Mostly Essays About My Books and Their Authors

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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