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25. Januar 2025 · Fanfrolico Press,DH Lawrence,Beresford Egan,Norman Lindsay,Antichrist of Nietzsche
In my last musing, Musts for Collectors, I went over some of the book learnings over the past...
11. Januar 2025 · Fine Book Collecting,HG Wells,Nova Scotia,Dante,JP Donleavy
I have now been a collector and an accumulator of books for fifty years and a book dealer for...
21. Dezember 2024 · Bookplates,Beaudelaire,Beresford Egan,Dennis Wheatley,Francis Cheyne Pape
I have always liked bookplates, heroes and heroines of provenance, but also works of art by some...
16. November 2024 · Anniversary,Fine Book Collecting,Nova Scotia,Building Book Collections,Abebooks
On October 30, 2024 Raven & Gryphon Fine Books celebrated its 7th anniversary. Our on-line...
9. November 2024 · Art Books,French Literature,Gustave Flaubert,1860s,France
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts - was the term under which two groups of French artists united,...
26. Oktober 2024 · New York City,Marihuana,Medical Studies,Medical Research Book,Dalhousie University
As advertised, I am always looking for quirky, or if you prefer – esoteric books. And the book...
19. Oktober 2024 · Fanfrolico Press,Norman Lindsay,Bookplates,Australia,Fine Book Collecting
This is going to be a hybrid musing. It is going to reflect two of my book collecting passions,...
5. Oktober 2024 · Caricatures,Sebastian Kruger,The Rolling Stones,King Charles,Fine Book Collecting
Almost since the invention of printing, caricaturists have been having a field day. Often, a...
28. September 2024 · Thrift Store Find,Personal Library,Fine Book Collecting,Paris,Picasso
A few days ago, I walked into a thrift store and there high on a bookshelf was a disbound, large...
14. September 2024 · Nova Scotia,Bookplates,Books on Bookplates,Fine Book Collecting,Provenance
One of the very first musings that I did was on bookplates. Dear to my heart as a lover of art...
7. September 2024 · Musings,Blog,Fine Book Collecting,Nova Scotia,Sabrina
I have been writing my Saturday Book Musings ever since we started up Raven & Gryphon Fine Books...
24. August 2024 · Fine Book Collecting,Books on Books,Halifax Nova Scotia,Collectible Books,Researching Books
This is the third in the series “Books on Books.” If you already are, or are thinking about...
10. August 2024 · Paris,France,Photography,Paul Almasy,Brassaï
We are now close to the end of the 2024 Olympic Games. For the last two weeks many of us were...
20. Juli 2024 · Nova Scotia Royal Gazette,1840s,Halifax,Newspaper,Samuel Cunard
Glenda and I started building our library in 1974, after we returned from England and were living...
6. Juli 2024 · The Money Game,Sir Ralph Norman Angell,FInance,Banking,Education
As a book collector, I am very disciplined about what I acquire for the personal library. Certain...
15. Juni 2024 · Walt Disney,Fine Book Collecting,The Lion King,Songbook,Animation
If you are over 50, you remember watching The World of Disney, Sunday evenings, and if you are...
8. Juni 2024 · Seed Catalogue,1887,Gardening,Peter Henderson,Marketing
I like quirky things and when I saw this seed catalogue from 1887, I got pretty excited. This...
25. Mai 2024 · Monty Python,The Meaning of Life,TV Shows and Films,Fine Book Collecting,Eric Idle
Our family is crazy about the Monty Python crazies! Their TV shows and their movies are totally...
11. Mai 2024 · Atlas,Fine Book Research,France,Cycling Map,WWI
If you are in the world of books, you are running close by with the world of maps. Many history...
27. April 2024 · Scotland,Publisher,Blackie and Son,Glasgow,19th Century
Glenda and I started building our library in the mid-1970s. Some of our acquisitions have been...
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