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Collecting Ian Fleming’s Most Famous James Bond Books
Building an Ian Fleming book collection can be a daunting task. Fleming, the James Bond creator,...
Why do we use Catalogues in the Rare Book World?
Lauren Hepburn talks to Adam Douglas, Head Cataloguer at Peter Harrington about the importance of...
How To Handle and Store Rare Books
One of the questions rare booksellers get asked a lot is what are the best methods for...
Jane Austen: How do bindings affect value?
Adam Douglas, Senior Specialist at Peter Harrington, introduces a selection of Jane Austen’s first...
Is my Harry Potter book valuable? How to tell if your copy is a first edition
This comprehensive article will help you establish whether you have a first edition Harry Potter...
Videos
Chinese Myths and Folklore with Dr Matt Wills
Handcrafted Papercuts by Women in ChinaOur Asia specialist Dr Matt discusses Myths and Folklore, an album of beautifully handcrafted papercuts made by Chinese students at the Ai Dao Women's Bible School in the 1930s. The stories they depict in this artwork range from...
One of Our Sixty Fine Items
LAWRENCE, T. E. The Foundations of Arab Revolt.Our senior specialist Adam Douglas shares a copy of The Foundations of Revolt owned by Robin Buxton. This is the famously rare first state of the prospectus for Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which includes the controversial...
Leadership with John Ryan
John Ryan present our Leadership catalogue which presents five centuries of print history, alongside significant manuscript and striking visual material. Revolutionaries and radicals, premiers and presidents, royalty and military commanders, founders of religions, and...