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Despite a Few Clouds Over Title, Texas Auction a Huge Success - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Texas has its reputation. It’s been said that Lyndon Johnson stole his first election in 1948. If so, he wasn’t the only Texan guilty of stealing during that era. Someone or some persons were busily sneaking books and manuscripts from the Texas State Library around the same time. And those without access to the state archives were doing the next best thing: printing up new copies of antiquities. Like their 19th century...

Despite a Few Clouds Over Title,
Texas Auction a Huge Success

- By Michael Stillman

By Michael Stillman Texas has its reputation. It’s been said that Lyndon Johnson stole his first election in 1948. If so, he wasn’t the only Texan guilty of stealing during that era. Someone or some persons were busily sneaking books and manuscripts from the Texas State Library around the same time. And those without access to the state archives were doing the next best thing: printing up new copies of antiquities. Like their 19th century...


The New American Cyclopedia, 1857 – 1866 A Time Capsule of the 19th century - By Carl Burnham By Carl Burnham One of many interesting collections we have acquired recently is The New American Cyclopedia: A Popular Dictionary Of General Knowledge, a sixteen-volume...	The Old Booksellers of New York and other papers By William Loring Andrews - By William Andrews By William Loring Andrews New York: Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Five PREFATORY NOTE THIS brief account of the old booksellers of New York includes—with...
So you want to be a Wise guy - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney It can be difficult, in collecting printed material, to know what to collect. The printed universe is enormous. Whether to...	Google’s Froogle: Is It There Yet? - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman There is a way to have your listings picked up by the world's most popular and powerful search engine, and shown on...
A Last Connection to The Civil War Dies - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman One of the last, tenuous threads to America’s great Civil War was broken, or at least appeared to be broken, this past...	Book Related Web Site Rankings for July By Bruce McKinneyIn the July issue of AE (click here for a link to that story) we introduced online ratings of book related sites as...
Collecting Fine Bindings and Designs: Margaret Armstrong - By Renee Roberts By Renee Roberts This weekend I was, as usual, working, going over some boxes of books that had just arrived, and a slender volume caught...	Just “Catalogue 89” From James Cummins, Bookseller By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller has released their latest catalogue and it comes with the appropriate name “Catalogue 89.” The name is appropriate as...
Literary Firsts and More from James S. Jaffe Rare Books By Michael Stillman James S. Jaffe Rare Books has issued a catalogue focused on literary first editions, illustrated books, fine printing, and poetry. This is...	Western Americana From William Reese By Michael Stillman William Reese Company’s 232nd catalogue is a collection of “Western Americana.” The West was conquered a long time ago. You can...
Women, Country Houses, and Perspective From Charles Wood By Michael Stillman What do women, country houses and perspective have in common? For one, they are all topics of Charles Wood's latest catalogue...	A Fascinating Collection of Antique Maps From Jonathan Potter By Michael Stillman We recently received a new catalogue of maps from Jonathan Potter Limited, called, logically enough, "A selection of Antique Maps from Jonathan...
Interesting and Unusual Americana from David M. Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has released a new offering entitled "Rare Americana--A Catalogue of Significant and Unusual Imprints Relating to...	Some Summer Reading By Bruce McKinney One of the great pleasures of summer is the opportunity to gorge on books. In the year between our last great...