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AE Monthly

Articles - October 2007 Issue

 
A Specialist Inventory to be Sold as a Single Lot at Auction

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney On October 6th the remaining stock of Zobel Book Service, a specialist in scholarly and out-of-print materials, will be sold at auction in Kingston, New York by JMW Auction Gallery. The auction will be simulcast on eBay. Their entire 90,000 item inventory will be sold as a single lot. The opening bid will be $1,000 with no reserve. For 66 years Zobel has provided material to thousands of...

  
  • A Strong October Auction Schedule

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney If summer is a receding memory then the books, manuscripts and ephemera auction season must be upon us. A glance at...

  • The Declining Value of Inventory

    By Bruce McKinney In the biblical story of Noah and the ark the emphasis is always placed on the miracle of survival. A male and...

  • Rose's Books and the Cistercians

    - By Renee Roberts

    by Renée Magriel Roberts As booksellers, we've certainly all experienced moments of serendipity -- the chance meeting that results in a wonderful buy or a...

  • My “I have a dream” speech

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney If you are looking for a reworking of Martin Luther King's speech in 1963 on the Washington D. C. Mall you are in...

  • A Book Fair in San Francisco in February 2008

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney Every other year Walter Larsen & Associates of Alameda, California, stage a San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print, & Paper Fair. In February,...

  • Book Review: Al Gore's The Assault On Reason

    - By Michael Stillman

    By Michael Stillman The latest book from environmental crusader and former Vice-President Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, is now on the shelves. Gore combines...

  • A Farewell to Alms -- a book considered

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney This is a brief economic history of the world with a focus on the Industrial Revolution. It is written by Dr. Gregory...

  • Children's Books from Aleph-Bet Books

    By Michael Stillman Aleph-Bet Books recently issued its Catalogue 86 of Children's Books and Illustrated Books. This latest collection offers almost 600 books and related...

  • Western Americana from William Reese

    By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has issued a new catalogue of Western Americana, number 256 in their long-running series. Offered are over...

  • Naval History from Eveleigh Books

    By Michael Stillman We have received our first catalogue from Eveleigh Books and Stamps of Dover, Massachusetts. The title is Naval History, and each of...

  • Legal History From The Lawbook Exchange

    By Michael Stillman The Lawbook Exchange recently released the 50th catalogue of Recent Acquisitions. This presents a collection of predominately scholarly works, most antiquarian,...

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