Dealers' Diary

Archives Fine Books was established in 1985, but since 2008 has been the baby of owners Hamish Alcorn and Dawn Albinger (Dawn is interviewed here).

Can you make a living from selling ephemera and low-value works on paper?

The Ephemera Society Fair is still going strong for its 50th anniversary despite having to make a move this year.

A miniature map of the Turkish Ottoman Empire is among the items being offered by Sanders of Oxford at London Map Fair on June 7-8.

It’s not just the Firsts book fair this year that has a focus on a plants theme

Julian Wilson has set up his own independent antiquarian book-selling business in south London.

A recent survey reveals a drop in dealers’ sales combined with a sharp rise in costs

Tom W Ayling is an antiquarian bookseller dealing in rare books and manuscripts.

Piece of furniture mentioned in reference books is just of the potential purchases at Dec Fair

From elegant furniture by Scandinavian designers to stand-out lamps and decorative pieces… the lines, materials and simplicity that characterise interiors items from the mid-century modern period appeal to a wide range of buyers.

Chairs were in particular demand at the Dulwich biannual Mid-century event

Abbott and Holder is hosting an exhibition from April 24-May 10 celebrating the work of John Sutcliffe, one of the great decorative painters and colour experts of his generation.

Guy Peppiatt has produced a new catalogue which is a combined effort with Emma Rutherford: the first time the two dealers have collaborated in this way, though they have worked together in the past.

Books dealership Peter Harrington’s latest catalogue explores how technology has shaped, controlled, and empowered the voiceless, while fuelling the flow of information and culture.

First event at this time of year generates encouraging feedback and a healthy string of sale successes

The Petersfield Antiques Fair is now in its 52nd year since the event’s dawn in the early 1970s.

The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA) held its first London fair - Cotswold Art Antiques Chelsea - at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King’s Road from March 20-23.

With the first CADA fair to be held in Chelsea receiving positive feedback (see story also in this edition), we now look ahead to a much more local event available for traders

Collectors and institutions flooded into the huge art fair for an ‘exceptional calibre’ of works on display