The Spoils of the Book Fair
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
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A Brief Publishing History of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
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
The Mount and the Restoration of Edith Wharton’s Library
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
Bibliophile Goes to Library School, or How Did I End Up Here?
Where does this story begin? Getting started has always been the hardest part for me. I believe nothing in my life would have been the same without books. My third grade best friend… Read More
