As with the first album of Tom Bloom catalog cover art, you may prefer to view this artwork on our page on Facebook, where it was originally posted and where more will be posted regularly. Continuing where the first group left off, the next ten covers starts off with one of my favorite Bloomian puns:

Between the Covers
Catalog 21 ~ Cover by Tom Bloom
"It's Snow Library, But It Is an Ice Collection"
From the contents page: "Once again we have failed to prevent Mr. Tom Bloom from drawing on the cover of this catalogue."
This was the first...

Some time in the late 1980s book collector and professional cartoonist Tom Bloom and BTC's Tom Congalton met and decided to try a swap - art for books. The collaboration has lasted ever since, and Tom Bloom has now illustrated well over 100 covers for us, as well as numerous lists, spot illustrations, and the artwork for this website. This is the first of several albums of Tom's art that we'll be posting. You may prefer to view this artwork on our page on Facebook (and more here as well), where it was originally posted and where more will be...

In early 2008 we moved our offices from Merchantville, NJ, to an old school building in Gloucester City.

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Our present offices served as an elementary school from the 1920s to the mid 1990s.

Tom's office

Our custom-built rolling ladder, designed to keep a distance between Tom and the books

To the left, our poetry alcoves, to the right, portions of a recently acquired collection.

A small fraction of the over 200,000 books in our inventory.

Each classroom holds approximately 40,000 books.

The Walt Whitman Bridge (linking New Jersey to Philadelphia, PA)...