Finding desirous books can be quite serendipitous. For example, last Saturday at a very large book and ephemera show in Allentown PA, I found…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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