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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 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.
FREE to download
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We always keep copies from the two most recent years in stock. These are available at £15 ($30) each, plus postage. We retain physical stock of some older issues, but not all, as the texts are available in their entirety online.
£15 postage not included