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The ABA London International Antiquarian Book Fair

This major three-day event is one of the highlights in the world for book lovers and collectors – and the centrepiece of London International Antiquarian Book Fair Week.  In the light and airy National Hall at Olympia, you will find thousands of rare, unusual and unique items offered for sale by 180 leading UK and international dealers.

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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)