Our 7th year at Gourmet Trees (100% gluten free!) started slowly. Delivery was a week later than usual, owing to a late Thanksgiving, and two of our big sales weekends were marred by heavy snow and then rain. By the end of last week we still had about 30 trees on the lot, so we […] More >>
Archives for 2019
Semiotics
Every year about this time, for the past couple of decades, promoter Marvin Getman produces an event he calls the “Holiday Antiques, Vintage, and Decorative Arts Show, Including Book and Paper Row.” It takes place in the venerable Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington, Mass, just a few miles west of Boston – somewhere north of a […] More >>
It’s That Time Again…
The setup The Crew The Boss The job The stand The sales force The customers More >>
Back in the Saddle Again
As I suggested in my blurb for Maritime List 278 I have a considerable backlog of excellent material that still needs to be evaluated and cataloged. So, after cleaning up from last weekend’s Boston Antiquarian Book Fair, and attending to fulfillment of orders from List 278, I set to work on the pile of recent […] More >>
The Blinder Walk
It happens without warning every decade or so. I have a good book fair. I buy great stuff from other dealers, and people keep coming into my booth and buying things from me. There’s no accounting for such happenings (though I have a theory, which I’ll discuss in a moment), and no predicting them. Certainly, […] More >>