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Welcome to Bertram Rota Ltd Booksellers

We specialise in Modern First Editions, books on Architecture and the Applied Arts, and Private Press Printing and Livres d'artiste. You can browse through our stock online, fill in an enquiry form, or request a free copy of our printed catalogue.

We are happy to carry out valuations for purposes of sale, insurance, or probate and are always keen to buy single books of importance, collections of first editions, scholarly works on history or literature, or entire libraries.

We are also interested in original manuscripts, corrected proofs and typescripts, historic and literary autographs, and portraits or drawings of literary interest.

Since its foundation, Bertram Rota Ltd has established a reputation for handling the sale of archives for major figures in the fields of literature and the arts.

Our shop is located on the first floor of 31 Long Acre in Covent Garden, London. We are open from 10.30am to 5.30pm weekdays. We also welcome mail order and internet customers. Many of our regular clients are based overseas and we have an excellent history of shipping books abroad speedily and fully insured. Registered in London as above 373181.

Bertram Rota Ltd, 31 Long Acre, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9LT

telephone: 020 7836 0723; fax: 020 7497 9058; bertramrota@compuserve.com

Opening hours: Weekdays 10.30am to 5.30pm.  


View or download our December 2011 catalogue 306, all about dust-jackets (pdf) here

View or download our Spring 2012 catalogue 307, A Selection from the Library of Anthony and Ann Thwaite, including the Anthony Thwaite Philip Larkin collection (pdf) here

View or download our Summer 2012 impromptu list, recent acquisitions, mostly fine bindings(pdf) here

View or download our two-part 2013 catalogue 308, the Gavin Fryer Ford Madox Ford Collection also including a fine selection of works by Joseph Conrad, Compton Mackenzie and V.S. Pritchett (pdf) here and here

For new and a wide range of secondhand books, as West Berkshire residents we highly recommend the charming and independent Hungerford Bookshop, owned and run by Alex and Emma Milne-White, winner of the BBIA Independent Bookshop of the Year 2009. 24 High Street, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0NF, 01488 683480, www.hungerfordbooks.co.uk, sales@hungerfordbooks.co.uk.

See also http://www.thelondonbookshopmap.org/