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Book fairs have become such staple fodder for booksellers that it's hard to imagine a time when they didn't exist. But the "First Antiquarian Book…

"Experts from The University of Manchester's John Rylands Library are to spend four days at a beautiful seventeenth century mansion to capture its…

Fraîchement de retour du Louvre où il a été convié en tant que conservateur invité (pas moins que ça !), Umberto Eco inaugurera en septembre 2010…

First-edition collectors are by nature very hard to please. They would like each of their first editions to look new, and they will pay for such…

A first edition is the first printing of a book. It's true that a first edition may have one or more printings and that a second edition will …

In the case of a number of books, particularly those published before 1900, one can differentiate between the first and later printings only by…

The limited edition comes in varying forms. A limited edition of a new book is usually signed, numbered, and in a slipcase and costs three to five…

"In order to prepare the descriptions, we have committed the cardinal sin of the bookseller: we have READ most of these books, or at least we have…

"Walking into the New York Antiquarian Book Fair in Manhattan's Armory, you get a sense of what suicide bombers must feel when they enter paradise…

On May 1 2010, Oak Knoll Books, Between the Covers Rare Books, The Kelmscott Bookshop, and the Old Bookshop of Bordentown will open The Bookshop of…

A brilliant multimedia review by Maureen E. Mulvihill about the "literary success of New York City's 2009–2010 winter season", full of information…

Given a particular bookplate, there are a number of avenues of research which may yield useful information on the owner. There are biographical and…