One of the highlights of our Louder Than Words catalogue, The Girl Graduate’s Scrapbook, charts the life and career of Adah Margaret Ewing, from her time as clerical assistant to her father to Head of the Retail Book Department of J. K. Gill & Co., which by the early 1920s was the largest book distributor in the region and one of the most important bookstores in the US. The scrapbook is crammed with typed and autograph letters signed, shop correspondence, memoranda and greetings cards, flyers, manuscript notes, badges, photographs, etc. With it is Ewing’s reading journal, a small black leather-bound address book in which she has recorded all the books she read from 1906 to 1955. Notable authors include Frances Hodgson Burnett, Margaret Sidney, Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Ida Tarbell, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, and Jack London.
300 Years of Immanuel Kant: A Collector’s Guide
The Enlightenment produced many great thinkers, but Immanuel Kant stands out as one of the most influential philosophers in history. As celebrations take place around the world to mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, it’s an ideal time to reflect on his legacy in...
