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Bookmark for a Puerto Rican Book Fair, 1955 1 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
This bookmark was created for the 1955 Book Fair, or Feria del Libro, in Puerto Rico. Just shy of five inches in length, it's made of plastic and the print announces the date and place of the fair: Al...
Wide Awake with D. Lothrop & Co. 31 Jul 2013 | 09:50 pm
Here is a Victorian trade card that promotes both the offerings of a publisher and bookseller that stocks those products for his customers. The colorful lithograph that graces the front of the card p...
Detroit Bookmobile at Cadillac Square, 1940 8 Jul 2013 | 04:31 am
This press photo from 1940 shows a cab-over tractor trailer truck serving as a bookmobile, or Branch Library on Wheels, from the Detroit Library Commission, which governed the Detroit Public Library....
The Greenaway House in Boston's Bookshop for Boys and Girls, 1938 6 Jul 2013 | 09:03 pm
The card below features a long-standing attraction at the Bookshop for Boys and Girls in Boston from the late 1920s and beyond. The reverse side is printed with information about the dolls and a rhymi...
P. Garrett & Co., Philadelphia Publisher, Bookseller, and Manufacturer 5 Jul 2013 | 10:23 pm
Here's a nice corner ad cover for a Philadelphia publisher and bookseller, P. Garrett & Co. This is reminiscent of another corner ad cover featured here previously--S.H. Zahm & Co., also of Pennsylvan...
Patriot Printer, Isaiah Thomas 4 Jul 2013 | 10:26 pm
Today, Independence Day in America, I'm remembering the patriot printer, Isaiah Thomas. What follows is from a previous post about Thomas on this blog a few years ago. This portrait, by Ethan Allen G...
The Book Barge in Lichfield 29 Jun 2013 | 08:49 pm
I've written about floating books on this blog before (Lippincott bill of lading and The MV Doulos), but here's a new twist on the concept: a floating book barge. I found this on the blog of a London...
A letter from the New Hampshire State Library, 1898 29 Jun 2013 | 06:15 pm
Here is a typed, hand-signed letter from Arthur H. Chase, Librarian at the New Hampshire State Library, in Concord, NH in 1898. The library letterhead includes a nice image of what the building look....
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. 28 Jun 2013 | 03:59 pm
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) was an ardent bibliophile, collector, cataloger, publisher, and intense sufferer of bibliomania. In the title of this post, Bart. refers to Baronet, a hereditary honor...
Ephemera from American Book Collecting 22 Jun 2013 | 03:08 am
I recently discovered The American Book Collecting blog, in which Kurt Zimmerman writes entertainingly and enthusiastically about his collection: Books about American book collecting. He also collects...
