The Dusty Bookcase

Quebec in Revolt Herman Buller Toronto: Swan, 1966 352 pages The cover has all the look of a 1960s polemic, but  Quebec in Revolt is in fact...

A sixty-page booklet published by  William Southam , father of the Southam newspaper empire, Regimental Songs was distributed to members of...

Who Wins?; or, The Secret of Monksworth Waste May Agnes Fleming New York: New York Book Company, 1910 180 pages A woman trudges by night, ba...

I can't be alone in finding this cover disturbing. Just what is going on? Is this woman terrified or has she lost her mind? Is she...

Having praised Quebec City and its  plaques bleu on Wednesday , I now condemn. And with good reason.  As one may divine, the above – 755, ru...

In the early days of the Dusty Bookcase – more than twelve years ago!  –   I heaped praise  upon London's blue plaques, singling out fav...

The Shadow Arthur Stringer New York: Century, 1913 302 pages Time was when Jim Blake could pass unnoticed through the seedier side of New Yo...