On the Los Angeles Public Library images site I found photos of Dawson's Book Shop, which was at 627 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los...

"Want a good book?" Army Librarian section books for soldiers. Left to Right: Sgt. Seymore Grobzob, Virginia Hallowell, Elizabet...

  I found couple nice photos of GIs reading in the National Archives collection. It looks like the guy above is reading a Pocket Book pape...

I just started reading Hothouse by Boris Kachka . It’s a history of the publisher House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. I read this bit on pag...

In researching books in Britain during World War II, the two photographs below kept turning up. They appear on numerous bookish blogs, but n...

Librairie de France, March 3, 1939. From NYPL . On the New York Public Library website I found these 1939 photos of a small press and bo...

Bookmobile, Minneapolis Public Library. This photo is not dated, but judging by the women's clothing I'd say it was the 1940s. Fro...