Every once in a while we encounter events that we know will be benchmarks in our careers as antiquarian book dealers. The first shop, with its smell of fresh cut pine shelving, the first big buy, the first book fair, the biggest book fair, the biggest buy, the luckiest find, the first whale (dealer slang […] More >>
Archives for August 2015
“There’s Something Happening Here / What it Is Ain’t Exactly Clear”
(Thanks, Katherine!) It had been a lovely two weeks at home – lawn mowing, bike riding, working in my garden, a little desultory cataloging, filling orders from Maritime List 231 (about 70% sold), and pleasant early morning walks, before the heat of the day settled upon us. In all, a perfect bit of summer. But […] More >>
Down, Dirty and Distracted
So busy packing for next weekend’s Papermania show in Hartford that I damned near forgot to write this week’s blog. But the topic has been on my mind all week, so I’ll just give you the down and dirty version as I run out the door to tend to business in PA, then shop […] More >>
A Thousand Words…
In 1977 my business partner Jean, something of a counterculture person, and sister-in-law of the great poet Charles Olson, got us into the house of a recently deceased artiste over on Rocky Neck. Of course the old boy’s relatives, who disapproved of his swishy ways and never had time for him when he was alive, […] More >>