American Book Collecting
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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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Organic Bookselling
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Eddy Nix and Kurt Zimmerman loading up Z book cruiser I’m seated in an outhouse thinking fondly of antiquarian booksellers. The outhouse...
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Friday, June 30, 2023
Booking in the Big Easy
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Kurt Zimmerman and Russell Desmond Memorable. The Big Easy is. I am in the middle of Bourbon Street at night, leaning over, elbows on kn...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Condition Isn't Everything
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A Rough and Ready Copy of Burton's THE BOOK-HUNTER (1863) Books are tough. Raging fire or lengthy submersion in water can do them i...
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Sunday, April 16, 2023
Good Books at the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
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“Are you sure you want a beer guy to order the wine?” said friend and bookseller Jay Rohfritch, as I scanned the vast and mostly incompreh...
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Monday, February 27, 2023
Encounters with Bookmen E. L. “Shorty” Shettles and J. Frank Dobie
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J. Frank Dobie I was a book greenhorn when I first encountered Elijah L. Shettles (1852-1940) and J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964), two legendary ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2023
Susan Halas Interview with Kurt Zimmerman: Dorothy Sloan and More
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Susan Halas, book dealer and writer, contacted me to do an interview for Rare Book Monthly, the online newsletter found on rarebookhub.com....
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