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June 14, 2025 ·
This week, we acquired an artbook that is one of the most beautiful that we have ever seen. And...
June 7, 2025 ·
When we lived in Illinois, there were a number of used book shops that I used to frequent on a...
May 24, 2025 ·
When people are undertaking genealogical history for their families, they gravitate to family...
April 26, 2025 ·
Good friends of mine, who live a five-minute drive away, bought a large oceanside property down...
April 12, 2025 ·
Here are the opening lines from my last musing. “One huge benefit of being a book dealer is...
March 29, 2025 ·
One huge benefit of being a book dealer is that you are constantly learning new things....
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...
