L. D. Mitchell
In 1821, Charles Knight -- who one day would attain a modest measure of fame as publisher of works like
...the single best collection I've ever seen--and my job has given me the chance over many years to see a number of very fine collections--was formed by people who knew things I did not and buil
One room was abandoned when the piles neared the ceiling, and at some point a subsidence of books blocked the door from the inside, sealing the room off.
Five little puppies dug a hole under the fence and went for a walk in the wide, wide world....
It has been almost seven decades since those words first appea
It has been almost seven decades since those words first appea
In an ideal world, we all would have whatever time and money we need to construct the private libraries of our dreams.
I suspect that most of us have vices that we occasionally rue. Mine is the so-called political novel.
Tradition has it that eighty-six years ago today, on 28 November 1925, 78-year-old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson went into
