How much did you love the book fair in elementary school? Luckily, there are many grown-up versions of this, admittedly involving more tweed and fewer feather pens. Both the Québec International Book Fair… Read More
Steven Millhauser is one of my favorite writers. His work fits solidly within the realm of fabulism, by turns lush, enchanting, elegant, chromatic, nostalgic, obsessive, dazzling, surreal, uncanny, bizarre. Although his novels and… Read More
Martin Hopkinson’s Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates is a wonderful little book that provides a brief, illustrated history of bookplates, also known as ex libris, a Latin phrase meaning “from the books… Read More
It’s finally time to brush the dust off this neglected blog and put it back to work. Blogging fell by the wayside last semester when, in the midst of the careful balancing act… Read More
If you were at the fair yesterday, you would have seen old postcards and trading cards, manuscripts and maps, posters and prints, ephemera of all sorts, and of course lots and lots of… Read More
The 37th Annual Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair, presented by the Albany Institute of History & Art, will be held at the Washington Avenue Armory at 195 Washington Avenue in Albany on Sunday,… Read More
The first written assignment for IST 655: Rare Books was to research the publishing history of a major twentieth century work. For me, the choice was easy: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, a… Read More
I recently spent a day at The Mount, which was once the estate and gardens of Edith Wharton, prolific twentieth-century writer of The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome,… Read More
I covet books as objects. The physical details are what distinguish a must-have edition from today’s typical mass market paperback. These could include: a striking cover design, original artwork, aged leather binding, gilded… Read More
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