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At Christie's: The Nebenzahl Collection - Remnants of a Golden Age - By Bruce McKinney The book business is a tough racket and the proof of this statement everywhere. Many people try their hands and most make some money. A few make a career of it, a very few make it to the top. Ken Nebenzahl is one of the few who has made it both as dealer and collector and continues to ride the high surf all the way into his eighties. The clock and responsible judgment lead him...

At Christie's: The Nebenzahl Collection - Remnants of a Golden Age

- By Bruce McKinney

The book business is a tough racket and the proof of this statement everywhere. Many people try their hands and most make some money. A few make a career of it, a very few make it to the top. Ken Nebenzahl is one of the few who has made it both as dealer and collector and continues to ride the high surf all the way into his eighties. The clock and responsible judgment lead him...


Tips from an eBay Power Seller - By Susan Halas Here’s my little secret: I’m an eBay Power Seller. I find that amazing. It’s 2012 and I’ve been selling on eBay since 1998. That’s 14...	Department of Justice May Initiate Action for E-Book Price Fixing - By Michael Stillman Reports have come out that the U.S. Department of Justice is planning to sue five book publishers and Apple Computer for price-fixing of electronic books....
Travel Books Auction at Drouot, Paris - By Thibault Ehrengardt THE EXPERT’S CHOICE The Drouot auction house, in Paris, has something of a 19th century brothel look with its tiny staircases leading to...	ABAA New York in April! - By Bruce McKinney New York, New York what a hell of a town. What this means depends on who you are talking to. Me, I like the place...
Auctions: April in New York - By Bruce McKinney The signal event for book, maps, manuscripts and ephemera collectors in America is the Antiquarian Bookseller’s Association of America’s annual New York Book Fair in...	Another Hugely Successful Comic Book Sale - By Michael Stillman When our mothers threw out our old comic book collections years ago, we all breathed a sigh of resignation, and moved on. It was not...
Huge Book Theft Uncovered in Germany - By Michael Stillman Quietly, in the dark shadows below the radar screen of publicity, great collections are still being built today. One such collection was being assembled until...	eBay: I bid you not - By Bruce McKinney Recently on my browser, Chrome, the id number of eBay lots drifted down the item description page and lost a few point sizes making it...
Britannica Closes Down 244-Year-Old Printed Encyclopedia - By Michael Stillman An institution in print is coming to an end after a long and storied career. It is a time for mild nostalgia, but not really...	Couple, Separated Almost 200 Years, Reunited at the Rosenbach - By Michael Stillman On a bright sunny day in 1831, or perhaps a cloudy one, we do not know, Benjamin and Maria Gratz sat for portraits. The painter...
Imperial Russian Law Exhibited at Yale Law Library - By Michael Stillman The latest exhibition from the Yale University Law Library's Rare Book Collection is on display from now through May 25, 2012. This exhibit takes a...	To Helen Back - By - Anonymous These past ten years no name has so often crossed my lips, The cheery solitude of certainty, she And reality the darker hand maiden...
10 Catalogues Reviewed in Section Two - By Michael Stillman There are 10 catalogues up for review for the month of April. Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has a new collection of odd and unusual books and...	More of the Unusual from Garrett Scott, Bookseller - By Michael Stillman Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has issued his Catalogue 37 (Miscellaneous acquisitions). For those familiar with Scott's catalogues, this one needs no introduction. It is filled with...
From the Counterculture to Whatever Else from Brian Cassidy, Bookseller - By Michael Stillman Brian Cassidy, Bookseller, has issued Catalogue Six. Cassidy's catalogues are hard to describe, being a mix of subjects, some a bit out of the mainstream....	Works by Isaac Asimov from Eureka Books - By Michael Stillman There aren't all that many authors who rate a single-author catalogue. One who does is Isaac Asimov. Eureka Books, of Eureka, California, has created just...
A Variety from James Cummins Bookseller - By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller's Catalogue 110 offers a variety of books and ephemeral material. It is impossible to peg such a variety other than to say...	Broadsides from the William Reese Company - By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has issued a bulletin entitled Broadsides. These are single sheets, often the means of conveying news during the 18th and 19th...
Literature to 1900 from Peter Harrington - By Michael Stillman Peter Harrington recently published their Catalogue 83. This latest collection is titled Literature to 1900. It contains items that go all the way back to...	The Early West from Old West Books - By Michael Stillman Old West Books has issued their Catalog 33 of books that pertain to the land west of the Mississippi. Offered is a collection of books...
Broadsides, Broadsheets, and Pamphlets from David Lesser Antiquarian Books - By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued a catalogue of Broadsides, Broadsheets, Pamphlets. These are ephemeral items, not intended to last long, the ones...	Russia from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books - By Michael Stillman From Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books this month comes their List 53 Russia. These are mainly travel books, accounts by people who roamed around the...
Early North American Maps from Donald Heald Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Donald Heald Rare Books has issued a catalogue of Maps from Private Collections. These are North American maps, ranging from the 17th to the 19th...	.