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.
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AUTUMN 2023 - Vol 72.3
- The Marvellous Monsieur Sardou, Part 2 Victoria Dailey
- From Byzantium to Alberto Sangorski: Treasures from the Thomas Edward Watson Collection at the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Edward Potten
- The Tenschert Wunderkammer: A Journey Through the Book Treasures of the 16th Century Nicolas Barker
- Fu Lei Ming and the Horse of International Goodwill Mark Baczoni
- Censors, Bowdlers and Modern Bibliophobes A Young Dinosaur
- Bellamy and Robarts’s ‘General Magazine Shakespeare’ and Its Illustrations Sandro Jung
- The Ashendene Press: From Pleasant Hobby to International Commodity Chris Arnison
- Grilled at Wiltons: Lunch with Sheila Markham James Fleming
- Soviet Science Fiction Simon Patterson
- Rococo Poet on the Rive Gauche: A Note on Ralph Cheever Dunning Mark Valentine
- From Holland to St. Helena: A Book from Napoleon’s Library in Exile Robert Thake
- Lost Friends, Part 7 Brian Alderson
- The Libraries of Twelve Early Members of The Club, Part 12: Samuel Johnson Stephen Clarke
- A Binding Made in Paris by Henri Merchier, 1967: English and Foreign Bookbindings, 151 Mirjam M. Foot
Articles
selected articles from our archive
Valuing A Presidential Library
Free e-book, October 2020
The Wilde Woman and the Sunflower Apostle
Victoria Dailey, Winter 2019
Obituary of Dr. Rosenbach, ‘The Doctor’
C. G. Des Graz, Autumn 1952
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Louder Than Words - Women Who Changed The World
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