In a recent post, I discussed ephemera in general and a certain piece that elicited memories of my family's
A concept I find absolutely fascinating is the social history of
books--learning something about through whose hands a volume may have
passed, and the various lives it has touched--not just the d
books--learning something about through whose hands a volume may have
passed, and the various lives it has touched--not just the d
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 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
Though I have always been a reader, I did not become a serious collector of books until I was in my mid-30s.
The reason that Charles Dickens's books are so long is because he was paid by the word.
Something happened to Maurice Girodias when he moved Olympia Press to New York during the late 1960s.
Henry Bemis, the compulsive reader whose tragedy was limned in a short story by Lyn Venable and dramatized for television in a 1959 biopic written by Rod Serling for an episode of
