book collector

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary....

Is there anyone left who still ponders over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore?

It is the hour before dawn.

This is all your fault, you know!

A 16th Century bible published during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I is set to come under the hammer at Staffordshire auction house Cuttlestones’ Friday 8th October Collectors’ sale.

Book collectors come in all shapes and sizes.  Some of us collect genre fiction (mysteries, for example).  Others collect topically (e.g., books about gardening).

From 1953 to 1983, Beta Phi Mu, an international "honor society" for librarians founded in 1948, published a series of

Of the dozens of titles on my bookshelves that deal with great book collectors of the past, not one deals exclusively with great women book collectors. 

Bywords, according to one definition, are proverbial sayings that express some important fact of experience that is taken as true b