The Wandering Hermit: A Bibliophilic Mystery
Recently while browsing the bookseller site AbeBooks, a little two volume set captured my attention: The Wandering Hermit. What a …
Category Archives: Tiny and Towering Tomes
Birth of a Collection
Guides to book collecting will tell you that your collection should be focused. Here’s a sample piece of advice for aspiring …
Ghostly Faces
Among my tiny books is this little album from the nineteenth century. It’s filled with over twenty portraits of the members …
Bibliophilly
Recently I had the pleasure of perusing old books and special collections in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love and …
The Opposite of Light Reading
The Greek poet Callimachus said, “A big book is a big evil.” But in spite of my predilection for tiny …
Bookshelf Voyeurism
“Why are you afraid to let people see your books?” he said. And then laughingly, “What are you reading? The …
Not Just For Gentlemen…
Most male antiquarian booksellers fell into two categories, she had discovered: the misogynists who would be happy if a woman …
Regency Week: A Miniature Almanac From Hamburg, 1816
It’s “Regency Week” on linnetmoss.com! As an English major reared on Austen, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley, I’m used to …
Gollum’s Bookshelf
If you’ve ever been a collector, you know that feeling. The “my precious” feeling you get when you see that …
Let’s Get Small
The smallest books I own are too tiny for me to read with my presbyopic eyes, though quite legible under …
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