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Auction Trends Updated: Reality - By Bruce McKinney A week ago we updated the auction trend charts. They tell an interesting story: Auction Trends Charts December is almost always a positive month for book auctions. The best material often comes out in the fourth quarter and it’s bound to achieve high prices even if the outcomes are less than some consignors hope. The median price increased $20 from the October low of $342 but was still well below the $378 median a year earlier. As...

Auction Trends Updated: Reality

- By Bruce McKinney

A week ago we updated the auction trend charts. They tell an interesting story: Auction Trends Charts December is almost always a positive month for book auctions. The best material often comes out in the fourth quarter and it’s bound to achieve high prices even if the outcomes are less than some consignors hope. The median price increased $20 from the October low of $342 but was still well below the $378 median a year earlier. As...


MatchMaker: Now for Everyone - By Michael Stillman AE's MatchMaker service, a really neat tool for locating newly listed books for sale, is now available to everyone, including those who are not paid...	A Personal View of 2010 - By Susan Halas With this article I am just finishing my first year of writing about the antiquarian trade for AE Monthly. It’s been a wonderful opportunity and...
A Man for All Seasons - By Bruce McKinney A man now in winter looking forward to his seventy-eighth spring, many times retired and never retiring, David Yount now of Mashpee in Massachusetts is...	Lincoln Forgery Revealed - By Michael Stillman A forgery on a Lincoln document came to light last month twelve years after the document's "discovery" in 1998. The forgery does not alter history...
Library and Institution Acquisitions - Some tips for booksellers - By Karen Wright A few months ago, I got a query from an East Coast library wanting a particularly expensive art book that I had in my inventory. ...	Shakespearean Thief Plans Appeal of Lengthy Sentence - By Michael Stillman Shakespearean book thief Raymond Scott is preparing an appeal of both his conviction and lengthy sentence. Scott is the very entertaining character who showed up...
The ABAA Book Fair Returns to San Francisco - By Bruce McKinney The 44th Annual California Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco over the weekend of Friday the 11th through Sunday...	Selling at Auction Comes of Age - By Bruce McKinney The next generation of collectors emerges using new tools to find material. The challenge is to encourage acquirers to buy at auction. They buy on...
Bloomsbury Makes it Official - By Bruce McKinney What began with high hopes in 2007 has ended in disappointment. Bloomsbury has curtailed its New York operations. It issued the following statement: January 5 2011...	Another Act of Hatred in Tucson… At the Library - By Michael Stillman It was a story about some minor vandalism at a library that came out two months ago. It was a local inside-page story for a...
Twelve New Catalogues are Reviewed This Month - By Michael Stillman This month we review 12 new catalogues in the second section of AE Monthly. The William Reese Company offers a collection of Americana which appeared...	Children's Works from Aleph-Bet Books - By Michael Stillman Aleph-Bet Books has issued its Catalogue 96 of Children's Books and Illustrated Books. Once again, they have compiled a collection of 600 items, all illustrated...
A New Miscellany from Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller - By Michael Stillman Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, has issued a new catalogue, a New Miscellany #30. It is no surprise that a collection with such a name would contain...	Americana in Printing and the Mind of Man from William Reese - By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue from the William Reese Company is entitled Americana in Printing and the Mind of Man. Printing and the Mind of Man was...
Decorative Bindings, Private Presses, and Other Fine Books from Phillip J. Pirages - By Michael Stillman Catalogue 59 from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts is entitled Historically Interesting and Decorative Bindings, Private Press Books, & other Special Printings. As...	Some Outstanding Books from the Arader Galleries - By Michael Stillman The Arader Galleries has offered A Selection of Rare Books for the fall and winter season. While we're a tad late, it is still winter,...
Some More and Less Eccentricities from Garrett Scott, Bookseller - By Michael Stillman Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has issued his Catalogue 31, Recent Acquisitions, Early 2011. Scott explains, "This catalogue edges away from the stern eccentricities of my previous...	181 Books and a Martian from the Manhattan Rare Book Company - By Michael Stillman The latest from the Manhattan Rare Book Company comes with an odd title: One hundred eighty-one books and a portrait of a young Martian....
Florida History from Joe Rubinfine Historical Autographs - By Michael Stillman Joe Rubinfine, American Historical Autographs, of Cocoa, Florida, has issued a catalogue devoted to his home state: Florida A History Catalogue. This is indeed...	Antiquarian European Material from Leo Cadogan Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Leo Cadogan Rare Books has issued Catalogue Four - New Year 2011. There must undoubtedly be a word that describes the type of material Cadogan...
The Law from The Lawbook Exchange - By Michael Stillman The Lawbook Exchange of Clark, New Jersey, has issued their Catalogue 68, Recently Acquired Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera. It includes both antiquarian and recent publications....	The Americas from Helen R. Kahn and Associates - By Michael Stillman Helen R. Kahn and Associates has issued a catalogue, number 80 so far, devoted to The Americas. While all of the Americas are considered, the...
More Literature and Film from James Pepper Rare Books - By Michael Stillman James Pepper Rare Books has printed their Catalogue 198. It offers 153 items in the fields for which they are known - literature, film and...	.