RARE! Details below As I may have mentioned I’ve been working on a book about the American explorer John Ledyard for about a year. Basically, the “plot” of the book is that I trace an early journey of Ledyard’s – down the Connecticut river from Dartmouth College to Hartford – by walking along the river […] More >>
Archives for January 2012
The End Game
I started this blog in June 2010, with the idea of making it a weekly record of my activities in the antiquarian book trade. And I’ve pretty much maintained that schedule. It’s just that some weeks are more active than others. This past week was one in which almost nothing happened. However, in keeping with […] More >>
Amazon’s Plan for Us (and Other Matters)
Rare whaling pamphlet (see below) I like to have lunch every week with my pal Anthony Weller. He’s a novelist whose latest effort, The Land of Later On, was purchased and published — as an e-book — by Amazon. This is part of Amazon’s entry into the publishing world which, knowing them as we now […] More >>
Half Full
Ed Arno Archive (see below) Poor old Hartford. Poor old Papermania. I just don’t know what to think about them anymore. Traditionally the first and strongest ephemera show of each New Year, Papermania been ticking along since the 1980s. I’ve been doing it for twenty years or so. It took me at least ten years […] More >>
Time Travel for Dummies
The Whaleship Essex Lost in Translation. See below When my accountant said, “Hey, you’ve had another good year,” my response was, “You’ve got to be kidding!” But then, looking back, I remembered some happy referrals, several fascinating consignments and, in general, quite a bit of successful book scouting. Ten Pound Island’s invoices and check stubs […] More >>