American Book Collecting

It took me twenty-one years, three months, and eleven days to realize my wife Nicole doesn’t talk as much as I thought. This revelation occu...

John Payne and Kurt Zimmerman in Payne's Library My mission has me breaking a sweat in a storage unit near Houston, Texas with air-condi...

  I recently had a conversation with a well-known book dealer who’d just sold a Kelmscott Chaucer to a collector.   This put us both in a ra...

The sporting side of book collecting is like any other sport.  Hot streaks, great plays, an amazing moment, all unpredictable, all driving a...

  Eddy Nix and Kurt Zimmerman loading up Z book cruiser I’m seated in an outhouse thinking fondly of antiquarian booksellers.   The outhouse...

Kurt Zimmerman and Russell Desmond Memorable.   The Big Easy is.   I am in the middle of Bourbon Street at night, leaning over, elbows on kn...

  A Rough and Ready Copy of Burton's THE BOOK-HUNTER (1863)  Books are tough.   Raging fire or lengthy submersion in water can do them i...