The BiblioFiles

One book lover's adventures in library school and all things literary

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 … Continue reading

October 24, 2011 · 1 Comment

A Brief Publishing History of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf (image from George Charles Beresford [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) The first written assignment for IST 655: Rare Books was to research the publishing history of a major … Continue reading

October 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The Mount and the Restoration of Edith Wharton’s Library

I recently spend 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, … Continue reading

August 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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 … Continue reading

July 19, 2011 · 1 Comment
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