Here at World of Rare Books, we love to focus on the interesting lives of the greatest authors that this world has offered us. This year marks 50 years without this great children’s author who is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series. Arthur Ransome was the son of Cyril and Edith Ransome, […]
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World of Rare Books Staff Picks | Ephemera
To celebrate our wonderful ephemera category and the unique and quirky items it holds, our World of Rare Books employees have had a chance to pick out their favourite items this week. You can read more about our Ephemera collection here in a previous blog. Here they are… Weekly Illustrated – Coronation Programme and […]
Step back in time | First Published Books | Volume 1
We have been thinking about our favourite authors and what was their first ever published story. The story that launched them into literary fame. As there are many classic authors we would love to cover, we are going to split this into a series of blog posts. We will start with some of our own […]