American Book Collecting

Dorothy Sloan My first encounter with rare book dealer Dorothy Sloan (1943-2021) involved books of course, but also her garden of beautiful roses oddly juxtaposed with an open garage door revealing an overflow of scuba equipment.

I’m runnin’ down the road to the Houston Book Show, the morning traffic making me bleary-eyed.

Unbridled elation and bitter disappointment pretty much sum up the extremes of a book collector’s psyche.

Edward Eberstadt.

Harrison Horblit's Annotated Copy The Rosenbach Company.

It took me twenty-one years, three months, and eleven days to realize my wife Nicole doesn’t talk as much as I thought.

John Payne and Kurt Zimmerman in Payne's Library My mission has me breaking a sweat in a storage unit near Houston, Texas with air-conditioning set on survival, not comfort.

I recently had a conversation with a well-known book dealer who’d just sold a Kelmscott Chaucer to a collector.

The sporting side of book collecting is like any other sport.

Eddy Nix and Kurt Zimmerman loading up Z book cruiser I’m seated in an outhouse thinking fondly of antiquarian booksellers.

Kurt Zimmerman and Russell Desmond Memorable.

A Rough and Ready Copy of Burton's THE BOOK-HUNTER (1863) Books are tough.

“Are you sure you want a beer guy to order the wine?”

J.

Susan Halas, book dealer and writer, contacted me to do an interview for Rare Book Monthly, the online newsletter found on rarebookhub.com.

Sir Thomas Phillipps' idea of a family photo Extremism is trending nowadays -- weather, politics, sports, food portions.

My American Book Collecting blog celebrates its eleventh anniversary on October 24.

Thomas F.

The Book Fellows Bookplate I haven’t done this much clubbing since college.

Certainly, cigars and pipes after.

I am re-reading A.

It’s a pleasant thought, isn’t it?

Bookseller and writer Anthony Marshall where art thou, kindred spirit?

A recent, unsuccessful bid on a group of Lincoln biblio-books from the collection of Louise Taper leads me here.

KZ's Office / Cataloging Room.