The Book Collector

Archived since No. 1, 1947

Complete Archive

306 issues

The Book Collector is a quarterly journal, in print and online, offering 192 pages per issue of wit, pleasure and knowledge on all aspects of the book through all ages. We have anything up to ten articles every time, book reviews, obituaries, prices at book auctions and a section on world-wide book chat. We’ve produced special issues on Ian Fleming (our founder), Polar Exploration and Women among Books. Our online archive, which goes back to 1947, is a resource for both students and academics that’s second to none.

Latest Issue:

‘Politics in Command’: Thoughts on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Print Matt Wills

The Lost Library of John Skingle, 1623–1658 Paul Fletcher

Jane Austen’s The History of Sir Charles Grandison Azar Hussain

Newdigate Prize Poems: A Collector’s Conspectus John Maddicott

Visualising the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Simon Cooke

How the Enigma Story Was Told, Part 2 Mark Baldwin

Inscriptions and Decryptions Moray Mc Gowan

Bananas – An Ephemeral Shooting Star of the 1970s Hartley Moorhouse

Neil Adams, The Markham Interviews (New Series??) 36 Sheila Markham

A Favourite Book Anna James

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