( Merci, Surbouquin ) An excerpt slightly  abbreviated, from Student Magazine issue (January 1963.) Quite prophetic as almost all the b...

Found among the papers of   J-P Mayer  (1903 - 1992) - this appraisal of his massive library by his friend F.R. Cowell. Peter Mayer was  Pro...

Found among a collection of modern first edition catalogues this offering from Bradford Morrow  in a catalogue entitled  John Steinbeck: A C...

There are now no popular magazines in the UK covering the field of rare and antiquarian books. Just seven years ago there were two— Rare B...

Photographs exist of the famous bookstalls in Farringdon Road, dating from the nineteen forties and fifties, and the one by Moholy-Nagy that...

Found among the extensive papers of Peter Haining this article on an old magazine for boys The Modern Boy by the late  Tom Ebbage , an Aust...

More material from the Haining archive, this by his friend and colleague W.O.G. ('Bill') Lofts. Some of it is covered by Bill'...

Jules Bollly (merci) The five volume  auction catalogue of Boulard's vast collection showed up in auction at Christies New York in ...

Max Sander's article  Bibliomania,  freely available from Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons, yielded the gripping ...

Found - an article by Ellery Queen - Some curious changes in  book titles in the omnibus Carrousel for bibliophiles, a treasury of tales, n...

J.H. Slater's Book Collecting - A Guide for Amateurs (Swan Sonnenschein, London 1892) concludes with a still useful chapter - 'B...

How fashions in literature have changed in 90 years. Look at  this list compiled by ‘FMG’ for the Autumn 1924 issue  of  The First Edition a...

Sent in by jot watcher RMH (a man who knows a bad book magazine when he sees one) this neat analysis of why magazines fail. The Alan Od...

Novels, especially thrillers,  with pop or rock music settings are becoming quite collectable ..this novel  Lantern Hill (Joseph, London ...

Another 'once met' jot - this from tireless jotter RMR. He reminds me there was anthology of such meetings edited by Michael Ondaatj...

It was in the summer of 1999 that the actor, screenwriter, director ( Stepford Wives, Whistle Down the Wind, Séance on a wet Afternoon ), tu...

With the 50th anniversary of Churchill's death in 2015 there will be  celebrations and (possibly) an exhibition of his paintings. Church...