Stephen King
inscribed this first
edition of his novel
Dark Tower: The
Gunslinger during
a book tour.
The Strand’s Rare Books Room is a quiet oasis,
perfect for getting lost in an atlas like this.
We often get
the question: ‘So
what’s
a rare book?’
To which the
answer
is,
‘Yes.’
—Joseph Fouse
This 1953 edition of
Richard Dimbleby’s
Elizabeth Our Queen
sports a lavish
“fore-edge painting”
— the sort of art,
manager Vasilis
Terpsopoulos says,
“you can only get
in a book.”