An excellent photo of the poet Harold Monro (1879 - 1932). Found in a copy of  his Collected Poems (Cobden Sanderson, London 1933). A handso...

Sent in by an avid jotter just retired at 50 and spending his time in browsing his vast library (mostly acquired in the purlieus of Charing ...

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

Mussolini by Marinetti From a book of  of schoolboy howlers collected by Colin McIlwaine and published in London in 1930. Most howlers a...

This penny ballad (no printer/publisher named and no date, but circa 1840) was found among the archive of the late Leslie Shepherd, expert o...

We did a posting on our old site  Bookride on Chick Marrs Quinn's unfindable book The Aluminium Trail a self published and much wanted...

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

From a paperback called  I've Seen a Ghost - True Stories from Show Business by Richard Davis (Granada, London 1979). A series of most...

An old edition of  Who's Who reveals that The Revd. Sidney Swann, M.A., born in 1862, rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race in 18...

Found in a 1963 Central Office of Information booklet Their Trade is Treachery . Of some rarity and value - a top online bookseller descri...

Invoices from famous castrati are pretty rare, but there is no reason why there shouldn’t be more of them around. The reason is that some o...

An interesting an uplifting anecdote of true impulsiveness found in John Julius Norwich's 1990 Christmas Cracker . Viscount Norwich was ...

Sent in by faithful jotter RMH. Fans of Nobel Prize winner Heaney might be peeved by his closing remarks but c'est la guerre... I o...

The Crazy Quilt Murders by H.W. Sandberg (Phoenix Press N.Y. 1938) Rare book (no copies for sale anywhere online) from the Donald Rudd co...

Almost everybody has met someone with a good story about someone well known that they had met - the 'I danced with a man, who danced wit...