Pretty Sinister Books

Pandemic boredom led me to amassing about three boxes of books (most of them still not read) and I noticed in reorganizing them and catalogi...

Another unusual handmade bookplate.  Can't remember the name of the book I found it in.  It's hand drawn in ink.  I see initials in ...

I don't have many author signed books as I tend to sell them as quickly as I acquire them, but this one I will be keeping for a very l...

First, a little serendipitous trivia. This article -- my 300th post! -- is a review of not only a little known detective novel by an obscu...

Two custom bookplates I found in two books I was preparing to sell. Found inside a copy of Vanishing Point by Patricia Wentworth. The ...

Here's a collection of custom bookplates. The only person I was successful in discovering anything about was the man at left. Mr. Ry...

I bought a book at the Printer's Book Fair earlier this year solely for the book plate firmly glued to the front endpaper.  It announces...

A variety of bookplates today.  The one with Tim Waters' name came from a Sax Rohmer book I got in a large lot of Rohmer books at a Miss...

Here's a small bookplate that fell out of a book.  Don't remember which one.  Surprise. Carson Pirie Scott once was the second m...

Here's another unusual bookplate that was lightly glued inside one of my books.  I removed it and placed it in my ephemera collection se...

One of the interesting sideline hobbies that arose from my obsessive and never ending book collecting is my interest in bookplates.  I start...