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Articles - October 2012 Issue


Steve Maden: An American Original - By Bruce McKinney It’s the 21st of September and Steven Maden of Kingston, New York has loaded 50 of what he expects will be a 70 lot sale on eBay that kicks off at 03:01 am EST on October 1st and ends on the 9th. Steve is a blue-collar dealer-auctioneer who relentlessly scours flea markets, antique shops, and house dispersals for material to post to the never-ending eBay auctions he runs under the name bestbidforu. “It’s a life,...

Steve Maden: An American Original

- By Bruce McKinney

It’s the 21st of September and Steven Maden of Kingston, New York has loaded 50 of what he expects will be a 70 lot sale on eBay that kicks off at 03:01 am EST on October 1st and ends on the 9th. Steve is a blue-collar dealer-auctioneer who relentlessly scours flea markets, antique shops, and house dispersals for material to post to the never-ending eBay auctions he runs under the name bestbidforu. “It’s a life,...


Sex and Rage: BookFinder Issues Its Annual Report of the 100 Most Sought After Old Books - By Michael Stillman BookFinder.com has issued its annual report of the 100 most sought after old books on their website. This is one of my favorites as it's...	Stephen J. Gertz: Booktryst – Blog Extraordinaire - By Susan Halas What kind of a person would start a book blog, write it daily for over two years, build it to the point where it had...
Selling History - Moving on Down the Highway - By Bruce McKinney Jim Croce said or perhaps I should say sang “Movin’ me down the highway” in 1973 and we have been hearing it ever since on...	George S. MacManus: a source of inspiration - By Bruce McKinney Several months ago we approached Clarence Wolf of George S. MacManus Company in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania for permission to include the company’s catalogues in the...
E-Books: A Tentative Settlement, a Challenge, and Some Lower Prices - By Michael Stillman The battle over e-book pricing that has ensnared Amazon, Apple, five book publishers, and the U.S. Department of Justice, took some more strange turns over...	Robert Scott, M.D. - a chance encounter - By Bruce McKinney A book on eBay recently caught my attention, a Poughkeepsie imprint and an early one – A Regular Series of Chronology from the Creation of...
Overdue Book Returned 78 Years Late - By Michael Stillman A few weeks back, the Chicago Public Library announced an amnesty on fines for overdue library books. Running from late August through early September, this...	Crime, Punishment and eBay: Books are still the Target of Thefts - By Michael Stillman A Cape Cod man has been indicted on multiple counts of stealing books from libraries, books that eventually made their way to eBay. This case...
An Almost Perfect Crime: Rochefort vs. Du Tertre - By Thibault Ehrengardt Some old books are mysterious. Trying to unfold their stories is like solving a cold case, sometimes. In the case of Mr. de Rochefort, I’ve...	This is Crazy: Mary Todd Lincoln to be Retried for Insanity - By Michael Stillman Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, did not have an easy life. It is also fair to say she was not always the...
Auctions in October - By Bruce McKinney This month 86 events are posted on the auction calendar. The previous high for October was 57, reached both in 2011 and in 2007, the...	Exhibition and Talk on Comic Illustrator Joseph Hémard at Yale Law - By Michael Stillman There is an exhibition entitled The Comic Art of Joseph Hémard running at the Yale Law Library through December 15, with a talk on Hémard's...
12 New Catalogues Reviewed This Month - By Michael Stillman For October, we have 12 new catalogues to review. The first catalogue issued by Extant Americana of New York features rare, often unique items relating...	Rare and Unexpected Items from Extant Americana - By Michael Stillman This month we review the first catalogue from Extant Americana of New York City: Catalogue One. Naturally, the American material in this catalogue is “extant,”...
A Look at Life in Other Times from Justin Croft Antiquarian Books - By Michael Stillman Justin Croft Antiquarian Books has prepared their Catalogue 7. There is no further description of the material provided, and it took a careful search to...	Books from a Concord Bibliophile from Sotheran's - By Michael Stillman Henry Sotheran Ltd., aka Sotheran's, has issued a catalogue From the Library of a Concord Bibliophile. Sotheran's being from London, you might think this would...
The American West and Early Lutheran Theology – An Unusual Combination from Gene W. Baade - By Michael Stillman Gene W. Baade Books on the West has issued his latest catalogue of what you would expect. This one is numbered Catalogue 912, and though...	Children's Books from Aleph-Bet Books - By Michael Stillman Aleph-Bet Books has released their Catalogue 102 of Children's Books and Illustrated Books. It is a catalogue filled with wonder and fantasy. We may grow...
Historical Treasures from the Raab Collection - By Michael Stillman The Raab Collection has issued a catalogue for their 23rd anniversary. It is their Catalogue 74, or Historical Treasures. In keeping with their 23rd anniversary,...	Ephemeral Material from Marc Selvaggio, Books and Ephemera - By Michael Stillman Marc Selvaggio, Books & Ephemera has issued their Catalogue Number 139. Ephemera Uncovered! It contains over 500 items of transitory printed material, items not really...
Mexican Works Offered by Plaza Books - By Michael Stillman Plaza Books recently printed their List 34. Plaza focuses on Latin America, Central America in particular. This time, the selection is even more focused, being...	Books from the Seattle Library of Robert Denny Watt - By Michael Stillman Restoration Books of Seattle has issued a catalogue of material from the library of descendants of one of that city's earliest citizens: The Pioneer Library...
Voyages and Travels from Helen Kahn and Associates - By Michael Stillman Helen R. Kahn and Associates has issued a catalogue of Voyages & Travels. The Canadian bookseller usually focuses on works related to North America, and...	Part II of the William Reese Company's tribute to Wright Howes' USiana - By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has issued Part II of A Tribute to Wright Howes on the 50th Anniversary of U.S.iana. Wright Howes was the Chicago...
Maps and Prints from Bestebreurtje Rare Books - By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books offers Maps & Prints & Reference Books on the Subject. Most of these items are visual...	.