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Julius Hopp and the Progressive Stage Society 1904-1906
In November 2019 I won an eBay auction for an extensive archive of material about the Progressive Stage Society and its President Julius Hopp. This unbound scrapbook collection of theater programs,...
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Ventures in Book Collecting During this Coronavirus Pandemic
I'm hanging in there! I'm reading more books. I'm buying more books. I'm watching more movies. And I'm doing it all over again. I have only one problem about reading. It makes me buy more books! But...
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Whiling Away the Time With the Catalogue of the Library of a Collector and...
I was doing phrase searches on eBay while hunkered down in my library the other day. And one of the results for "catalogue of the library of" was "Joseph Sabin/Catalogue of the Library of a Collector...
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Other People's Ownership Signatures in My Books
I collect books formerly owned by authors, actors, aviators and other famous people. I call this collection My Sentimental Library. Books with the ownership signatures of authors, actors, aviators,...
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Searching High and Low For a Certain Boswellian
My wife Linda chuckles whenever I can't find what I'm searching for in the refrigerator. I'd search high and low, and then yell out, "I can't find it. Where is it?" My wife will reply, "It's right in...
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Other People's Ownership Signatures in My Samuel Johnson and James Boswell...
My Sentimental Library post in June was about other people's ownership signatures in my English language books. My post this month is about the ownership signatures and other marks of provenance in...
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On Buying Multiple Copies of Paul Ruxin's Book, Friday Lunch
Why would bibliophiles buy multiple copies of a book? There are reasons for our madness. John Byrne, my Johnsonian friend from Australia, wants to buy copies of Samuel Johnson's Rasselas for every...
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About The Early American Editions of Samuel Johnson's Rasselas
In my library, I have the stated First American Edition and the stated Second American Edition of Samuel Johnson's Rasselas. The publishers printed that information directly on the title pages. We...
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Ventures in Book Collecting, Part II
Little did I know when I posted Ventures in Book Collecting During This Coronavirus Pandemic last April that we would still be in the midst of this coronavirus epidemic seven months later. Me: seven...
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The Beldornie Reprints: Number Nine of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas
M E R R Y C H R I ST M A S !Nine years ago, I began a custom that bookmen of days gone by have enjoyed doing, among them Luther A. Brewer and A. Edward Newton. Each Christmas, they published a...
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Among the Leaves, Fruit: Comments From My Blog Readers
Down through the years, my blog readers have submitted over 200 comments to my blogs. And I will share some of their comments with you today. Some of the readers who left comments were children,...
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Something Very Special
In September 2018, I was part of a caravan that camped out in a LaQuinta Inn in Pensacola, Florida for an entire week. Hurricane Irma was heading directly toward our homes in Florida, and our son,...
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A Second Virtual Tour of My Mary Hyde Collection
On June 30, 2012, I took my blog viewers on a virtual tour of my extensive Mary Hyde Collection. Since then I have added more books and various pieces of ephemera to the collection. And today I will...
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Dr. Franklin Norwood Rogers: The Pediatrician Who Liked to Write Poems
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) wasn't the only pediatrician in the last century who wrote poetry. Although he was nowhere near as well known as Williams, Franklin Norwood Rogers (1881-1956)...
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On Researching the Life, Death, and Literary Remains of __ Nobody
In my library I have the complete print run in two volumes of the first American periodical on book collecting: The Philobiblion: A Monthly Bibliographical Journal Containing Critical Notices of,...
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Alfred W. Pollard: The Man, His Books, and His Other Literary Endeavors
Alfred W. Pollard (1859-1944)If portraits could talk, Alfred W. Pollard's portrait would probably be saying, "This is your 135th post to your blog, and you're finally getting around to writing a post...
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Lee J. Harrer: The Man and His Books
My post this month is a tribute to my friend and mentor Lee J. Harrer who passed away on April 14, 2021. I have divided the tribute into two segments, Lee J. Harrer: The Man and Lee J. Harrer: His...
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Nosediving Into the Interesting and Unusual Features of the Special Edition...
This past July was a very good month for my Sentimental Airman Collection. I acquired twenty-five books of the Lee J. Harrer Lindbergh Collection that I mentioned in last month's post. I also acquired...
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About The First R and Related Enjoyments of John T. Winterich
I wrote all about the bibliophile John T. Winterich (1891-1970) in my November 2015 My Sentimental Library blog post, John T. Winterich: The Man, His Books, and His Other Literary Endeavors. In the...
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About Table Talk
I really, really thought that writing this month's post would be a breeze. Table Talk would be what I was going to write about. I would define what Table Talk meant. And then I would discuss and...
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About My Copies of The Romance of Book-Collecting
I can't remember exactly when I acquired my first copy of The Romance of Book-collecting by J. H. Slater. It had to be in the 1990s because that's the only time that I stamped some of my books with...
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C. W. Sherborn: Number Ten of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas
M E R R Y C H R I ST M A S !Ten years ago, I began a custom that bookmen of days gone by have enjoyed doing, among them Luther A. Brewer and A. Edward Newton. Each Christmas, they published a...
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Twenty Years of Collecting and Writing About The Early Editions of William...
My Copies of the Early Editions of The Elements of Style Top Row: 1919 1919 1920 1920 1920 1920 Bottom Row: 1934 1934 1934 1936 c1940s c1940sOn any given day, there are over a thousand copies of The...
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About William Strunk Jr. and His Other Books
The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr's little book, is the little book that E. B. White made famous. But that's not the only book of his. Here are some of his other books. Macaulay's and...
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Elegant Extracts and Timely Tidbits About Dreamthorp; A Book of Essays...
Dreamthorp; A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander SmithBefore I created my seven book-related blogs, I displayed and discussed my books on websites that I created on WebTV (later called...
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