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AE Top 500 at Auction for 2008! - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Another year has come to an end, which means it is time to look back at the AE Top 500 of book and ephemera sales at auction for 2008. This was a tough year. It certainly started well enough, a robust economy providing high-end book collectors with sufficient funds to feed their obsession. As late as July, $4 gas, painful for drivers, reflected just how booming the economy was. The year did not...

AE Top 500 at Auction for 2008!

- By Michael Stillman

By Michael Stillman Another year has come to an end, which means it is time to look back at the AE Top 500 of book and ephemera sales at auction for 2008. This was a tough year. It certainly started well enough, a robust economy providing high-end book collectors with sufficient funds to feed their obsession. As late as July, $4 gas, painful for drivers, reflected just how booming the economy was. The year did not...


Reorganizing the Web for Bookselling - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney The Case for and Logic behind Wiki Bibliographies: Organizing material into collectible subjects Online book selling is tied to dated technology and assumptions...	eBay Seller Ratings Dispute Leads to Lawsuit - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman What nightmares has eBay wrought with its new seller rating system? With a system that affords sellers little defense against unhappy buyers, the...
Timing is Everything - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Timing is everything. In the December issue of AE Monthly we wrote the improbable but true story of a book posted in...	Mining the World of Bargain Books - By Renee Roberts By Renée Magriel Roberts There are many different ways to buy books: from individuals, estate sales, auctions, publishers, distributors, and library sales. You can even publish...
Wikis Come into Focus - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Wiki Bibliographies and Reductive Pooling Wiki Bibliographies are the answer to two questions: [1] what material lies within a field and [2] which...	BookFinder's Top 10 for 2008: Do It Yourself and With Someone Else - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman BookFinder.com has released its top 10 list of the most sought after out-of-print books of 2008. BookFinder provides searches of dozens of book...
The Americana Exchange Database: Two Million and Counting - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney The AED, the historical database of books, manuscripts and ephemera reached two million full text records a week or so ago. This...	Police Blotter: 284,000 Stolen Books, and a Scholar-Thief - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman For those who thought library theft was a big problem in the West, a survey conducted by Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun found that 284,000...
A Few Rhymes for the Carrier Boys - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney In the 19th century it was not uncommon for newspapers to publish a 'Carrier Call' or 'Carrier's Address' on the first of the...	In The News: Abe Sale Official, Lincoln Museum Sold, Google Scans Magazines - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The tentative sale of AbeBooks to Amazon announced last summer has now become official. The agreement announced on August 1 has gone through...
23 New Catalogues Reviewed This Month - By Michael Stillman The time of the year for new book catalogues has arrived as we welcome 23 new additions/editions for 2009. They are as varied as the...	Some Giants of Science and Much More from Dragon Books By Michael Stillman We have just received Catalogue 8 from Southern California bookseller Dragon Books. It is a spectacular catalogue with some spectacular offerings. Dragon Books...
Cowboys, Cattle, Custer and More from Old West Books By Michael Stillman Old West Books of Arlington, Texas, has released Catalog 23 of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. As they note...	The Spalding Collection of Western Americana from Randall House By Michael Stillman This month we have received our first catalogue from Randall House, of Santa Barbara, California. Randall House trades in all kinds of books,...
19th Century Literature from James Cummins Bookseller By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller has just released a catalogue of Nineteenth Century Literature. This is not, for the most part, filled with names you...	Odd and Entertaining Antique Pamphlets from Marc Selvaggio By Michael Stillman Some catalogues are too captivating, too entertaining to keep under wraps. Such is Son of "Kept Under Wraps" from Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller. Actually,...
The Arctic and Canada from Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller By Michael Stillman It's time to put on your fur coat and snowshoes. We recently received Catalogue 57 from Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, entitled Arctic and Canadiana,...	Eighty-Three Books from The Manhattan Rare Book Company By Michael Stillman The Manhattan Rare Book Company has issued a catalogue of Eight-Three Books. Just as you can tell from their name where this bookseller...
Literature, Science, Americana, Fine Books, Etc. from Thomas Goldwasser Rare Books By Michael Stillman Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books is offering something on just about everything in their latest offering, Catalogue 22. It is divided into three...	Letters, Literature and Film from James Pepper Rare Books By Michael Stillman James Pepper Rare Books has issued their Catalogue 178. Pepper catalogues are mostly filled with items of literature or those relating to film...
Recent Acquisitions at John Michael Lang Fine Books By Michael Stillman John Michael Lang Fine Books has issued a brief, but intriguing new catalogue: Recent Acquisitions List 27. Lang's catalogues are short, but...	Exceptional Antique Maps and Related Material from Martayan Lan By Michael Stillman Martayan Lan has issued a new catalogue, number 41, of Fine Antique Maps, Atlases and Globes. Actually, there are a few other items...
Capri and Other Places from Elysium Books By Michael Stillman Elysium Books recently issued a new catalogue which we believe is entitled Capri. Believe because the title page has no title, but "Capri"...	Winter Miscellany from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books Features Continental and American Works By Michael Stillman Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has released Catalogue 136 A Winter Miscellany. While Bestebreurtje is located in the Netherlands, and there are certainly...
American Politics from the William Reese Company By Michael Stillman Well-timed for the recent, momentous election is the latest catalogue from the William Reese Company: American Politics. This 265th catalogue from the...	Recent Acquisitions at the Veatchs Arts of the Book By Michael Stillman The Veatchs Arts of the Book has published their Catalogue 61: Recent Acquisitions. This is a catalogue for people who believe the title...
Literature, Film, Arts, Biography, Etc. from Waverly Books By Michael Stillman Waverly Books has issued a new catalogue, with the brief title List 161. Waverly regularly presents lists of the material they carry. This...	A Look at America's Past from David Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue of Rare Americana from David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books is number 107 in their series. As we have come...
Historic Documents from Stuart Lutz By Michael Stillman Stuart Lutz Historic Documents has issued a new catalogue of just what you would expect from a firm with such a name. The...	Mexican and Latin American Works from Plaza Books By Michael Stillman List 25 has just been issued by Plaza Books of Santa Rosa, California. Plaza specializes in books from south of the border, that...
Law and Legal History from The Lawbook Exchange By Michael Stillman The Lawbook Exchange has issued their Catalogue 61. Recently Acquired Books, Manuscripts and Other Items Relating to Law, Legal History and Politics, With...	Americana, Californiana, the Southwest, Historical Reference, Etc., from Clark Rare Books By Michael Stillman Clark Rare Books has issued their Catalog 936 of Americana and the American West, this one with an emphasis on Historical Reference Material...
Featured Material at the Arader Galleries By Michael Stillman We have received the November-December 2008 edition of the Arader Galleries' Directors Report a bit on the late side, but that is all...	Redoute, the Raphael of Flowers, from Librairie Thomas-Scheler By Michael Stillman We recently received a book/catalogue from French bookseller Librairie Thomas-Scheler focused on the great illustrator Pierre-Joseph Redoute. Entitled Le Raphael des fleurs (the...