Last Friday morning, as I was pushing my cart full of ephemera into the XL Center in downtown Hartford, CT, it dawned on me that I’d been exhibiting at this show – Papermania – for quite some time. After calculating as closely as I was able, I determined that I’d first done the show in […] More >>
Archives for August 2018
Look What I Found!
Hoola van Nooten, Berthe. Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l’ile de Java. Brussels: Faubourg de Louvain, 1866. Large folio. (6) pp. plus 40 chromolithograph plates with text descriptions by van Nooten. $7500 As a specialist book dealer I walk a kind of tightrope. I need to conserve […] More >>
This Isn’t About That
No books all week, nary a one. Unless you want to count the two texts I ordered on eBay for my gun studies. (I love buying stuff on eBay because I can buy it with PayPal dollars which, because they come to me for rare book and manuscript sales through the Interweb, aren’t real dollars, […] More >>
Pleasing Everyone
Some years ago, in a burst of marketing inspiration, I stopped charging for postage and insurance on orders shipped within the US. I thought it would be a classy thing to do, and that my customers would appreciate it. And, for the most part, they have. My rationale was as follows: Back when my catalogs […] More >>