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At the annual meeting the Swedish Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (Svenska Antikvariatföreningen, SVAF) elected a new president and a new…

Congratulations! At the Annual General Meeting in York last Wednesday Brian Lake of Jarndyce Books (London) was elected new President and Michael…

When Charles Dickens' sixth son was born on January 16, 1849, the boy was named for one of Dickens' favorite authors. Supposedly Dickens had first…

Discovering a fore-edge painting is always a pleasant surprise. When I first started my bookselling apprenticeship, it was one of the first things I…

Most of my bookselling life has been a lonely business: waiting for trains, scouring shelves of dull books in the hope of finding one good one. But…

April 13th marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. The book would be the first of…

Meanwhile, back at the Armory, setup for the 53rd Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair was proceeding smoothly. And, I am happy to…

Barbara Burdon, the founder of Asia Bookroom and beloved mother of Burdon Family Booksellers' members Sally, Jonathan and Elisabeth, and…

As you may already have realised, I like books which have a story to tell. By this I mean not just the book's own internal narrative, but a copy of…

Swimming Rhine maidens, by special permission of H.M. the King of Bavaria – Wagner's "Ring" came to London in 1882. "He planned to open his campaign…

One of the few artists to gain true celebrity from illustrating children's books, Kate Greenaway was one of the most influential illustrators of her…

Having thought about it though, it did occur to me that the real problem with that Treasure Detectives malarkey was not even the fact that they had…