Callum James Books arose out of my frustration as a collector that many of the texts I wanted to read were difficult to find and very expensive. In 2005 I decided to put out a small booklet-format edition of Boris Orloff by the Rev'd E. E. Bradford and when this went well, other items followed in a similar limited edition format.

My aim was then, and still is now, to provide items of a high enough quality to interest the collector whilst remaining affordable enough to be of use to researchers and the general reader.

Although my list of titles is clearly biased towards material by and about Frederick Rolfe (aka Baron Corvo), I have a wider interest in Victorian and Edwardian gay literature and occasionally publish those things which have for some other reason caught my attention and imagination. Nearly everything published by Callum James books is either hard to find in the original or is much more expensive on the antiquarian/secondhand market - or both.

Callum James Books now consists of a family of friends and contributors with expertise in various fields: editing, writing, illustration, research, bibliography and printing etc. This sense of collaboration is very much part of the ethos of Callum James Books and together we like to offer a personal service to our customers. What started as a hobby in 2005 is now a small business, our publications are now in a number of univerity and public libraries, we deal with established bookdealers all over the world and we were recently mentioned in The Rare Book Review.

Plans for 2008 include the continued publication of our Raven Series of monographs about the life and work of Frederick Rolfe by Robert Scoble. Also to expand the line of conventionally printed hardback books which was started this year with Aspects of Wilde by Vincent O'Sullivan. A number of publication are also in hand relating to Frederick Rolfe, Forrest Reid, A J A Symons, Sheridan le Fanu, Vincent O'Sullivan, E E Bradford, Arnold Smith and a number of others.