book collecting

OAKLAND, CA—The world’s preeminent celebration of the written or printed word returns to Northern California next year at a new venue in downtown Oakland.  The 48th Cal
The HMS Bounty was just a small merchant vessel on its way to Tahiti to collect breadfruit.
Founded in 1997, The Legacy Press has quickly become a bastion of scholarly work on the history of the book, and their titles have become collectible in their own right.
February 19, 2014, Chapel Hill, NC—Antiquarian book dealers, collectors, and the intellectually curious will gather in New York City for Rare Book Week, April 1-8, 2014.
Those of us on the East Coast are wishing we were on our way to California right now, and not just because of the dreadful weather here.
For Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the biggest values in life were neither the state finances nor his immense private property, but the books of his personal library.