers Rebekah Cron and Mark Baczoni, who founded Fold the Corner Books. We discuss their processes for working on their catalogues, combining both old and new….
James Fleming: 26 February 1944 –22 November 2024
29th November, 2024
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 The…
The ‘Little Red Book’ Collection for sale at Firsts Hong Kong
28th November, 2024
At Firsts Hong Kong this December, Peter Harrington is offering for sale the world’s largest and most wide-ranging collection of editions of Quotations from Chairman Mao, also known as the “Little…
Reflections on the Chelsea Book Fair from an observer
7th November, 2024
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 our one…
How I Started My Collection: David Kotthoff
22nd October, 2024
David Kotthoff is a collector of all things Charles Bukowski and will be selling part of his collection in Bellmans’ rare book auction in December. He first came across Bukowski…
Treasures
10th October, 2024
Silke Lohmann speaks with Leo Cadogan about their latest catalogue, Treasures. Your latest catalogue, beautifully designed by the way, covers ten treasures from 1480 to 1700. What’s your personal…
A Thing of Beauty
26th September, 2024
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 – celebrating the art and craft of…
Janette Ray
11th September, 2024
‘I came into bookselling through a route taken by many specialist dealers, approaching from knowledge of my subject rather than experience of the trade. In my youth I wanted to…
Captain Bligh Part 3: ‘A Long and Turbulent Journey’
19th July, 2024
By the time Bligh returned a year later, having finally brought the breadfruit to the West Indies, the tide was out. Rather than great public acclaim and a grand official…
Detective Fiction
18th July, 2024
Jarndyce have just published their latest catalogue on Detective Fiction. It includes an impressive 356 books with prices ranging from £10 to £8,500 and covers books from 1827 to 1967, with the bulk of…
Captain Bligh Part 2 – ‘A Bunch of Thieving Jellyfish’
3rd July, 2024
One could go mad trying to understand Christian’s actions in the days before the mutiny while accepting that the mental pressure he was under was immense. He seems to have…