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Phillip Gennuso Purchases Zobel Inventory - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney The remaining general stock of Zobel Book Service was recently sold to the Phillip Gennuso Book Company of Cornwall, New York. The company is located at 246 Main Street. The number of books included in the sale has been estimated at between 40,000 and 90,000 volumes. The material has, for decades, been stored in the Zobel's bookbarn, double-shelved on planks extending ten feet into the air. Because of...

Phillip Gennuso Purchases Zobel Inventory

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney The remaining general stock of Zobel Book Service was recently sold to the Phillip Gennuso Book Company of Cornwall, New York. The company is located at 246 Main Street. The number of books included in the sale has been estimated at between 40,000 and 90,000 volumes. The material has, for decades, been stored in the Zobel's bookbarn, double-shelved on planks extending ten feet into the air. Because of...


The Zobel Inventory Sold on Craig's List - A Perspective - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney More than a year ago I heard from Miriam Zobel of the Zobel Book Service that she had some books to sell. ...	Posting to Craig's List - By Thomas McKinney By Tom McKinneyCraigslist is a free website that provides a collection of online resources including classified ads and discussion forums. In this article we'll be...
eBay Slashes Fixed Price Listing Fees...But Why? - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Ebay has announced that it is slashing its charges, effective September 16, on fixed price listings. These are no small adjustments. In an...	Book Collectors to See Stars - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney If you are a movie buff or simply like movie stars in the buff I know where you'll be in early December -...
Amazon Purchases AbeBooks... The Book Community Yawns - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman It was like the giant Sequoia tree which fell in the forest. No one knows whether it made a great sound because no...	Bookselling: Making it Personal - By Renee Roberts By Renée Magriel Roberts It is Tuesday morning and we have just finished printing up today's orders. Like most days, it is a mix of foreign...
A Traditional Cataloguer in Search of the New Collector - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Thomas, Tom, Cullen, the upstate New York bookseller doing business as the Rockland Bookman in Orchard Park, has issued an interesting catalogue in...	Bookseller Heaven; or The Thirtieth Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar - By Karen Wright By Karen Wright When I wrote an essay about why I should be awarded a scholarship to the Thirtieth Annual Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar, way back...
Pierre Beres, Legendary French Bookseller, Dies at 95 - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman One of the giants of the 20th century book trade died on July 28 in Paris. Pierre Beres was a bookseller and collector...	History on the Cheap - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Recently I searched Google for information about a book I purchased this past month - "A History of the Minisink Region" by Charles...
BookFinder Announces the Most Sought After Books of the Year - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Bookfinder.com recently released its fifth annual report of the most sought after old books on its book searching website. BookFinder's Top 10 reports...	The Civil War as Collecting Focus - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney This month's issue of the Comet focuses on the American Civil War and by extension, all other such wars that are always occuring...
11 New Catalogues Up For Review Eleven new booksellers' catalogues are considered in this month's AE Reviews. Science, medicine, and natural history are the focus of B&L Rootenberg Rare Books. Navigation...	Antiquarian Works In Science, Medicine and Natural History From B & L Rootenberg Rare Books By Michael Stillman This month we have received our first catalogue from B & L Rootenberg Rare Books of Sherman Oaks, California. This is Catalogue 12...
Artistic and Fine Books from Kelmscott Bookshop Rare Books By Michael Stillman This month we review our first catalogue from Kelmscott Bookshop Rare Books of Baltimore. This is their Catalog 3: Artists' Books, Private...	Unusual and Historic Books and Manuscripts from Thomas Cullen, Rockland Bookman By Michael Stillman Thomas Cullen, Rockland Bookman has issued his Catalog #45 - Books and Manuscripts. This is an unusual collection of antiquarian items, filled with...
The Latest in Film and Literature from James Pepper Rare Books By Michael Stillman Catalogue 175 from James Pepper Rare Books has arrived, and it contains the type of material we would expect from a Pepper catalogue....	The Latest From Waverly Books By Michael Stillman Waverly Books has issued a new catalogue of books and associated items, this one their List 157. It contains no specific description or...
A Maurice Sendak Collection from J & J Hanrahan By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue from J and J Hanrahan features items from Joyce Hanrahan's Maurice Sendak collection. The official title is Maurice Sendak. The...	Antiquarian Books From Librairie Thomas-Scheler Of Paris By Michael Stillman Librairie Thomas-Scheler of Paris has issued their 36th catalogue of Livres Anciens (antiquarian books). This catalogue is written in the French language, as...
Recent Acquisitions in the Law from The Lawbook Exchange By Michael Stillman The Lawbook Exchange has released its Catalogue 57 of recent acquisitions in Law and Legal History. Their catalogues mix scholarly antiquarian legal texts...	Bernard Shapero Rare Books' Summer Sale Features 40% Discounts By Michael Stillman Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books has issued a special catalogue, special for those looking to collect rare and unusual books at sharply discounted...
Navigation and Travel Manuscripts from the William Reese Co. By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has presented a list of items that will appeal to those fascinated by the day-to-day life of those at...	Discounts Up to 50% at Oak Knoll Press By Michael Stillman This month we received a new catalogue from Oak Knoll Press too late for review. Normally, we would simply publish a review the...