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We're planning a really festive and utterly splendid day out for the book trade on Thursday 13th December – an afternoon of activity, followed by the…

This year I finally tracked down a copy of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie's The Shaper, which is as far as I know is not only the first separately…

Christmas is fast approaching, and for most of us, it's easy to get lost in the to-do lists and travel itineraries of the holidays. As adults, we can…

I would like to tell you about the last part of my American trip which took place in Boston at 36th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book…

The world's largest online marketplace for early, rare and out-of-print books is now available to German bibliophiles in their native language. When…

I've ranted before about lighthouses being one of those subject areas from which collectors have mysteriously vanished. People scrabbling and clawing…

In the early years of the 20th century scholars and collectors like Anton Menger, Theodor Mauthner, Wilhelm Pappenheim und Bruno Schönfeld…

The literature of Christmas is vast, and any book collector seeking to create a Christmas-themed private library quickly realizes that difficult…

Perhaps most significant among such works of fiction were Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-1820), which supposedly drew…

Two other publications helped revitalize Christmas celebrations in the mid 19th century. The first was William Sandys' Christmas Carols Ancient and…

The Italian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association has published a list of books stolen from the Library of the Abbey of Montecassino. The library's…

How much is it worth? This question is most often asked by book collectors. And most often, there is not a precise answer. Although it is quite…