Found -  Whistler Stories (Harper, New York 1913) put together by Don C Seitz. Many of the stories associated with the artist James McNeill...

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 - a scrapbook of press-cuttings mostly from the Irish newspaper the Cork Gazette. This cutting dates from about 1789. They are mostl...

Sent in by a loyal jotwatcher this useful and amusing piece about the Spice Girls and Viz   the cult British comic magazine. It probably da...

Map of Mars (1894) More from  the Dutch astronomer, Professor G. Van den Bergh  ‘A Visit to Mars ‘ a chapter in his The Universe in Spa...

Found among  the papers of the long defunct literary agency Michael Hayes of Cromwell Road S.W.5  - parts of a manuscript memoir by one L.R....

Found - a curious and very rare spiritualist book The Spirit of Irene Speaks  published in Bournemouth in 1923. The title refers to a notori...

Found - an uncommon cook book called Cool Cooking. Recipes of your Favorite Rock Stars by Roberta Ashley ( Scholastic Book Service USA 1972...

The veteran anthologist Peter Haining  (1940-2007,  pictured right ) only managed to make a decent living by having a number of different p...

A contemporary piece about this ill-fated movie, which although often slated, most notably by Woody Allen ('If I had to live my life ag...

Speculation on whether there is life on Mars and what form it might take has been going on since the planet began to be seriously studi...

Found in John Thomas's Earthquake in England (Unbelievable but True) - published by Blackwood's in 1938, this press cutting from th...

This interesting cutting from the Haining archive tells some of the story of the short-lived Liberty League. Less than three years after th...

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

The late Frank Kermode is best known today as the most prominent Romantic critic in twentieth century English letters---a more intelligen...