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The World Divides - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney At the recent three day ABAA book fair in San Francisco buyers and browsers turned out in substantial numbers to renew their love affair with works on paper. The show, which is first a pre-show dealer-to-dealer event on Friday morning becomes an open-to-the-public free-for-all in the afternoon that lasts into Sunday. The private fair was by all reports quiet, the public fair well attended although the buying at the low end...

The World Divides

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney At the recent three day ABAA book fair in San Francisco buyers and browsers turned out in substantial numbers to renew their love affair with works on paper. The show, which is first a pre-show dealer-to-dealer event on Friday morning becomes an open-to-the-public free-for-all in the afternoon that lasts into Sunday. The private fair was by all reports quiet, the public fair well attended although the buying at the low end...


Book Prices Down 30% Year Over Year at Auction - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Book prices at auction showed a continuing sharp decline during the first two months of 2009. The median price at auction for the...	AE: An Update with Destiny - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Over the past seven years AE has evolved. It was first a database of 151,000 historical records and a nascent online publication...
Lincoln Speech Tops Auction Sales at Over $3.4 Million - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman It took only 43 days of 2009 for last year's top price paid at auction in the book and manuscript category to be...	Former ABA President Sentenced to 28 Months in Prison - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman In yet another case of a highly respected bibliophile being caught in a massive theft of rare books, longtime bookseller David Slade of...
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case of the Overdue Library Book - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman It's unusual for an overdue library book to make national news, and hopefully, as the dust settles on the case from Independence, Iowa,...	A Long and Winding Road - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney An almost two hundred year old bound volume of Poughkeepsie newspapers that once was the property of the local Adriance Library, then owned...
Alibris Sees Holiday Sales Increase - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Alibris, the Emeryville, California, based internet book listing site announced they had bucked the trend by increasing sales during the recent holiday season....	Strange Book Title Finalists; AbeBooks Latest Top 10 - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The Bookseller magazine has announced the six finalists for its 31st annual Oddest Book Title of the Year award. These are titles that...
Wikis, The Next Step - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Every few days someone sees past the existing world of books, manuscripts and ephemera into the new world of Wiki Bibliographies where material...	Book Collecting Conference March 26-27 at Brigham Young University - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The sixth annual A. Dean Larson Book Collecting Conference will be held on March 26 and 27 at Brigham Young University in Provo,...
Fourteen New Catalogues Reviewed There are 14 new bookseller catalogues up for review this month. Martayan Lan offers a spectacular collection of books from the 15th through the 19th...	Five Centuries of Remarkable Works from Martayan Lan By Michael Stillman Martayan Lan has published a remarkable catalogue of Books, Manuscripts and Prints, from the 15th through the 19th Centuries. This is a half-inch...
A Wide Mix of Books and Manuscripts from Thomas Cullen By Michael Stillman Thomas Cullen, Rockland Bookman has issued his Catalog #46 - Books and Manuscripts, along with some financial advice. He explains, "After the government...	Books from the Polar Regions from Aquila Books By Michael Stillman Aquila Books has offered their Catalogue 109, Winter 2009, specializing in books about places where the sun doesn't shine. Or, it shines all...
Literature, Film, History from James Pepper Rare Books By Michael Stillman James Pepper Rare Books has issued their Catalogue 179, a new collection of works mostly in the fields of literature and film, with...	Travels, Exploration and History from Helen Kahn By Michael Stillman Helen R. Kahn and Associates has issued a new catalogue: Voyages and Exploration, History and Biography, War and Peace. What you will...
Civil War Books from the George S. MacManus Co. By Michael Stillman The George S. MacManus Company has issued a new catalogue on America's terrible internecine conflict: Civil War, Part I. MacManus purchased much...	20 Antique Books from Libreria de Antano By Michael Stillman Libreria de Antano has issued its E-List #8, 20 Antique Books. This is a reversal of the expected, where a catalogue is converted...
Fine Books for the Fair from Donald Heald Rare Books By Michael Stillman Donald Heald Rare Books printed a catalogue especially for the recent book fair in San Francisco. The collection is divided into sections on...	More Inexpensive Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued the latest in a series: Inexpensive Americana Part VI. Everyone knows these are tough...
A List of Books Exhibited at the San Francisco Fair by Librairie Thomas-Scheler By Michael Stillman Librairie Thomas-Scheler of Paris recently printed a List of the Books Exhibited, this being books shown at the recent ABAA Book Fair in...	Slavery from the William Reese Company By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has issued a list on a most unhappy, but historically important topic: Slavery. Americans tend to think of...
A Trip to the Fair with the Kelmscott Bookshop By Michael Stillman The Kelmscott Bookshop Rare Books produced a catalogue for the California International Book Fair 2009. The Kelmscott Bookshop focuses on fine press and...	The Latest Features at the Arader Galleries By Michael Stillman We recently received a copy of the Arader Galleries' bimonthly Director's Report. We are slightly behind schedule, as this is the January/February 2009...
Indonesia Revisited from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books By Michael Stillman Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has issued a catalogue entitled Indonesia Revisited. Indonesia is closely tied to Dutch history, though it is now...	.