American Book Collecting

The world will possibly end this week on December 21 st according to various interpretations of the Mayan calendar.   I’ve seen quite ...

Cecil F. Russell, 1897-1987 Sometimes you stumble across a book that has all the elements of biblio-intrigue: rare, relatively u...

A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), legendary bookseller and collector, was a media darling in an age when important sales of rare books and manus...

I recently purchased an 1868 autograph letter from bookseller Henry Stevens (1819-1886) to a potential American client.  The letter itself i...

(R B Adam) .   ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE LIBRARY OF MR. R. B. ADAM, BUFFALO, N.Y. TO BE SOLD BY HIS ORDER. New York: The Anderson Ga...

The McMurtry Auction haul written about earlier has sat impatiently in a climate controlled storage unit awaiting Douglas and me to sor...

I have not had time yet to thoroughly examine the thousands of items I purchased at the McMurtry auction.  This nugget surfaced randomly whi...