By Jeff Weber, with contributions by Merle Bobzien, Ryan Parks, Paul Naiditch. With deep appreciation to Elizabeth Krown Spellman. Franklin Victor Spellman was born August 15, 1945 in Stamford, Connec... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

This item is still missing as of 5/31/2019. Missing from Boston Book Fair. Please contact Josh Mann if you are offered this item. The Dharma Bums Kerouac, Jack Hard Cover. New York: The Viking Press, ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

The 2015 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair takes place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, over the weekend of November 13-15. Many ABAA members will be exhibiting. Here is a brief ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

The 39th annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair takes place in Boston, MA from November 13 to 15. The leaves are falling, Maine is experiencing its first snowfall, and the world series is u... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

Friday, October 16 marks 161 years since the birth of Oscar Wilde. In that time be became the toast of the literary scene in 19th-century London, an international pariah, and finally, decades after he... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

Looking at the history of book banning worldwide, from Henry VIII's destruction of Catholic iconography and religious books during the dissolution, to Hitler's famous bonfires of any work deemed insuf... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

Today's entry has to do with the way Tahiti looked to Gauguin, but it is also about colleagues, and buying things, and about surprises – about whether or not they can be surprises if we expect them.... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

The second installment of Kaitlin Manning's new series on taking better pictures of rare books and ephemera. (Review the first part here...) Setting up a home studio does not need to be an expensive a... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

One reason books have not been replaced by electronic approximations -- despite many predictions of doom -- is the appeal of the physical objects themselves. Lavish illustrations, careful design, and ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

This item is still missing as of 6/2/2019. Mace Neufeld reports that a 2 volume set of HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE PAPER CURRENCY OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES (1865) with numerous examples of colonial curr... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]