A pre-Christmas sale (part one)
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 Chr...
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Robert Frank and Kazuhiko Motomura
A collection of books marking the professional and personal relationship between Robert Frank and his publisher Kazuhiko Motomura. The collection ...
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Catalogue Six
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 t...
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Chelsea Rare Book Fair. 3-4 November 2023
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 h...
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Henry Kirke White among the Romantics
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 c...
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A January Dozen. A short list to cheer up the New Year
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 physic...
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A short list for spring days
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, th...
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Art, Design, Architecture and Illustrated Books
Art, Design, Architecture and Illustrated Books A wide ranging look at the visual arts. Books by and about artists from the good but unfashionable...
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Oh! You pretty things. A small collection of beautiful bindings.
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 so...
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Catalogue Five
Welcome to our latest catalogue. The usual wide range of subjects, across all ages from the 1480s to the 1980s, and covering all moods from the dee...
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Books and Photographs for Warm Weather. Summer 2022
THE NAKED AND THE NUDE: AESTHETICS, ART, HISTORY, POETRY, POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY, SPORT, FASHION, HUMOUR. A SELECTION OF BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ON...
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Catalogue Four
High culture and counterculture. Classicism and neoclassicism. Bombs and butterflies. Catholics and anti-Catholics. Click on the architectural draw...
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A short list of recent purchases for November
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 th...
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