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Death of Eccentric, 104-Year-Old Lady Leads to a Museum for her Art and Books - By Michael Stillman A 21,000 square-foot mansion in Santa Barbara, California, will one day be the home of a fabulous museum, including art and books from an old and spectacular personal collection. Not much is known about the collection, especially the books, though a first edition of Paradise Lost is said to be part of the library. It seems to be more oriented to visual art, but the owner was the half-sister of William Andrews Clark, Jr., whose...

Death of Eccentric, 104-Year-Old Lady Leads to a Museum for her Art and Books

- By Michael Stillman

A 21,000 square-foot mansion in Santa Barbara, California, will one day be the home of a fabulous museum, including art and books from an old and spectacular personal collection. Not much is known about the collection, especially the books, though a first edition of Paradise Lost is said to be part of the library. It seems to be more oriented to visual art, but the owner was the half-sister of William Andrews Clark, Jr., whose...


Finding the auctions on AE - By Bruce McKinney Auctions are at the heart of AE and can be a bit difficult, for newcomers, to understand. They are the most complete set of features...	Gone Missing? Tracking that expensive lost shipment - By Susan Halas This is my 32nd year in the antiquarian business as a small dealer based in Hawaii. Up until May of this year I used to...
A Book Still Worth Reading: Anatomy of an Auction - By Bruce McKinney The rare book business is the art of identifying attractive material, stocking it and then connecting with those who have the desire and resources to...	Booking It in Europe - Volume II! - By Karen Wright Hello again. When last I wrote, we were zipping off to France. For the second part of our trip, we didn’t spend a whole lot...
Joe Newman returns to Bookselling, Brings a Fine Art Perspective - By Bruce McKinney After five years in the rare book trade, Joe Newman, of Milford, Connecticut spent the next six selling paintings for dealers in Connecticut and New...	Google Books Hearing Postponed - By Michael Stillman A hearing on the Google Books settlement has been postponed to July with no indication that the parties have been able to overcome the thorny...
Billy I kid you not - By Bruce McKinney You can imagine why William became a gunfighter. He apparently didn’t like his original name, William Henry McCarty, and took as its replacement a worse...	End of an Era - Last World War I Vet Passes On - By Michael Stillman Word came over the news wires a few weeks back that the last combat veteran of World War I has died. Claude Choules joined the...
A Whale of a Book, A Whale of A Sale - By Bruce McKinney Submitted by John Renjillian on behalf of the C.H. Booth Friends of the Library Beginning on July 9th and continuing through July 13th the C. H....	A1: It's Back…Sort of… - By Michael Stillman A1 Books, a pioneer in online bookselling once larger than Amazon, has made something of a return from the grave, though just how much of...
Who knew? - By Bruce McKinney The race for the Republican nomination has barely begun and already the results are in. The AED is now ready to predict the winner. To...	iPads, eReaders and the British Library - By Michael Stillman The British Library recently announced that it is offering an "app" that will allow users to read over 60,000 19th century books from the library's...
12 New Catalogues Reviewed in Section 2 - By Michael Stillman There are 12 new catalogues reviewed in Section 2 this month. The Columbia Trading Company offers a selection of books pertaining to the sea. The...	New Arrivals at Between The Covers Rare Books - By Michael Stillman We recently received Catalog 170 of "new arrivals" from Between The Covers Rare Books. You will find a variety of material in this catalogue that...
The Pacific from the Arader Galleries - By Michael Stillman The Arader Galleries has issued a new catalogue: The Pacific, A Selection of Rare Books. This is primarily a collection of Pacific voyages, dating...	Varied Printed and Manuscript Material from Samuel Gedge Ltd. - By Michael Stillman Samuel Gedge Ltd. has issued their Catalogue X. That is "X" as in ten, not as in x-rated. Most of what you will find here...
Books from the Sea from Columbia Trading Co. - By Michael Stillman The Columbia Trading Company has released Catalog 153. Columbia features seafaring works, books about boats, sailing, naval battles, shipwrecks, yacht racing, ocean liners, and just...	The Founding of America - 1773-1777 - from the William Reese Company - By Michael Stillman A recent unusual, and inaccurate, description of the ride of Paul Revere by a possible presidential candidate is a reminder of how much we as...
More Western Works from Old West Books - By Michael Stillman Old West Books of Colorado Springs has issued their Catalog 31 of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. Old West Books brings...	Maps, Atlases, Charts and "Cartefacts" from Jonathan Potter Antique Maps - By Michael Stillman Jonathan Potter Limited Antique Maps has issued their Catalogue Summer 2011, subtitled A Fully Illustrated Selection of Antique Maps, Atlases, Celestial Charts, Curiosities & Cartefacts....
Signed Modern Literature from Peter Harrington - By Michael Stillman Peter Harrington, the London bookseller, has issued their catalogue Peter Harrington 76. Modern Literature - 100 Signed and Inscribed Books. Very little in the way...	Obscure American Pamphlets and More from David Lesser Antiquarian Books - By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their Catalogue 119 of Rare Americana. Lesser primarily offers pamphlets and shorter form material from 18th and...
Music and Dance from J&J Lubrano - By Michael Stillman J&J Lubrano Music Antiquarians recently released a catalogue titled Music & Dance. This is mostly a catalogue of music, but with a sizeable section on...	Travel, History, and More from Helen R. Kahn and Associates - By Michael Stillman Helen R. Kahn and Associates have issued their Catalogue 81 - Voyages & Travel, History & Natural History, Religion & Politics. While the majority of...
Miscellaneous Acquisitions from Garrett Scott, Bookseller - By Michael Stillman Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has released Catalogue 33 (Miscellaneous Acquisitions). Scott is noted as a purveyor of the odd and eccentric in the field of printed...	.