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E.H. Visiak. MEDUSA: A STORY OF MYSTERY AND ECSTASY, & STRANGE HORROR. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. Current Selling Prices $650 -...

A fellow dealer has this graphic artist's illustration for a lurid book cover pinned to the wall of his book storage unit. Dealers ten...

Mary Lamb ( 1764 - 1847 ) Tales from Shakespeare (1807 ) £3,000 + Mrs Leicester’s School (1809) £2,000 + Poetry For Children (1809) ...

The works of William Sidis (1898 – 1944 ) William James Sidis, born in Boston in 1898 to Russian émigré Boris, a psychologist and his wife ...

Let's not even talk about forgery. To my mind the 'blink' test is a good start in testing for authenticity. If on very first see...

A cellar The score of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony, missing for 100 years and presumed lost, was discovered in a Swiss cellar in 2004. The ...

The near and far future of the book I predict that in the year 2525 ('if man is still alive, if woman can survive') people will sti...

Above is a letter signed by the 8 year old Arthur Firbank, later known as the exquisite novelist Ronald Firbank. Sadly it is a facsimile, o...

Autograph collecting as a hobby is said to have become established in Europe in the 1780s - by the late 1890s it had become sufficiently an...

The prospects for odd job man William Jacques, who on 30 July 2010 was jailed yet again for stealing books, this time from the Lindley Libra...

There is a story behind every autograph. Idly fossicking about on Google I have retrieved a few such stories and added some of my own. It ne...

Robin Healey has sent in this piece found in The Bookman , 1932. This is the second and last part. The man with the dog is Hugh Walpole (now...

Regular Bookride contributor Robin Healey has sent in this piece found in The Bookman , 1932. (With thanks to the late Grant Uden.) Mauric...

Graham Greene. STAMBOUL TRAIN. Heinemann, London 1932. Current Selling Prices $4500-$7500 /£3000-£4500 The first of a series of 'ent...

It is variously reported that the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has between 60,000 and 230,000 books--- mostly art books. At one point th...