Bibliophile Nicolas Basbanes joins host Larry Mantle to share his passion for collecting books, chronicled in Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book-Hunter in the Twenty-First ...

Percy Muir is one of the more imaginative cataloguers in the English book-trade, and a guidebook for collectors from his hand is sure to command attention. His Book-Collecting as a Hobby is a valuable ...

IF we may draw an inference from the close of his new and fourth book, this is Mr. Newton’s Swan Song to the collectorate. Perhaps this is just as well: I do not say so because the stream has run out, ...

Summer is the season for book lovers: reading lists full of promising debuts, time for breezy page-turners on the beach, fresh resolve to finish a doorstopper classic like War and Peace. Whatever ...

A growing cohort of young enthusiasts is helping to shape the future of an antique trade. Kendall Spencer, an apprentice at DeWolfe & Wood Rare Books, at the New York International Antiquarian Book ...

Students who have built a collection of 10-50 books based on a theme are encouraged to enter a book collecting contest sponsored by Kelvin Smith Library. Winners are eligible to participate in the ...

Rare book collectors can sometimes see a healthy return on an investment, but advisors and other experts say the market is illiquid, and volatile — and books require careful storage and preservation.

The Kelvin Smith Library's Student Book Collecting Contest is one that we look forward to each year, and are excited to learn about the collections the entrants have assembled to match their interests ...

Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of articles highlighting the winners of the third annual Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware ...

Levitators. Healers. Mystics. Scholars. Diplomats. These descriptors detail the lives of those featured in the Women of the Book collection, selections from which are now on display at the George ...