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AE Top 500 Book Auction List for 2011 - By Michael Stillman As we ring out another year, it is time to take one last look back at 2011 and check out the top sales in the field of books, manuscripts and ephemera. Every year, AE compiles a list of the top 500 prices paid at auction, and this time we find that, for all the financial turmoil in the world, the well-heeled collector remains strong as ever. There was nothing this past year to match 2010's most...

AE Top 500 Book Auction List for 2011

- By Michael Stillman

As we ring out another year, it is time to take one last look back at 2011 and check out the top sales in the field of books, manuscripts and ephemera. Every year, AE compiles a list of the top 500 prices paid at auction, and this time we find that, for all the financial turmoil in the world, the well-heeled collector remains strong as ever. There was nothing this past year to match 2010's most...


Is Top Book Auction Price for 2012 about to be Revealed? - By Michael Stillman Even as we close out the Top 500 auction prices from the book world for 2011 (see article in this month's issue of AE Monthly),...	On a Soapbox - By Bruce McKinney Collectors collect what they know. Older collectors have known the classics, older fiction and history and collected these subjects with gusto. Their children, with ever...
Amazon Again Angers Main Street with Price Comparison Offer in Their Competitors' Own Stores - By Michael Stillman Even as Amazon has begun to pacify “Main Street” retailers with their support for the Main Street Fairness Act concerning sales taxes (see article in...	The Results are In and the Auction Charts Updated - By Bruce McKinney Two thousand and eleven was an interesting rather than good year in the books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera field. Median lot value made a three-year...
Is Mentioning a Book's Provenance a Legally Actionable Invasion of Privacy? - By Michael Stillman A truly bizarre lawsuit has been initiated in the state of Nebraska against a bookseller on the grounds of a violation of that state's Privacy...	Spivey's to Be Liquidated Beginning on January 5th - By Bruce McKinney On January 5th and 6th, 2012 Dirk Soulis Auctions is conducting the sale of the stock of Spivey’s Maps, Fine Art, Prints and Rare Books...
2011 – No Turning Back - By Susan Halas If the older generation of book sellers ever doubted a new era was at hand 2011 confirmed the new scheme of things was not only...	Bob Emerson, 90 - By Bruce McKinney Bob Emerson took flight this past August and I would be remiss in failing to note the event. After all, every satellite and Soyuz gets...
A Good Year for N. Currier and Currier & Ives - By Bruce McKinney The redoubtable print makers, N. Currier and Currier & Ives, successful New York printmakers from 1834 to 1907, had a pretty good year at auction...	Internet Giants Amazon and eBay in a Tax War - By Michael Stillman Two internet behemoths, and two of the largest booksellers in the world, went at it in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee recently. The subject...
One Year Later, Family Still Seeks Answer to Bookseller's Murder - By Michael Stillman One year after the horrific murder of a Salt Lake City bookseller, her family is still seeking answers. Most particularly, they are trying to find...	13 New Catalogues Reviewed This Month - By Michael Stillman We start the new year with a lucky 13 new catalogues up for review. A few of them target very specific niches. Peter Harrington is...
Winnie-The-Pooh, Milne, and Shepard Too, from Peter Harrington - By Michael Stillman Peter Harrington has issued their Catalogue 80, and it is a very special collection for those who are very young, at least at heart. It...	The Private Press, Art, Fine Literature and More from The Kelmscott Bookshop - By Michael Stillman The Kelmscott Bookshop Rare Books recently published their Catalog 7: Artists' Books, Private Press, The Eragny Press, Original Art, William Morris, Children's & Illustrated Books,...
Texas and the West from Kenston Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Kenston Rare Books has issued a catalogue which is not named “Beautiful Texas,” despite the appearance of the front cover. It is actually just Winter...	Travel from Bestebreurtje Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has issued List 50: Travel. This is a collection of mainly 18th and 19th century travels, or material related to...
A Winter Miscellany from Michael Thompson Books - By Michael Stillman Recently published is List Number 98, a Winter Miscellany Consisting of 100 Books, Mostly Recent Acquisitions, from Michael Thompson Books. Thompson never seems to give...	A New Miscellany from Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller - By Michael Stillman Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, has issued a New Miscellany #32. It is, naturally enough, a collection of varied works. They range from incunable Latin texts representing...
Mapping London from Daniel Crouch Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Daniel Crouch Rare Books has just issued their Catalogue III, Mapping London. Crouch is a specialist in maps and the associated types of material, such...	Western Americana from the William Reese Company - By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has issued a catalogue of Western Americana. There are few subjects that generate as much interest, and consequently are as highly...
American Pamphlets, Contentious and Otherwise, from Garrett Scott, Bookseller - By Michael Stillman Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has released his 36th catalogue, Miscellaneous Pamphlets. This is a collection of “260 interesting and obscure American pamphlets,” the bulk of which,...	Rare Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books - By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued catalogue No. 122 of Rare Americana. Lesser specializes in pamphlets and other shorter forms of paper, such...
Sotheran's Latest “Piccadilly Notes” - By Michael Stillman Sotheran's, of London, has issued their Piccadilly Notes 2011, the latest in a long-running series of generalist offerings from the 250-year-old bookseller. Sotheran's offers many...	Signed Documents from People You Know, from The Raab Collection - By Michael Stillman The Raab Collection has issued a new catalogue, and while that cover might make you think its title was “Christmas Tales,” it is not. That's...
Castles and Forts from Yesterday's Muse - By Michael Stillman Last month we reviewed the first catalogue from Yesterday's Muse Books. This month they aren't quite ready to pass that signal moment in a bookseller's...	.