Stock & Trade

08/28/2025

https://www.portlandmercury.com/books/2025/07/23/47938520/bookshop-mother-foucaults-crowdfunds-to-buy-its-building

Its shelves are filled, the stage is built, and now Mother Foucault's wants to buy. The vintage bookshop announced Tuesday that it's seizing a chance to purchase the building it currently occupies, at 715 SE Grand. That opportunity expires on September 21, if it can't raise $300,000 for a downpaymen...

11/30/2024

https://www.wweek.com/arts/books/2024/11/26/mother-foucaults-bookshop-needs-your-help-moving/

As a young bibliophile living in a small town in Southwest Washington, I would daydream about browsing in my ideal bookshop, and the image in my head looked a lot like Mother Foucault’s Bookshop.At the eastside shop a stone’s throw from the Morrison Bridge, every inch of shelf space is packed an...

01/16/2024

10/30/2023

A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have exi...

10/20/2023

10/20/2023

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2023/09/the-stolen-treasures-of-james-strand-steve-duin-column.html

Thieves ransack the Lents home of a devout collector of rare books and comics.

07/10/2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66121572

The Rolling Stones drummer had a broad collection of first editions, including The Great Gatsby.

03/19/2023

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/3/17/mutannabi-street-slowly-re-emerges-20-years-on-from-iraq-war

The booksellers of Baghdad’s Mutanabbi Street have faced invasion and bombings, two decades on from the war in Iraq.

10/12/2022

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-couple-find-refuge-war-their-istanbul-bookstore-2022-10-11/

The conversation flowed from Turkish to Russian as Oleg and Aleksandra Chernousov chatted to guests at the launch of their bookstore in Istanbul, the start of a new life in a new city they once thought would just be a temporary home.

06/18/2022

Clio, the Muse of History (1800),
painted by Charles Meynier (French, 1768-1832).

04/16/2022

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57683638

A jewel-encrusted book sank on RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 - but this was not the end of the story.