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AE Monthly

Articles - August 2010 Issue

 
All's well that ends well

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney Jeffrey Thomas, the San Francisco rare book dealer passed away in the late spring of 2007. One portion of his books was consigned to old friends John Crichton and John Windle, both ABAA dealers. Another part was consigned to Pacific Book Auctions. All books have their histories, one of them that was sent to auction, a story that would take two years to resolve. In the end it would...

  
  • Too Good to be True

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney On eBay a month or so ago I ran across a Currier & Ives print of West Point, an original folio print printed...

  • Sci-Fi, New Tech & the Modern Book Collector

    - By Stephanie Howlett-West

    By Stephanie Howlett-West Technology and Science Fiction have always shared a symbiotic relationship - where there is one, the other will follow; so it should not...

  • Out of the Valley of Death

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. We recently updated the monthly Trends in Book Auction Prices graphs and the pictures...

  • Auction News: Goodbye Roy Rogers

    - By Michael Stillman

    By Michael Stillman This is a difficult story to write. It is poignant and sad, yet strange and funny, full of meaning and insight, or maybe...

  • An Update on the AED

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney Without any notice or clamor the AED, the Americana Exchange Database of material offered at auction, described in bibliographies and/or included in important...

  • Calling Gutenberg on Your iPhone

    - By Michael Stillman

    By Michael Stillman Technology advances at a dizzying pace, perhaps even a frightening one for those who grew up in the book world, where technology was...

  • 17 New Catalogues Reviewed This Month

    For August, we have 17 new bookseller catalogues to review. This month we have first catalogues from Better World Books, which is focused on spare...

  • Pieces of You from Better World Books

    By Michael Stillman This month we review the first catalogue from Better World Books of Mishawaka, Indiana. Better World is not your typical bookstore. They stock...

  • Antique Maps from Jonathan Potter Ltd.

    By Michael Stillman For the summer of 2010, London map seller Jonathan Potter Ltd., has issued the very appropriately titled catalogue A Selection of Antique Maps...

  • Natural History from Sotheran's

    By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue from Sotheran's of London is devoted to the subject of Natural History. Sotheran's offers both general and specific catalogues, and...

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