Sponsored by The Caxton Club May Midday Program You probably misheard it over the radio. Barbra Streisand wasn’t singing about “Secondhand Rose” … she was belting out “Secondhand Prose.” Just think about some of the most precious volumes in your collection. The ones that you didn’t purchase fresh off the […]
History of Bookselling
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By Marcia McBrien How and where readers buy books – and how they bought reading material in the past – is a question “just as serious as it is fun,” said Paul J. Erickson, director of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Speaking to the Book Club of […]