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The Wandering Hermit: A Bibliophilic Mystery

May 7, 2019

Recently while browsing the bookseller site AbeBooks, a little two volume set captured my attention: The Wandering Hermit. What a …

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Birth of a Collection

November 23, 2016

Guides to book collecting will tell you that your collection should be focused. Here’s a sample piece of advice for aspiring …

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A Wretched Wreck On Ice-Cold Seas

March 5, 2014

At any given moment, a theater group somewhere is presenting Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, a modern classic. At the moment, …

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Bookshelf Voyeurism

February 17, 2014

“Why are you afraid to let people see your books?” he said. And then laughingly, “What are you reading? The …

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Not Just For Gentlemen…

January 22, 2014

Most male antiquarian booksellers fell into two categories, she had discovered: the misogynists who would be happy if a woman …

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Regency Week: A Miniature Almanac From Hamburg, 1816

December 2, 2013

It’s “Regency Week” on linnetmoss.com!  As an English major reared on Austen, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley, I’m used to …

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The Venerable Bede, the Baronet, and Me

September 16, 2013

Sometimes the oldest technology is the best. I refer to alphabetic writing, that strange magic by which I commune with …

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