book history
New York, December 13, 2010 -- The Grolier Club Library is pleased to announce its eighth annual fellowship offering in the history of the book.
I have always thought that if I had more time, money and bookshelves (a not uncommon complaint among book collectors!), it would be both fun and enlightening to try and collect as many titles as I cou
Booksellers and book buyers are gearing up for next weekend's book bonanza in Boston.
I love a well-illustrated book.
Judging from the prices that well-illustrated books often fetch at auction, I am not alone.
Judging from the prices that well-illustrated books often fetch at auction, I am not alone.
Book collectors come in all shapes and sizes. Some of us collect genre fiction (mysteries, for example). Others collect topically (e.g., books about gardening).
From 1953 to 1983, Beta Phi Mu, an international "honor society" for librarians founded in 1948, published a series of
Of the dozens of titles on my bookshelves that deal with great book collectors of the past, not one deals exclusively with great women book collectors.
Bywords, according to one definition, are proverbial sayings that express some important fact of experience that is taken as true b
