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Collector Profiles:

This is where our rare book collectors have a chance to share their passion for antique books, Collectable books - their Passion for Books - with other collectors!

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CA, USA
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CO, USA

Special Feature

The Book That Came in From the Cold

Doctor Zhivago is remembered as one of the great 20th century love stories. But as we celebrate its 50th anniversary, Tobie Mathew from Rare Book Review reveals how the publication of Pasternak’s classic was more the stuff of thrillers than romance

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Two Stories
Virginia & L.S. Woolf
Peter Harrington Antiquarian Bookseller
(London, UK)

This was the first book published by the Woolfs, printed by them on the hand press and bound in an ad hoc style using at least three different types of paper: a rather unsuccessful plain yellow paper, a blue Japanese tissue, and as in the present example red and white geometric limp linen. Only 150 copies were produced in all.

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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jonkers Rare Books
(Henley on Thames, UK)

Original green cloth with gilt vignettes and titles and decorative endpapers. Eight full page colour plates and pictorial endpapers by Charles Robinson. A fine, bright copy. This copy is unusually bright and unrubbed, with just a small amount of foxing to the endpapers and page edges. A beautiful copy of this children’s classic.

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