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David Keeps has an article in today’s LATimes Design section about home libraries - or, more specifically about the demand for “faux libraries” (in the form of shelves which look like books, “a 3-foot-wide hand-painted mural that resembles shelves of books in an arched case”, or “inexpensive room

EVENT:Salon du livre ancien - Paris: Antiquarian book fair. WHEN: April 17th - April 20th 2008 Visit the website for more information. EVENT: Marché de la Bibliophilie - WHEN: June 25th - June 30th 2008 …

Back in January 2007 I wrote about the (re)discovery of an early sixteenth-century treatise on chess, De Ludo Scacchorum (”On the Game of Chess”), by mathematician Luca Pacioli. The 48-page treatise, long thought lost, was found by a bookseller among the books of the last count of Coronini in the l

For the last two months, Joyce Godsey over at the Bibliophile Bullpen has been trying to buy me a store-warming present in honor of my recent purchase of Eureka Books. It hasn’t gone well, and her travails are chronicled here. However, yesterday the book she’d been trying to send me arrived

Rare works by Charles Dickens, including a page from the original manuscript of “Pickwick Papers” and an illustration of the “Oliver Twist” character Bill Sikes, are going on the auction block. The Kenyon Starling Library of Charles Dickens is expected to fetch more than $2 million when it is s

Calling all booksellers that offer book appraisals - AbeBooks is launching a new section dedicated to help people find rare book appraisers in order to have collections valued. Our new appraisal section will simply list AbeBooks