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AE Monthly

Articles - May 2010 Issue

 
A Letter from New York

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney Book fairs serve many purposes. They are site, catalyst and barometer, a place for booksellers and book buyers to cross paths, find material, exchange ideas, and access the changing playing field. The recent ABAA book fair in New York was all of this and more, many of the leading dealers and collectors meeting at the storied 7th Regiment Armory at 643 Park to see old friends and old...

  
  • Auction Reports: Coming of Age

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney The weekly auction reports, introduced a year ago, have been revised. Members who have signed up for the free weekly reports will...

  • Important Maps at an Important Time

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney Frank Benevento did not buy his first important map ten years ago with the idea of becoming a canary in the coal mine...

  • Gold Rush Book Fair

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney There's Books in Them There Hills On Saturday May 15th the Gold Rush Book Fair will reprise its long history of successful events with...

  • iPad versus eBook Readers

    - By Thomas McKinney

    By Tom McKinney Two months ago I wrote about Apple's iPad. It hadn't actually been released yet, and now it has. It's done very well, with...

  • 17 New Catalogues Reviewed This Month

    This month 17 new bookseller catalogues are reviewed in Section II of AE Monthly. The topics this month are as varied as the books themselves....

  • Fine Books from James Cummins Bookseller

    By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller has issued Catalogue 104. The catalogue has no other title as it, like many of Cummins' catalogues, does not have...

  • 19th Century Americana from Seneca Books

    By Michael Stillman Seneca Books, of Boxborough, Massachusetts, recently printed Catalog Three Americana. It is divided into sections on business, trade, law and medicine; politics, reform...

  • Books About Books from Oak Knoll

    By Michael Stillman Oak Knoll Books has released its Catalogue 293 of Books About Books. It is divided into two sections. The first covers the broad...