News Archive
09/13/2016
Collecting Roald Dahl
We look at some scarce and rare items by Roald Dahl currently offered by ABAA members...
09/01/2016
Colette
Remembering Colette, the original "badass literary woman," according to Margueritte Peterson.
08/30/2016
Remembering Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was a prolific poet blessed with a long career. Where does one start when collecting Heaney?
08/29/2016
2016 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Winners Announced
by Susan Benne
I’m thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest:
08/03/2016
Reading & Collecting Geoffrey Hill
A reader & a book dealer discuss the works of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016), the great English poet.
07/25/2016
Has Blogging Killed Travel Writing?
Humans have not lost the yen to travel and experience, so why has travel writing fallen a bit away from its original intent?
07/19/2016
Frank O’Hara in 1966
One of America’s finest postwar poets, Frank O’Hara died in the summer of 1966. Kris Collins of Caliban Book Shop describes why he’s still so universally cherished.
07/18/2016
William Dailey on Collecting Vegetarian Literature
The Lilly Library's summer exhibition. “Eat Your Vegetables! Five Centuries of Vegetarianism and the Printed Word,” draws heavily on the collection of vegetarian literature formed by ABAA-member William Dailey, whose talk will open the exhibition.
