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Connecting Word and Image - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney This article is in two parts. The written portion is three pages. The second part is a video. Links to the video are provided here and at the end of the article. AE Youtube Video Fifty years of book collecting has brought me to this. I collect books as avidly as ever but these days collect subjects rather than books and do so with a precision and efficiency that was, until...

Connecting Word and Image

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney This article is in two parts. The written portion is three pages. The second part is a video. Links to the video are provided here and at the end of the article. AE Youtube Video Fifty years of book collecting has brought me to this. I collect books as avidly as ever but these days collect subjects rather than books and do so with a precision and efficiency that was, until...


Arrests Made in Theft of First Book Printed in the American West - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Thefts of rare and valuable books from institutional libraries almost seem to be becoming commonplace these days. Such a theft, and thankfully, concomitant...	Hunkering Down - By Renee Roberts by Renée Magriel Roberts With all of the craziness going on this week, I was thinking about doing a review of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great...
Paraclete Potter: A Wiki-Bibliography - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Recently I purchased, for $80, an impaired copy of "The Life of General George Washington, Late President of the United States of America,...	Cardiff Considers Selling 18,000 Books. Residents Debate: Smart Move or Desecration? - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman A battle over rare books is taking place today in the city of Cardiff, South Wales, UK, that is significant because it raises...
Fifteenth Annual Central Valley Antiquarian Book Fair - By Karen Wright By Karen Wright Our big Chevy Suburban was loaded down with twenty boxes of really cool books, eight collapsible bookshelves (whoever invented them deserves a big...	Washington-Pike-Mathematics-Science Archive to be Sold - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Nicholas Pike of Newbury-port has been dead a long time but for a few weeks this fall the 18th century New England mathematician...
In The News: Ebay Thief Sentenced, Two Exhibitions, Abe's Top 10 - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman A 74-year-old Great Falls, Montana, man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison last month for a massive eBay theft-and-sale scheme he...	Smart Phones: Database Access for Geezers - By Thomas McKinney By Tom McKinney Rare Books on the Go Mobile computing is changing the world. From online banking, to social...
Odd Bidding on eBay - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Recently I ran across a listing on eBay for a book that was achieving a price far beyond what it commands on listing...	Nude Mice, Lesbian Horses, and Other Odd Book Titles - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman England's The Bookseller has announced the winner of its contest for the oddest book title of the past 30 years. The Bookseller has...
November Comet Announced: Local History - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney We live in the era of "it's all about me" and the proof is in the explosive growth of genealogy on the web....	17 New Catalogues Reviewed Seventeen new booksellers catalogues are considered in this month's review section of AE Monthly. A magnificent new catalogue has just been published by Phillip J....
An Extraordinary Catalogue from Phillip J. Pirages By Michael Stillman While small catalogues are occasionally special, one thing we have found in years of reviewing them is that those over half an inch...	Six Hundred Children's Books from Aleph-Bet By Michael Stillman Aleph-Bet Books has issued their Catalogue 89 of Children's Books and Illustrated Books. That "and" in the title should be read quite literally,...
Strange and Fascinating American Pamphlets from Garrett Scott, Bookseller By Michael Stillman Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has issued Catalogue 20: American Pamphlets. Scott specializes in American pamphlets, and it can readily be argued that these...	Rare Maps from High Ridge Books By Michael Stillman This month we have a new catalogue for the map collector from High Ridge Books. Along with Catalogue 57, it carries the lengthy...
Early Americana from Helen R. Kahn By Michael Stillman Helen R. Kahn and Associates Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts has issued a new catalogue, number 74: America. Books and Maps. Seventeenth...	Egodocuments, Biographies, etc., on Maritime and Colonial Exploration from Bestebreurtje Rare Books By Michael Stillman We recently received the latest catalogue from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books of the Netherlands. It carries the title Egodocuments, biographies, monographs, journals,...
Fine Examples of the Book Arts from the Veatchs By Michael Stillman The Veatchs Arts of the Book has released Catalogue 60: Recent Acquisitions. While the title of the catalogue might not leave much...	Books Related to Japan and the Japanese from Kaaterskill Books By Michael Stillman Kaaterskill Books has issued their seventh catalogue: Asia Part II: Japan. This is a diverse collection covering many subjects, though all...
Film, Literature and More from Waverly Books By Michael Stillman Waverly Books has issued a new catalogue of books, this one being List 158. Waverly's catalogues do not have titles, so there are...	More Rare and Unusual Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their 106th catalogue of Rare Americana. It is, as usual, filled with interesting American works...
Antiquarian Legal Works from The Lawbook Exchange By Michael Stillman The Lawbook Exchange has printed its Catalogue 59 of Law and Legal History. Recent Acquisitions. It includes both antiquarian books and some recent...	25 Varied Items from John Michael Lang Fine Books By Michael Stillman John Michael Lang Fine Books has published their Recent Acquisition List 26. These lists are notable for being both short and varied. Lang...
Fine Press and Poetry from Alexander Rare Books By Michael Stillman Alexander Rare Books has issued a new catalogue for the fall, aptly named Fall Catalog - Fine Press and Poetry. That title, brief...	Miscellaneous Works from J & J Hanrahan By Michael Stillman From J & J Hanrahan of Down East Maine we have received their List 61 Miscellany 2008. The Hanrahans describe themselves as "generalists,"...
Unique Items of Pablo Neruda from Libreria de Antano By Michael Stillman Libreria de Antano has published a catalogue of unique and special items pertaining to the Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Neruda has frequently...	Books About Books and Some Interesting Tales from Oak Knoll By Michael Stillman From Oak Knoll Books we have received their latest undertaking in the field of "Books about Books." Catalogue 288 includes over 450 items...
The Antiquaariat Forum at the Madrid ILAB Fair By Michael Stillman The Antiquariaat Forum has published a new Short Title List with recent acquisitions and a selection from our stock. This list was prepared...	.