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The New York Antiquarian Book Fair
Billed as "The Best Book Fair in the World" the New York Antiquarian Book Fair is this weekend - on now. All week my Twitter feed has been full of booksellers tweeting links to the booklists/catalogues...
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The Art of Agostino Arrivabene
In one of those felicitous Internet moments last night I found myself drawn into a website through some stray clicking on an odd link, completely accidental, and I haven't been able to tear myself away...
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins and a Penguin
I'm delighted to see that the new Penguin Classics design for Peter Shaffer's Equus is now abroad. Congratulations to him and to Penguin on a brilliant new cover. You can read more about Clive's long,...
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New Vintage Photos
Two vintage photos with a certain charm recently added to the collection.
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Herbert Cole Illustrates The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
There was a point at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century when it could have been said that to call yourself an illustrator and not to have 'done a Rubaiyat' was something...
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Two Callum James Books Publications available through Amazon
Delighted to be able to let you all know that the Callum James Books edition of John Gambril Nicholson's The Romance of a Choir Boy is now available through Amazon.If you are buying from Amazon.co.uk...
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Things That Fall From Books #11: The Cut-up Technique
 This rather tatty copy of William Burroughs's Nova Express has been causing squeals of delight here at Callum James Heights this morning and providing the occasion for one of our very occasional posts...
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Paperback Catalogue
The hunt for the books of scintillating scarcity is all great fun but sometimes you just want to be able to rest your coffee cup on the table without worrying abouth whether it's going to take a three...
View ArticleThe Sherlock Holmes Hotel
In 1971, Benny Green wrote in The Spectator, about what a hotel named The Sherlock Holmes should be like:"When a man walks into a hotel named The Sherlock Holmes, the last thing he wants is...
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Architect Draws Plans of Pyramids, Tombs and Stonehenge
I don't often directly link to the items I'm selling on Ebay from this blog but this is such a peculiar and unusual lot of 'stuff' I thought I would share. Picked up from a local auction with a pile of...
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Vintage Shorts and a Spring Day
Finally, a few days of real Spring-like weather and, this afternoon I took advantage and spent a very pleasant few hours wandering Albert Road in Southsea. Albert Road is the closest Portsmouth comes...
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Hadrian VII - The Seventh - A 1980s Edition
 This bizarre and, I have to say, hideous illustration is from the front cover of a book I picked up on my perambulations yesterday: an edition of Hadrian VII I didn't know existed. In fact it's a 1987...
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Fancy Footwork
It's a delight and a wonder every now and again when a reader of this blog decides to share something of their own and that's what's happened here. This delightful photograph was found at a flea market...
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Icnoic Vintage Photographs in Colour
This is a little old now, but so amazing that for those who may not have seen it already, well worth being a bit behind the times. Over at The Roosevelts in August last year they published a series of...
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Things That Fall From Books #12: Victorian Paper Cuts
This is usually a much more occasional series than it is at the moment. Paper cut designs is something of a fad at the moment with 'crafters' all over the place giving it a go. In the early 2000s you...
View ArticleGay City Anthology Kickstarter Project
I've just been tempted to offer actual real money to my first Kickstarter project. For those of you who haven't come across Kickstarter before, it's a community based platform for raising funds for...
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Frank Prewett, Poet, by Dorothy Brett
If you're a regular reader of this blog you may thank that this sultry looking young man looks familiar. He has, in fact, featured before in portrait form, back in September last year. He is Frank...
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Aubade from Kenneth Martin and Valancourt Books
Valancourt Books is on something of a roll this year with an incredible schedule of releases and today on Twitter they were highlighting the soon to be released editions of Kenneth Martin's Aubade,...
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Quick 1890s Quiz: Sidney Sime
A quick Eighteen-Nineties quiz for you... We are after the name of an artist.He was described by Frank Harris thus:"A strongly built man of about five feet seven or eight with a cliff-like,...
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Things That Fall From Books #13: Erotic Quotes
Of all the things that have fallen from books and been featured on this blog I think this may be my favourite so far. From between the pages of Black Spring by Henry Miller in a rather scruffy...
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