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by Stephen J. Gertz Hard-boiled dames caught in the grip of a habit beyond their control; corrupt dolls seeking cheap thrills between...

By Stephen J. Gertz The New York Antiquarian Book Fair , now in its 52d year, returns to the Park Avenue Armory April 12-15, 2012. Spons...

by Stephen J. Gertz Estimated $70,000-$90,000. Our pre-sale coverage of Sotheby's -NY Library of an English Bibliophile Sale Part ...

by Stephen J. Gertz Sotheby's Oct. 10, 2011. Est. $150,000-$180,000. The incredibly rare and desirable dust jacket to the first ed...

by Stephen J. Gertz The strange, sentient waters that pass through literature's eerie canal bring news of Edgar Allan Poe and scarce ...

by Stephen J. Gertz Over forty years ago, Theodore S. Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss , began work on a book. Per usual, he had assistants working ...

Lame Duck Books , a mainstay of Cambridge, Massachusetts' Harvard Square, will close its doors on September 25, 2010. John W. Wronosk...

A genuine Apollo and Pegasus Binding by Marcantonio Guillery Can you imagine having every book in your library in matching bindings that wer...

Belle Da Costa Greene, 1911. Image courtesy of the Morgan Library In the 1890s, financier J. Pierpont Morgan began building a collection o...

Last week, we looked at bindings by women of the Arts & Crafts movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. This week, we look at ...

Thiruvananthapuram Padmanabha Swamy Temple Complex.  Sreekumar (no other name provided), a resident of Vanchiyoor, a neighborhood in  the a...