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Books in Hard Times

A talk given by William Reese at a symposium at The Grolier Club in New York City on Sept. 22, 2009, entitled Books in Hard Times.  The day-long conference featured panels drawn from the rare book trade, the library world, and collectors.

The Frank Streeter Collection

An essay by William S. Reese first published in the 2003 - 2008 Note Book of the Walpole Society.

Henry Stevens and John Carter Brown


Henry Stevens and John Carter Brown:  A Tangled Tale of Early Americana Collecting

An essay by William S. Reese first published in the 2003
Note Book of the Walpole Society.

A Letter From America

A Letter from America.  A file of William Reese's column for the Rare Book Review.


A Talk at the Library of Congress

A Talk at the Library of Congress. By William S. Reese. Spring 2001.

The Rare Book Market Today

The Rare Book Market Today.    A Paper read at Brown and Yale Universities and televised on CSpan. By William S. Reese.

Stamped With a National Character

Introduction to Stamped With a National Character  An Exhibition at the Grolier Club. By William S. Reese.

New Sources in Western History

Searching for New Sources in Western History.  By William S. Reese.

The First Hundred Years

The First Hundred Years of Printing in British North America:  Printers and Collectors.

A Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the American Antiquarian Society 18 October 1989. By William S. Reese.

The Printers' First Fruits

The Printers' First Fruits.  An Exhibition of American Imprints, 1640-1742, from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society. Organized, with Introduction and Commentary, by William S. Reese.

Fighting Over the Scraps

Fighting Over the Scraps.

A Talk Delivered at the Harvard Conference on Rare Book and Manuscript Libraries in the 21st Century, 1992. By William S. Reese.


Pforzheimer Lecture

The 1993 Pforzheimer Lecture.  Delivered at The New York Public Library. By William S. Reese.

Collecting Herman Melville

Collecting Herman Melville.  By William S. Reese.  From The Gazette of the Grolier Club, 1993.

Brand Books

Brand Books in the Princeton Collections of Western Americana.    By William S. Reese.