This is a charming and important book about Pacific exploration. I read it once — so long ago I’ve forgotten precisely why it impressed me. However, at my advanced age I don’t need to remember details. All I need to remember is that it’s an important title and, roughly, how much it might be worth […] More >>
Archives for October 2010
A Niche Closes Up
More about the photo at the end of this week’s entry. There was a front page article in the Gloucester Daily Times this week about the closing of Peter Smith Publisher. That name may not mean much to you, but he was an innovator in the publishing world, and the history of his business provides […] More >>
Chowder
Up early Saturday to load the car and drive through crisp air, bright sun, and blazing autumn colors to Northampton, Mass., site of the 2010 MARIAB Book and Ephemera show. I was in fine fettle when I arrived at the Smith Vocational School just outside Northampton, and I noticed my colleagues were, too. The beautiful […] More >>
The Other End of the Spectrum
This book is described below. We hope you’ll visit us, and maybe it, at the Pioneer Valley Book and Ephemera Fair, Sunday Oct. 17, from 10 am to 4 pm. Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust St (Rt 9), in Northampton, MA. Since the beginning of the summer this blog has been chronicling the ins and […] More >>
Catalog Noir
Researching and cataloging books and manuscripts for Maritime List 196 has got me buried in the Past… back with John Paul Jones as he shoots Lt. Grubb one more time for trying to strike colors on the gallant Bon Homme Richard; or on a seemingly endless whaling voyage through the Bering Strait, gamming with the […] More >>