A few items of interest over the past few days ~ all things books, reading, and libraries…
*“The Personality of Used Books” by Rachel Jagareski at the Shelf Space blog of Foreword Magazine.
*A PhiloBiblos post on the Libraries of Early America Project at Library Thing
*Winnie the Pooh books for sale at auction on December 15, 2008 by [...]
Archive for December 17th, 2008
Articles of note …
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Literature, News, tagged Auctions, Books, New York Society Library, Robert Burns, Susan Sontag, Winnie the Pooh on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On my Bookshelf
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Book History, Book Reviews, tagged Books about Books, Margaret Willes, Reading Matters on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am a sucker for books about books, so when I happen upon one I buy it, almost without exception. I was in Montreal yesterday and visited the delightful Nicholas Hoare bookshop [on Greene St], and found the newly released Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books by Margaret Willes. Yale University Press, 2008. Here [...]
On the Block ~ Byron’s Hair, etc…
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Children's Literature, Literature, tagged Auctions, Beatrix Potter, Byron, English Literature, Keats, Milton, Shakespeare, Sothebys on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sothebys has just published the results of today’s auction [December 17, 2008, Sale L08411, London] of English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, with a final take of 901,913 GBP! Literature by the likes of Shakespeare, Byron, Milton, Dickens, and Beatrix Potter seems to be alive and well. Here are a few of the results:
Lot 26. John [...]
