In 1975 I moved to my second shop, a cute little building that had been a fish market in East Gloucester, Massachusetts. I was so enthralled with my fantasy of the perfect location that I failed to take full advantage of my earliest opportunities for true enlightenment in the art of book scouting. As in […] More >>
Archives for April 2019
Canadian Refrigerator
Canadian Refrigerator I’m up here in my shack working at my “other job” writing an article about keeping schools safe by giving guns to teachers. It’s pretty nasty outside but cozy inĀ here. And don’t worry, you faithful maritime book lovers. The long-awaited co-op catalog with Howland and Company will be out at the beginning […] More >>
Wild Things
First things first. Wild things later… Old friend and long-time colleague Garry Austin died a couple of days ago. I met him back in the late 1970s on one of my first book scouting trips, in Merv Slotnick’s shop in Wells Maine. Merv and Doug Harding and someone else were lecturing me about the realities […] More >>
Guest Blogger – David Chesanow
Last time I featured a guest blog it contained a link with malware that shut my website down for months. But I’ve been too distracted of late to even remember the weekly blog so, when one of my loyal readers bugged me about it, I told him he could write it himself. He did, but […] More >>