My new computer is scheduled to arrive sometime next week. Maybe. Meanwhile I’ve been making do. My temporary office suite The big screen in the illustration above is the monitor for my mortally ill computer, which can only run filemaker. So I catalog my books on that one, but slowly, or it’ll freeze up. The […] More >>
Archives for February 2014
Request for Proposal. February 16, 2014
I operate an antiquarian book business. I sell rare books and ephemera at book shows, and through email and telephone quotes to retail customers, institutions, and other dealers. I publish a weekly blog with rare items featured. I post occasionally on Facebook and Twitter. I list books on two Internet listing services, and I publish […] More >>
Buying Things That Don’t Exist
So much for San Francisco. Long easy drive down the 101 to Pismo Beach. The vast Pacific and its eternal song. Monarch butterflies gathering in eucalyptus trees by the hundreds of thousands, as they’ve been doing for eons. The male will fly with his chosen one to the treetops, spend six hours of insect ecstasy, […] More >>
On Being Geniuses
Telegraph Hill Okay. This is the first thing that happens, and it happens every year. We leave home in the pre-dawn chill, hoping we’ve given ourselves sufficient time to account for snow and ice, and that no blizzards trap us in the airport for three days. We pass through security in a sleepy daze, find […] More >>