Digest
There are sets of books in America that any book lover might like to own. They are custom-designed, hand-bound in leather, and stamped in gold. They’re also historically significant.
It was a dark and stormy night. It was, truly, that evening in June 1816 on the shores of Lake Geneva at the Villa Diodati. It was there that a ghost story–writing contest was had.
Daniel Crouch had been dreaming of his own stand at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) ever since he first attended the annual event ten years ago, as an employee of Shapero Rare Books in London.
There’s a woman in Wisconsin working with a wax stencil right now. There’s a lady in Louisiana using a line gauge. There’s a gal in Galveston greeking.
Ransom Riggs’ first novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list … but he never intended to be a novelist.
If you play your cards right, you might just find that first edition you’ve been seeking in Las Vegas, where, believe it or not, antiquarian booksellers share the limelight with showgirls and slot
You’re in a museum and you’re there to look at art, right? Maybe not. Maybe you’re there to discuss the book you’ve just finished reading.
Bookends may be utilitarian to bibliophiles intent on avoiding cocked spines, but for one collector, bookends were themselves objects to pursue.
Penguin’s Drop Caps is a series that combines literature and art in a beautiful—and intrinsically collectible—set of books.
While large-scale thefts from libraries and museums tend to make news, antiquarian booksellers are also frequently the targets of thieves, whether in open shops, at or en route to and from book fai
