Lord Glenavy with his  children Patrick and Biddy This is a continuation of a jot  from March 2014 featuring  a good letter, over 20 clo...

Found among a lot of miscellaneous papers, some religious - this poem by one William Allen about the Titanic disaster. It is dated May 1912,...

Sad to hear of the death of the film star Luise Rainer at 104, but as we (often) say in England, she had  'a good innings'. I met he...

Found - a rare piece of ephemera from the very earliest years of the life of the writer (and cook)  Alice B.Toklas . A gilt edged and gold ...

Found - in Benjamin Lust's Return to nature! The true natural  method of healing and living and the true salvation of the soul (Naturopa...

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 ...

Charles Nodier Last part of this thrill-packed  piece on murder, mayhem, obsession, vengeance and book collecting. Slight doubt is cast ...

Furs et Ordinaciones , Valencia 1482 This is an oft told tale of book madness and murder. It has elements that ring true and also mythic...

Found tipped into the front of Poems of Matthew Arnold (London, 1853) an unpublished  handwritten signed letter from the poet to his French...

Found in a slim volume of verse from 1891 'printed for private circulation' - this poem about The Briar Rose  - a series of 4 relate...

Found in a Tauchnitz edition of Barry Pain's Stories in Grey (Leipzig 1912) this bookmark advertising an English tea room in Flore...

The Perfect Christmas by Rose Henniker Heaton was a companion volume to the same author’s Perfect Hostess and Perfect Schoolgirl. Publis...

Once again, Rose Henniker Heaton, our no nonsense Australian hostess from 1932, comes up with some timely suggestions as what we should do...

Found - loosely inserted in a copy of his novel A State of Denmark this typescript of an interview with Robin Cook aka Derek Raymond . At o...