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March 15, 2025 ·
By coincidence, in the last couple of weeks, I acquired two of the books published by the Press...
March 8, 2025 ·
Every fall, the Women for Music have a weekend book sale at the Halifax Forum. I attended for the...
February 22, 2025 ·
Here is how I started by last musing, Gremlins on the Job. One of the books on my bedside table...
February 15, 2025 ·
One of the books on my bedside table is a volume on book design. It is without doubt one of the...
January 25, 2025 ·
In my last musing, Musts for Collectors, I went over some of the book learnings over the past...
January 11, 2025 ·
I have now been a collector and an accumulator of books for fifty years and a book dealer for...
December 21, 2024 ·
I have always liked bookplates, heroes and heroines of provenance, but also works of art by some...
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...
