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Institutions Are Still Buying - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Recently I asked Terry Belanger, MacArthur fellow, full professor and Director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, about institutional buying and he encouraged me to contact a cross-section of institutional buyers for perspective. Their outlook is encouraging if sanguine. I spoke to Daniel De Simone, David Whitesell, Lynda Claassen, Doug Erickson, Martin Antonetti and Katherine Reagan, all of whom convey a commitment to continuing acquisitions although their...

Institutions Are Still Buying

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney Recently I asked Terry Belanger, MacArthur fellow, full professor and Director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, about institutional buying and he encouraged me to contact a cross-section of institutional buyers for perspective. Their outlook is encouraging if sanguine. I spoke to Daniel De Simone, David Whitesell, Lynda Claassen, Doug Erickson, Martin Antonetti and Katherine Reagan, all of whom convey a commitment to continuing acquisitions although their...


Trends in Book Auction Prices - New Charts Let You See Where the Market Is Going - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman This month, the Americana Exchange initiates coverage of what we call "Trends in Book Auction Prices." We now provide three graphs that look...	A Market Under Pressure - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney The Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera market at auction, as evidenced by both declining prices and percentage of lots sold, continues to be under...
A Stiff Prison Sentence for Book Theft: Equal Justice for All? - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman We have seen several high profile book theft cases come down in recent years. The target is often a library, in particular, the...	Cause Marketing: Increase Sales (and do a lot of good) - By Renee Roberts by Renée Magriel Roberts As the mortgage foreclosure crisis has been rippling throughout the United States with disastrous effect, our town (Harwich, located on Cape Cod...
The Wiki Control Panel Revised - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Listen carefully and you can hear the next generation of shoes dropping. Material everyday is being organized and digitized by subject and...	Gutenberg of Dust Jackets Discovered - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman A long time ago, a bit earlier than previously thought, some printer or bookseller believed it would be a good idea to protect...
Liberty & the American Revolution - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Princeton University, the alma mater of Sid Lapidus, has published an exhibition catalogue, Liberty & the American Revolution, to accompany the display of...	Around the Books Sites: Alibris Offers Listing Tools, Biblio Opens U.K. Site, Abe's Latest Top Ten - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Alibris has announced the availability of a set of tools to help their sellers manage and improve their listings and set prices. The...
Spend an Afternoon in the World of Books - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Whidbey Island, an hour from Seattle's downtown, is a worthwhile day trip, a pristine place where a community of 58,000 lives and tens...	Mission Seeks to Find the Lost Discoverer of the South Pole - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Some of the greatest nonfiction writers were those who participated in history. Among the greatest of the great are the explorers who expanded...
Sixteen New Catalogues Reviewed This month we review 16 new bookseller catalogues we received. Hordern House has created a spectacular catalogue for a collection of works relating to Captain...	Captain Bligh and the Mutiny on the Bounty from Hordern House - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Hordern House of Australia has issued a new catalogue, though this spectacular presentation has more the appearance of a fine press book than...
The Laurence Urdang Collection of Maritime Books from the Ten Pound Island Book Co. By Michael Stillman This month we have received our first catalogue from the Ten Pound Island Book Company of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The title could not be...	American Philosophy from Rudi Thoemmes Rare Books By Michael Stillman Rudi Thoemmes Rare Books has issued a somewhat surprising catalogue, American Philosophy, 1738-1914. It's unexpected as Thoemmes is a British bookseller, located in...
Americana and the West from Clark Rare Books By Michael Stillman Clark Rare Books has prepared a new catalogue, Catalog 938 of Americana, The West, and General. There are many new acquisitions available this...	The Wide World of Jo Mora from Carpe Diem Fine Books By Michael Stillman We recently received our first catalogue from Carpe Diem Fine Books, and it is dedicated to one individual that some of you may...
The Dutch Overseas from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books By Michael Stillman Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has issued their 138th catalogue, The Dutch Overseas. The Netherlands was a major colonial power, particularly from the...	Six Hundred Children's Books from Aleph-Bet Books By Michael Stillman Aleph-Bet Books has released their Catalogue 91 of Children's Books and Illustrated Books. Actually, most are illustrated children's books, thereby qualifying under both...
Signed American Documents from Joe Rubinfine By Michael Stillman Joe Rubinfine of Cocoa, Florida, has published his List 163 of American Historical Autographs. Most of these autographs come on letters or other...	Fine Press, Artists' Books, History and More from Kelmscott Bookshop By Michael Stillman Kelmscott Bookshop Rare Books has released their Catalog 4 of Artists' Books, Private Press, the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, Photography, Art, Fine Literature, History,...
The Latest in Film, Literature and Mystery from James Pepper Rare Books By Michael Stillman We have received the latest collections of books and related items for sale from James Pepper Rare Books: Catalogue 82. Pepper's catalogues...	"Bad Books" and More from Garrett Scott, Bookseller By Michael Stillman It's not often we see a catalogue with the cover warning "Beware of Bad Books." Is this the ultimate caveat emptor, a warning...
More Literature, Film, Etc. from Waverly Books - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Waverly Books has issued a new catalogue, List 164. Offered are books in their usual fields of literature and film-related, with enough surprises...	Latin American and Spanish Works from Plaza Books - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Plaza Books recently issued their List 28. The California bookseller specializes in Latin American and Spanish books. The greatest concentration is in Mexican...
Gene W. Baade Offers Inexpensive Books on the West - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Gene W. Baade Books on the West has now issued Catalogue 509. This includes 190 items from stock, most of which, he notes,...	Rise To Globalism - The U.S. 1865-1941 from the William Reese Company - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has issued a catalogue of American items from a period, though long, not often the subject of catalogues we...
Martayan Lan Offering a Collection of Early Maps - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Martayan Lan has issued a foldout pamphlet that serves as an announcement that they are offering an important collection of maps, atlases, and...	.