Found - a publisher's flyer loosely inserted in a copy of Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie's   Mithraic Mysteries (Platonist Press, Alpine, N....

So many of the world weary observations in James Beresford's  brilliant best-seller of 1806 ( The Miseries of Human Life, or The last Gr...

Found - a slim volume of poetry called Annotations (London: Humphrey Milford, 1922) by 'Susan Miles' ' (i.e. Ursula Wyie Rob...

Found - a collection of quotations from C.E. Jerningham - The Maxims of Marmaduke (London: Methuen & Co, 1909). A small book,it is...

Found - this astonishing and admiring piece about Tesla from The Courier-Journal  coming out of Louisville, Kentucky (Sunday, August 22, 189...

Miseries of Travel (Rowlandson 1806) In 1806 a witty Oxford don called James Beresford published The Miseries of Human Life, or The la...

Actually, I’ve met him twice. The first was in 1970, not too long after the Book Town of Hay-on Wye had started up. I was 18 and had only...

L. B. Pekin was the author of 5 books published by Virginia & Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press in the 1930s - Public Schools: their Fai...

The second and last showing of these badges from the world of rock music in the late 1970s and early 1980s-- before MP3 players, Spotify, Yo...

These came with a ton of books on rock and seem to date from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Truly ephemeral - they relate to some almost...

Found - a not unamusing joke book Political Jokes of Leningrad by Arie Zand. ( Published by Silvergirl, Austin, Texas 1982 - many thanks.) ...

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...

Found on the endpapers of Secret Places of the Lion by George Hunt Williamson (Neville Spearman, London 1963)- a  handwritten  note by  th...

Found on the front endpaper of an American book on Abraham Lincoln -- this bookplate label advertising a used bookstore. This store was the...

Found - a slim volume titled  Stories told by Sir James Taggart.  (Dundee, London : Valentine & Sons 1926.)  This book is in a seri...