Can you point to your first book? I can. No, it wasn't the first book I ever read, but it was the first collectible book I ever obtained. It started me on a journey that took me from nascent book col... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

We've all been there, living in small spaces made even smaller by the ever-increasing accumulation of books: piles growing like mushrooms from the floor, double-stacked on shelves, laid flat under cha... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

Kaitlin Manning introduces a new series of blog posts aimed at helping dealers take better pictures of rare books and ephemera for online use. Up until now, I have focused my blog posts solely on soci... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

A few fantastic rare books and unusual signed items to whet your appetite for collecting this week... With the fourth anniversary of the end of the space shuttle program falling on July 21, this signe... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

Do you have your own website and want to sell more books and understand where your customers are coming from? Do you want to sell books to new customers? Are you not sure how social media fits into yo... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

Let's start with all the other book news that's been overshadowed by the publication of the "new" Harper Lee book this week. Charles Dickens' Notes Solve Mystery of Unidentified Victorian Authors Hail... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

UPDATE: RECOVERED From Michael Hackenberg, Chair of the Northern California Chapter of the ABAA: The rare book room at Moe's Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley has just reported to me the recent th... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

SUNDAY: You could easily be excused for thinking that in the seven-month-long hiatus between major American book fairs (April in New York, November in Boston) there would be a sort of doldrums in whic... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon has been hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War.” In addition to earning a ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]

Gardens grow in the mind and the spirit as much as in the soil. Our western culture offers so much garden literature to the collector who is interested in the Eden-like connection between the inner an... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]