11/20/2014
It is circa 1788. An American lawyer, Archippus Seele (1765–1789) of Easton, Massachusetts, is apparently in a grumpy mood. The reasons could be many as his handwritten manuscript attests....
11/19/2014
A generation back, Boston had lots of used and antiquarian bookstores. Joyce Kosofsky of Brattle Book Shop examines the changes that have occurred since then.
11/07/2014
Longtime dealer Rusty Mott recounts the history of the Boston Book Fair– including all the great finds and fun had by members of the trade.
11/06/2014
Peter Stern, a longtime Boston bookseller, fondly recalls some of the more colorful figures among Boston's antiquarian dealers.
11/03/2014
What was it like to teach in a rural New England schoolhouse in the 1830s? John Waite delves into a trove of letters written to a schoolmaster and ponders how to appraise them.
10/31/2014
The art of William E. Hill & John Held, Jr. adorned the dust jackets of F. Scott Fitzgerald's early works.
10/30/2014
'Quotations from Chairman Mao', also known as The Little Red Book, came out 50 years ago. Justin Schiller, a New York dealer and specialist in artifacts of the Cultural Revolution, has curated a show commemorating the book that opens at the Grolier Club in November.
10/29/2014
In this edition, Kaitlin Manning considers the pros and cons of blogging as well as some of the better sites out there that support the endeavor.
