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Kitty Wong

Welcome to the Shapero Rare Books Blog. Here you can find articles on rare books written by our Specialists on subjects ranging from Pirate books to modern first editions; on authors such as Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl; and on illustrators including Quentin Blake. Sign up to our weekly newsletter at the bottom of this page to receive regular updates.

Nature As Muse: English landscapes that inspir...

Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published in L...

Making Connections | A Calcutta Imprint to Lin...

What makes a book desirable apart from the important fact that you like it? Rarity pla...

Four things to do this July

July is here and things are hotting up. Our team of specialists have...

Five things you might not know about Masterpie...

Masterpiece London, opening next week on 30th June, is the unmissabl...

Heinrich Schliemann - A Man Of Our Times

Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), although born almost 200 years ago, seems very much a...