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Monday, November 19, 2012

Gershwin Ain't Got Rhythm At Auction

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by Stephen J. Gertz They're selling lots of books, but not for me  A lucky star's above but not for me  With fame to lead...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

An Unrecorded And Incredibly Rare Dean & Son Movable Book Is Discovered

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by Stephen J. Gertz     Dissolving Views is volume of extreme scarcity, unrecorded anywhere, and with no auction records whatsoever. ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean: Robbie Burns in Philly

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by Alastair Johnston Second (first Edinburgh) edition (1787). Like many before him, a Scotsman emigrates to the New World. He is a su...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

The LSD Library Goes To Harvard

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by Stephen J. Gertz FABRICE, Delphi. L'Opium A Paris. Paris: La Renaissance Du Livre, 1907. The Ludlow-Santo Domingo (LSD) Libr...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

The Only Bookplate Designed By René Lalique

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by Stephen J. Gertz Found in a copy of the Kelmscott Press's The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris (1892) fr...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

The Wind Cries Mary In 1650

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by Stephen J. Gertz  Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica Ventorum Nomina Sex Linguis Repraesentans. After all the jacks are in th...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Kate Greenaway Talks Almanack Layout

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by Stephen J. Gertz Sometime in late 1891, Kate Greenaway wrote the following note to her printer/publisher, Edmund Evans. Dear Mr ...