Serendipity At Allentown PA Ephemera Show
Finding desirous books can be quite serendipitous. For example, last Saturday at a very large book and ephemera show in Allentown PA, I found three titles I never dreamed of Continue Reading
NY Antiquarian Book Show
At the annual New York Antiquarian Book Show, even the paper within a bookseller’s catalog, has a refined air. A fragrance if you will, of expensively printed sheets of paper, Continue Reading
When to Repair and When to Preserve a Book
by Carrie Bailey You can get all the materials and all the instructions you need to repair a book online. Some experts will recommend cleaning the book with a swab Continue Reading
The End of the Treasure Hunt?
“If I hadn’t been a novelist I would have been a rare book dealer. You’re always on a treasure hunt.” – Graham Greene Rare book dealers must lament the passing Continue Reading
William Blake’s Masterpiece Inadvertently Burnt in Cult Ritual
by Carrie Bailey In Corvallis, Oregon on the 24th of March 2013, a cult organized by Nathan Dunham ritually burned a copy of The First Book of Urizen by William Continue Reading
Jean de Bosschere: 12 Occupations Translated by Ezra Pound
– current selling price £550+ Collectors of early modernist literature are well aware of the rarest of Ezra Pound’s first experimental ‘ imagist ‘ poetry (Lustra, A Quinzaine For this Yule etc ). Continue Reading
What EBooks Mean to Book Collectors
by Carrie Bailey The short answer, in my opinion, is nothing, but I want explore how I may be proven wrong. Imagine you lived in 1938 and heard Orson Wells’s Continue Reading
Murphy’s Loft Bookshop
Murphy’s Loft, Mullica Hill NJ. This was my third experience in this laid back book and ephemera store. I visited years ago, and then a few months back, right after the Continue Reading