Book People

Today the winners of the inaugural David Ruggles Prize, a new national book collecting prize established to support and encourage young collectors of color,
Sometime around 1886, Oscar Wilde was assigned to write a book review of Percy H. Fitzgerald's book, The Book Fancier: or, The romance of book collecting, published that year by S. Low, Marston,…
In our summer issue, we took a closer look at the recently published book,
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Jennifer Fisher, poet and proprietor of Vortexity, a street shop in the East Village on Avenue A near to St. Mark's in New York City.
Is letter writing an art form? Whether through penmanship alone or added doodles and illuminations, Pen to Paper: Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art (…
Sir Edward Cazalet, the step-grandson of prolific British author P. G.
While exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library's latest online endeavor in a blog last month, I cited the Bard's will where he bequeaths his 'second best bed' to his wife, Anne.  Though that…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues its journey to Japan with our profile today of M
James Fleming, nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and editor of The Book Collector, published an illuminating book last year that explores a shadowy corner of the 007 universe: how t
If you’re interested in learning more about the rare book business, applications are still open for the annual York Antiquarian Book Seminar (YABS), w