Periodic ruminations on books and the book world.
Periodic ruminations on books and the book world.
The Army and Navy Club (ANC) Library, founded in 1891, is one of the oldest private libraries in Washington, DC. The private Army and Navy Club is on Farragut Square, just blocks from the White House. Like most social clubs, the ANC has overnight rooms, dining facilities, bars and meeting spaces. The ANC library is staffed by a full-time librarian ...
The Rhode Island, and indeed the national, bibliophilic community has sadly recently lost two highly regarded collectors: Nicholas B. Scheetz and John J. (Jerry) Slocum, Jr. Both were residents of Newport with extensive book collections. Both had been board directors of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum and members of its Library Committee. Bot ...
August 2017 The Nine Cities of Newport Theopholus North – Thornton Wilder Wilder is probably best known for a play – Our Town. Theopholus North was his last novel in 1973. It was made into a movie in the 1980s. Wilder spent a lot of time in Newport researching, especially at the Redwood Library. The book was a Pulitzer Prize winner written in ...
July 2017 Book collecting represents expanding your knowledge, a challenge, capturing beauty, and more. For the true book collector, this addiction begins slowly and eventually builds to a crescendo. Book collecting can focus on an author, a subject, a specific book binder, printer or publisher. The true collector builds the collection over years f ...