Earlier today I received an e-mail newsletter from the booksellers' listing service AbeBooks (owned by Amazon). The subject was association copies. As the newsletter explains: “When an author places ...

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Open up a book from the late 19th or early 20th century and chances are that you will find an inscription inside the front cover. Often, they are nothing more than handwritten names that state who ...

The Book Inscriptions Project collects and transcribes as many of the notes scrawled on the inside fiaps of gifted books as it can. The Book Inscriptions Project started in 2002 when I opened a book ...

If the Kindle and its competitors ultimately do vanquish the printed book, stories will keep going, but inscriptions, as we know them, will not. Inky, intimate, idiosyncratic a good inscription is the ...

During a trip to Israel earlier this month, I stopped in Stein’s secondhand bookshop on King George Street in Jerusalem. Stein’s occupies a very special place in Israel’s Central European heritage.

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