Book Blog

A few months ago, we did a blog post about an extraordinary collection of vintage children’s books we’d recently received. Well, given the size of […]

We’ve reached that time of year when magic’s in the air (or is that just pumpkin spice?). Fall is setting in, Halloween is coming, temperatures […]

Back around the beginning of the 20th century, author/illustrator Kathleen Ainslie produced a popular series of children’s books based on a doll called Catharine Susan […]

Yeah, I know – I’ve already posted once here about books on the history of SoCal. But doggone it, aside from the fact that I’m […]

We recently unearthed a large collection of children’s books, mostly from the late 1800s and early 1900s, that reminded us again of the glorious history […]

Summer’s here, people are going places again, and maybe you planned a little trip up the coast to the Pacific Northwest in search of Bigfoot, […]

Did you know that the Iliad has a section called “Books on Books”? In case you’re wondering what would go on those shelves…lots of great […]

Fans of Star Wars have named May 4th as “Star Wars Day” (“May the Fourth be with you”), but hardcore fans are likelier to celebrate […]