Linda Hedrick
This blog is well-researched and presented. There is lots of informative information and links to useful sites. I'm ready to buy more books!
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The private Library
http://www.privatelibrary.typepad.com/
The Private Library blogs about book collecting and book history through the lens of an individual book collector, bookseller and professional librarian.
- Added on: Apr 9th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: L. D. Mitchell
- Listed in: Books Cultural
- Tags: books book collecting private library book collector home library book history
Recent Posts
Teeny, Tiny Books and The Private Library
Running out of shelf space in your private library? Maybe you need to collect smaller books....Miniature books, commonly defined as books smaller than 3" x 3" (76.20 mm x 76.20 mm) in width and height, don't get a lot of r...
Collecting the World\'s Greatest Private Libraries
What constitutes a really great private library? What kinds of books does such a library contain? How is such a library furnished? How many generations are required to bring such a library to its fullest fruition? How much...
Pochoir and The Private Library
If you ever have had the good fortune to amble amongst the quaint and curious bookshops that make even the rudest European hamlet a wonderful place to indulge one's bookish enthusiasms. you likely will have come across the occasional title illust...
The Wild West and The Private Library (Part IV)
In 1987 Patricia Nelson Limerick published The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, and the stormclouds of revisionist criticism of Turner's frontier thesis at last broke with full force: Limerick's book eviscerates Tu...
The Wild West and The Private Library (Part III)
Turner's frontier thesis had begun to lose some of its potency as early as the late 1940s, which saw the publication of Earl Pomeroy's The Territories and the United States, 1861-1890: Studies in Colonial Administration (1947). Conside...
The Wild West and The Private Library (Part II)
On 12 July 1893, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, noted historian Frederick Jackson Turner delivered an address to a meeting of the American Historical Association in which he suggested thatto the frontier the American i...
Finally a blog on books which is professional on all levels.
If you haven`t seen your book shelf as a private library yet it is time to read this blog, it will change your mind. The link collection,links to other bookish sites is a treasure.
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