Here’s a quick spin through 2022 courtesy of a few of last year’s blog posts. I love the image just below. It was taken from the Sam Merrill Trail in the mountains overlooking Pasadena, an annual “Must Walk” walk for me. The city on the right of the image is Los Angeles. Pasadena lies in […] More >>
The Old Settler
This is the sort of rabbit hole you tend to fall into when you’re an old man with a wandering mind… I was working through the books I intended to put in this year’s holiday catalog – “Maritime List 320 – Christmas Again Already?” – just doing the preliminaries. After collating a book, and appraising […] More >>
If Joan Didion…
On the Remembrance Trail, down the Eastern Macro-Metro corridor to DC for the 10th annual Memorial observance of the Sandy Hook shootings. Friday night I shopped the little book fair in Northampton, MA, a rather cramped affair, but with some interesting material on display. Bought a heap of early 19th C missionary periodicals with Sandwich […] More >>
Something of a Bind
As attested by my several brushes with bankruptcy, I am not a particularly quick study when it comes to finance and economics. This troubled me early in my career, when it seemed possible that any novice bookseller could become Bill Reese simply by working hard. However, time went on and I found my place in […] More >>
