book collector

In 1821, Charles Knight -- who one day would attain a modest measure of fame as publisher of works like

Printing came late to my adopted state. 

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 appeared i

In an ideal world, we all would have whatever time and money we need to construct the private libraries of our dreams.

Ah, libraries!

Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Miriam Borden, winner of the

One of the leading twentieth-century British book collectors, Major John Abbey (1894-1969), is celebrated in an exhibition at Horsham Museum, West Susse

Dallas – An array of extraordinary rare documents is headed to the auction block when Heritage Auctions presents

Falls Church, VA – On Thursday, June 6, Waverly Rare Books, a division of Quinn’s Auction Galleries, will conduct a 286-lot