On the 31st August 1946, the New Yorker gave over its entire editorial space to John Hershey's...
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Leafy London squares, boldly painted furniture, cottage-style gardens and unorthodox ménages: the...
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Perhaps one of the best-known, best-loved and most-illustrated poems in the English language, The...
Peter Harrington Summer Catalogue 2016: Staff Favourites
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Erwin N Griswold, Dean of Harvard Law School, perhaps best alluded to the place of the Magna Carta...
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Judging A Book By Its Cover: The Importance of Dust Jackets
Senior Rare Book Specialist Adam Douglas explains the history and significance of dust jackets and their impact on the value of rare books.
Mao’s China Through Its Propaganda With Dr Matt Wills
Asia specialist, Dr Matt Wills, charts three decades of propaganda production through three fascinating examples found on Peter Harrington’s shelves.
Fleming on Film – The Schøyen Collection with Jon Gilbert
The James Bond material described herein was previously part of the important collection of Dr Martin Schøyen (b.1940), whose renowned archive of world heritage manuscripts covers a wide variety of subjects, eras, and civilisations. Much of the Schøyen Bond material...