Ahh, Seattle! Sometimes, when my nose is pressed right up against this business, it seems as if I’ve been doing the same thing, over and over, for decades… Take a chance on a book, catalog it, price it, try to sell it, try again and again to sell it, finally sell it, then ship it, […] More >>
Archives for September 2019
To Catalog or Not to Catalog
Not much left on the Salem shelf I had fun rolling out the list of books about Salem from the stock of Howland and Company, and the results, in terms of sales, were surprisingly good. So when I discovered a small collection of books about Bermuda I thought, “What the heck?” and commenced cataloging them. […] More >>
A Little Something New
In my father’s house are many mansions, and in my colleague Howland’s house there are many rooms. And in these rooms are many shelves. And on these shelves are many books. There is no end of things in the heart, and sometimes it seems there will be no end of Louie’s books. Upon closer inspection, […] More >>
Greater Expectations
Six years ago workers were still putting the finishing touches on the Brooklyn Expo Center as we wheeled our books onto the floor. It was a stinky hot afternoon and the air conditioning pipes were dripping into our booths. That evening the show opened to great fanfare and greater expectations. The crowd buzzed with youthful […] More >>
I originally planned to have Maritime List 276 up on tenpound.com by Thursday or Friday. Then I realized it was Labor Day Weekend and people were more likely to be at the beach or in the mountains than hunched over their computers. And anyway, I’ll be leaving on Thursday for the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair […] More >>