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November 16, 2024 ·
On October 30, 2024 Raven & Gryphon Fine Books celebrated its 7th anniversary. Our on-line...
November 9, 2024 ·
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts - was the term under which two groups of French artists united,...
October 26, 2024 ·
As advertised, I am always looking for quirky, or if you prefer – esoteric books. And the book...
October 19, 2024 ·
This is going to be a hybrid musing. It is going to reflect two of my book collecting passions,...
October 5, 2024 ·
Almost since the invention of printing, caricaturists have been having a field day. Often, a...
September 28, 2024 ·
A few days ago, I walked into a thrift store and there high on a bookshelf was a disbound, large...
September 14, 2024 ·
One of the very first musings that I did was on bookplates. Dear to my heart as a lover of art...
September 7, 2024 ·
I have been writing my Saturday Book Musings ever since we started up Raven & Gryphon Fine Books...
August 24, 2024 ·
This is the third in the series “Books on Books.” If you already are, or are thinking about...
August 10, 2024 ·
We are now close to the end of the 2024 Olympic Games. For the last two weeks many of us were...
July 20, 2024 ·
Glenda and I started building our library in 1974, after we returned from England and were living...
July 6, 2024 ·
As a book collector, I am very disciplined about what I acquire for the personal library. Certain...
June 15, 2024 ·
If you are over 50, you remember watching The World of Disney, Sunday evenings, and if you are...
June 8, 2024 ·
I like quirky things and when I saw this seed catalogue from 1887, I got pretty excited. This...
May 25, 2024 ·
Our family is crazy about the Monty Python crazies! Their TV shows and their movies are totally...
May 11, 2024 ·
If you are in the world of books, you are running close by with the world of maps. Many history...
April 27, 2024 ·
Glenda and I started building our library in the mid-1970s. Some of our acquisitions have been...
April 13, 2024 ·
In 1992, we were living in Mundelein, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. We lived in a...
April 6, 2024 ·
As regular readers of my musing certainly know, I have a passion for art, illustrated and...
March 23, 2024 ·
I went into a thrift store this past week and found a couple of books worth buying. One of them...
