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My Sentimental Library: Whose Hands Were On This Book?

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Friday, April 3, 2015. Whose Hands Were On This Book? This blog post is an online version of a presentation I gave before the Florida Bibliophile Society on Sunday, March 29th, 2015. Lee Harrer, a founding member of the Florida Bibliophile Society, and a member of the Caxton Club of Chicago as well, introduced me. At a meeting of the Florida Bibliophile Society back in 2004, Lee Harrer gave me a copy of the Caxtonian. Whose Hands Were On This Book? That I bought in Hey-on-Wye in 1988. It would take more ...

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My Sentimental Library: September 2014

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Monday, September 22, 2014. The Last Book Sale Care Package. In June 2011, I visited one of the wonders of the book world: Larry McMurtry's legendary town of books, Archer City, Texas. With 350,000 books in the town, "Booked Up" was a suitable name for the bookstore. I never made it back to Archer City. In August 2012, Addison and Sarova auctioned off the majority of the McMurtry stock in a sale that Mr. McMurtry himself dubbed "The Last Book Sale.". Kurt and Douglas put some serious thought and effort a...

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My Sentimental Library: June 2015

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Monday, June 29, 2015. The booklover is distinguished from the reader as such by loving his books, and from the collector as such by reading them. The Booklover And His Books. The Saucony Book Shop. The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection : A Catalog of the Gifts of Lessing J. Rosenwald to the Library of Congress, 1943 to 1975. Washington: Library of Congress, 1977. I have the catalogues of several prominent book collectors in my library. And I enjoy seeing which books they acquired for their libraries&#...

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My Sentimental Library: January 2015

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Tidbits From My Books. Books about publishers are usually among the most unrewarding parts of literature. Sometimes these volumes are products of retired editors far sunk in gentlemanly anecdotage. Sometimes such a book is a piece of self-glorification issued at a centenary of a famous house, perfect in typography and empty of critical content. Professor Howard Mumford Jones. New York Times Book Review, Oct 27, 1946. A Edward Newton, Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography for 1936.

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My Sentimental Library: August 2015

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Thursday, August 13, 2015. About a Book and Its Owners. Every book has its own story. And many a story has yet to be told. I'm not talking about the story that is printed on the pages of a book. I'm talking about the story of the book itself. Who bought it? Where did it go afterwards? And how did it end up in my library? Jerry Morris, August 2015. The Westminster Review, Volume 136, July-December 1891. Here's a map from the book of the mouth of the Hudson River, as it was in 1776:. Jan Clark, from Michig...

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My Sentimental Library: November 2014

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Monday, November 24, 2014. The Elements of Style. If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Did you know that. One of the best little books on writing has one of the worst bibliographic records? I am referring to the pre-1959 editions of The Elements of Style. By William Strunk, Jr. Pre-1959 Editions in My Elements of Style Collection. Top row: 1921 (four copies) 1919 (one copy). Bottom row: 1934 (three copies) 1936 (one copy) c1940s (two copies).

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My Sentimental Library: May 2015

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015. I noticed Nigel Beale's Facebook post on March 25th. And I had to smile. Because March 25th was my wife's birthday. In our forty-six years of marriage, I usually find something I "have to buy" for myself on or before my wife's birthday. And there is usually something my wife "has to buy" for herself on or before my birthday. This year was no different. There was one item I had to buy during IOBA bookseller Stephen Johnson's Flash Sale. But it wasn't a book:. Since I now had an auto...

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My Sentimental Library: February 2015

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Other People's Collected Letters. In my library, there is a library table in the design of a book. And on this library table are two rows —and counting—of books of other people's collected letters: from Charles Lamb's letters on the far left, to Michelangelo's letters on the far right. And on my library shelves, in my Mary Hyde collection, are still more volumes of other people's collected letters—books which once stood tall on the bookshelves of the Four Oaks Library:.

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My Sentimental Library: August 2014

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Saturday, August 23, 2014. The Monk, the Bookseller,. Lydgate's Boke of the Sege of Troy. Mr Quaritch's catalogues are accordingly of great interest to literary men and book collectors, and they are much sought after. The Literary World,. I have it on good authority — from Bernard Quaritch himself. The former owner wrote on the ffep of the commemorative catalogue that the items listed in the handlist were "priced by Bernard Quaritch himself.". Catalogue No. 291. Links last checked Aug 2016. Feb 7, 1874.