The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

Hosted ByNigel Beale

THE BIBLIO FILE is one of the world's leading podcasts about "the book" and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and other certified bibliophiles.


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Stephen Enniss on the Relationship between Collectors and Rare Book Libraries

Dr. Stephen Enniss is Director of the . He has held previous appointments at the Folger Shakespeare Library and at Emory University’s Rare Book Library. His research interests are in 20th century poetry, and he has written on Ted Hughes, Sylvia…

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Meghan Constantinou with the goods on private library catalogues

Meghan Constantinou has been Head Librarian at since 2011 and a Club member since 2013. Her research interests include the history of private collecting, women’s book ownership, and provenance studies. The Club Library collects, preserves, and…

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Justin Schiller on Building the Greatest Children’s Book Collections in the World

One of the best ways to become a successful, fulfilled antiquarian bookseller is to establish close, long-lasting relationships with enthusiastic, committed, ideally well-heeled, collectors. Justin Schiller is a pioneer in the field of rare,…

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Stephen Azzi on Walter Gordon & the Rise of Canadian Nationalism

Don Lindgren on the importance of bookseller catalogues

Don Lindgren established in 2006. The bookshop now operates out of Biddeford, Maine and specializes in Artists’ Books, Cocktails, Cookbooks, Farm and Garden, Gastronomy, History of Food, Rare Periodicals, and Wine.  We met years ago when I…

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Bruce Batchelor on Trafford and the beginnings of Self-Publishing

According to his website, “In 1995, Bruce Batchelor rocked the publishing industry when he invented print-on-demand (POD) publishing and triggered a landslide of new books from every country in the world.” Did he invent it? You’ll have to listen to…

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Leonard Marcus on the great 20th century children’s books editor Ursula Nordstrom

“Ursula Nordstrom (1910 – 1988) was publisher and editor-in-chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row from 1940 to 1973. She is credited with presiding over a transformation in children’s literature in which morality tales written for adult approval…

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Marion Sinclair on what Scotland does to help its indie publishers

Marion Sinclair has been Chief Executive of Publishing Scotland since 2008, with responsibility for program management, funding bids, policy, the International Publishing Fellowship program, publishing practice issues and reporting to…

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Conrad Black on his Book Collections and Book Collecting

Conrad Black – in full, Conrad Moffat Black, Lord Black of Crossharbour – was born in 1944, in Montreal. He is an author, columnist, historian, and businessman who built the third largest newspaper group in the world during the 1980s and 1990s. At its…

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