I saw somewhere that the America has lost Our country's debt is 11 trillion dollars in the lastThe Oregon Historical Library
Girl Trouble in 1899
Found in a copy of the Vignette Edition of the Poems by John G.[reenleaf] Whittier. Published in 1893 by the Frederick A. Stokes Company and illustrated by William A. McCullough. It really would have been something if it was stashed between pp. 98-102 where the poem "The New Wife and the Old" resides.
Required Viewing
Recently, CBS Sunday Morning gave us 6 minutes of Bibliomania at it's finest with this report from Paris.It begins with a trip to the apartment of a self-professed bibliomaniac. This guy is first ballot.Then we get some time with the dynamic duo of John Baxter and Martin Stone.Baxter gives us a little evolutionary history of one type of collector; the modern firsts collector - how one goes from simply a reader - to hardcover first edition- to a signed copy - to advanced proofs. As Baxter says in his 2003 book chronicling his biblio-escapades, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of...
The 100 Books Most Worth Reading
click to enlargeThis the list as it appeared in the May 1930 issue of The Golden Book Magazine
Bookbarn Apocalypse
This is the scene inside a warehouse in Bristol, UK. The warehouse used to be the home of Bookbarn, Amazon.UK's largest supplier of secondhand books. Now it's a biblio-wasteland.After their lease was up Bookbarn moved out leaving millions of books behind. The landlord then decided to invite the public in to take whatever they wanted. Ashley Nicholson, the director of the property, said 'We thought it was a sensible idea to give people the opportunity to come along and choose themselves a book or two and help us clear the warehouse." The thought of free books had people coming from...