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AE's Book Fair Calendar Goes Live! - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Effective October 1st AE is adding full coverage of book, manuscript and ephemera fairs around the world to its suite of free services. Links to both a show calendar and a listing of events are now the eighth and ninth items in the free services section (see the menu to the left). AE, on a separate calendar featured on its home page, covers book auctions around the world. The link to...

AE's Book Fair Calendar Goes Live!

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney Effective October 1st AE is adding full coverage of book, manuscript and ephemera fairs around the world to its suite of free services. Links to both a show calendar and a listing of events are now the eighth and ninth items in the free services section (see the menu to the left). AE, on a separate calendar featured on its home page, covers book auctions around the world. The link to...


Huge Auction Stills The Voice Of Once Largest Radio Church - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The voice was riveting. In the days of my youth, it flowed along the airwaves like molasses, seeping into every corner of...	What's Up and Coming with West Coast Bookstores? - By Karen Wright By Karen Wright I bopped on down to the Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair from my high-on-the-hill shop in Virginia City, Nevada, a mere 2-1/2 hour drive....
A Great Literary Hoax from England! - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman We don't make a habit of writing about British literary intrigues, but once in awhile we have to make exceptions. This one...	Learning from a Printing History We Can See - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney This is the second of five articles on the printing history of Joel Munsell. Joel Munsell of Albany, New York, was an active printer...
Smiley Sentenced to 3 1/2 Years - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The verdict is in. The United States District Court for Connecticut pronounced its sentence on map seller and admitted thief E. Forbes Smiley...	Shows: A Thousand Uneasy Pieces - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney In Southern California, over the weekend of September 9th and 10th, The Santa Monica Book, Print, Photo & Paper Fair sought to welcome,...
Top Sights for Collectors To See Around London - By Carl Burnham By Carl Burnham London, land of the ages of time, where Romans conquered, built fortress walls, and eventually departed, and legendary kings and queens...	BookFinder Tallies the Top Ten Old Books - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman BookFinder.com has issued its annual survey of the most popular out-of-print books, and their top ten lists are as amusing as they...
Lightning Strikes Twice at John's Western Gallery - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney The second sale of Glen Dawson's early Los Angeles [1874-1879] material was sold on September 29th at John's Western Gallery to a group...	13 New Catalogues Reviewed In Section Two This month there are a lucky thirteen new bookseller catalogues reviewed in Section Two of AE Monthly. Aleph-Bet Books has almost 600 wonderful children's books...
Six Hundred (almost) Children's Books from Aleph-Bet By Michael Stillman Here come some of the great literary classics, like The Podgy Puppy and Old Dame Trot and Her Pig. Okay, this is...	English Miscellany from Forest Books By Michael Stillman The latest from British bookseller Forest Books is not dedicated to anything in particular. It is Miscellany Two, and as the title implies,...
Letters and Signatures from Lion Heart Autographs By Michael Stillman This month we received our first catalogue from Lion Heart Autographs. What is offered, naturally, is one-of-a-kind material, autographed, usually with an...	"The Ways of the World" from Helen R. Kahn By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue from Montreal bookseller Helen R. Kahn and Associates is The Ways of the World - Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries....
Limited Editions and Small Quantities from Oak Knoll Books By Michael Stillman Oak Knoll Books has published a catalogue for those who collect limited or small-run editions. With the title Limited to an Edition of...	Literature, Poetry, Art and Photography from James S. Jaffe Rare Books By Michael Stillman We recently received the latest catalogue of New York bookseller James S. Jaffe Rare Books, Summer 2006. Admittedly, these are the waning...
An Unusual Collection from Ian Brabner By Michael Stillman Ian Brabner, Bookseller, of Wilmington, Delaware, has issued a fascinating collection of eclectic works, Occasional List 5. There is no way to...	Confederate Military History from Chapel Hill Rare Books By Michael Stillman Chapel Hill Rare Books has just issued one of the finest catalogues of America's Civil War we have seen in awhile. Offered...
Latin America, Spain and Portugal from Libreria de Antano By Michael Stillman From Buenos Aires, Argentina, we have received a new catalogue from Libreria de Antano. Offered are primarily Iberian (Spain and Portugal) and...	Rare and Old Books from the Antiquariaat Forum By Michael Stillman The Antiquariaat Forum of Utrecht, The Netherlands, has issued a pamphlet of books in conjunction with their recent appearance at the ILAB...
More Rare and Unusual Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their 93rd catalogue of Rare Americana. It fits right in the Lesser mold, catalogues...	Material Culture and English Country Estates from Charles Wood By Michael Stillman The title of the latest catalogue from Charles Wood is Material Culture, with the subheading, Including a Separate Section on English Country...
Early American Law from William Reese Co. By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company recently issued its 249th catalogue, this one titled Early American Law and Legal Thought. Most works are from...	.