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 …
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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 …
A Wretched Wreck On Ice-Cold Seas
At any given moment, a theater group somewhere is presenting Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, a modern classic. At the moment, …
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 …
The Venerable Bede, the Baronet, and Me
Sometimes the oldest technology is the best. I refer to alphabetic writing, that strange magic by which I commune with …
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