Up in Cape Breton all week mowing my lawn (with a chainsaw) and working on my walking book I did not, I swear, buy, sell, or catalog an antiquarian book for the duration of my stay. So this week’s blog will be about old books in a once-removed sort of way. (See my blog entry […] More >>
Archives for September 2012
I’ve Had It
(Clipper Ship Sailing Card, Wild Rover. See Below) OK. I’ve had it. I’m fried. I’m cooked. Get the fork – I’m done. The gallery is hovering in suspension of disbelief, the lawns are mowed, the gardens tended, the house painted, Seattle Book Fair books sent to Seattle, purchases mailed to eager buyers, and Maritime List […] More >>
Austin Squatty
Hand colored chart of Vineyard Sound, 1882. (See below) I was treated to a relatively lively Boxborough Ephemera show this past Saturday, promoted by the ever present Flamingoz. Someone told me that the New York Pier Show, scheduled for this same weekend, had been canceled, and that this led to a minor influx of new […] More >>
Life on the Bottom
Investment Quality? See below Last week’s blog about my attempts to market and sell a collection of inexpensive used books set off a lengthy thread on the IOBA chatline. (For those of you not in the know, the Independent Online Booksellers Association is a trade group for people who sell books online professionally. They have […] More >>
Saving the Whales
There’s been a lot of whining – and I am as guilty as anyone in this regard – about the so-called “race to the bottom” and the destruction this has wrought on the traditional used book market. Here’s how it works – or doesn’t work. On my way home from lunch at the Halibut Point […] More >>