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AE's Top 500 Book Auction Prices for 2010 - By Michael Stillman Another year has come to a close, which means it is once again time for the Americana Exchange's annual review of the highest prices paid at auction for books, manuscripts, and related ephemera. While the market as a whole for books may remain somewhat soft, there is a healthy market at the top, particularly the very top. This past year, eight items exceeded the million-dollar barrier, twice the number as 2009, and the top one...

AE's Top 500 Book Auction Prices for 2010

- By Michael Stillman

Another year has come to a close, which means it is once again time for the Americana Exchange's annual review of the highest prices paid at auction for books, manuscripts, and related ephemera. While the market as a whole for books may remain somewhat soft, there is a healthy market at the top, particularly the very top. This past year, eight items exceeded the million-dollar barrier, twice the number as 2009, and the top one...


A Sale that Confirms - By Bruce McKinney On December 2nd Bonhams in New York and via simulcast in San Francisco, conducted the sale of "The American Experience 1630 - 1890". As the...	The AED at 3,100,147 - By Bruce McKinney The New AE is here and it will take some time to understand how this site is different from the version developed by Weicheng Chu...
AE Searches: New & Improved (but where are they?) - By Michael Stillman The Americana Exchange has undergone some major changes in the past few days, but none is more important than the way the site presents its...	A Walkthrough of the New Matchmaker - By Thomas McKinney In moving to our new site, we are pleased to announce that we are now offering a version of Matchmaker for every Americana Exchange member,...
007 Values Still Growing - Bond for Booksellers & Collectors - By Susan Halas You would think after nearly 60 years the public would have tired of Bond …."James Bond"……. the suave secret agent created by Ian Fleming. It...	Settlement Reached in Rothschild Suit vs. Auction House - By Michael Stillman According to a press release issued by his attorneys, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild has reached a settlement in his suit against Dominic Winter Book Auctions....
In The News: A Terrible Crime, a Book Thief's Book, and Carl Crawford's Bookstore. - By Michael Stillman A terrible story came out of Salt Lake City a few weeks ago of the street dangers rarely experienced in the book trade. Respected bookseller...	A Death Once Thought Murder - By Bruce McKinney In November 1800 in Dutchess County in the town of Hyde Park, Catherine Berringer died a suspicious death and her fiancé, John Benner was soon...
Google Ngrams: What Words are Most Often Found in Books? - By Michael Stillman Leave it to the folks at Google to come up with another amazing new tool for us to use. I'm not yet sure of the...	John Bale Purchases Zobel's Better Books: Some Books are Sold, the Story Continues - By Bruce McKinney Dan Gaeta of John Bale Book Company of Waterbury, Connecticut has purchased the remaining higher value inventory of Miriam Zobel of Clintondale, New York for...
Google Opens eBook Store; Alibris an Early Partner - By Michael Stillman Internet search giant Google recently announced the opening of their highly anticipated electronic-book store. Formed in the 1990s to offer internet searching, Google has grown...	Doyle's Catches a Prize - By Bruce McKinney Peter Constanzo, a member of the book department at Bloomsbury New York for three years, the past two as co-auctioneer with Stephen C. Massey, has...
Ten New Catalogues Reviewed - By Michael Stillman This month we review 10 new booksellers' catalogues in section two. There are travels and voyages from Maggs Bros., Pacific voyages from the William Reese...	Travels and Voyages from Maggs Bros. - By Michael Stillman Maggs Bros. Ltd. of London has issued the latest in their long-running series of catalogues, number 1444, entitled Travels & Voyages. These are accounts mostly...
A Variety of Material from Peter Harrington - By Michael Stillman We have received Catalogue 74 from Peter Harrington, a collection divided into three sections. There are 12 featured items, followed by the main catalogue, and...	From the Left (Occasionally Right) from Lorne Bair Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Lorne Bair Rare Books has released Catalogue Ten, a collection that will warm the hearts of those well to the political left, a few to...
Important Signed Documents from The Raab Collection - By Michael Stillman The Raab Collection has issued Catalog 66, a collection of signed documents from important personalities, mostly American. They include leaders from politics, the military, arts,...	Pacific Voyages from the William Reese Company - By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has released a catalogue of Pacific Voyages, their 279th catalogue over the past three-plus decades. The Pacific Voyages tended to be...
James Cummins Bookseller Offers a Miscellany - By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller has issued Catalogue 107 Fall Miscellany. We are a bit late for fall, but bookseller catalogues are generally intended to last for...	Great Antique Maps from Martayan Lan - By Michael Stillman Martayan Lan has published their Catalogue 44 of Fine Antique Maps & Atlases. Don't use these maps for directions. You will surely get lost. These...
Classical Antiquity L-Z from Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta - By Michael Stillman Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta has issued their Catalogue 103 Classical Antiquity (L-Z). In November, we reviewed the first half of this collection, letters A-K. There is...	A Miscellany from Michael Thompson Books - By Michael Stillman Michael Thompson Books' latest catalogue comes with the title Autumn Miscellany Consisting of 100 Books, Mostly Recent Acquisitions, or List 96. We don't mean to...
More Nautical Works from the Columbia Trading Co. - By Michael Stillman The Columbia Trading Co. issued a catalogue for this recent holiday season, which is still filled with good books even if we are now settling...	.