Firsts London 2021

21-24 October 2021
Firsts London 2021 Shapero Rare Books

FIRSTS LONDON will be hosted at the prestigious Saatchi gallery in Chelsea this October, and we couldn’t be more excited about the prospect of returning to a physical fair once more!  As Stephen Fry remarked of Firsts: ‘We are very lucky...

Firsts London 2021 Shapero Rare Books

FIRSTS LONDON will be hosted at the prestigious Saatchi gallery in Chelsea this October, and we couldn’t be more excited about the prospect of returning to a physical fair once more! 

As Stephen Fry remarked of Firsts: ‘We are very lucky to have this kind of fair… it’s not elitist, it’s not specialist, you don’t have to be a scholar, you just have to be someone with an immense thirst for the glory of books’ 

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