The Atlantic

The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Collecting

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1939, Ernest Hemingway left a large collection of his belongings—the manuscript of his earliest short story, childhood trinkets, memorabilia from his time at ...
The Atlantic

This Book-Collecting Game

IF we may draw an inference from the close of his new and fourth book, this is Mr. Newton’s Swan Song to the collectorate. Perhaps this is just as well: I do not say so because the stream has run out, ...
University of Delaware

Behind the book collections

Behind every collection is a story. How did the collector begin amassing the items? When did they begin collecting? Why do they collect those particular items? While every collection is unique, one ...
University of Delaware

The brains behind the collection

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles highlighting the winners of the second annual Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest, hosted by the Friends of the University of Delaware ...
The New York Times

Meet the New Old Book Collectors

A growing cohort of young enthusiasts is helping to shape the future of an antique trade. Kendall Spencer, an apprentice at DeWolfe & Wood Rare Books, at the New York International Antiquarian Book ...
Colorado Public Radio

This 26-year-old has a thing for 13th century manuscripts — and a prize to prove it

Rose McCandless isn’t on TikTok much. The 26-year-old’s nose is more likely to be in a book about medieval handwriting. The Paleography of Gothic Manuscript Books: from the Twelfth to the Early ...