Maritime List 219 – After Still too gimpy to drive across the state, so I’m skipping the Albany Book Fair this weekend. But Dan Gaeta, who was doing the show, called to tell me about an interesting item he’d found. It’s nice to have friends! (Dan operates John Bale Book Co., a café and book […] More >>
Archives for October 2013
People Who Have It Worse
My blown quadriceps tendon turned out to be a little more disabling than I’d hoped. For the first time in my career, I was forced to cancel out of a book fair – “Book Row” in Marvin Getman’s infallibly interesting Boston Antiques & Design show . Next weekend is Garry Austin’s Albany Antiquarian Book Fair. […] More >>
Fresh Carpets
Recently, on the Internet discussion lists of the two biggest bookselling trade groups – IOBA and ABAA – I’ve been reading disheartening reports. Sales are down. Postage is up. And the big listing sites like AMAZON, ABE and Alibris are raising fees, reducing service and enforcing increasingly byzantine procedures aimed at making it easier and […] More >>
The Original “Big Book”
Lines of the Great Eastern In the “random” (this week’s nomination for a word that’s been misused to death) way typical of buying trips, last week’s journey through Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia yielded some interesting and unexpected finds. For example, I had no idea that I would uncover an album of 24 silver […] More >>