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"And suddenly I knew: I wanted to become a bookseller."

(Publié dans la lettre d'information de la LILA n°39 - Juin 1987)

Yesterday I received several boxes, from my Printer, containing my latest Catalogue. It is always an exciting time for a bookseller. Months of hard…

(Texte publié dans la Lettre d'Information n°38 de la LILA en 1986)

Once more "dear old London" proved to be the best place to buy books. The delegates from the United States, Austria, Germany, Norway, Denmark,…

"As I stood admiring the book and ruminating on its worth, that wise and shrewd bookseller, Bill Fletcher, doyen of the British trade, and a man some…

In 1985 I was elected to the committee of the ILAB, the international umbrella organization then uniting the national associations of eighteen…

Menno Hertzberger tells us about the origin of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and its first few years

As I sat, or stood, on the platform in Amsterdam in 1947, presiding over the first ever international meeting of antiquarian booksellers, I often…

It's rare that an antiquarian bookshop should have a history as long and rich as the jewels of its stock. But with Sotheran's in London's Sackville…

An Interview with ILAB President Arnoud Gerits in the Hong Kong Economic Times, February 2011

Lorsque des libraires d'ancien parlent entre eux d'un « grand libraire », ils n'ont pas toujours la même idée en tête. Pour certains, il s'agit d'une…