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In October, we were devastated to discover one morning that a significant part of our beautiful mural had been vandalized. A week later, it happened […]

I occasionally hear one of my bibliophile friends disparage decorators. “Oh, they only want green books,” they’ll say as they sneer and drip contempt. I […]

During World War II, one of the most unusual paperback imprints ever appeared. A non-profit organization called the Council on Books in Wartime wanted to […]

Have you ever looked at our yearly Halloween shirts and wondered why we do them? How did this tradition start? First off, this tradition didn’t […]

When you’re in the book business, you soon get used to the fact that many of the phone calls and requests you get each day […]

I recently catalogued a book called Dracula: The Rare Text of 1901. Wait, what? I know of the alternate versions of Frankenstein, but Dracula also […]

If you’ve visited the Iliad since we re-modeled (during the lockdown), you may have noticed the beautiful wall of sets that now stands behind our […]

I was recently chatting with a friend who mentioned that she often stuck dollar bills in her books, and I replied by talking about the […]

“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves […]