Digest
Bookends may be utilitarian to bibliophiles intent on avoiding cocked spines, but for one collector, bookends were themselves objects to pursue.
Penguin’s Drop Caps is a series that combines literature and art in a beautiful—and intrinsically collectible—set of books.
While large-scale thefts from libraries and museums tend to make news, antiquarian booksellers are also frequently the targets of thieves, whether in open shops, at or en route to and from book fai
Those who say that acquiring books on a grand scale is an anachronism in the twenty-first century should take a look at the catalogue of an exhibition recently concluded at the University of Dayton
If there is one word to describe Booklyn Artists Alliance, the fifteen-year-old art and publishing concern, it might be prescient.
"A lot of modern art was created to be hated,” said Nicholas Lowry, president and principal auctioneer for Swann Galleries.
When Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass appeared in 1855, it changed the course of American literature.
Fortunat Mueller-Maerki’s passion for collecting books and ephemera related to time began with one clock.
Books are very much in the DNA of English writer Edward Brooke-Hitching, the son of rare book collector and dealer Franklin Brooke-Hitching, and descendant of printer William Blades (1824-1890), wh
