Friday, December 20, 2019

Miss Stillwell and F. Richmond: The Recording of Incunabula in America

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Margaret Stillwell Frederick R. Goff The recent ABAA Boston Book Show at the Hynes Convention Center presented an array of del...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

"The Greatest Collector of Books the World has Ever Known"

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Henry E. Huntington Stupendously miraculous things can happen to a book collector without warning. On an unseasonably hot October da...
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Monday, July 29, 2019

Serendipity to Booked Up: An Associative Mailing Label

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For the past seven years the heavy box has held miscellaneous issues of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America .   The m...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Stoic if Not Muscular: A New Path in Bookseller Descriptions

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Often it is best to finish one’s cataloging before  beginning Happy Hour.   A bookseller friend brought these descriptions to my atte...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

We Are Many

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I’ve been collecting Latin American Literature for thirty years and I like to keep an eye on the market.   An ABE online want notifies me ...
Monday, July 15, 2019

With Neither Rhyme Nor Reason?

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Recently arrived is Colton Storm's With Neither Rhyme Nor Reason?   (Bloomington, IL: Scarlet Ibis Press, 1974).  The essay was or...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

A Book Hunter's Bibliocatechism: Part Two

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The general inspiration for this “bibliocatechism” came from John T. Winterich’s Collector’s Choice (1926), a gathering of essays off...
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