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 but here’s a chance to get some early shopping done....
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 and one of the rarest of Frank's works. It is a...
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 “black beetles”, boys and Bloomsbury. A gorgeous Sedgley “mosaic” binding...
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 to the infinitely more glamorous, beautiful and star-studded crowd that...
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 Southey and among whose devotees were Keats, Byron, Shelley and...
