Like many things, book fairs have gone virtual.  We hope to participate in live, in-person fairs later this summer, but in the meantime, we're going to be exhibiting at the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Virtual Fair, Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23, which you can visit by going HERE. One bug:  Unlike … [Read more...]

"I Met Another Dead Man Today (and other stories about books and book people)" is our latest chapbook.  Besides serving as a guide for the novice book collector, the 19-page booklet features stories from Printed Page Bookshop that inform and entertain about what happens in the store.  We've printed 250 copies.  They're … [Read more...]

I’d never heard of William Henry Ireland until I started reading the autobiography of ASW Rosenbach, who a century ago was a colossus in the rare book world. He regarded Ireland as the greatest forger ever. At the age of 17, Ireland fooled almost the entire literary world with his “discovery” of many Shakespearean … [Read more...]

                There are all kinds of book collections and all kinds of book collectors.  If it gives you joy to collect only books that have been run over by buses, that’s great, or if you don’t care whether a book is good condition or falling apart so long as it is about your favorite subject, that’s great, … [Read more...]

If I'm dealing with the books of someone who's died -- a deceased estate, as Shaun Bythell calls it in "The Diary of a Bookseller" -- it's a lot easier on me if family members aren't involved. A couple of weeks ago, we removed the books from a doctor's house as his widow looked on, weeping. Because what we get from … [Read more...]