Friday, November 21, 2025

A Rare Book Saga

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  Unbridled elation and bitter disappointment pretty much sum up the extremes of a book collector’s psyche. An instance of either is well-re...
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Thursday, July 24, 2025

“The point is, both live in books and bibliography. Take heed!”

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  Edward Eberstadt . TYPED LETTER SIGNED TO THOMAS STREETER. April 23, 1936. Letterhead of Edward Eberstadt, 55 West 42 nd Street, New York...
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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Notable Bookseller Catalogue: The Rosenbach Company. THE SEA (1938)

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  Harrison Horblit's Annotated Copy The Rosenbach Company. THE SEA: BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS ON THE ART OF NAVIGATION, GEOGRAPHY, NAVAL HIS...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Mark Twain in the Hill Country

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It took me twenty-one years, three months, and eleven days to realize my wife Nicole doesn’t talk as much as I thought. This revelation occu...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Letting Go

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John Payne and Kurt Zimmerman in Payne's Library My mission has me breaking a sweat in a storage unit near Houston, Texas with air-condi...
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Friday, May 17, 2024

How to Buy More Books Than You Can Afford – Creative Financing Explored

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  I recently had a conversation with a well-known book dealer who’d just sold a Kelmscott Chaucer to a collector.   This put us both in a ra...
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Thursday, February 15, 2024

The Sporting Side of Book Collecting

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The sporting side of book collecting is like any other sport.  Hot streaks, great plays, an amazing moment, all unpredictable, all driving a...
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