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Articles - March 2012 Issue


Never Been a Better Time - By Bruce McKinney The impulse is strong, but the well-worn paths to book collecting, thinned by increasing rarity and higher prices, have effectively closed off the building of significant book collections for the 99% who love books but lack the unlimited resources needed to pursue the best material. For them other ways to build interesting collections are required and the evolving market is providing opportunities. In its time the great material that circulated in the 19th century was broadly...

Never Been a Better Time

- By Bruce McKinney

The impulse is strong, but the well-worn paths to book collecting, thinned by increasing rarity and higher prices, have effectively closed off the building of significant book collections for the 99% who love books but lack the unlimited resources needed to pursue the best material. For them other ways to build interesting collections are required and the evolving market is providing opportunities. In its time the great material that circulated in the 19th century was broadly...


Libraries, Staffers Offered Free AE Trial Subscription - By Susan Halas Americana Exchange publisher Bruce McKinney announced a free trial subscription for library personnel is now available on request. He said that the offer is good...	On the Road in LA - By Bruce McKinney It never rains in southern California. That's how the song goes and that's the way it was in Pasadena, site of the Rose Bowl Parade...
Reading the Entrails - By Bruce McKinney The San Francisco Book and Paper Fair held center stage in northern California over the first weekend in February. The fair, an every other year...	Electronics Installer Sentenced in $1 Million Book Theft - By Michael Stillman There are many paths to becoming a book collector, but only a few to collecting at the highest level. One of those is to be...
New Book Auction Opens in the American South - By Michael Stillman The American Southeast will soon have its own book auction house with the opening of Addison & Sarova. Their first auction will be held later...	A Close Encounter with Bill McBride, compiler/editor of “A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions” - By Renee Roberts We recently hired a new employee to enter backlogged books into our catalog. This is the bottleneck that all Web-based booksellers face: we buy like...
Converting image to text, mobile-style - By Thomas McKinney When you need to copy something down, you probably do just that. You grab a piece of paper or a notebook and you write it...	55th Annual London Book Fair Set for May - By Michael Stillman Dates have been set for the 55th annual London International Antiquarian Book Fair. It will run from Thursday, May 24, through Friday, May 26. This...
In Pursuit of the Serious Collector - By Bruce McKinney At the book fairs on the American West Coast this past month the English were out in force. Other European countries were represented but the...	Second Auction of Eric Caren Collection Set for March 15 - By Michael Stillman The second auction of material from the collection of Eric Caren is scheduled to take place at Swann Galleries in New York on March 15....
Electronic Book Pricing Under Attack - By Michael Stillman The electronic book and publishing world is anxiously watching legal actions that may affect the profitability of this form of an over 500-year-old business. Allegations...	Rosenbach Museum Observes 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic - By Michael Stillman Sometime around Christmas of 1905, young Harry Widener walked into the rooms of the great 20th century bookseller, Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach. Widener was just a...
Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair March 24th - By Bruce McKinney The all-day third annual Sacramento Antiquarian Spring Book Fair will be held in Sacramento, California at the Scottish Rite Temple on March 24th. The hours...	A New Book from David Batterham Recalls 35 Years Among Booksellers - By Michael Stillman For those who sell (or buy) books, and are fascinated by others' adventures in the book trade, a new title was recently published by the...
Sixteen Catalogues Reviewed This Month - By Michael Stillman This month we have 16 new bookseller catalogues under review. Fine literary works are available from Whitmore Rare Books and B&B Rare Books. Charles Dickens...	Exceptional Literary Works from Whitmore Rare Books - By Michael Stillman This month we received our first catalogue from Whitmore Rare Books of Pasadena, California. Whitmore Rare Books is operated by Dan Whitmore, one of many...
Books You Never Knew You Wanted from Simon Beattie - By Michael Stillman Simon Beattie Rare Books, Manuscripts, Music, Ephemera published a catalogue for the recent California Antiquarian Book Fair. The unexpected title is The Books You Never...	A Variety from Adrian Harrington Rare Books - By Michael Stillman This month we received our first catalogue from Adrian Harrington Rare Books. However, this is Catalogue 35 for the London bookseller. Adrian Harrington has been...
Polar Books and Ephemera from Aquila Books - By Michael Stillman Aquila Books has released its first catalogue of 2012, Catalogue 112 or Winter 2012. It has been a couple of years since their last, so...	The First Occasional List from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller - By Michael Stillman John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller has published Occasional List Number One. English Books, Fine Printing and Bindings. Windle is hardly new to catalogues, but this is...
Literature and More from B&B Rare Books - By Michael Stillman We have received, perhaps slightly late, the Fall/Winter 2011 catalogue from B&B Rare Books of New York. B&B describes its specialties as “18th-20th century American...	“Wet Paper” from the Ten Pound Island Book Company - By Michael Stillman Ten Pound Island Book Company released their Maritime List 208, or “Wet Paper.” I had to check on the meaning of that. Ten Pound Island...
Antiquarian and Fine Books from Phillip J. Pirages - By Michael Stillman Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts printed A Sampling of Our Items at the California Antiquarian Book Fairs. The fairs are over, but the...	Travel, Exploration and James Cook from Antiquariat Eigl - By Michael Stillman Antiquariat Eigl has released Katalog 37. Travel and Exploration – with a Special Section on James Cook. The catalogue is published in German, but an...
The American Revolution in Manuscripts from Joe Rubinfine - By Michael Stillman Joe Rubinfine American Historical Documents has published their List 169. The American Revolution. A Catalog of Manuscripts. Manuscripts by their nature are very rare, usually...	Charles Dickens from Maggs Bros. Ltd. - By Michael Stillman There are few, if any, authors more collectible than Charles Dickens. Perhaps Shakespeare, but none of his works were published during his lifetime, and little...
A Selection of Material from Asher Rare Books and the Antiquariaat Forum - By Michael Stillman Asher Rare Books and the Antiquariaat Forum recently published A Selection of Autographs, Drawings, Photographs and Printed Books. This was a selection that the Dutch...	Pocket Maps from Donald Heald Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Donald Heald Rare Books has issued a catalogue of Pocket Maps. These are 19th century American maps, generally used by travelers, shippers, and settlers as...
Mostly Travels from Hordern House - By Michael Stillman Hordern House published a catalogue for the recent Pasadena Bookfair 2012. That was a long trip for the Australian bookseller, though not nearly as difficult...	Dutch Travel Accounts from Bestebreurtje Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has issued a catalogue of Dutch Travel. Travel Accounts in the original Dutch language or translated into Dutch. Naturally, most...
The American Revolution from the William Reese Co. - By Michael Stillman The 290th catalogue from the William Reese Company was recently released. The latest offering from the Americana dealer is entitled The American Revolution 1765-1783. The...	.