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Women Who Read and Write Too Much
By Stephen J. GertzLook at that! Instead of milk she is pouring shoe polish into my hot chocolate! Enough with that damned novel!In 1844, French painter and caricaturist HonorƩ Daumier published Les...
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Rats To You: An Unusual Infested Collection
By Stephen J. Gertz"VASILEV." A Tale Depicted in Personalities: A Procession of Rats.With Russian verse below. Lithograph. Moscow: c. 1880-90.Rats on parade recently at Bloomsbury Auctions when the...
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The Beautiful Trade Bindings Of Ibsen First Editions
By Stephen J. GertzIBSEN, Henrik. Hedda Gabler. Kobenhavn: Gyyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1890.Considered to be amongst the most important plays and Henrik Ibsen the most influential playwright since...
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American Rare Book Trade Ads From 1902
By Stephen J. GertzĀ The Literary Collector: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those Whose Delight is in Books and Other Beautiful Things was established in New York City, October 1900, by renowned...
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Jazz Age High Society In Paris Tears Up The Dance Floor
By Stephen J. GertzFront wrapper.Published in 1927, White Bottoms by SEM (Georges Goursat) is considered by many to be the most decorative,Ā charming and electric work illustrating the joy and excess...
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American Rare Book Trade Ads From 1902, Part II
By Stephen J. GertzĀ We continue with our three-part series on vintage rare book trade ads from The Literary Collector, 1902. You can catch-up with American Rare Book Trade Ads From 1902, Part I...
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An Amazing Labyrinth Of Books
By Stephen J. GertzFrom July 31 - August 26 2012 the Southbank Centre Clore Ballroom in London will host aMAZEme, an art project that integrates literature books, performance, installation and cinema....
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American Rare Book Trade Ads From 1902, Part III
By Stephen J. GertzĀ We continue our series on vintage rare book trade ads from 1902. Catch-up with Part I and Part II. John Anderson Jr. aka Anderson Auction Company and Anderson Galleries, was the...
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The Only Book In History Bound In A Dinner Napkin, Or Gentility Takes A Nosedive
By Stephen J. GertzĀ Buy it. Go to some dinner party and follow instructions. You'll be murdered on the spot or sent to some asylum for dippymaniacs, either of which is quite captivating and costs...
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A Lean. Mean Machine For Those Who Use Their Brains To Earn a Buck
By Stephen J. GertzThe Royal Standard Typewriter is the ideal machine for the Author or Journalist, because of its versatility - added convenience. A literary man MUST be original: he should use the...
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A Rare And Revealing Erotic Movable Book From 1846 (May Be NSFW)
By Stephen J. GertzIt's as rare a book as you will find, if you can find a copy. There are no auction records. There are no copies found in institutional libraries worldwide. It is not found in any of...
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Opera Canceled Due To Rain Inside Theater, Beautiful Costume Designs Remain Dry
By Stephen J. GertzĀ In Budapest, for the first time in history, an opera was called off on account of rain. It was to be Offenbach's La Belle Helene at the Municipal Theatre and the fire inspector was...
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An Inside Look At Tonsils, Or A Medical Instrument From Hell
By Stephen J. GertzFrom: LeƧons sur l'hypertrophie des amygdales et sur une nouvelle mĆ©thode opĆ©ratoire pour leur ablation by Edouard Chassaignac. Paris: Jean-Baptiste BailliĆØre, 1854.First (only)...
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Collecting Souvenir Postcard Books
Please welcome printer, author, and Poltroon Press co-publisher Alastair M. Johnston to the Booktryst roster - SJG.By Alastair JohnstonIt seems that the Post Office will soon vanish into history, and...
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How To See a Ghost
By Stephen J. GertzTo see the spectres, it is only necessary to look steadily at the dot, or asterisk, which is to be found on each of the plates, for about a quarter of a minute...Then turning the...
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Goethe's Great Book On Color
By Stephen J. Gertz[Goethe] delivered in full measure what was promised by the title of his excellent work: data toward a theory of colour. They are important, complete, and significant data, rich...
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Satyr Reads Book To Wood Nymph While Trees Observe
By Stephen J. GertzSomebody's Book by Arthur Rackham.Appearing on page 92 of The Windmill, an anthology of authors and illustrators published by William Heinemann Ltd., Somebody's Book by Arthur...
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Pigmy Revels: Laughter For The Languid, Fun For The Feeble In A Boxwood Drum
By Stephen J. GertzThe LilliputionĀ Museum is a panorama, in boxwood drum format, "calculated to create joy for the juvenile, laughter for the languid, fun for the feeble, sauce for the serious, and...
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Henry Lemoine: The Last of the Walking Booksellers
by Alastair JohnstonThe world of books has smaller worlds within it. In the already stifling cupboard of books about books there is a subset of books about printing (or the making of books) of which I...
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Breaking Rare Book News: Tarzan Dumps Jane, Boy Broken-Hearted
By Stephen J. GertzĀ I suppose it had to happen. Another episode of Splitsville. I had no idea their relationship was on the rocks.After living in sin and swinging around the jungle with Jane Porter for...
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