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The Erya (or Erh Ya) - the name means "approaching what is correct, proper, refined," though it's sometimes translated as The Ready Guide - is the…

It has been said that today's individual bookseller websites are the modern version of open shops of yesteryear. Certainly our own website was…

I'm curious to hear from readers about how, or whether, the concept of 'rarity' entered your lives, and how it has expressed itself. Have you become,…

The Books You Never Knew You Wanted - Simon Beattie has revived his blog which talks about some of the more curious and interesting books he came…

He brought poster, advertising, and dust jacket design out of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, integrating the aesthetic and forms of…

My catalogs are shorter, each consisting a single item, and they are even more "special" since they only go to one person each – with photographs,…

This year's Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map & Print Fair will be held from 28 to 29 October, 2011, in the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam. After the…

On an autumn day in 1947, a small group of book dealers met in Milan to give life to the Circolo dei Librai Antiquari. They were not many, but they…

Have you chosen a costume? Stocked up on candy? Planned that trick-or-treating route? That's right…Halloween is almost here. The myths and…

It happens. You miscalculate scarcity or demand. Or a widow asks you, tears in her eyes, "Is that all?" A dealer charms you with a book's virtues. Or…

Now, for those of you unfamiliar with David A. Noebel's theories of Commie Rock-n-Roll Mind Control, here's a sample: "…The destructive music…

Laurence Worms, President of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA), promised the ABA members that he would travel around the British Isles…