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This is always a rough week for me. The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is hauling into view (April 2-6), and there are decisions to be…

The first post to this blog in August 2009 was about a book with a peacock feather stamped in gold on the cover, The New Day by Richard Watson Gilder…

The origins of April Fools' Day are unclear. Some experts suggest that when the French shifted the New Year to January to correspond with the Roman…

As if to compensate for the ever-increasing expense and physical difficulty of this event, the material on display this year was better than I've…

In the century before cinema and television changed our lives forever, there were other ways of creating moving pictures. One such inventive…

A global "ILAB School" without borders: The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers offers internships to students and beginners in the rare…

This Monday morning, the biggest news to hit the antiquarian book trade in roughly 400 years became public: my colleagues Dan Wechsler and George…

Maria Rodionova: Australia 2014 (Part 2) - So now I should tell you about the last two weeks that I spent in Australia. Basically, during those two…

For The Paris Review Graciela Mochkofsky reveals the story of a stolen first edition of Borges's early poems which was returned to Argentina's…

"May I please give this book back to Stralsund. It is a great day for the German-American friendship, for the cities of New York and Stralsund and a…

A special law on books older than 50 years affects the rare book trade in Italy. Any books - despite their worth - which are older than 50 years must…

George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler, both ABAA members and ILAB affiliates, have now published a study about their extensive researches: In…