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Thursday, November 1, 2018

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It’s that line by George RR Martin: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies … the man who never reads lives only one.” - Neil ...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

New arrivals: a pictorial history of a Revolutonary War-era New York town

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Carol Case Greene, Historic Sullivan (1990, Town of Sullivan, NY, 77 pp, paperback, very good condition). Greene, the town historian...
Monday, August 6, 2018

New arrivals: the most famous work of a legendary Oregonian

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Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Heavenly Discourse (New York, Penguin Books, May, 1946; stated first Penguin Books ed.) #594, original pri...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Dinner at 8: midcentury meals in a Manhattan townhouse, preserved over nearly a quarter-century in a rare entertainment diary

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12 E. 81st Street (center, red brick facade) Google Maps, 2017 “A decorative stone panel is set into the facade and, nearl...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Today is Bloomsday. Stretch a little.

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Monday, April 16, 2018

It's Book Fair Week at last!

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The week's @RareBookCafe features Kentucky bookseller John Glover as we head into the weekend of the @FloridaBookFair ! See it here: ht...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Don't miss this week's show! Next week will be here in a hurry-

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Don't miss this week's BookWeek! Before you know it, it will be next Thursday! https://t.co/8lbEDGICSq pic.twitter.com/65bbjgEUOB —...

An American original

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Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president, vice president, Secretary of State, Minister to France, Governor of Virginia, founder of UVa, author of the...

Honoring Thomas Jefferson's 275th birthday: Revolution in the Carolinas

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U.S. News & World Report, 200 Years: A Bicentennial History of the United States (1st ed. 1973). LOC 73-77836. Two-volume foli...

Here's this week's LGBookT!

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Here's this week's LGBookT: https://t.co/EAI9yLm38C pic.twitter.com/oIa52g0CAe — Henry Bemis Books (@henrybemisbooks) April 13, 201...