Bertram Rota Booksellers

Established in 1923, and now in our 91st year, Bertram Rota virtually invented the market for modern First Editions. We remain keen to buy single books of importance or collections, and can offer advice on building a personal collection or creating a bespoke library. We are happy to carry out valuations for purposes of sale, insurance or probate and represent clients at auction.

We have an unrivalled and established reputation for handling the sale of archives for major figures in the fields of literature and the arts, including: W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Dirk Bogarde, Rupert Brooke, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lawrence Durrell, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Christopher Isherwood, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch, John Osborne, the Sitwells, C.P. Snow, and more recently Lawrence Durrell, Stephen Tennant, Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Simon Gray, David Plante, Sir Frank Kermode, and Harold Pinter.