A Family Business, Est. 1971

Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.

Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.

Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.

We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
  

Adrian Harrington

ABA Member

Managing Director of Adrian Harrington Rare Books, Past-President of both The Antiquarian Booksellers Association (A.B.A.) and The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (I.L.A.B.). Our enthusiastic and energetic leader has an uncanny knack of acting like the young turk whilst also being a wise man of the book trade. No longer the 'new boy' and not quite 'old school' - more an 'old boy of the new school' of dealers, Adrian has been succesfully buying and selling fine and rare books since 1971, with the occasional pause in order to collect guitars, ukeleles and banjos. 

 

 

 

 

Jon Gilbert

ABA Associate Member

Literature specialist, specifically nineteeth and twentieth century fiction with a particular interest in strange tales, detective fiction, adventure stories, historical thrillers and espionage. Known to many as a James Bond guru, having penned the award-winning bibliography of Ian Fleming and sporadically gracing the nation's radio waves and television screens to comment on agent 007 and his creator. When not prattling on about spy novels Jon can be found tinkering with one of his increasing number of motorcycles. Mid-life crisis anyone?

jon@harringtonbooks.co.uk

 

 

 

Dr Lucas Boulding

ABA Associate Member

Lucas was inherited by Adrian Harrington Rare Books from Hall's Bookshop, along with the chair once graced by Viktor von Ephrussi and the ten pence bargain bin. There is a good chance that he will be at the end of any emails that you send to the shop.

lucas@harringtonbooks.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Skye

Alan mans the front desk at Adrian Harrington Rare Books and also runs our packing and shipping department. His interests include military history, vintage hi-fi, and Blues and Jazz records.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

James Murray

James joined the team in January 2015, working part-time for a number of months before starting full-time in October. As a Byzantinist James' special subjects include the history of Constantinople / İstanbul and the sixth-century historian Prokopios of Caesarea, though he's equally comfortable discussing the relative merits of Tolstoy, Hardy, or the Brontës.

james@harringtonbooks.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emma Watts

Joining in 2022, Emma studied English Literature with a particular interest in Gothic horror, Arthurian Romance, and small press publishing. She mostly runs our photography department and may sometimes be faintly heard cursing the books when they don't cooperate.