Peter Dast of the Bookworks in Evansville, Wisconsin, has kindly sent us scans of two postcards announcing Midwest Bookhunters book fairs from back in the 1980s. “I was probably at the 1987 show,” he writes, “but not the 1984.” We publish these postcards hoping they will not be mistaken for announcements of coming events. More importantly, we . . . read more
A review by Joel Hyde A review of Allison Hoover Bartlett’s, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession. New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin, 2009. Hardback, 274 pp. $24.95 In this book Allison Hoover Bartlett describes her investigations into the activities of John . . . read more
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The following talk was delivered by William S. Reese before the Grolier Club in New York City. It is reprinted with the kind permission of Mr. Reese and the Grolier Club. Texts of all of the talks delivered at the “Books in Hard Times” symposium are available at www.grolierclub.org. Click on Public Events, scroll down . . . read more
by Thomas J. Joyce The following obituary is reprinted from The Caxtonian, with their kind permission. Fina Bray died peacefully at home in February. She was born in Pasadena, California in 1927. She was reborn as a Caxtonian in 1995. In the early 1980s I placed a help-wanted ad in the Kane County Chronicle newspaper . . . read more
