People often ask us where we find all the books that fill the shelves in Printed Page.  (Hint:  It's not in houses when people go on vacation.)  Basically, we find books in two ways:  People either bring them into the store, or we go to homes to buy collections. During the past couple of years, we've been doing a … [Read more...]

As soon as we opened the other day, a guy came in with a box of books to sell.  He was stoned.  How did I know?  He reeked of marijuana, and he couldn't figure out how to open the box.  Not that there's anything wrong with that. … [Read more...]

Yes, you read it here first.  And we heard that revelation -- and a lot more -- during our days at Printed Page.  We've collected a series of stories about books and the people who love them in our new chapbook.  We have 250 signed, limited editions for the low, low price of just $7.  The chapbook is available at the … [Read more...]

An excited woman called yesterday before I could even get my coat off. She cleans out storage lockers and has found a trove of rare and exceedingly valuable books  -- her words -- but she is not sure what language they are in or what they are about. Seems like a fitting end to this year. … [Read more...]

A customer noticed that I was reading Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life" the other day. He tried to buy it from me. I told him to come back in 75 pages. Good thing, too. Otherwise I would not have learned that Dante Gabriel Rossetti was so overcome with the death of his wife, Elizbeth Siddal, that … [Read more...]