Here is a picture of Painted Renaissance volumes currently on view at Yale’s Beinecke Library now, through until April 21. A dozen volumes on display at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library are shelved side-by-side with their fore edges, not their spines, facing out. It…
The 52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held on February 8-10, 2019, at the Oakland Marriott City Center. Oakland Marriott City Center1001 BroadwayOakland, CA 94607United States The 52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair, recognized as one of the world’s largest and most…
There are many terms used among Antiquarian book dealers and collectors that can be confusing for anyone “new to the game” of collecting. Here is an abbreviated list of many of the most commonly encountered terms when referring to old, rare, and out-of-print books.…
What is a Rare Book? What makes a book go under the category of RARE? Are there any set guidelines? There are many books that are old, antique or unusual but this does not mean that any of them are rare books. To earn…
For those who are unfamiliar with the term Book Row, it is referring to ‘a comparatively small area of New York City, [a] collection of phenomenal booksellers who begun to ply their trade from the 1890s to the 1920s and beyond, on and around Fourth…
Amazon is facing backlash from hundreds of antiquarian book dealers across 24 countries who are vowing to pull books off a website owned by Amazon for a week in protest of a move by the website to ban sellers from specific countries around the…
Here at Ash Tree Books, we are an online bookshop. So the reality is, we are just as much “here” as we are “anywhere”! Presently we do not have a physical storefront, although that is a future dream for us. For our weekly Collector…
Us collectors love our treasured books, we want to take care of them and know they will stay in good condition under our care. I wanted to share an excerpt from a book that covers the biggest enemy of books; Fire, Water, Gas and…
