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A Case for Buying from Dealers - By Bruce McKinney Buying books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera is no great task. There are millions of items available today. Finding material that is highly relevant to a collecting strategy and requiring that price roughly equal value is oh so much more difficult, buying from dealers who most often have such material - at prices that provide a reasonable chance to someday sell for a profit - even more of a challenge. Locating common material is often easy and...

A Case for Buying from Dealers

- By Bruce McKinney

Buying books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera is no great task. There are millions of items available today. Finding material that is highly relevant to a collecting strategy and requiring that price roughly equal value is oh so much more difficult, buying from dealers who most often have such material - at prices that provide a reasonable chance to someday sell for a profit - even more of a challenge. Locating common material is often easy and...


Here's What to Expect at Larry McMurtry's 300,000-Volume “Last Book Sale.” - By Michael Stillman The huge auction at Larry McMurtry's Booked Up bookshop is set to go next month, and we are starting to get a look at the...	Washington and Lincoln Dominate the Rooms - By Bruce McKinney With all the bad news coming out of Washington, D. C. it is easy to think that all things Washington are in decline or at...
Seller Beware: Who really owns it? - By Susan Halas As a dealer and sometime collector of vintage and antiquarian Hawaiiana since 1979, I’ve run into many interesting collections of books, maps, prints and photos...	Academia’s Dirty Little Secret: De-Accession by Dumpster - By Susan Halas While I was working on this month’s AE story “Seller Beware” I posted some comments to an on-line book listserve describing my recent experience that...
Theft Report – Two Thousand Library Books and One Book of Mormon - By Michael Stillman Details of a massive book theft from a very old Italian library have emerged over the past two months. It's a case that must be...	A Fascination with Disaster in Ulster County - By Bruce McKinney Read some history books and you’ll notice they tend to focus on triumphs, jumping from one signal event to the next, illuminating reconciliation following the...
A Six Figure Library Book Saved in the Nick of Time - By Michael Stillman This issue of AE Monthly was not meant to be the library deaccession issue, though it seems to have unintentionally turned out that way. Elsewhere...	37th Annual Booth Book Sale July 14th - 18th - By Bruce McKinney An Extensive Selection of Rare and Collectible Material offered -- Book dealers may have 10,000 books and hope to sell 300 or 400 a year. To...
Barnes & Noble Weighs in on E-Book Price Fixing Claims - By Michael Stillman Barnes & Noble has joined many in the publishing industry in the battle against Amazon over electronic book pricing. This battle bears many similarities to...	Travel in Jamaica: Buccaneers at the National Library in Downtown Kingston, in the Year 2012 - By Thibault Ehrengardt PART II : Buccaneers’ Paradise. BOOK 1: Richard Blome, A Description of the Island of Jamaica, With the Other Isles and Territories in America, to Which...
Class Action Set in Endless Google Books Case - By Michael Stillman The latest ruling in the unending Google Books case was handed down a few weeks ago. It was more of a technical than substantive issue...	The James Gilbert Baker Science Library Available from Eveleigh Books - By Michael Stillman If James Gilbert Baker had been as good at shooting a basketball, swinging a bat, or reading lines before a camera, as he was in...
11 New Catalogues Reviewed - By Michael Stillman For July, we review 11 new bookseller catalogues in AE Monthly. Shapero Rare Books brings us back to the beginning of time, at least in...	Nineteen Electronic Catalogues Posted to AEM Section III over the past month - By Bruce McKinney Nineteen catalogues have posted since May 28th to Section III of AE Monthly. This section offers dealers a cost efficient way to distribute their PFD...
75 Incunables from Shapero Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Shapero Rare Books has issued a spectacular catalogue of very special books. The title is 75 Incunables from the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. The Bibliotheca Philosophica...	Early Continental Books from Libreria Antiquaria Rappaport - By Michael Stillman This month we received our first catalogue from Libreria Antiquaria Rappaport, their Catalogo 195. Their catalogues may be new to our reviews, but Rappaport has...
Fine Books from the Veatchs Arts of the Book - By Michael Stillman The Veatchs Arts of the Book are now up to their Catalogue 72 – Fine Books. Books may have been invented as a means of...	American Signed Documents from Joe Rubinfine - By Michael Stillman Joe Rubinfine recently published his List 170. Rubinfine specializes in American historical autographs. Much of the material is entirely in hand, generally personal letters. Other...
Signed American Documents from the Raab Collection - By Michael Stillman The Raab Collection recently issued their Catalog 72. Raab specializes in signed, historic material. This collection is entirely American in origin, and the primarily manuscript...	Signed Material from David Schulson Autographs - By Michael Stillman David Schulson Autographs has released their Catalog 151 of signed material. The catalogue offers material from a wide range of notable personalities, from writers to...
American Views from the William Reese Company - By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company recently issued their Bulletin 26: American Views. These are printed, or occasionally original artworks of various scenic views in the Americas...	Works Antiquarian and Modern from Blackwell's Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Blackwell's Rare Books has issued a selection of material Antiquarian & Modern Catalogue B171. The rare book store is located within Blackwell's large store for...
Edwards Collection of Australiana Offered by Hordern House - By Michael Stillman Hordern House has released a detailed and extensively illustrated catalogue of The Collection of Robert Edwards AO (Order of Australia). Mr. Edwards, along with being...	A Fair List from Peter Harrington - By Michael Stillman Peter Harrington issued a list of material for the recent book fair held in London. It includes some of the most notable items from their...
European Posters from Burkhard Sülzen - By Michael Stillman We have received Katalog 16 from Burkhard Sülzen of Berlin. Reviewing these catalogues is a bit of a challenge for an American as they are...	.