Kenneth Gloss, a rare book specialist and appraiser who runs the Brattle Book Shop in Boston and appears on national TV shows (including Antiques Roadshow), will speak on “improbable finds” of his decades-long...
Read Morewith author Oliver Darkshire in conversation with Mechanics’ Institute Events Assistant Pam Troy The histories and mysteries of one of the worlds oldest bookstores, in London, are revealed by author, bibliophile and rare...
Read MoreBook trade historian Charles Nelson Johnson provides a fresh look at lesser-known Southern California antiquarian bookseller Alice Parsons Millard (1873-1938)—a role she inherited as much as chose—and her activities as she...
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