book collecting

There’s a pervasive notion that young people, screen in hand, do not enjoy books the way older generations do, and yet collegiate book collecting contests remain popular.
Rare children’s books from famed bookseller Justin G. Schiller up for auction in Heritage’s December sale.
London — The winner – Alexandra Plane – and six other finalists have been announced for this year’s A
Our Bright Young Things series continues today with Spencer W. Stuart, a collections advisor and book historian in Canada.
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens in 1870 (as well as his brush with death five years previously in a train crash).
New York — The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) is hosting a virtual book fair June 4-7, offering the public a new opportuni
Yesterday, Christie’s held a 90-minute webinar on “Book Collecting in the Digital Age” with Christie’s books specialist Rhiannon Knol a
The first major exhibition to explore the hidden collections of rare books in the north west of England features the work of William Morris, Kate Greenaway, and the prolific Harry Rountree, who pro
Next week, a collection of English novelist Rudyard Kipling formed by the late Joan Twigg in conjunction with her husband Oliver Twigg, the proprietor of The Totteridge Rare Book Shop, comes to
My favorite part of being a student in Heidelberg twenty years ago was the exploration of local second-hand and rare bookshops.