Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Harvard University Press,

For book collectors, it’s always hunting season. No one knows this better than Kurt Zimmerman, longtime book collector and cofounder of the Book Hunters Club of Houston.

From works of art and missals to wallpaper, German printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were colorfully creative marvels.

Readers may have noticed something new in our recent issues: a little section up front we call “Editor’s Bookshelf.” It’s a brief list of new or forthcoming books that we think will most appeal to

Even in 2020, the holidays arrive at a fever pitch (at least, that's how I feel), but gift-giving takes on new meaning this year.

It’s that time of year, and sure, buying a book for a bibliophile is generally a good idea, but it can be tricky to pick just the right thing.

The 1940 voyage to the Sea of Cortez (now the Gulf of California) undertaken by novelist John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts has long stirred our imaginations.

Page Mill Press of San Francisco will be publishing a trade edition of Barry Moser's illustrated 

For many of us, the past three months of lockdown has meant extra time for reading. With no social or cultural events to attend, the books have beckoned.

There are many novels about bookshops, rather fewer about collectors of rare books, and almost none about book design.