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Our 7th Anniversary

16 novembre 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...

Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts

9 novembre 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,...

The Marihuana Problem in New York City

26 octobre 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...

Fanfrolico Bookplates

19 octobre 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,...

Sebastian Kruger - Caricaturist

5 octobre 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...

Livre D'Or du Bibliphile

28 septembre 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...

Books on Bookplates

14 septembre 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...

My Muse - Sabrina

7 septembre 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...

Books on Books No.3

24 août 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...

Paris!

10 août 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...

THE NOVA SCOTIA ROYAL GAZETTE 1840-41

20 juillet 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...

The Money Game

6 juillet 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...

Disneyana

15 juin 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...

1887 Seed Catalogue

8 juin 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...

Monty Python

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...

Cartes Taride No.18

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...

Publisher Blackie & Son, Glasgow

27 avril 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...

The Dutch Treat Club

13 avril 2024 · Dutch Treat Club,New York,Secret Papers,Fine Book Collecting,Halifax
In 1992, we were living in Mundelein, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. We lived in a...

Joseph Keppler

6 avril 2024 · Joseph Keppler,Political Cartoons,Caricatures,American Political History,Fine Book Research
As regular readers of my musing certainly know, I have a passion for art, illustrated and...

Sixty-Sixth C. F. A

23 mars 2024 · Sixty Sixth CFA,Edinburgh,Scottish Regiment,Nova Scotia,April 1919
I went into a thrift store this past week and found a couple of books worth buying. One of them...
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