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Wiki Bibliographies: The Way to the Future - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney This month I write about a mostly forgotten place, Rondout, New York, once a transportation hub at the intersection of the Rondout Creek and Hudson River [map link] that rose on opportunity and fell with its withdrawal. It was alter-ego to a Kingston that was better known, a lucky place where many found work and a few made fortunes. I return to Rondout to suggest that its now forgotten history, relating...

Wiki Bibliographies: The Way to the Future

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney This month I write about a mostly forgotten place, Rondout, New York, once a transportation hub at the intersection of the Rondout Creek and Hudson River [map link] that rose on opportunity and fell with its withdrawal. It was alter-ego to a Kingston that was better known, a lucky place where many found work and a few made fortunes. I return to Rondout to suggest that its now forgotten history, relating...


Major Settlement Reached on Google Book Copyright Suit - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman A groundbreaking settlement was announced October 28 concerning the unauthorized digitization and viewing of copyrighted books by search giant Google. It promises a...	An Extraordinary Americana Auction at Bloomsbury Nov. 19 - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney The upcoming November 19th single owner sale at Bloomsbury Auctions in New York of the Jay T. Snider collection of early and important...
Alibris Offers Its Sellers Historic Pricing Tool - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Alibris has announced that it will be offering its sellers a new and extremely useful tool for valuing inventory. Access to their large...	Opening a New Bookstore with Tim Lohraff - By Karen Wright By Karen Wright I looked up "meta" in the dictionary and it can mean "among" or "with" or "change." I love being 'among books' and...
Evidence of Interest when the Circumstances are Right - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney At auction on October 19th at John McInnis Auctioneers in Amesbury, Massachusetts, four lots in the category of Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera, did...	Barnum Museum Finds Key to Its Origins on eBay - By Carl Burnham By Carl Burnham No man of his time was better at promotion and entertaining crowds than P.T. Barnum. Barnum is attributed with the saying "Without promotion...
In The News: Declining Newspapers, Digitizing Books, Abe's Top 10 - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman There was more bad news for the printed word, at least in newspaper form, in reports for the past six months recently released...	Rosemary Sullivan Rare Books to Disperse at Auction - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney "All my life I've been a book collector and, for four decades, a bookseller." Thus are you introduced to Rosemary Sullivan, who...
Stalin's Cartoonist Passes On - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman A prolific political cartoonist passed away last month. His story is one of the more remarkable ones you will hear. Boris Yefimov is...	Bookselling in a Red and Blue World - By Renee Roberts By Renée Magriel Roberts I'm at the computer today and should be doing something for the bookstore: entering a quantity of Ben Franklin-related materials, or putting...
Libraries and Book Theft: A Role Reversal - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Two Ohio men were indicted on October 2 in connection with the theft of two rare and valuable books from the Rurtherford B....	AE Comet: Genealogy & Local History - A Passion - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Click here for the November AE Comet. Genealogy is the history of people and local history the history of places. There was a...
10 Catalogues Reviewed This Month This month, we take a look at ten new bookseller catalogues in the Review section of AE Monthly. The William Reese Company offers a selection...	Early Voyages from the William Reese Co. By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue from the William Reese Company is entitled Early Voyages from Vespucci to Vancouver. This is not just a catalogue by...
More Literature, Film, Mystery, and a Surprise, from James Pepper Rare Books By Michael Stillman James Pepper Rare Books has issued a new catalogue, this one being Catalogue 176. As usual, the focus is on literature, film and...	Recent Acquisitions 1548-1990 from Libreria de Antano By Michael Stillman Libreria de Antano has issued a catalogue of Recent Acquisitions (1548-1990). Almost four and one-half centuries can cover a lot of ground, and...
Inexpensive Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their third catalogue of Inexpensive Americana. Not that Lesser's material is generally very expensive, it's...	American Historical Autographs from Joe Rubinfine By Michael Stillman Joe Rubinfine has released his List 162 of American Historical Autographs. While all of these documents contain autographs, only a few are simply...
Illustrated Books and Book Illustration from Frits Knuf Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman Frits Knuf Antiquarian Books has issued a new catalogue of The Illustrated Book and Book Illustration. This is truly a catalogue for those...	Americana and the West from Clark Rare Books By Michael Stillman Clark Rare Books recently published their Catalog 935 of Americana, The West, and General. This collection includes many new acquisitions, primarily on the...
Literature, Art and Scripts from Waverly Books By Michael Stillman Waverly Books recently published their List 159. Waverly's collections are generally focused on literature, with many items being related to film or theater,...	Books on the West from Gene W. Baade By Michael Stillman Gene W. Baade Books on the West has issued their Catalogue 1108 of... you guessed it. Everyone will enjoy this catalogue since everyone...
Travel and the East India Company from Shapero Rare Books By Michael Stillman Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books has issued a new catalogue of travels, logically named Travel 2008, but, Including a small library of books...	.