Well, the dust has settled and the cheap book catalog experiment didn’t come off quite as smoothly as I’d planned. I screwed up a couple of orders (told one of my frustrated customers I couldn’t fire the idiot packer because then I’d be out of a job), which gobbled up an hour or so, and […] More >>
Archives for January 2017
Reinventing the Wheel and Other Ruminations
Things keep changing. I told I told you in an earlier post about my friend, a fellow bookseller a little older than I, who is sitting on thousands of maritime books – tailings of lots long since paid for – in which he has little or nothing invested. Being a sensible fellow, he wants to […] More >>
Eye Candy
This weekend was the 17th edition of Marvin Getman’s “Boston Antiques, Vintage Art & Design Show.” I don’t know where the venue was 17 years ago, but for the several years I’ve been doing the show it’s been held at the Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington Mass., home of those guys in funny hats.As with all […] More >>
Whistlepig Day
It’s kinda funny, a little creepy. As I was looking out my hotel window thinking about my blog entry for this year’s Papermania show in Hartford, CT, it dawned on me that the view from my window was almost identical to the view from my window in 2016. And 2015. You get the idea… So, […] More >>
The Year in Review
The Year in Review at Ten Pound Island Jan. 9 – Papermania. I stumble onto Journal kept in ye Sam’l & Anna Bound for Borneo Commencing Augst 7th 1702 by Finch Reddall Comdr. of said Ship… Which sells a few weeks later for $15,000. Jan. 24 – Heartfelt essay on the passing of Cheryl Needle. […] More >>