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Bolerium - Bookselling as Performance Art - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney An interesting shop in the San Francisco barrio south of Market Street; this is Bolerium Books on Mission. The street is busy, the traffic young. From down the street a giant BOOKS sign, in the same type and size New York used a few years ago to salute the Yankees after winning their umpteenth baseball championship, is visible on the building front. Across the street an unusual combination of loiters...

Bolerium - Bookselling as Performance Art

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney An interesting shop in the San Francisco barrio south of Market Street; this is Bolerium Books on Mission. The street is busy, the traffic young. From down the street a giant BOOKS sign, in the same type and size New York used a few years ago to salute the Yankees after winning their umpteenth baseball championship, is visible on the building front. Across the street an unusual combination of loiters...


Amazon's Demand for "Price Parity" Has Dealers in an Uproar - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The recent application of Amazon.com's "price parity" policy to European booksellers has resulted in a great outcry from those countries' dealers. The policy...	The History of Books, by the numbers - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Books are composed mostly of words, occasional numbers and infrequent images. The history of books on the Americana Exchange is the matter...
EBook Reader Prices Drop - and They're Probably Not Done Yet! - By Thomas McKinney By Tom McKinney Last month, Mike Stillman wrote about the new Kobo eBook reader which Borders is now selling for $149. Last month, that price was...	Bud Plant - Pop Culture Specialist Celebrates 40th Year - By Susan Halas By Susan Halas "What a long strange trip it’s been...." This year Bud Plant celebrates the 40th year of Bud's Art Books....
Book 'em: One Down, One to Go - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Maybe there's something in the water. England has become the site of two dramatic and unusual book theft cases. One involves the legendary...	A Sale in the Fall to Test the Market - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney In a few weeks Bonhams will announce they are handling my second sale - The American Experience - 1626 - 1850, the second...
Rose City Used Book Fair (Portland, Oregon June 11-12): "An Unpretentious book Fair" - By Lee Kirk By Lee Kirk, The Prints & The Paper - www.kirksbooks.com This was the first show I have done in 7 years due to family and...	Susan Heller: A Lifetime of Ephemera- for sale - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Susan Heller of Pages 4 Sages of Beachwood, Ohio is a young 75+ and looking to wrap up her four-decade career in the...
What Can John Lennon Tell Us About The Book Market? - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Items in the books, manuscripts and ephemera field do not have to be antiquarian to bring in big money. Indeed, we are witnessing...	Getting Down with MatchMaker: A Step by Step Guide - By Thomas McKinney By Tom McKinney This month I'm writing a step-by-step guide to the AE premium service MatchMaker. If you're already a premium member and don't use the...
Where "Coverless" and "Foxed" are Positive Selling Features - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman When is a book more desirable after its covers have been torn from the pages? When are terms such as "foxed" and "faded"...	14 Catalogues Reviewed This Month Fourteen new catalogues are reviewed in Section Two this month. Travel and exploration are the subjects of catalogues from Peter Harrington and Gert Jan Bestebreurtje...
Travel and Exploration from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books is entitled Travel & Exploration Including Russia. Actually, it includes a lot more than...	Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts from Samuel Gedge Ltd. By Michael Stillman Samuel Gedge Ltd. Rare Books has issued their Catalogue VIII. It contains no further title, which is understandable as there is a wide...
Reliving Classical Antiquity with Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta By Michael Stillman Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta has released their Catalogue 101 Classical Antiquity. While these are not primarily antiquarian books, they are the books of antiquity....	Important Signed Documents from The Raab Collection By Michael Stuillman The Raab Collection is offering Catalog 64, a collection of 52 signed and important documents, overwhelmingly from Americans or pertaining to issues of...
Autographs and Manuscripts from James Cummins Bookseller By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller has issued a catalogue that is not a catalogue of books at all. Its title is Autographs and Manuscripts, featuring,...	A New Miscellany from Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller By Michael Stillman Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, has printed a New Miscellany #28. A miscellany it certainly is, which makes it difficult to otherwise classify what may...
A Century of Posters from Burkhard Sulzen By Michael Stillman It can be hard to appreciate a catalogue written in a language you do not understand. Then again, there are always exceptions. One...	19th Century American West from the William Reese Co. By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has released its 277th catalogue issued over the past 30 years, The American West in the 19th Century. This...
18th and 19th Century Rare Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has released catalogue number 114 of Rare Americana. It is both of those, and filled with interesting...	Art and Architecture from Sotheran's By Michael Stillman Sotheran's recently issued a new catalogue of Art and Architecture. The London bookseller offers a range of catalogues, from targeted subjects such as...
50 Fine Books from Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books By Michael Stillman Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books has issued their catalogue of 50 Fine Books 2010. Shapero often publishes catalogues of "50s," thoroughly described and...	Rare and Important Books from the Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books By Michael Stillman The Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books have combined to publish a Catalogue of 250 Rare and Important Printed Books and Manuscripts. There...
Massachusetts! From Peter L. Masi Books By Michael Stillman We have received Catalog 206 from Peter L. Masi Books, with the title My Massachusetts! It can be yours too. It is a...	Travel, Atlases and Maps from Peter Harrington By Michael Stillman Peter Harrington has issued their 71st catalogue, Travel, Atlases and Maps. Offered are almost 200 items of mostly antiquarian looks at the world...