The Man Who Loved Books Too Much is back on the loose
Warning poster produced by Ken Sanders and sent to rare-book dealers when convicted book thief John Gilkey was released from prison in 2005.(click to enlarge) UPDATE - Richard Gilkey was arrested...
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Goodnight Book
No, this isn't one of those all too common stories lamenting the end of books. This is a story about a comfortable place for your books to rest. Now you can sleep side by side with your most cherished...
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Hail to the Book! A couple of booksellers get physical
"if they are [books] to be of any use they must be as living friends or acquaintances and the whole art of forming and keeping a library consists in treating them on this footing alike mentally and...
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The Golden Rules of Typography
The Golden Alphabet; or Parent's Guide and Child's Instructor, published by Robert Taylor. This extremely rare miniature alphabet book from 1846 contains some beautiful decorated initials, followed by...
View ArticleThe Joy of Cooking
The first edition of The Joy of Cooking,1931 It is the most popular and best-selling cookbook in American history, with nearly 18 million copies sold. It is the only cookbook to be included in the...
View ArticleEaster with Yeats
Easter, 1916. by W.B. Yeats. 4to, original bright green printed wrappers. Easter, 1916, the first publication of one of Yeats’ greatest poems, and the rarest of all of the poet’s publications. The...
View ArticleEaster with Yeats
Easter, 1916. by W.B. Yeats. 4to, original bright green printed wrappers. Easter, 1916, the first publication of one of Yeats’ greatest poems, and the rarest of all of the poet’s publications. The...
View ArticleBook Fair with Grunge and more…
This weekend the annual Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair takes center stage. Nearly 100 booksellers from far and wide converge on the Seattle Center to showcase their stuff. Don’t let the name antiquarian...
View ArticleOf Interest: The Scribe, Etiquette for Freedom, Cocktails for Book Lovers,...
Still looking for some late summer reads and acquisitions? Here are some recent books and bookseller catalogs that have struck our fancy. The Scribe by Antonio Garrido. Translated by Simon Bruni....
View ArticleA Five Book Birthday Salute to D.H. Lawrence
Hailed as a genius by some, labelled an out-of-fashion misogynist by others, he’s probably best known for his novels Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. But he also explored an extraordinary...
View ArticleBeauty and the Botanicals
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden houses one of the greatest collections of botanical and horticultural works on the planet. Eight centuries of rare books, stunning...
View ArticleThe Man Who Loved Books Too Much is back on the loose
Warning poster produced by Ken Sanders and sent to rare-book dealers when convicted book thief John Gilkey was released from prison in 2005.(click to enlarge) UPDATE - Richard Gilkey was arrested...
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Goodnight Book
No, this isn't one of those all too common stories lamenting the end of books. This is a story about a comfortable place for your books to rest. Now you can sleep side by side with your most cherished...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hail to the Book! A couple of booksellers get physical
"if they are [books] to be of any use they must be as living friends or acquaintances and the whole art of forming and keeping a library consists in treating them on this footing alike mentally and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Golden Rules of Typography
The Golden Alphabet; or Parent's Guide and Child's Instructor, published by Robert Taylor. This extremely rare miniature alphabet book from 1846 contains some beautiful decorated initials, followed by...
View ArticleThe Joy of Cooking
The first edition of The Joy of Cooking,1931 It is the most popular and best-selling cookbook in American history, with nearly 18 million copies sold. It is the only cookbook to be included in the...
View ArticleEaster with Yeats
Easter, 1916. by W.B. Yeats. 4to, original bright green printed wrappers. Easter, 1916, the first publication of one of Yeats’ greatest poems, and the rarest of all of the poet’s publications. The...
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