Firsts London

What a fantastic Firsts Hong Kong! 📚✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us to explore rare treasures and connect with other book lovers.

Firsts Hong Kong is opening this Friday! This highlight is offered by @AsiaBookroom and is a 1986 art book by Shinro Ohtake which captures the cities of London and Hong Kong. Browse more highlights and get tickets for the fair: loom.ly/SjJY9L4

. @PHrarebooks will offer what is believed to be the largest and most diverse collection of early editions and translations of Quotations from Chairman Mao, better known as the Little Red Book, for £1m at @firstslondon Hong Kong. @yygall finebooksmagazine.com/news/200-copie…

Highlights at Firsts Hong Kong ✨ This item is presented by @ShaperoRareBook This and other highlights will be on display at Firsts Hong Kong, 6 - 8 December, at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.

We're holding the winter edition of our online bookfair, Firsts Online, at the end of the month, showcasing a curated selection of rare books, first editions, and works on paper from a range of accredited dealers. loom.ly/aJZZTXw

Highlights at Firsts Hong Kong ✨ Two volumes of watercolour paintings with facing text in kaishu script, offered by @MaggsBros. This and other highlights will be on display at Firsts Hong Kong, 6 - 8 December, at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. loom.ly/SjJY9L4

Highlights at Firsts Hong Kong ✨ Looking West along Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong. This Albumen print photograph by Lai Fong (Afong), c. 1870s, was taken outside Nam Cheong’s Artist Studio at No. 70 Queen’s Road Central. This highlight will be offered by Picture This Gallery.

There's lots of behind the scenes planning in action for Firsts Hong Kong. In the meantime, pictured here a highlight from @crouchrarebooks that will be on display: Cornelius De Jode’s rare circular map of China. Find out more: loom.ly/SjJY9L4

Announcing Firsts Hong Kong, a new book fair taking place 6 - 8 December 2024 Revived for 2024, Firsts Hong Kong brings the former China in Print fair under the Firsts umbrella in the impressive location of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum Find out more: loom.ly/SjJY9L4

Events at Firsts ⚜️ Thank you so much to everyone who attended events on our talks & tours program at Firsts last weekend, and a special thank you to all our brilliant tour guides and speakers!

A HUGE thank you to all the visitors, exhibitors, and staff who made Firsts London possible this year! See you next year: 15 - 18 May 2025

Congratulations to on our Firsts 2024 stand award winners! @VoewoodBooks @camdenlockbooks and Stephen Butler Rare Books and Manuscripts!

The story so far at Firsts London... Visit us over the weekend! firstslondon.com

Copy of yesterday's Times Literary Supplement with a photo of my rare Nutshell on the back cover! Available from Saatchi Gallery now.. @firstslondon @ABARareBooks

Our late Victorian printing press is in action at @firstslondon Book Fair today, where the Friends of the Bodleian is the library partner! If you’re dropping into the book fair, come and say hello, and try it out! firstslondon.com

#MerchAlert We have bookmarks! We have pencils! Come and see us today, tomorrow or Sunday at the @firstslondon book fair.

Excited to be off to the @firstslondon fair preview this evening to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.

Our colleagues are setting things up for the @firstslondon ABA Book Fair in London over the next couple of days! Friends of the Bodleian is proud to be the library partner for this year’s event. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/friends-of-the…

Now at @saatchi_gallery in London for the "Art of the Book" exhibition launch of @firstsLondon. It's a fantastic event with a lot of rare booksellers, a true cultural feast. The opening speech by Bodley's librarian @richove was exceptional!

Very good to be at the @firstslondon book fair this evening, and to see a lot of good books, maps, ephemera and manuscripts - and catch up with a lot of friends and colleagues. Other colleagues from @theUL and friends from @GrolierClub very much in evidence.