Open now! Please join us at our booth at the Getman’s Virtual Bibliophilic Holiday Book Fair. See link in comments. #getmansvirtual #bookfairs #holidayfairs 📚 🎄

“I prefer bread and water with books to the best of eating without them.” From the prison journal of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas. #texas #qotd #bookquotes #stephenfaustin

Save the date! Come join us at the Getman's Virtual Bibliophilic Holiday Gift Fair. Starts next Thursday, Dec. 4 - 6th! Books, Ephemera, Photographs, Prints, and Much, Much More. Link to come. #getmansvirtual, #bookfairs #holidayfairs

Please Visit Our Booth at Getman’s Virtual Boston Satellite Book Fair! Open Now! Thursday, Oct. 23rd 12PM -Saturday, Oct. 25th 6PM (EST) Link in comments. #getmanvirtual #bookfair

Ellen H. Clapsaddle, artist, 1909. #Halloween #ellenclapsaddlehalloween #ellenclapsaddlepostcard

Happy Birthday Angela Lansbury! Born on this day in 1925 and pictured here in her ideal board game form. 🎂 🎉 #angelalansbury #murdershewrote #botd

Happy Birthday to British Mystery Author Graham Greene! Born on this day in 1904! 🎂🎉📚 #GrahamGreene #botd

Happy Birthday to British Mystery Author Graham Greene! Born on this day in 1904! 🎂🎉📚 #GrahamGreene #botd

Please Visit Our Booth at Getman’s Virtual Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair! Open Now! Thursday, Sept 25th 12PM - Saturday, Sept. 27th 6PM (EST) Link in comments. #getmansvirtual

Join us this weekend for the 2025 Fort Worth Antiquarian Book Fair! Sat., 9/13 & Sun. 9/14. At the historic Ft. Worth Masonic Temple on Henderson Ave. Link in comments. #fortworthbookfair

❤️ Great piece on the Larry McMurtry Literary Center in Archer City this morning on NPR. Definitely worth a trip if you haven't visited yet. #larrymcmurtry #archercity #lmlc

Happy birthday to Sci-Fi and Horror pioneer Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797. Pictured here in a posthumous portrait after a design by Reginald Easton. #maryshelley #frankensteinday

Behind the Scenes at the Rare Book Factory. #rarebooks #bts #booksellerlife

Harper & Brothers imprint, 1928

Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls,” except it’s “Books, Books, Books” and calls out all the best bookstores across the country.

Happy Birthday to Mancunian essayist Thomas De Quincey, born on this day in 1785! 🎂 🎉 📚#thomasdequincey #manchester #confessionsofanenglishopiumeater

Fifty years ago today, J.B. Lippincott published Edward Abbey’s ninth book, a novel that would inspire the radical environmental group Earth First! and introduce the verb “monkeywrench” as a synonym for “sabotage.” (Wish this first edition were mine, but it belongs to @inkqrare.bsky.social) #BookSky

Happy Birthday to American Author and Screenwriter William Goldman! Born on this day in 1931 🎂 🎉 📚 🎥 #WilliamGoldman #princessbride #butchcassidy #marathonman

Happy Birthday to Weird Fiction Pioneer Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett). Born in London on this day in 1878. 🎂 🎉 ✍️ 📚 #lorddunsany #botd

Happy birthday to American food writer and memoirist M.F.K. Fisher. Born on this day in 1908. 🎂 🎉 📚 🍲#mfkfisher

Last day! Come join us. Open til 3:00pm!

Please make plans now to visit our booth at The 2025 Dallas Antiquarian Book Fair. This Friday through Sunday. June 20th - 22nd. At the Half Price Books Warehouse in Carrollton, Tx!

Happy 90th birthday to the late Texas author Larry McMurtry! Born on this day in 1936 🎉 🎂 #larrymcmurtry #botd #archercity #lonesomedove

If you collect books you probably need bookends. Pricing a new (to us) vintage batch today. #bookends #bookcollecting

Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst... #BookstoreDay

“…computers are abbreviation made manifest. They take a lot of the work out of work, which may be fine in some professions or occupations, but for a novelist to try to take the work out of work is profoundly self-defeating: keeping the work in work is all-important.” - Larry McMurtry #worldbookday

Goldberry at Home's Elizabeth Mebane on Publisher’s Bindings, Benito Mussolini, and Charlotte Mason Booklists www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Doubleday “Crime Club” symbol guide, 1957.

Larry McMurtry Literary Center to offer rare books at public preview www.keranews.org/art...

DAY TRIPS: Updates on McMurtry Literary Center and Gulf turtles.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce wartime publisher’s imprint, 1944

Please Visit Our Booth at the Getman's Greenwich Village Virtual Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair. Open Now! Thursday, February 20th 12PM - Saturday, February 22nd 6PM (EST) Link in comments. #getmansvirtual #bookfair

Upcoming Book Fairs: Getman's Greenwich Village Virtual Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair Thursday Feb. 20th 12PM - Saturday Feb. 22nd 6PM (EST) getmansvirtual.com Houston Book Fair Saturday Feb. 22 & Sunday Feb. 23 Florida Antiquarian Book Fair Saturday March 1, 2025 - Sunday March 2, 2025

“I have compared my music to black licorice,” singer-songwriter Curtis McMurtry says. “Most people are not going to be into it, but some people are going to like it a whole lot.” www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals

Please join us in our booth at the Getman’s Rare Book and PaperPalooza virtual book fair. Open now through Saturday, January 18th. Link in comments. #getmanvirtual #bookfairs

Save the date! Thursday - Saturday, Jan. 16th - 18th #virtualbookfairs #getmansvirtual #paperpalooza #bookfairs

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