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The felt-tip Bogart

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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...]

First things first

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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, too.  But as book … [Read more...]

CSI Booksellers

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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...]