Well, it’s that time of year again. The big bird has been eaten, the turkey soup is on the stove, and the Gibson family Christmas tree extravaganza – “Gourmet Trees” – is underway. This year we’ve laid in 150 of the finest downy balsam firs, sourced from our gourmet tree farm in Canada, raised by […] More >>
Archives for November 2015
My Deathless Prose
Just a quick thought this morning, as I’m busily trying to get to Maritime List 233 which, if I can ever finish it, ought to be out just after Turkey Day. The thought is this: We like to obsess over the bottom line at bookfairs, but we probably ought to be thinking more in the […] More >>
My New Business Plan
In days of old, it is said, herds of buffalo stretched twenty-five miles across the great plains of America; flocks of passenger pigeons darkened the sky for hours as they flew past. That’s the way it was, more or less, last Friday at the opening of the 39th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. The […] More >>
My Old Friend David Porter
I love it when Amazon suggests I buy my own book… Finally finished painting the south side of the house. Got the dry wood stacked. And most of the rest of it cut and split. Then it was time to start pulling books for next weekend’s Boston Book Fair. Arrgh! One of the things that […] More >>
Cure for the Common Cold
Getting out of the Seattle book Fair last month couldn’t have been easier. I boxed up my books, signed the shipping manifest from Caladex, and went out to a well earned feed with old chums Rob Rulon-Miller and John Windle. Unlike last year’s Seattle escape dinner – at which both Rulon and Windle revealed that […] More >>