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Who ever thought that books that can't exceed 3 inches in any direction could become such a huge success! What was to be a three day visit to Boston…

This year is the 125th anniversary of the first appearance of Three Men in a Boat, published by J. W. Arrowsmith in Bristol (who, three years later,…

Some years ago I bought a copy of "Bizarre Books, a compendium of classic oddities" (New York, 2007). Books like that are not only fun to read but…

I have never been able to fully embrace the work of Lew Welch. He has been suggested to me numerous times over the years as a poet whose work I…

It was a beautiful morning, one of the last fine days of the summer, with trees just beginning to turn the corner toward the explosion of colors that…

In November 2014, professional antiquarian booksellers from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, England, Austria, France, and Hungary will gather in Copenhagen…

"For Balazs Mikusi, a young Hungarian musicologist, it was the find of a lifetime. Leafing through folders of unidentified manuscripts at the…

"What is the social function of the novel? I'm not thinking about the pay-off for the author, who gets to develop a skill and earn a living from it…

The seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 was a decisive event in the world of book collecting. Numerous dealers and collectors – among them the most…

In 1970 Charles Gullans and John Espey conducted two interviews with Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874–1973), co-founder (with Henry Thayer) of…

Tavistock Books' recent acquisitions contain a large focus on Cookery titles. Not only have we recently had in stock the cookbook with the 1st…

August 4, 1792, is the birthday of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), who wrote some of the most popular poems in the English language, including…