Based in Dalston, London, UK
What we do & how we do it.
Carl Williams
- Like all good rare booksellers, I buy as well as sell and will travel anywhere to see good, rare books, manuscripts, archives and so on. I will always ask for evidence of title and ownership when making a purchase from a customer.
- I undertake valuations of archives and collections. and 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 tend to specialise in the occult, counterculture, erotica, Contemporary/Modern Art, protest, the sixties and so on.
- I've worked in the rare book trade for twenty-five 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 with Maggs Bros I was also on secondment to Julio Mario Santo Domingo's LSD Library.
- In the 8 years that I have worked as an independent dealer I have, among other things, done small shows of Aktionsraum, Joseph Beuys, Sheila Rock's punk photos and original calendar art from India.
- I like to sell large/major collections en bloc such as protest posters produced by the Berkeley Poster Workshop that I sold to The Houghton Library.
- I have produced three printed catalogues of material from the LSD Library called 'The Search For Soma', Still Kicking and 'LSD 3.1 & 3.2'.
T&Cs.
- 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.
- Image: Jane & Louise Wilson - The Poster Room of the LSD Library.
