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On the Road to Damascus - By Bruce McKinney For someone who will visit a book fair it may be an act of premeditation or whim. Plans will be made and unmade, commitments adjusted, weather and health considered. Some collectors will fly across the country and others take a subway. Once inside the Park Avenue Armory at 67th in New York they will become part of a sprawling mass of enthusiasms that leap to life as thousands of the faithful and addicted make their...

On the Road to Damascus

- By Bruce McKinney

For someone who will visit a book fair it may be an act of premeditation or whim. Plans will be made and unmade, commitments adjusted, weather and health considered. Some collectors will fly across the country and others take a subway. Once inside the Park Avenue Armory at 67th in New York they will become part of a sprawling mass of enthusiasms that leap to life as thousands of the faithful and addicted make their...


Auctions in New York in April - By Bruce McKinney A cottage industry of Newport Mansions has grown up around the ABAA Book Fair in New York over the past twenty years. The leading dealers,...	AbeBooks Purchases ZVAB/Choosebooks - By Michael Stillman A major combination, and contraction in terms of the number of companies engaged in the book listing business, occurred on March 2 when AbeBooks announced...
Two Generations in the Book Trade - Looking back with the dealer’s daughter - By Susan Netzorg Halas Part I – Eighty Years and Counting On April 1, 2011, perhaps just as you are clicking on this file, I will celebrate my 32nd...	eBay: Innocents Abroad - By Bruce McKinney A recent article in Kingston, New York’s daily newspaper, the Freeman about an early [1777] copy of the New York State Constitution offered on eBay...
Court Strikes Down Google Settlement and Part of Google Books - By Michael Stillman "The benefits of Google's book project are many. Books will become more accessible. Libraries, schools, researchers, and disadvantaged populations will gain access to far more...	Let the Bunting unfurl in April: an auction for charity - By Bruce McKinney On April 20th, in Los Angeles and New York, the collections Charles Williamson and Tucker Fleming go up for bid. Mr. Williamson was a long...
My Account: Here's Your Scoreboard for AE Services - By Michael Stillman This month we are going to take a look at your "My Account" page here at AE. Everyone is entitled to one. Access comes by...	Old Guides as Maps to the Future - By Bruce McKinney Ten years ago, David Gerstel of Montreal, Canada, a long time collector of travels and voyages, searching for a less costly collecting opportunity began to...
Books and Libraries: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - By Michael Stillman These are apocalyptic times in the book and library world as we know them. The year 2000 may not have been the beginning of end of...	Sixteen Catalogues Reviewed This Month - By Michael Stillman This month we review 16 catalogues in Section Two of AE Monthly. Peter Harrington offers 75 important works. Pages of Yesteryear has some uncommon items,...
75 Important Works from Peter Harrington - By Michael Stillman Peter Harrington has issued 75, perhaps the shortest title for a catalogue we have seen. This not only places the catalogue in Harrington's numerical sequence,...	The Uncommon from The Pages of Yesteryear - By Michael Stillman This month we have our first catalogue from The Pages of Yesteryear, of Newtown, Connecticut. We will admit to being a bit late as this...
Spanish and Portuguese Related Works from Paul Orssich - By Michael Stillman Paul Orssich recently released Catalogo 71 Libros Antiquos. As one might expect from a catalogue so named, the focus is on works related to Spain....	A Variety from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller - By Michael Stillman John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller has issued his 48th catalogue, Omnium Gatherum. He explains that this erudite-sounding Latin term "is a fancy way of saying a...
The American Southwest, Mexico, and Latin America from Almagre Books - By Michael Stillman Almagre Books of Santa Fe has issued their List 62A, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and California. Mexico and Latin America. Once upon a time, they...	Travel and Exploration from Antiquariat Eigl - By Michael Stillman Antiquariat Eigl has issued their Katalog 35, Reisen und Expeditionen / Travel and Exploration. Two things you might gather from this title is that the...
Signed American Documents from Joe Rubinfine - By Michael Stillman Joe Rubinfine has issued a new collection of American Historical Documents - List 167. These autographs and signed documents mainly come from political and military...	Rare Americana from the George S. MacManus Co. - By Michael Stillman The George S. MacManus Company has issued their Catalogue 407 of Rare Americana. This is a selection filled with important items for collectors of Americana,...
Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages from Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta - By Michael Stillman Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta has issued their Catalogue 104. Classical Antiquity & Middle Ages (A-K). Fragmenta Selecta issues very large catalogues, over a thousand items in...	Rare and Colorful Books from the Arader Galleries - By Michael Stillman The Arader Galleries is offering A Selection of Rare Books Spring 2011. There is a touch of spring in the works presented. Many of the...
Rare Books on the American West from Old West Books - By Michael Stillman Old West Books has issued Catalog 30 of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. Not a lot more need be said to...	Recent Acquisitions in the Unusual from Garrett Scott, Bookseller - By Michael Stillman From Garrett Scott, Bookseller, comes Catalogue 32 Recent Acquisitions. Scott specializes in the unusual, sometimes the ridiculous, in mostly American (some British) pamphlets from the...
Recent Acquisitions at the William Reese Company - By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has published a catalogue of Recent Acquisitions in Americana, their 282nd catalogue. This one contains a wide variety of material -...	Earliest Sub-Sahara African Recordings Offered by the Voyager Press - By Michael Stillman The Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts is offering a remarkable collection of an ephemeral nature, material of great historical significance. Offered is a collection...
Inexpensive Americana from David M. Lesser Antiquarian Books - By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued Part 16 of their Inexpensive Americana series. The listings of inexpensive Americana are very similar to the...	From Russia (and Europe) with a Short List from Simon Beattie - By Michael Stillman Simon Beattie Antiquarian Books and Music has issued Short List 3, a very large catalogue for a small number of items. This is a 26-page...