On 23rd October 2021, The Book Collector sat with Clive Farahar, the prominent book dealer, at his stall in the Saatchi Gallery in the midst of Firsts London Rare Book Fair.
James Fleming, our editor, spoke with Clive about their latest collaboration: a new 12-part Podcast Series of Fred Bason's...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This month we had the pleasure to talk to Meghan Constantinou, who has been Librarian of the Grolier Club since 2011 and a club member since 2013. She holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of Delaware and a M.L.S. in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute. Her interests...