I heart New York.When I first got in the book business “the City,” as we called it, (could there be another city?) was still a mecca of book stores – little holes in the wall all over town out of which great things came. There was a lady named Gertrude down in the Village (could […] More >>
Archives for April 2011
What’s he DOING in There?
Starbuck’s History of the American Whale Fishery Last week’s blog entry was devoted to the subject of whaling logs, and it felt so good not to be writing about the relentless demise of the antiquarian book trade (see “Amazon/ABE acquires ZVAB” if you want more of that sort of thing), that I thought I’d spend […] More >>