Established in 1982, R. A. Gekoski Booksellers is one of the world’s leading specialist dealers in modern English, Irish and American literature, including first editions, association copies, manuscripts and archives, and artworks with literary associations.
Based in Bloomsbury, London, we endeavour to source material of the highest
quality, rarity, and scholarly and collecting interest. We are particularly
interested in late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century Irish literature
(Yeats and Wilde); Twentieth century modernism (Conrad, Pound, Joyce,
Eliot, Beckett); expatriate small press publishers in Paris (Black Sun,
Obelisk Press); the Bloomsbury Group in both its literary and artistic
guises; and also later twentieth century British and Irish poetry (Larkin,
Hughes, Plath and Heaney). We specialise in association copies of important
American and English books.
We have a small, select stock: prices range from about £200 to
£150,000.
We exhibit at the principal international bookfairs in America – New
York and California – as well as in London.
We are delighted to welcome walk-in customers at our shop, just as
we are happy to assist those who approach us via the internet, whether
they be one-off customers or those clients with whom we have established
long-term collecting relationships. Indeed, we act as advisors, booksellers
and as agents at auction to many of the world's best collections, both
private and institutional.
Services offered by R. A. Gekoski Booksellers include valuations, auction
commissions, as well as institutional placement of significant archives.
We are always interested in purchasing books, letters, manuscripts,
photographs and artworks.
We issue one or two catalogues each year, usually confined to about
100 items. To receive e-mail notification each time a new catalogue
is uploaded to our website, please contact catalogues@gekoski.com.
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