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A pre-Christmas sale (part one) We’ve had a little dig through our shelves and thought we’d put together some short sale lists in the run up to Christmas. A book is, after all the perfect present. More lists will follow...

A collection of books marking the professional and personal relationship between Robert Frank and his publisher Kazuhiko Motomura.  The collection includes three presentation copies with touching inscriptions from Frank to Motomura, two books by Frank published by Motomura in Japan...

If you’ve ever wondered how Sgt. Pepper could have been improved, take a look at item 18 in our latest catalogue. And if you’ve ever wondered how the BAFTA mask was born, look at item 21. Plus, D.H. Lawrence on...

On Friday and Saturday this week we will be in the King’s Road for the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair. For two days only, Chelsea Old Town Hall - the home of the London celebrity wedding - turns itself over...

Death by reading This short list of books takes as its starting point the youthful, Romantic figure of Henry Kirke White. Dying in 1806 before he could become famous, White was the subject of a nineteenth-century cult fostered by Robert...

Welcome to the New Year and our first short list of 2023 designed to cheerus up, wipe away our tears get us leaping out of bed. Fairies and physics, Japanese and Czech design, an American President and a Russian Emperor, satire...

Click on the all-seeing eye for a short list of a dozen books to see you through these early spring days. The oldest book was published in 1499, the newest in 2013. Quite a spread. And with letters from Plato...

Art, Design, Architecture and Illustrated Books A wide ranging look at the visual arts. Books by and about artists from the good but unfashionable (such as John Lavery) to the fashionable but not so good (such as ....). Many are...

We all know that books are beautiful objects, but some, let’s be honest, are more beautiful than others. Our latest short list brings together some stunning bindings made for Princes and Emperors, a very stylish work for a spy who...

THE NAKED AND THE NUDE: AESTHETICS, ART, HISTORY, POETRY, POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY, SPORT, FASHION, HUMOUR.     A SELECTION OF BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ON THE SUBJECT OF REMOVING ONE’S CLOTHES. Click on the image below to view the list.    

High culture and counterculture. Classicism and neoclassicism. Bombs and butterflies. Catholics and anti-Catholics. Click on the architectural drawing below to see Voewoodian dialectics in action.

A SHORT LIST FOR LONG NIGHTS. SOME RECENT PURCHASES. Guns and gardens, cookery and casinos and manuscript poems Click on the Red Heart to read the list

We are delighted to be exhibiting at the Firsts London Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road, London SW3 4RY. We will be on Stand D22 on the ground floor and we hope to see you. We will have...

Welcome to a Voewood Rare Books early autumn short list with a slight difference. In addition to rare books and manuscripts, we also deal in art and objects through Voewood Vaults. We have a large collection of paintings, prints, drawings...

Welcome to our short list for June 2021. We realise that you have spent too many hours over the last year or so staring at a computer screen, so we will keep this brief. Ten items, mostly new stock. Shakespeare...

A List of Countercultural Books, Prints, Magazines and Photographs Our latest list is close to the heart of Simon Finch Rare Books and, now, Voewood Rare Books. We take the view that (subject to certain limits) most of what has...

  Photo books have been a significant part of what we offer since Simon Finch opened his bookshop in Notting Hill in the 1990s. This short list contains a selection from our shelves and gives a indication of the range of photography books that we carry....

    Two hundred years ago, in July 1817, a somewhat eccentric, chaotic and occasionally brilliant collection of poems was published under the Delphic title, Sibylline Leaves. Its eccentric, chaotic and frequently brilliant author S.T. Coleridge, wrote, in the preface...

Among the joys and privileges of being based at Voewood is working against the backdrop of one of the finest Arts and Crafts houses. There is a short introduction to the house elsewhere on the website but I started to think...

Voewood Rare Books is a new venture born from an old one. Many of you may remember the second-hand bookshop at Fish Hill in Holt, originally owned by Simon Gough and more recently by Simon Finch under the name Voewood...

In 1977, Gocho Shigeo published Self and Others, regarded as his most influential and distinctive work and one which led Japanese photography in new and complex directions. Gocho Shigeo was born in 1946. His output was tiny, three books in...