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The Right Book - Derek McDonnell

Derek McDonnell"It is uncanny how often you pick out the right book that way"

 

Derek McDonnell has, over the course of 25 years at Hordern House, established himself as a pre-eminent dealer in Australiana and the history of Pacific exploration. He and his partner Anne McCormick have produced a series of beautiful and scholarly catalogues, which have established a new bibliographical standard for their subjects, as well as publishing a series of essential bibliographies. By BT Wolfe.

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Rick Gekoski Seminar

Rick GekoskiThe first in the new series of seminars organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (London University) and the ABA Educational Trust will be given by Rick Gekoski, distinguished equally as a writer, broadcaster and one of the most outstanding rare book dealers of our time.

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Countdown to the 2012 Edinburgh Book Fair

edinburgh-2012-fairThe clock is ticking as Edinburgh 2012 moves closer and closer. Full details of the fair are now available on the new website developed to publicise the event: www.edinburghbookfair.org

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ABA Newsletter Archive

newsletterThe new ABA Newsletter archive is up and running. Please feel free to revisit some of your favourite articles and issues or enjoy our newsletters for the very first time. The archive can be found in the magazine section of the website or by following this link:

 

http://www.aba.org.uk/the-aba-newsletter

 
Olympia 2012 Dates and Location

Olympia National HallThe 2012 event will be held in the superb ‘National Hall,  Olympia ’ just next door to our previous position in ‘Olympia 2’.  The National Hall provides the Fair with much more space – both for circulation and more stands – and confirms its place as a leading International Book Fair.

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edinburgh-2012-fairThe clock is ticking as Edinburgh 2012 moves closer and closer. Full details of the fair are now available on the new website developed to publicise the event: www.edinburghbookfair.org

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You can read. It is a great happiness. I totally neglected it while I was in business, which has been the whole of my life, and to such a degree that I cannot now read a page—a warning to all Ministers.

Robert Walpole,  Lord  Orford (on seeing Henry Fox reading in the library at Houghton), quoted in Edmund Fitzmaurice Life of Shelburne (1875)