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The Fall Approaches - By Bruce McKinney Heading into fall buyers and sellers will be meeting head one in a series of auctions that will illuminate the strength and direction of the market. A great deal is at stake. As has been the case all year auction houses are handling increasing volume while recently experiencing a marginally lower percentage of completed sales [see charts]. A reasonable conclusion is that reserves are bit higher than buyers are comfortable to reach. The why is...

The Fall Approaches

- By Bruce McKinney

Heading into fall buyers and sellers will be meeting head one in a series of auctions that will illuminate the strength and direction of the market. A great deal is at stake. As has been the case all year auction houses are handling increasing volume while recently experiencing a marginally lower percentage of completed sales [see charts]. A reasonable conclusion is that reserves are bit higher than buyers are comfortable to reach. The why is...


Sometimes A Great Notion - An Intriguing Auction - By Bruce McKinney Swann, the New York auctioneers, are holding the first of three scheduled sales of material from the collection of Eric Caren, the life-long bibliophile. The...	Using Reference Works Can Help Enhance Value - By Susan Halas Vic Zoschak of Tavistock Books (ABAA) in Alameda, CA is well known in the book world as a dealer in Dickens and a specialist in...
AE Makes It Easy to Search for Book Auction Listings - By Michael Stillman The fall book auction season will be starting very soon now. Fall is traditionally the busiest time of the year for auctions. After Labor Day...	Trifecta in Beverly Hills - By Bruce McKinney Heritage Auctions is holding three auctions in Beverly Hills in mid-September and each of them will be of interest to those who covet valuable paper: On...
eCatalogues: Coming to a Computer Near You - By Bruce McKinney This month there are nine eCatalogues from AE Members. If you are at least a research member you can post catalogues as you issue them...	It's Been a Tough Month for Large Book Retailers - By Michael Stillman This has not been a good month for large, chain bookstores, especially so for their investors. Physical retailing has been battling online selling for a...
Perspective on Nine Years - By Bruce McKinney AE is celebrating its 9th birthday this September 3rd and it seems like only yesterday that we began. Many of our original members are members...	Bookseller Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion - By Michael Stillman Why? It's a question John J. O'Brien must have asked himself a thousand times. When you make millions of dollars, there are so many things...
Dead Men Tell Tales - By Bruce McKinney In fact they won’t shut up and apparently also do not die. Lest you assume from the headline that death has been conquered the answer...	St. Paul Woman Sentenced for Stealing 1,400 Books - By Michael Stillman A love of books is a wonderful thing. It can lead one to knowledge, to an appreciation of all things. Books make us better people....
George Inness: Picture Perfect - By Bruce McKinney I recently purchased a painting on eBay for $1,182. It’s small and faintly familiar. The artist is George Inness and the subject appears to be...	Cursive Suffers Another Deadly Blow - By Michael Stillman There is one less subject schoolchildren in Indiana will have to master when school reopens this fall - cursive. For younger readers unfamiliar with that...
Nine Catalogues Reviewed in Section 2 - By Michael Stillman This month we review nine new booksellers' catalogues. Sotheran's boasts a catalogue few can match - a 250th anniversary catalogue with at least one entry...	The Great South Land from Hordern House - By Michael Stillman Hordern House has prepared a magnificent new catalogue entitled The Great South Land. Searching for the antipodes, from classical scholars to Quiros & Dampier. Before...
The First Catalogue from Matthew David Jones, Antiquarian Bookseller - By Michael Stillman This month we review the first catalogue from Matthew David Jones, Antiquarian Bookseller. It is appropriately named Catalog #1, Summer 2011. This is the first...	Sotheran's 250th Anniversary Catalogue - By Michael Stillman Sotheran's or Henry Sotheran Limited, of London, has issued a very special catalogue to celebrate a remarkable anniversary - 250 years in the bookselling business....
Books of the Sea from Ten Pound Island Book Co. - By Michael Stillman The Ten Pound Island Book Company has issued their Maritime List 203. It offers 75 seaworthy books and ephemeral items. Located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, it...	Arts of the Book from the Veatchs - By Michael Stillman The Veatchs Arts of the Book has published their latest selection: Catalogue 69. It features fine printing and binding, type specimens, and many other...
The American West, Fiction, Art and More from Back of Beyond Books - By Michael Stillman Back of Beyond Books recently published their Rare Book Catalogue 6. The Moab, Utah, based bookseller opens their catalogue by noting, "we're experiencing one of...	Rare Books, Atlases, Manuscripts, Etc. from Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books - By Michael Stillman The Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books have offered a catalogue of Rare and Important Atlases, Autographs, Books, Drawings and Manuscripts. We are a little...
New Arrivals in the Pipeline at Between The Covers Rare Books - By Michael Stillman Between the Covers Rare Books has issued Catalog 171, dubbed In The Pipeline. This is a collection of new acquisitions that have been flowing, so...	Early American Maps from the William Reese Co. - By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company recently issued their Bulletin 21: American Cartography. It includes 32 important American maps and atlases from the 18th and 19th...