Adamstown Books

06/06/2026

https://mflibra.com/blogs/quotes/preserving-the-past-how-to-properly-care-for-and-maintain-antique-books

As collectors and aficionados of antique books, one of our greatest responsibilities is ensuring the preservation of these precious artifacts. At MFLIBRA Antique Books, we believe that every book tells a story not only through its text but also through its physical presence. Proper care and maintena...

06/05/2026

York History kicked off a very busy June for local book sales. Picked up a nice York County Fraktur book (signed), as well as a few titles from a Frank Lloyd Wright collection someone donated.

06/05/2026

https://mflibra.com/blogs/quotes/the-lady-of-the-lake-walter-scott-and-the-romance-of-the-scottish-highlands

Few literary works capture the spirit of the Scottish Highlands with as much atmosphere and poetic grandeur as The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott. First published in 1810, this narrative poem became an immediate sensation, helping to shape the world’s romantic vision of Scotland for generations ...

06/04/2026

06/04/2026

https://lithub.com/the-side-that-won-the-civil-war-is-now-banning-books-about-why-the-civil-war-was-fought/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSNobtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEel-HY2_HJkFEAXifDiil4NCHK5c9LSmnnk1NFGcosMhQqCGtLutFFpMBxEck_aem_7LbmEdv33Kt2Vr4MofbpTg

In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abolitionist newspape…

06/03/2026

Before they merged, The Pennsylvania German Society and The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society each released annual volumes (sometimes on a single subject). I have gained some familiarity with these, but this is one I never came across before, on Pennsylvania German Barns, published by the latter in 1956. Listing here : https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Pennsylvania-German-Barns-Charles-Dornbusch-John/32457221294/bd

06/02/2026

https://crimereads.com/top-10-classic-detective-novels-according-to-jeffrey-archer/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSLhY5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeUp5pSBkLg4ZuUfhhfg9rTXbbwlBwVJYZ5AQdZ2Z5f4fuK3KSGWeKbRBWowk_aem_FnwL9ljJZAVH-4bn7J3aNA

Agatha Christie has her own list on this website. This is the list of everyone else. The detective story is thought to have been invented by Conan Doyle. And ironically, not only did he invent it, …

06/01/2026

https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-carson-mccullerss-the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter-is-published/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSKzi1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeequYR9LNeXEH1YSuOzFlfzmYUV5JXy32eQLayz_piCAMvNQ2ci-EFagp6Js_aem_SZ9LPNhrIb3PQ8P4-cL0hA

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On June 4, 1940, the day her debut novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published, 23-year-old Carson McCullers was alon…