CELEBRATING ALMOST TWENTY YEARS IN HONG KONG

 

Lok Man Rare Books offers a wide range of signed and rare books, first editions, and important folios. Centrally located on Hong Kong's Pedder Street, in the magnificent Pedder Arcade, the shop provides its customers with the opportunity to discover literary riches from an extensive variety of genres and a host of celebrated authors and illustrators. Lok Man Rare Books is a professional member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

 

The shop's many treasures include works of modern and classic literature, children's literature, food and wine, history and travel, economics and finance, and sport and hobbies.

 

The business has been featured in local and international publications including Tatler, Prestige, The Peak, Financial times, Luxe Guides, Asia Pacific Boating, HK Business, Gafencu, Louis Vuitton, Elle Decor and Concierge; see here.

 

 

Proprietor Lorence Johnston, whose own varied interests are reflected in Lok Man Rare Books' breadth, provides expert and personal guidance to his customers, whether they seek a unique gift or are looking to expand their own collection. Relying on his many contacts around the world.

Lorence is also able to source especially rare books for his clients.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clare Baldwin is a journalist, and before coming to work for Lorence, she won two Pulitzer Prizes for International reporting.

Clare studied poetry and human biology at Stanford University, and was born and raised in Alaska.

Brought up on stories her parents invented to keep a curious child entertained, and on Pippi Longstocking, Jean Craighead George and Dr. Doolittle read under the midnight sun, by kerosene lantern and candlelight, her bookish tastes still tend toward the adventurous.

Clare can be found managing the shop most weekdays, in addition to working on research,  business development, and a thousand other challenges that seem to be constantly invented by Mr Johnston for Lok Man Rare Books.

 

 

 

Adele Brunner has been a voracious reader as long as she can remember, Adele is currently fulfilling a childhood dream of working in a bookshop and is helping Lok Man Rare Books with PR and marketing.

Having always loved books, she is now spending her salary on some of the fabulous first and special editions that surround her desk.

When she’s not in the shop, Adele is a freelance journalist and an unpaid Uber driver to her teenage children. She also enjoys hiking in the Clearwater Bay hills, open-water swimming and playing golf (badly).

 

 



 

 

 

Kate McDonnell has had various roles in the book trade and is now deep into the world of rare and antiquarian books, whilst still managing to be in touch with Instabook, Facegram and all the other technologies that Mr Johnston clearly has not kept up to date with and hence does not know the name of, for this reason Kate drives the companies online marketing whilst still offering cheerful and enthusiastic assistance should you visit us at the Pedder Arcade in person.

An avid reader since she was a child Kate adores all types of fiction, with Charles Dickens a nostalgic favourite.

As a true bibliophile who also likes to travel she tends to include literary stops to her itineraries, whether it’s diverting a European road trip to Maastricht just to visit Boekhandel Dominicanen or having a cocktail on the terrace of Pera Palace in Istanbul, where Agatha Christie wrote ‘Murder On The Orient Express’.