JOURNAL OF A CRUISE MADE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN… IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE ESSEX, IN THE YEARS 1812, 1813, AND 1814… Five weeks on the road since February 1 makes for chaos around the office. Trying to put things in order while working on the next catalog and preparing for the New York book […] More >>
Archives for March 2012
Dandruff Piles
Dartmoor Prison and Rare “Key” (see below) Books sit squarely on shelves. They are discrete, replicable units. They have titles, authors, and places and dates of publication. They organize nicely into classes – “fiction” and “non-fiction,” for example. There is agreed-upon language to describe condition, and there are bibliographical references that talk about the history […] More >>
Clown College
Snow flurries in the Virginia mountains. Dinner in Knoxville with Molly and John, proprietors of the excellent Central Street Books. The building that houses their shop used to be a bar at which Cormac McCarthy drank. The bar is still there, but McCarthy was gone. South to Chattanooga for lunch the next day, then down […] More >>
Washington Book Fair Report
Someone once told me a picture was worth 1000 words. Let’s see how that works. Leave home 5:00 am Wednesday. Try to pay for day at Strand Rare Book Room 10 am Coffee with agent, NYC, 11 am Lunch with editor, NYC, 12:30 pm Depart NYC 2 pm Get good deal on motel outside of […] More >>