Updates
Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books
by Laura Massey
Science Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.
Easter Opening Hours
Happy Easter from all of us at Shapero Rare Books and Shapero Modern. Wishing you a delightful Easter filled with peace, happiness, and of course, great books!
Plan your visit by checking our Easter opening hours below.
105 New Bond Street Opening Hours
Saturday 30th March 10am to 6pm
Good Friday, Easter Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday CLOSED
Our online shop is operating as normal. Orders will continue to be shipped at the earliest opportunity.
Shapero Modern will be closed from 6pm on Thursday 28th March until Tuesday 2nd April.
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About Us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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FEATURED ITEMS
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The Master Key.
BAUM, L. Frank.Original price £380.00 - Original price £380.00Original price £380.00£380.00£380.00 - £380.00Current price £380.00An intriguing work from the author most famous for his Oz series of books, this recounts the adventures of a young boy whose scientific experiment...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
TWAIN, Mark.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00A sweet edition of Mark Twain's classic novel in red calf gilt by Bayntun, with colour-plate and in-text illustrations by Cyril Walter Hodges (190...
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Mickey Mouse Presents His Silly Symphonies:
DISNEY STUDIOS, Walt.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Pop-up book. Silly Symphonies comprised 75 short musical films produced by Walt Disney from 1929 to 1939; The series is notable for its innovation ...
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When We Were Very Young; Winnie-The-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00A complete set of the Winnie-the-Pooh books. Milne's first volume (When We Were Very Young) was published in November 1924 and was such a resoundin...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking Glass [and] The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses.
CARROLL, Lewis (pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge); NEWELL, Peter (illustrator)Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.003 vols, 8vo (227 x 160 mm); First vol: frontispiece photogravure of Lewis Carroll, 40 black & white illustrations by Peter Newell, further tex...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
