USS “Constellation” I had a pretty good blog idea for writing about last week’s RBMS Dealer’s Showcase in Baltimore. It had to do with all the years I’d spent doing book business there – since the 1980s, anyway – mostly centering around the big Labor Day Antique Show, and all the shops along 25th St. […] More >>
Archives for June 2019
Dealer’s Showcase RBMS, Baltimore, 2019
Here, in no particular order, are a few of the things I’ll be bringing for the amusement of 200 rare book and manuscript librarians from across the country. Manuscript. Whaling Journal of William A. Washburn, Aboard Ship Benjamin Rush, 1849 – 1851; Bark Virginia 1851 – 1852. Folio, unpaginated. About 150 pages of manuscript entries. […] More >>
A Map of Moby Dick
Here’s a neat item I bought last weekend at the Concord Book Fair. I think I’ll take it to the ABAA Bookseller’s Showcase at the RBMS Conference in Baltimore next week. Think any librarians have ever heard of Moby Dick? The Voyage of the Pequod from the Book Moby Dick. Cleveland: Harris-Seybold Co., 1956. Color […] More >>
Unsellable Books
Richard Mori took over the venerable New Hampshire Book Fair, and I’m relieved to say it was pretty much like the last 45 iterations or so, only slightly less. Fewer of the same old crowd of dealers and attendees. Fewer photos, too. I got distracted and failed to snap a single shot. For those of […] More >>