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The San Francisco ABAA Book Fair - in the rear view mirror - By Bruce McKinney The ABAA’s San Francisco Book Fair has come and gone and participants returned home, left for vacation or moved on to the next show. For book collectors and institutions these shows are special events, for dealers part of the modern formula for meeting clients and selling books. By most accounts the show met or exceeded expectations. Certainly the telltale signs of a good show; a seamless process, good attendance, and anecdotal evidence of satisfactory to...

The San Francisco ABAA Book Fair - in the rear view mirror

- By Bruce McKinney

The ABAA’s San Francisco Book Fair has come and gone and participants returned home, left for vacation or moved on to the next show. For book collectors and institutions these shows are special events, for dealers part of the modern formula for meeting clients and selling books. By most accounts the show met or exceeded expectations. Certainly the telltale signs of a good show; a seamless process, good attendance, and anecdotal evidence of satisfactory to...


Dan Gregory Talks Tech for the Trade - By Susan Halas “The future of internet antiquarian bookselling,” says Dan Gregory “is certainly not with companies like ABE or Amazon. They don't know anything about antiquarian books...	Collecting for Today and for Tomorrow - By Bruce McKinney At the recent ABAA Fair in San Francisco desire and logic met head on when I saw a very nice copy of Burr’s New York...
Borders… $99 E-Readers and Bankruptcy - By Michael Stillman Two major stories have come out of America's second largest chain of bookstores, and while the two are technically unrelated, they are very intertwined. A...	31 Laid Off at Powell's - But What Does It Mean? - By Michael Stillman Powell's Books, the large Portland, Oregon, retail store and online bookseller recently announced that it would be laying off 31 employees. This represents 7% of...
Those Buttons - the Other Services that Come with the AE Database - By Michael Stillman Many of you are now subscribers to the AE Database (and we hope many more will join them soon). The AE Database is a compilation...	A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words - By Bruce McKinney When you look at an AE page the chances are very high that what you see and the sequence of things you see are unique...
New Thinking about Some Old Ideas - By Bruce McKinney The news arrived on page D2 of the ever-thinner San Francisco Chronicle on Friday 25th that “Thunderbolt ups new MacBook’s speed, power.” The story focuses...	Census Trying to Locate All Cranwell (Subscribers') Editions of Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom - By Michael Stillman A census for all copies of the subscribers' edition (1926) of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is now underway. T.E. Lawrence is better known...
Elizabethan Life and Law Exhibition at Yale University - By Michael Stillman There is an exhibition taking place at the Yale Law Library, Life and Law in Early Modern England, celebrating British life in the Elizabethan Age....	20 New Catalogues Reviewed in Section 2 - By Michael Stillman This has been a busy month for book catalogue writers. We have 20 new ones up for review. Yeoman's in the Fork has issued their...
Some Unusual Antiquarian Books and Music from Simon Beattie - By Michael Stillman This month we review our first catalogue from Simon Beattie Antiquarian Books and Music of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, U.K. It carries the deceivingly simple title Short...	Rare American Pamphlets from David M. Lesser Antiquarian Books - By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their 117th catalogue of Rare Americana. Lesser's catalogues specialize in pamphlets and shorter form pieces pertaining to...
Travel Books and Archives from Voyager Press - By Michael Stillman This month we review our first catalogue from Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts. Voyager Press is located in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and is headed...	The First Catalogue from Yeoman's in the Fork - By Michael Stillman Yeoman's in the Fork has issued their first printed catalogue, aptly titled 2011 Catalog - One. Yeoman's has been selling books for several years, but...
The Life & Times of George Washington from The Raab Collection - By Michael Stillman In a Gallup poll conducted this past President's Day, Americans selected the "greatest" President of the United States. Reagan, Clinton and Kennedy all beat out...	Water in the American West from Marc Selvaggio - By Michael Stillman Marc Selvaggio, Books & Ephemera (or as he has restyled his name for this catalogue, Marc Selvaggio, Bibliohydrologist) has issued a catalogue on Water in...
New Acquisitions in the Book Arts from the Veatchs - By Michael Stillman The Veatchs Arts of the Book has issued Catalogue 68. New Acquisitions for a New Year. The Veatchs offer books that double as works of...	16th-19th Century Works from Librairie Thomas-Scheler - By Michael Stillman Bernard and Stephane Clavreuil of Librairie Thomas-Scheler of Paris have just issued a new catalogue: Livres Ancien du XVI au XIX siecle (Antiquarian Books...
A Syndicated Sale of Gould's Hummingbirds from the Arader Galleries - By Michael Stillman The Arader Galleries will be conducting a syndicated distribution of hand-colored lithographic plates from ornithologist/artist John Gould's most spectacular work: A Monograph of the...	The American Southwest and More from Back of Beyond Books - By Michael Stillman Back of Beyond Books recently published their Rare Book Catalogue #4. Back of Beyond specializes in books relating to the American Southwest. There are works...
Travel from Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books has released their catalogue of Travel 2011 Part I. From this we will infer that there will be at least...	Old and Rare Books about Books from Knuf Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Knuf Rare Books has issued a catalogue of Old & Rare Books about Books. Knuf Rare Books is located in Vendome, France, so not surprisingly,...
More Nautical Books from the Columbia Trading Company - By Michael Stillman The Columbia Trading Company has published Catalog 151, dated January-February, 2011. We are only very slightly late on this review, close enough to call it,...	Winter Sale Offered by David Schulson Autographs - By Michael Stillman David Schulson Autographs has released their Winter Sale Catalog 2011. We would encourage those who collect autographed material to get a hold of this catalogue...
The Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn from Lorne Bair and Between the Covers - By Michael Stillman Lorne Bair Rare Books, together with Between the Covers, has issued a catalogue of 101 Books from the Library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn....	Cummins and Reese Offer the Charles Cramer Archive - By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller and the William Reese Company have combined to produce a catalogue of The Charles Cramer Archive. It is not a typical bookseller's...
Shipwrecks, Piracy, and Maritime History from Bestebreurtje Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has issued a new catalogue entitled Shipwrecks & Piracy, Colonial & Maritime History. Bestebreurtje is located in the Netherlands, and...	Film, Literature and More from James Pepper Rare Books - By Michael Stillman James Pepper Rare Books has released Catalogue 199 in their almost monthly series. The formula is similar, and obviously successful. They offer a mix of...
American Historical Manuscripts from the William Reese Co. - By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has issued Bulletin 18: American Historical Manuscripts. This is a collection of handwritten documents pertaining to American issues from the...	Very Early Manuscripts, Leaves and Books from Phillip J. Pirages - By Michael Stillman Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts recently published their Catalogue 60. Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern (Mostly Illuminated) Manuscript Material as well as Books Printed...