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You can call me "an old book blogger;" not because I'm old, or because I've been blogging for a long time, but because I usually blog about old books. If you want to read my review posts about new books, then you should visit my Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac blog.

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Biblio-Connecting
Biblio Researching
Bibliophiles in My Library
Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac
The Early Editions of the Elements of Style
The Displaced Book Collector
Idlewild Blue Yonder
Cursory Remarks About Politics
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My Sentimental Library

July 2019  A Librarian's Atta-Girl Book

June 2019  J. H. Slater's Books About Books

May 2019  A Sentimental Airman's Second Aviation Collection

Apr 2019  Thirteen Books From the Library of William Stafford, Oregon's Poet

Apr 2019  Of Jade Flower and Miss Jones by Don Thomson, Poet Laureate of Kern County

Mar 2019  About Submarines, Submariners, and Pearl Harbor

Feb 2019:   Those Who Write Them, Those Who Collect Them, And Those Who Write About Them

Jan 2019:  A Book That Flew Undetected Under the RADAR
Dec 2018  The Rochester Press: Number Seven of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas

Nov 2018  A Book With a Rather Dubious but Collectible Record of Ownership

Oct 2018  An Historical Account of Thomas Williams and his Copy of Livy's Historiarum

Sep 2018  Learning About The Crockett Almanacks, Sabre-Tooth Revisited, and Bill Cole

Aug 2018  A History and Census of The Paradise of Poets Printed at the Carnegie

Jul 2018  A Serendipitous Visit to the Library of Kurt Zimmerman

Jun 2018  Logan Pearsall Smith and the Things He Wrote

May 2018  Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Best Biographer of Them All?

Apr 2018  From The Book Barn in Niantic, Ct. to the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair in St. Petersburg, Fl.

Mar 2018:   Another One That Got Away, One I Gave Away, And One That Headed My Way; or, The Adventures and Misadventures of MoiBibliomaniac

Feb 2018:  On Collecting James Boswell

Jan 2018:  On Keeping Informed in the Book World

Dec 2017  The Bewicks And Their Bookplates:  Number Six of the Twelve Blog Posts For Christmas 

Nov 2017  
Tom and Jerry:  Friends and Aiders 

Oct 2017  Before the News Went Fake:  A Tour of Books About the Press 

Sep 2017  Passages From Lambians in My Library, Large and Small 

Aug 2017  Bathrooms, Outhouses, and Bodily Functions 

Jul 2017  A Conglomeration of Cookbooks Collected by a Man Who Doesn't Cook 

Jun 2017  Adrian H. Joline:  Author, Autograph Collector, and Dofob 

May 2017  Augustine Birrell:  That Charming and Graceful Writer...

Apr 2017  Leigh Hunt & Two Leigh Hunt Collectors: Joseph T. Fields & Luther A. Brewer

Mar 2017  About Elliot Stock, Henry B. Wheatley, and The Book Lover's Library Series

Feb 2017:
 The Sentimental Airman  

Jan 2017  A Virtual Tour of My Austin Dobson Collection


Dec 2016  Peter Motteux:  Number Five of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas

Nov 2016  A Bookman, A Bookplate, and a Whole Lotta Style

Oct 2016  The Bookstores of Copenhagen


Sep 2016  Other People's Books, Dead People's Books, and Boswell's Books


Aug 2016  Some Snippets of Wise Old Words Gathered in the Gutter...


Jul 2016:  121 Words or More About the Library Of An American Lexicographer

Jun 2016:  Some Things Gotten In Denmark

May 2016:  A Brass-Bound, Valve-In-Head Research Project:  The Story of the Publication of the Percy Letters

April 2016:  The Literary Studies of Norah Diana Maude

Mar 2016:  

The Story of Spence's Anecdotes 

Feb 2016:  A Letter From an Illustrious Shakespearean Scholar To a Modern Autograph Collector 

Jan 2016: A Look Back At My Old TV Websites

Dec 2015: Miniature Books: Number four of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas

Nov 2015:   John T. Winterich: the Man, His Books, And His Other Literary Endeavors  

Oct 2015:  A Trip to New York By Way Of My Books

Sep 2015:  Some Worcester Sources and Other Discourses Concerning the Dictionary Wars

Aug 2015:  Appendiculæ Historicæ; Or, Shreds of History About a Book and Its Owners

Jul 2015:  Printers, Printmakers, and Other Bookmakers in My Library

Jun 2015:  The Book-Buying Binge of a Booklover

May 2015:  ...Knocked My Sox Off...

Apr 2015:  Bouba, Zaza, and the ILAB Pop Up Book Fairs: April 23, 2015

Apr 2015:  Whose Hands Were On This Book?

Mar 2015:
About Samuel Johnson's Undergraduate Library 



Feb 2015:  A Gathering Of Other People's Collected Letters

Jan 2015:  Tidbits From My Books About American Book Publishers

Dec 2014:  The Displaced Book Collector And More

Dec 2014:  Grangerisers: Number Three of the Twelve Blog Posts For Christmas

Nov 2014:  The Early Editions of the Elements of Style

Oct 2014:  My Sentimental Library Blog: The First Five Years

Oct 2014:  The Second Beginning of the Chief End of Book Madness

Sep 2014:  The Last Book Sale Care Package

Aug 2014:  The Monk, the Bookseller, and the Manuscript:  Tracking Lydgate's Boke of the Sege of Troy Through Bernard Quaritch's Catalogues

Jul 2014:  In Memoriam:  Jamie Ryan DeJaynes

Jun 2014:  My Books About the English Book Trade




A Virtual Tour of My Collection of Essays

Apr 2014:  A Virtual Tour of My Poetry Collection

Mar 2014:  A Student of Catalogues

Feb 2014:  The Reference Library of a Bibliomaniac

Jan 2014:  A Census of Ladies in My Library

Dec 2013:  Twelve Blogs for Christmas:  Contributions to Biblionotes:  Chapbooks

Nov 2013:  Andrew Lang and the Property of a Gentleman Who Has Given Up Collecting

Oct 2013:  A Splendid History of Ownership


Sep 2013:  The Collector and the Collected:  Two Typophiles From New York

Aug 2013:  Elegant Extracts About Books, Booklovers, And Libraries


My Books About Libraries  

Jun 2013:  Cataloguing and Recataloguing the Boswell Library

May 2013:  His Dictionary?

Apr 2013:  The Vanishing Breed:  A History of Bookbinding Compiled by Don Brady 

Mar 2013:  From G's Hand

Feb 213:  RES JUDICATÆ:  A HISTORY

Jan 2013:  Memories of Things Experienced and Things Missed

Dec 2012:  Twelve Blogs For Christmas:  Contributions to Biblionotes:  Ex-Libris

Nov 2012:  Mostly Letters About Bookplates

Oct 2012:  Books on Language:  Part the Last

Sep 2012:  Eloquent Words Written and Spoken

Aug 2012:  Grammars, Spellers, and Writing Guides

Jul 2012:  My Philology Collection:  Dictionaries

Jun 2012 A Virtual Tour of My Mary Hyde Collection  



May 2012:  My Sentimental Library Collection:  Association Copies

Apr 2012:  Around the Dining Room Table:  A View of My Shakespeare Collection

Mar 2012:  On Or About Moi's Books About Books

Feb 2012:  My Samuel Johnson Collection:  Odd Volumes, Association Copies, And Other Interesting Items

Jan 2012:  The Words of the Wise:  My Periodical Collection

Dec 2011:  Biblio Researching, Biblio-Connecting, and Biblio Reviewing

Nov 2011:  J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Bibliophile

Oct 2011:  In And About Foley

Sep 2011:  My Autograph Letter Collection

Aug 2011:  Grand Moments

Jul 2011:  Blog Posts From Two of My Other Blogs


Ten Books From Texas and Two Reminiscences  



May 2011:  My Many Lives of Samuel Johnson

Apr 2011:  My William Targ Collection

Mar 2011:  Two Hurt Books And Their Former Owners

Feb 2011:  Changing Bookplates:  Multiple Bookplates of Famous People

Jan 2011:  Arthur Schlesinger's Bookplate:  The Whole Picture

Jan 2011:  Always Be On Time

Jan 2010:  A Cornerstone in American History

Oct 2009:  Snapshots of Mary Hyde

Oct 2009:  An Unexpected Find in Umatilla, Florida

>BIBLIO-CONNECTING

Welcome to Biblio-Connecting:   July 2019




Biblio-Connecting, July 5, 2011 to Mar 2, 2018 
All monthly biblio-connecting blog posts up to March 2, 2018 were added to this blog post.  I had to start a second post because the post had reached its limit in size: Welcome to Biblio-Connecting:  Apr 1, 2018 to the Present

BIBLIO RESEARCHING

Jun 2018  The Demise of Lindmark's Book Shop, Poughkeepsie, New York

Sep 2017  Researching the Provenance of the Autograph Manuscript of Dream Children; A Reverie

Jan 2017  Notes And Queries Regarding the Authorship of O FOR A BOOKE

Sep 2015:  A Preliminary Examination of a Pamphlet Containing Two Reviews of Worcester's Edition of Johnson's Dictionary



Jun 2014:  Some Auspicious Biblio-Sleuthing  

Dec 2013:  About Bibliomites, Biblionotes, and Walter "Wally" Harris

Oct 2013:  Is America Lost in the Funhouse?

May 2013:  


A Well-Lobbied Government: How the NRA Won the Battle Over the Second Amendment  

Feb 2013:  The Boswell Copy of Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson?

Oct 2012:  Researching Serving You... And Its Catalog Records

Sep 2012:  About That Engraving By William Kneass...

May 2012:  Biblio Researching 101

Dec 2011:  Researching the Value of Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare

Jul 2011:  Corrections to the 1810 Catalogue of Greek & Latin Classics in the Auchinleck Library

Jul 2011:  A Statius Check

Apr 2010:  Stylized And the Forgotten Edition of Strunk's Elements of Style

Sep 2009:  A Correction to the Copyright and Bibliographic Records of The Elements of Style

May 2009:  William Strunk's Other Books in My Library

May 2009:  


My Elements of Style Collection  

Sep 2008:  Charles Lamb's Library on Library Thing

Feb 2008:  Update on Letters Found in Books

Oct 2007:  Letters Found in Books

Oct 2007:  Researching a George Birkbeck Hill ALS

BIBLIOPHILES IN MY LIBRARY

Feb 2017  The Idiosyncrasies of a C. S. Forester Collector

Oct 2016     An Anecdote About Bob Fleck: Bookman to the End

Apr 2013:  

From Whence They Came: Don Brady and His Miniature Books  

Aug 2009:  Kings of Persia

Apr 2009:  Birrell, Starrett, Morley, But Who is O.M.?

Mar 2009:  Cataloging Dead People's Books; Namely the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell and Charles Lamb

Nov 2008:  William Targ, Bibliophile

Nov 2008:  



Mary Hyde and the Unending Pursuit  

CONTEMPLATIONS OF MOIBIBLIOMANIAC

Jun 2019  The Library Book by Susan Orlean

May 2019  The Grammarian in the Bedroom, Or, A whole New Dimension to The Elements of Style

Apr 2019:

 The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller by Carol Baxter

Nov 2018:  Another Glorious Day of Toodling

Sep 2018  Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Sep 2018:  House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Trump and the Russian Mafia


Sep 2018  The Day the Dane Banished Shakespeare From the Dining Room


Feb 2017:  How Paul Fussell and Samuel Johnson Helped Me Write a Review of Michael Wolff's Book, Fire and Fury

Dec 2017:  My Best and My Worst Posts of 2017

Dec 2017  TrumpeterVille by Dean Gessie 

Dec 2017                The Book Hunters of Katpadi by Pradeep Sebastian

Oct 2017  George & Lizzie:  A Novel by Nancy Pearl 

Sep 2017  The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System

Jun 2017 Tales from the Dodger Dugout by Carl Erskine

Jun 2017  The Card Catalog;  Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress

Jun 2017  What Happened to Me:  My Life with Books, Research Libraries, and Performing Arts by David H. Stam

Feb 2017:  Hubert's Freaks by Gregory Gibson



Nov 2016  War Virgin:  My Journey of Repression, Temptation and Liberation by Laura Westley

Oct 2016  Boswell's Books by Terry Seymour and Commented upon by Jerry Morris

Aug 2016  The Toad by Elise Gravel

Jul 2016  A Scout's Report: My 70 Years in Baseball by George Genovese

Jul 2016:  Gone Boy: A Walkabout. A Father's Search for the Truth in His Son's Murder by Gregory Gibson

Jun 2016:  The Seven: The Lives of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards

Apr 2016:  Lawrence C. Wroth's Notes For Bibliophiles by Richard J. Ring

Apr 2016:  My Friend Paul Ruxin

Feb 2016:  A Slideshow of a Bibliomaniac's Library





Rare Books Uncovered:  True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places by Rebecca Rego Barry  






Dec 2015:  Separate Fountains by Patti Wilson Byars



Sep 2015:  Blue Blood by Edward Conlon



Sep 2015:  One Righteous Man:  Sam Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York City by Arthur Browne



Sep 2015:  The Groaning Shelf and Other Instances of Book Love by Pradeep Sebastian



Mar 2015:  Whistle Stop:  How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, and a Little Midwest Gumption Saved the Presidency of Harry Truman by Philip White



Dec 2014:  The Court-Martial of Paul Revere by Michael M. Greenburg


Sep 2014:  Johnny Evers:  A Baseball Life by Dennis Snelling




Aug 2017 A Second Book of Booksellers:  Conversations With the Antiquarian Book Trade by Sheila Markham  

Jul 2014:  Are Libraries Obsolete?  An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age by Mark Y. Herring



Aug 2013:  A Most Heavenly Review?



Jun 2013:  A Former Owner's Review of the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning



Mar 2013:  LIBRARY FOR SALE



Feb 2013:  On Finding New Owners For My Old Books



Feb 2013:  On Selecting a Bookplate For My Library



Jan 2013:  Jerry Morris:  the Never-Ending Story



Dec 2012:  MoiBlogomaniac?



Dec 2012:  Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac

THE EARLY EDITIONS OF THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE

Dec 2018: My Handlist of The Early Editions of The Elements of Style

THE DISPLACED BOOK COLLECTOR

Oct 2007:  The Displaced Book Collector Has Been Replaced!

Aug 2007:  Bookplate Literature

Jul 2007:  Moi the Bookplate Collector?

Jun 2007:  Once A Book Collector

Jun 2007:  My Library: A View From the Crib

Jun 2007:  Among the Leaves, Fruit

Jun 2007:  A Shelf In My Bookcase

May 2007:  To Displace: To Take The Place Of

IDLEWILD BLUE YONDER

Dec 2014:  On Flying Home for Christmas: An American Airlines Misadventure

Jan 2012:  The Night I Beat Up Johnny Polovoy

Aug 2011:  Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Nov 2009:  On Thanksgiving Day

Nov 2009:  ...But Not Forgotten

Sep 2007:  
Old Stoneface: Memories of New York  

Jul 2007:  Peeping Toms

Jul 2007:  Stage Fright (Or the Day I Almost Killed My Mother)

Jul 2007:  My Old House: It Is Still Standing

Jul 2007:

The Old Neighborhood 

CURSORY REMARKS ABOUT POLITICS

Jun 10, 2019  Mueller, My Fellow Americans, and Me: Finding Truth and Justice the American Way

May 6, 2019  The Constitutional Crisis Over the Mueller Report

Nov 14, 2018  The Fifth Risk

Oct 20, 2018  Sermon on the Mount of Trump

Oct 8, 2018:  Ford v Kavanaugh: Veritas Valebit

Sep 25, 2018:  Fear:  Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Sep 12, 2018:  House of Trump, House of Putin:  The Untold Story of  Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

Aug 8, 2018:  The Fair Dinkum Down Under News About Donald Trump

Jul 7, 2018  Honor the Fallen:  Kendall K. Frederick

Jul 5, 2018  Cursory Remarks About Congressional Oversight & Oversile

Feb 24, 2018  How Paul Fussell and Samuel Johnson Helped Me Write a Review of Michael Wolff's book, Fire and Fury

Dec 30, 2017  A List of Donald Trump's Accomplishments in 2017 That Have Helped the Middle Class

Nov 10, 2017  Revisiting the Interpretation of the Second Amendment

Oct 18, 2017   The Sad Truth About Your President   

Sep 30, 2017:  The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System

Aug 16, 2017  Charlottesville:  Two Sides to a Story

Aug 1, 2017  Some Not-So-Great News Clippings From Down Under

Jul 21, 2017  Lady Justice Smiling Down
Jul 17, 2017  Seeing Red, Feeling Blue, and Turning Purple

Mar 17, 2017  A Close Look at Our Old U.S. Refugee Admissions Program

Mar 10, 2017  The Unaffordable American Health Care Act 

Feb 16, 2017  Do You Really Think Flynn Discussed Sanctions with Russia on His Own?

Feb 6, 2016  It's Time We Stopped Calling Donald Trump a Christian

Feb 4, 2017  Trump's Actions are Despicable in any Language

Jan 30 2017  The Only Wall America Needs

Jan 21, 2017:  The Misogynist 

Jan 2017:  A Presidential Thank You

Jan 2017  How the Affordable Care Act Really Became Unaffordable  

Dec 2016  Cursory Remarks on the Current State of the Union 

Dec 2016  Hillary Clinton's Biggest Mistake 

Nov 10  Why Was Donald Trump So Popular? 

Nov 9th,  The Sound of Broken Glass 

Nov 2016  The Biggest Scandal Since Watergate 

Oct 2016  The Biggest October Surprise of All 

Oct 2016  Nothing New!  Vote Blue! 

Oct 2016  A Face-in-the-Crowd Moment, or Trump Opened Big Yap Once Too Often 

Oct 2016  Stronger Together v No Longer Together 

Oct 2016 Donald Trump:  Last Misogynist Standing

Oct 2016  Donald Trump

Oct 2016   If I Were a Republican...

Sep 2016    Zika And Our Stagnant Congress 

Sep 2016   Questions Raised About The Health And Stamina Of Our Presidential Candidates 

Sep 2016   America And Its Moral Compass 

Sep 2016  




How Citizens United Will Help Make America Great Again  

Aug 2016   Crooked Hillary, The Clinton Foundation, And the Most Corrupt Enterprise in Political History

Aug 2016:  BIG SMEAR Is Coming

Aug 2016:   13 Benghazis, Prejudice, and Logic

Aug 2016: All In?

Aug 2016:  What Donald Trump Says That He Doesn't Know

Aug 2016:  About Cursory Remarks