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Printed in Kilmarnock by John Wilson during the summer of 1786 and published on July 21, 1786, the…
The National Library of Scotland and publishers DC Thomson are celebrating the 90th anniversary of…
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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.
When I saw the news bit earlier this week that artist and novelist
New York – This fall, the Grolier Club in New York City—America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles—presents a special exhibition that details how books have been produced throughout history and across various regions of the globe.
Headed to auction this week: rare science books, a Gutenberg Bible leaf, works on paper, photography, and more.
A garden spade owned by both George Bernard Shaw and Ray Bradbury is currently up for auction from Nate D. Sanders. The online auction, which includes many other lots from Ray Bradbury's personal art and book collections, concludes today at 5 p.m. PST. At the time of this writing, bidding on the…
The standard brick and mortar general rare bookshop is, for the most part, alas, a thing of the past. The Internet is now the world's general rare book shop; that and rising rents have driven many book shop owners to close their retail spaces.
In honor of the holiday upon us, here's a fun look at Thanksgiving past.
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 in print, the first sentence in a modest little book that became, and remains, one of the best-selling, most widely collected…
I've spent the past few weeks trying to learn more about collecting and selling ephemera. While my primary focus is books, I'm also interested in the way ephemera can be used to complement a book collection or can form its own stand-alone collection. I wrote an earlier post about beginning to…
