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26 de abril de 2025 · Breeches Bible,Geneva Bible,Thomas Fell,Fine Book Research,Book restoration and preservation
Good friends of mine, who live a five-minute drive away, bought a large oceanside property down...
12 de abril de 2025 · Totem Carvers,Phil Nuytten,Fine Book Collecting,Ellen Neel,British Columbia
Here are the opening lines from my last musing. “One huge benefit of being a book dealer is...
29 de março de 2025 · Robert Service,Ted Harrison,Poetry,Pierre Berton,Fine Book Research
One huge benefit of being a book dealer is that you are constantly learning new things....
15 de março de 2025 · NSCAD,Halifax,Leslie Shedden,Simone Forti,Art History and Photography
By coincidence, in the last couple of weeks, I acquired two of the books published by the Press...
8 de março de 2025 · Europe,Brass,Halifax,Book Sale,Monumental Brasses
Every fall, the Women for Music have a weekend book sale at the Halifax Forum. I attended for the...
22 de fevereiro de 2025 · Children's Books,Virginia Lee Burton,Song of Robin Hood,Music,Illustrated Books
Here is how I started by last musing, Gremlins on the Job. One of the books on my bedside table...
15 de fevereiro de 2025 · Gremlins,World War II,RAF,Judy Varga,Fine Book Collecting
One of the books on my bedside table is a volume on book design. It is without doubt one of the...
25 de janeiro de 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 de janeiro de 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 de dezembro de 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 de novembro de 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 de novembro de 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 de outubro de 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 de outubro de 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 de outubro de 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 de setembro de 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 de setembro de 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 de setembro de 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 de agosto de 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 de agosto de 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...
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