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eBay Offers Trap Door on the Book Market - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney A Needed Way Out A generation of book owners is looking past weak offers from dealers and limited opportunities selling via traditional auctions, marketing their books, manuscripts and ephemera lot by lot on eBay. The results are inconsistent but encouraging both for sellers and buyers. For sellers it's the chance to control their own destiny, converting market observations into listings, transactions and private client lists. In short order sellers on...

eBay Offers Trap Door on the Book Market

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney A Needed Way Out A generation of book owners is looking past weak offers from dealers and limited opportunities selling via traditional auctions, marketing their books, manuscripts and ephemera lot by lot on eBay. The results are inconsistent but encouraging both for sellers and buyers. For sellers it's the chance to control their own destiny, converting market observations into listings, transactions and private client lists. In short order sellers on...


The More Things Change the More They Remain the Same - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney From the first book listings posted on line ten years ago dealers have been anxious that they were, like Alice in Wonderland,...	Abebooks Begins International Advertising Campaign - By Michael Stillman By Michazel Stillman As Abebooks promised at its recent Bookseller's Summit, they will begin a substantial international advertising campaign this month. The theme is "If you...
Identifying First Editions: The Fascination of Points of Issue - By Renee Roberts By Renée Magriel Roberts Seeking a first edition is an ongoing preoccupation of any bookseller. We all know that the difference between a first edition...	$1 Million of Stolen Books Recovered - By Michael Stillman by Michael Stillman Mormon books are among the most collectible religious texts in the world. If you don't believe it, this point was reinforced by...
Biblio and Biblion Form Alliance - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Biblio.com has announced it will be working with British online bookseller Biblion to redevelop the latter's current selling strategy. Biblio is the...	The Authorities at UCLA say BOOK 'EM - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney When you think of UCLA you will think of many things but its unlikely rare books is one of them. Well,...
A Shakespeare First Folio Comes Up For Sale - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman It is a cultural icon and almost certainly the most notable literary work ever published. In fact, it may well be the second...	38th Congress of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers - By Bruce McKinney Saturday September 9th, 2006 - Thursday September 14th, 2006 The 38th Congress of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers will hold their bi-annual meeting in Philadelphia...
Interesting Auction Coming UP - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Part I of the Rare and Historic Book Collection of the Springfield Museums of Springfield, Massachusetts is up for auction on May...	Reviews: 17 New Catalogues for May - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman This month we review 17 new booksellers' catalogues. They come from all over the world - Shapero in the UK, Ewens in Canada,...
The Strange and Unusual from Garrett Scott By Michael Stillman Garrett Scott, Bookseller, seems to specialize in the odd and unusual. That's not to say every book in his 17th catalogue, Spring Miscellany,...	Rare Books and Ephemera from Ian Brabner By Michael Stillman This is our first catalogue review for Ian Brabner, Bookseller. Brabner is an ABAA-ILAB bookseller from Wilmington, Delaware, who has been selling books...
Canadiana and Other Curious Things from David Ewens By Michael Stillman We have received our first catalogue from Canadian Bookseller David Ewens. His Catalogue 60 is headed Canadiana, Americana, Directories, Arctic, and Curious Things....	19th Century Photography from Charles Wood by Michael Stillman If a picture is worth a thousand words, it will be impossible to do Charles Wood Bookseller's latest catalogue justice. Catalogue 126 is...
Children's Books from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller By Michael Stillman John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller's 41st catalogue is dedicated to our childhood. It is entitled Children's Books. This catalogue will bring you back to...	Spectacular Atlases and Maps from Bernard Shapero Rare Books By Michael Stillman Here is a catalogue you might consider as stunning as the material it describes were it not for the fact that these items...
American Travels and Explorations from George MacManus Co. By Michael Stillman Catalogue 397 from the George S. MacManus Company is titled Travels and Explorations with a Focus on American Travels. For those who collect...	New Acquisitions from Argentine Bookseller Libreria de Antano By Michael Stillman We recently received a new catalogue from Libreria de Antano entitled A Short Title List of Recent Acquisitions. It is perhaps not the...
The Civil War from Chapel Hill Rare Books By Michael Stillman Though the last soldier to fight in this great war died half a century ago, it still rages on in the minds...	American Historical Documents from Joe Rubinfine By Michael Stillman Joe Rubinfine has issued his List 156 of American Historical Autographs, and there are some real gems in this one. There are some...
Some Fascinating Looks at History from Stuart Lutz By Michael Stillman Stuart Lutz Historic Documents offers a wide and fascinating collection of autographs and signed documents. Included are both the famous and near...	Some Unusual New Arrivals at Between The Covers Rare Books By Michael Stillman Between The Covers Rare Books has issued a catalogue of New Arrivals, number 121 for the Merchantville, New Jersey, bookseller. Most of...
Antiquarian Books About Books from Oak Knoll By Michael Stillman Most of Oak Knoll Books' catalogues follow a basic format, so we were pleased to find something a little different when we received...	A Catalogue from Four French Booksellers By Michael Stillman Parlez-vous francais? I don't, which makes reviewing this interesting new concept in catalogues very difficult. Four Parisian booksellers have joined together...
German Americana from William Reese By Michael Stillman Americana seller William Reese Company has issued a catalogue dedicated specifically to German Americana. This includes publications written in German, books by German...	Western Americana from Arthur H. Clark By Michael Stillman We just received the latest catalogue from The Arthur H. Clark Company. This is number 927 for this century-old bookseller from Spokane, Washington....
European Classics from Antiquariatt Forum By Michael Stillman The Antiquariaat Forum recently printed a "short title list" of books to coincide with their participation in the New York Antiquarian Book...	.