About Rachel Lee Rare Books

I have been in the antiquarian book trade since 1978, spending about 12 years in auction houses in Bristol and Swindon, and then as a director of Thoemmes Antiquarian Books/Thoemmes Press in Bristol.  At the end of 1998 Herb Tandree and I bought the stock of Thoemmes Antiquarian Books when the company decided to specialise solely in publishing.  I am now based in private premises between Bristol and Bath, about 120 miles west of London.  I would be pleased to see visitors, by prior appointment.  Herb Tandree Philosophy Books , has a large stock of secondhand philosophy books, and is based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Rachel Lee Rare Books stock concentrates on philosophy – antiquarian, rare, out-of-print, but also encompasses theology, economics, sociology, psychology, science.

I occasionally exhibit at the London Olympia ABA book fair, held in June of each year

October 1988:  Auction no. 1, Dominic Winter Book Auctions, Swindon.

Top row, left to right:  Chris Albury, Rachel Lee (with gavel!), Dominic Winter

Lower row, left to right:  William Winter, Olive Payne, Dawn Carter, Marion Winter, Philip Best, Nathan Winter.

January 1990: Inaugural meeting of the editorial board of the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers (pub. Thoemmes Press, 1999)

Left to right:  John Stephens, John Valdimir Price, David Berman, Jean Yolton, Rudi Thoemmes, Godfrey Vesey, Peter Alexander, John Yolton.

October 1990:  Thoemmes Antiquarian Books stand at International League of Antiquarian Booksellers book fair and convention, Tokyo, Japan.

Left to right:  Lena Boyle, Rachel Lee, Rudi Thoemmes, Miss Sato of Subun-so Book Store.

October 1990;  Tokyo book fair dinner:  Rachel Lee, Edith Finer.

February 2001:  San Francisco Book Fair - Rachel Lee with Ulrich Hobbeling from Antiquariat Stenderhoff

2003/4:     A selection of annotated books from the library of Iris Murdoch, sold by Rachel Lee Rare Books to Kingston University London.

April 2005:  Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association Jersey Book Fair – the only book fair ever held on Jersey (opening delayed as books too heavy for ferry crossing!)

A corner of the Old Bakery