The Book Collector

The Book Collector is a magazine for book collectors that commenced publication in 1952.

On its founding editorial board were Ian Fleming, John Hayward and P.H. Muir and it was published in London, England by the Queen Anne Press.

Today, the magazine is published by The Collector Limited and it includes content of interest to librarians, book-collectors and booksellers.

Essays about book collecting by Geoffrey Keynes in the Book Collector has been published in a compilation volume.

Publication details

• The Book Collector, London, The Collector Ltd. ISSN 0006-7237

External links

• Official website.

• The Book Collector was founded in 1952, two years before he published Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming. Its first editor, until his death in 1965, was John Hayward, the friend and muse of T. S. Eliot. Since then it has been edited by Nicolas Barker, sometime publisher and first head of conservation at the British Library, abetted by an editorial board drawn from rare-book librarianship and the antiquarian book trade. http://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/
• It may surprise many people to know that Ian Fleming, the creator of that definitive man of action James Bond, was not merely a writer of books but a collector as well. So much so that, in 1952, a year before Agent 007 first exploded onto the scene, Fleming created a journal which he called The Book Collector. This publication, devoted to the world of rare books, remains little changed to this day—which is a very deliberate ethic on the part of the journal's current editor, Nicolas Barker.
• About. The Book Collector, 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2012.