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Articles - August 2011 Issue


Ready or Not? - By Bruce McKinney Rare books don’t rule the world. They are part of the world and while intellectual, primarily appeal to the emotions. They are baubles whose appeal for some is magic, for others unimportant. They are, in the complex online world, now the makings of jigsaw puzzles conceived by individuals, and executed over varying time and with changing focus. They are the polar opposite of stamp collecting for there are few specifics and many variables and the...

Ready or Not?

- By Bruce McKinney

Rare books don’t rule the world. They are part of the world and while intellectual, primarily appeal to the emotions. They are baubles whose appeal for some is magic, for others unimportant. They are, in the complex online world, now the makings of jigsaw puzzles conceived by individuals, and executed over varying time and with changing focus. They are the polar opposite of stamp collecting for there are few specifics and many variables and the...


The ABA Takes On Amazon - By Michael Stillman In June, we reported on a major sales tax battle taking place in the hinterlands between the world's largest online bookseller, Amazon.com, and various American...	Breaking: The Parts are Sometimes Worth More than the Whole - By Susan Halas The subject of breaking is one of the touchiest and most controversial in the book world, but if you handle printed material long enough you...
No Borders: Pioneer Bookseller Closes Down on Both Sides of the Pacific - By Michael Stillman Borders is no more. The once great bookseller, begun as a small local bookshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 40 years ago, is closing all of...	A Book Auction in Maine August 16th - By Bruce McKinney On August 16th in Fairfield, Maine just off Route 95, at Poulin Antique and Auction Gallery, an authentic collection of gems and rhinestones in the...
Amazon Purchases England's The Book Depository - By Michael Stillman Amazon.com has reached an agreement to add another bookseller to its stable of book websites. This one is The Book Depository, an English online-only book...	Leslie Hindman No. 167 - an interesting sale - By Bruce McKinney Leslie Hindman, the Chicago auction house, continues to increase its footprint in the books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera fields with the issuance of a sumptuous...
A Whale of a Sale - By Bruce McKinney The C. H. Booth Library Fair has done it again. A great spirit, plenty of volunteers, an energetic audience and voila you have a success. ...	A 17,000-Book Auction Sells Out - By Michael Stillman A book auction was held recently in Minnesota, and a most atypical one at that. The starting bids were exceptionally low, though perhaps not for...
Old World under New Management - By Bruce McKinney Old World Auctions has moved to Richmond, Virginia under the new leadership of Eliane and Jon Dotson. For the last 15 years, Curt and Marti...	Google's New Image Search - Matching Pictures on the Internet - By Michael Stillman This is a work in progress. It is not quite up to a Google word search. It's understandable. Matching words is one thing, matching pictures...
Why doesn't this happen in my town? - By Bruce McKinney Space is apparently at a premium in Jerusalem, and it has gotten so bad that the National Library on the Hebrew University’s Givat Ram campus...	10 New Catalogues Reviewed This Month - By Michael Stillman This month we review 10 new catalogues in Section II, with many of the new ones quite topic specific. David D.Newell presents a collection of...
Shaker Literature from David D. Newell - By Michael Stillman We have reviewed many catalogues of books about the Movers, people who led and changed the world. Now it's time for one about the Shakers....	Early to Very Early European Books from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, of Narberth, Pennsylvania, recently issued Catalog 57. There is no stated topic for the material offered. What we can say is...
Literature, History, Children's Books and More from Paul Foster Books - By Michael Stillman This month we received our first catalogue from Paul Foster Books, of London. It comes with a simple, four-digit title - 2011. There is no...	An Extract of Ephemera from Marc Selvaggio - By Michael Stillman Marc Selvaggio, Books and Ephemera, has issued their Catalogue Number 137 Extract of Ephemera! That odd title can be explained by the ephemeral brochure pictured...
Texas and the American West from Kenston Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Kenston Rare Books has issued their catalogue for Summer 2011. It comes with the subtitle, Fine Books on Texas and the American West. This is...	Recent Acquisitions at the Argonaut Book Shop - By Michael Stillman The Argonaut Book Shop has issued a catalogue of Recent Acquisitions and Selections from Stock. Summer 2011. This catalogue could be described as a miscellany...
Very Early Maps from Martayan Lan - By Michael Stillman Martayan Lan, the noted New York map seller, has issued their Catalogue 45 - Early & Rare World Maps, Atlases & Rare Books. Mainly from...	Signed Material from David Schulson Autographs - By Michael Stillman David Schulson Autographs recently issued their Catalog 148. Schulson provides a variety of signed documents, often letters of a personal type. There is a mix...
History, Literature, Manuscripts and More from James Cummins Bookseller - By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller has published catalogue 109. This is a wonderful collection of mixed material, hard to pin down because of its variety. History and...	The Dutch East India Company from Bestebreurtje Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has issued a catalogue of The Dutch East India Company (VOC). The VOC (those are initials in Dutch for Dutch...