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The private Library

The private Library

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The Private Library blogs about book collecting and book history through the lens of an individual book collector, bookseller and professional librarian.

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  • Teeny, Tiny Books and The Private Library

    Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 11:10

    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

    Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 09:41

    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

    Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 02:13

    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)

    Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 06:14

    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)

    Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 07:38

    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)

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 09:57

    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...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 2 comments.

editionH

5 stars Martin

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.

Posted: April 25th, 2009 | More Reviews From editionH | Report This Comment

5 stars 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!

Posted: April 11th, 2009 | Report This Comment

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