Forget the Dewey Decimal System: Entrepreneur and inventor Jay Walker’s 25,000 books, manuscripts, artifacts and objects are organized in his personal 3,600-square-foot library “randomly, by color and ...

I wonder whether I am afflicted with something more than a “gentle madness,” as Nicholas A. Basbanes described it in his 1999 book on the history of book collecting. You see, I spend more on books ...

The first step to creating a quintessential Assouline library is, of course, getting in touch with the Assouline publishing house. Founded in 1994 by Martine and Prosper Assouline, the publishing ...

Buying a best-selling thriller for an escapist read is one thing. Assembling an array of books for a library that is tailor-made to one’s own specific interests is something else altogether. Several ...