The End of Life, the Civil War, History, and the Book…
When I was a very young kid, my parents had a subscription to Life magazine. It would come in the snail mail once a week... Read More
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Forever Young
All good fairy tales begin with "Once upon a time..." Once upon a time, I was a very young bookseller. I busied myself about my fledgling shop... Read More
My Mom Used to Say the Difference Between a Collector and a Hoarder Was…
This started with a phone message taped to my door some years ago. It read something like this: "I'm handling my mother's estate... Read More
The Last Voyage of the Bonnie Vee
Requests for house calls come by phone or email. We get a LOT of requests. The email for Bonnie Vee's books came from a law office in Frederick... Read More
Ghost Story
This happened in January 2015, an Ohio colleague, Owen Kubik, who specializes in rare Catholic books and ephemera, referred me to the estate of two priests... Read More
Author Column: Fortunate Reads
I am very fortunate to have Wonder Book in my home town. It's the sort of place book lovers dream of—a browsing, cruising place where I can find books I've been looking for and, even more exciting, books I didn't know I wanted until I... Read More