The Pasadena show, as I’ve noted in an earlier blog entry, came off without a hitch. That is, until the very end. I had sent my books via UPS to the freight forwarder in California – a very efficient bunch called Event Productions Inc. – who were working with the promoters, and when I arrived […] More >>
Archives for February 2016
The Fingerless Navigator
THE FINGERLESS NAVIGATOR MEETS BOBBI GIBB Kent Circle, 1893 “At Kent Circle… At Kunt Circle” -Charles Olson MAXIMUS IV,V,VI When I began selling old and rare books 40 years ago the people of Cape Ann had more than a passing familiarity with the history of this place. They knew it chapter and verse, and they […] More >>
Yogurt
No trouble packing out of last week’s show in San Mateo, enjoying a quiet dinner, and heading down the coast next morning past Levi’s Stadium, already crowded with Superbowl tailgaters, to Santa Barbara to enjoy a rather strange Superbowl in our motel – sliding glass doors open to the harbor and gentle sunny breezes filtering […] More >>
San Mateo, 2016
Show Dog The whole thing was a gamble. The California “shadow” show, traditionally held the week before the big ABAA book fair, had been bounced from its location at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Promoter Nancy Johnson was faced with a tough call. If she decided not to run a shadow show, some other promoter […] More >>