A Year in Books For Life
October 16, 2017
I have been working with Heywood Hill, London’s pre-eminent independent bookshop, sourcing rare books for library projects. They have just launched their fantastic Prize Draw to win A Year in Books FOR LIFE.
I cannot enter, frustratingly. But you, dear reader, can – until midnight on 31st October 2017. The first prize winner will receive one newly published and hand-picked hardback book per month – FOR LIFE – delivered anywhere in the world.
Imagine Elon Musk chooses you for the first manned flight to Mars in 2024. Just answer these two simple questions for your chance to win: what treasured book and what object do you take with you?
Watch the promotional video and find out more about Heywood Hill’s popular ‘A Year in Books’ subscription service
“See you at Chelsea”
September 23, 2015
I will be exhibiting 
for the first time at The Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair, held on November 6th – 7th at the stunning Chelsea Old Town Hall in the King’s Road, London SW3 5EE.
The Chelsea fair has become a fixture in the calendar for book and print collectors and dealers from Britain, Europe and America. Warmer than Boston, more intimate than York, less formal than Paris – Chelsea has it all. Customers return year after year to this lively and friendly event.
‘See you at Chelsea’ has become a phrase familiar to everyone in the British rare book and works on paper trade.
I look forward to meeting old friends, established clients and especially new collectors. With Christmas around the corner, are you looking for an unusual and memorable present? Or is there a subject, artist, genre or period of history that especially attracts you? Perhaps you are thinking of collecting books or prints but are unsure of where to start, what to look for, who to approach or what on earth I mean by half calf gilt, aquatint, or slightly foxed…
If so, come and talk to me on the Stage at the back of the Main Hall (Stand 87, you can’t miss it!).
Whether you are in the business, a collector or simply curious about rare, antiquarian and collectable books, prints, maps and ephemera, then the Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair is not to be missed.
The Fair is Open on Friday 6th November 2pm to 7pm and Saturday 7th November 11am to 5pm.
To Find out More: http://www.chelseabookfair.com/
For Free Tickets please click this link: http://www.chelseabookfair.com/register-for-tickets/9e2ec72ab6aeb74beab8efce48491cbb
For a Preview of some of the Stock I will be bringing to Chelsea: https://jenningsprints-public.sharepoint.com/SiteAssets/Bristol%20BF.pdf
I will be “popping up” at Middle Temple Library in London on 23rd April (12.00 – 14.00) as part of a worldwide series of Pop-Up book fairs endorsed by UNESCO.
On this day in 1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died. Centuries later this day marked the date of birth or death of prominent authors like Vladimir Nabokov, Haldor Laxness, Maurice Druon and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.
And each year, on 23rd April, UNESCO celebrates World Book and Copyright Day with a series of worldwide events. Now, for the first time, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) will be a part of it!
A WORLD FIRST – ACROSS THE WORLD
From Sydney to Tokyo to Cape Town, from Moscow, London and all the major European capitals to New York, Washington, Chicago and the Pacific Northwest of the United States ILAB Pop Up Book Fairs, organized by the world’s expert antiquarian booksellers, will appear on 23rd April, 2015.
WHERE? In a woolshed in the Australian bush, at central stations, on boats, in museums, libraries, streets, private clubs, cocktail clubs, brew pubs, on roof terraces, at the top of skyscrapers. On UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day ILAB booksellers will bring rare books to the people in the most unexpected places!
HOW? Like a Mexican wave starting the day in Australia and, as the sun goes down, finishing the day in the United States, scores of rare book dealers will be organizing Pop Up Fairs – a mixture between bookish flash mob and speed dating for book lovers, lasting only a few hours at unusual, but busy locations where passers-by will discover a stunning selection of rare books, prints, manuscripts and ephemera to promote the trade of old and rare books and to support the UNESCO literacy projects in Africa.
Official websites www.ilab.org and www.unesco.org/new/en/wbcd.
Please contact Sally Burdon (Sally@AsiaBookroom.com) or Barbara van Benthem (editor@ilab.org), if you need any further information.
Prints, People and Progress 