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This comprehensive article will help you establish whether you have a first edition Harry Potter on your hands. If you do have a first edition and are interested in selling it, please contact us on ...
“The girl I select must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity” (G. Cukor, pre-production and casting director of Gone with the Wind) Vivien Leigh’s journey towards being cast as Scarlett O’Hara in David ...
In his 1930 work on book collecting, Anatomy of Bibliomania, Holbrook Jackson claimed that “book love is as masculine (although not as common) as growing a beard.” Times have changed; the recent inauguration of a ...
This article by Ben Houston originally appeared in The Gourmand magazine. The early history of the cocktail is inevitably entangled in over two centuries of tall-tale bar-talk. As David Wondrich remarks in Imbibe!, his definitive ...
Printing and the Mind of Man (PMM) is a landmark publication in the study of books and their place in culture. First published in 1967, PMM was based on the 1963 exhibitions of the same ...
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Our recent bindery catalogue not only contains outstanding examples of the bindery's work, but information on how we go about binding a book. View the full catalogue https://loom.ly/nezSieI
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published #OTD 70 years ago. This first edition has been rebound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark dark green morocco, decorated with pictorial onlays, and is part of our recent 20th anniversary catalogue https://loom.ly/nezSieI
4We're regularly asked about first editions of Harry Potter, especially when a news story appears about a copy fetching a fabulous price at auction. Reposting our thread on definitively identifying if your copy is a first edition
Wondering if your copy of Philosopher's Stone is valuable? Here's our definitive guide to finding out if you have a first edition on your hands (thread)
