Stephen J. Gertz
In a recent post, I discussed ephemera in general and a certain piece that elicited memories of my family's
My girlfriend's father died recently and in amongst his belongings she found a curious pamphlet.
In its first No Reserve Bibliophile Sale Bloomsbury-NY blew
TERRA INCOGNITO, Gaia — Whereas, over the course of fifty-eight years I have mastered near complete ignorance of the subject of women, I am, naturally, going where sane men fear to tread, yet to in
The title of Americana Exchange's latest analysis of the book auction market succinctly sums up what those in the trade have been feeling for quite some
One day in 1939, Frances Kroll Ring, a 22-year old with typing and dictation skills, was interviewed by Rusty's Employment Agency on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
From Brian Busby, writer, reporter on the Canadian literary scene,
From the early 1930s through the late 1940s, wealthy Oklahoma oil millionaire
During the early 1930s through the late 1940s, the good folks of the small yet bustling burg of Ardmore, Oklahoma had no idea that their l
Author of the great succès de scandale of 19th century literature, on January 1857 Gustave Flaubert and his publishers were taken to co
