American Book Collecting

Sir Thomas Phillipps' idea of a family photo Extremism is trending nowadays -- weather, politics, sports, food portions.   Even travel, ...

  My American Book Collecting blog celebrates its eleventh anniversary on October 24.   I almost missed it, but unlike a wedding anniversary...

Thomas F. Staley, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Lean, hesitant Kurt Zimmerman came from the hallway that led to director Thomas F....

  The Book Fellows Bookplate I haven’t done this much clubbing since college.   But that is a far different story involving an energetic red...

Certainly, cigars and pipes after.   But first a meal of better fare, then adjourn to the private library.   Oh yes, and drinks, pick your f...

I am re-reading A. Edward Newton’s The Greatest Book in the World and Other Papers (1925) and the ghosts of bookmen past envelop me.   Not ...

  It’s a pleasant thought, isn’t it?   That the free-ranging, capitalistic mind, linchpin of our economy, pauses for a moment and rises to a...