Leon Gambetta—‘ the grand orateur et homme d’Etat’. So reads the printed label stuck on the back of this carte de visite by a French deale...

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 ...

Hope Mirrlees. Paris.  (Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Richmond 1919-1920) The rediscovery of the Scottish writer ...

Found - an American press cutting from Adams County News April 1914: Armed with a recording gramophone, M. Ponge, a schoolmaster in Paris...

Found in a mid 1930s American detective thriller, tipped in at the front (for exchange purposes) this flier for  the Gibert Joseph (or J...

From Dickens's Dictionary of Paris . The book is anonymous but a note in an old bookseller's hand informs us that it was written (pa...

Four books by Nelson Algren found at  Shakespeare and Co in Paris and bought reasonably from George Whitman. About 1990. Catalogued thus (an...