a book shop with rare books, manuscripts, archives, posters & ephemera.
CARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOKS OF DALSTON, LONDON.
What we do & how we do it.
Terms & Conditions.
- All purchases of rare books, manuscripts, works on paper, photographs etc remain the property of Carl Williams Rare Books until paid for in full. Postage and packing is usually charged extra at cost. We reserve the right to charge for any merchants fees incurred if a refund is issued.
My background, activities & interests.
- I buy as well as sell and will travel anywhere to see good, rare books. I also deal in archives, undertake valuations, sell ephemera, photographs, manuscripts and original art.
- I tend to specialise in the occult, counterculture, erotica, Contemporary Art/Modern Art, protest, the sixties and so on.
- I've worked in the rare book trade for twenty or so years. I helped to start the UK branch of a dotcom in '99 dealing rare and secondhand books then worked for Maggs Bros until 2015.
- For three or so of the years that I worked at Berkeley Square I was also on secondment to Julio Mario Santo Domingo's LSD Library.
- In the brief time that I have worked as an independent dealer I have, among other things, mounted small shows of Aktionsraum, Joseph Beuys and original calendar art from India with Tenderbooks. I also sold a major collection of protest posters produced by the Berkeley Poster Workshop to The Houghton Library. I am proud to say that I also did the valuation of Felix Dennis's Oz archive for London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Which was subsequently acquired by the Performance Department of the V&A. In July 2018, I have produced three catalogue of material from the LSD Library called 'The Search For Soma', Still Kicking and 'LSD 3'.
