L. D. Mitchell
July 30, 2022
In 1821, Charles Knight -- who one day would attain a modest measure of fame as publisher of works like
July 30, 2022
...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
July 25, 2022
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.
July 23, 2022
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 appeared i
It has been almost seven decades since those words first appeared i
July 19, 2022
In an ideal world, we all would have whatever time and money we need to construct the private libraries of our dreams.
January 29, 2012
I suspect that most of us have vices that we occasionally rue. Mine is the so-called political novel.
November 28, 2011
Tradition has it that eighty-six years ago today, on 28 November 1925, 78-year-old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson went into
