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Chapter 723 Scholarship Opportunity 10 Mar 2013 | 07:46 am
Lots going on here at the moment. I am working hard at my new teaching job and loving every minute of it, and I also had the great opportunity to attend and sell books the California International Ant...
The Collective Returns, Catalogue for the 2013 California Antiquarian Book Fairs 5 Feb 2013 | 09:38 am
The Collective Returns: A Catalogue for the 2013 California Antiquarian Book Fairs Last year at this time, a group of bookselling friends who span the coasts of the country decided to jointly produce ...
Chapter 722 Don’t Call It A Comeback, Or, The Bookseller Returns 13 Jan 2013 | 10:19 am
Bookmark courtesy of my friends at The Book Shop in Covina, California. For several months now, I’ve been trying to return to regular posting on the blog and every time I do, it seems my time for writ...
Chapter 721 Comfort Found In Good Old Books 14 Oct 2012 | 02:34 am
Last weekend was the Pasadena Antiquarian Book Fair and this weekend is the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. Due to other commitments, I couldn’t attend or sell books at either fair. I was a bit mopey a...
Chapter 720 New Tolkien Book on the Horizon 10 Oct 2012 | 04:05 am
It’s not often that I write about books that are currently in or soon to be in print. My bookselling specialty is the hard-to-find and the out-of-print book. However, since it is fairly often that I w...
Chapter 719 Women, Books, and Art 9 Oct 2012 | 06:29 am
I found this frontispiece page of a book recently. I like how the woman portrayed in the picture is so engrossed in her book that she appears not to notice nor to care about the person who is watchin...
Chapter 718 Best Loved Descriptions of Autumn, 2012 Edition 26 Sep 2012 | 12:46 am
Long-time readers of this blog may recall that just about every year I post my favorite literary descriptions of my favorite season — autumn — many of them from one of my favorite authors, Laura Inga...
Chapter 717 Views from the Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair 18 Sep 2012 | 07:40 am
The booth across the aisle from mine at the Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair. The booths were this busy most of the day. Last weekend I had the good fortune to exhibit and sell books at the Sacramento...
Chapter 716 Back to Work, Back to School, Back to Books 12 Sep 2012 | 06:16 am
If you’re still checking on this blog after the past several months, I am amazed. And if you’re still there, yes, I am still here. The blog and I have been silent for months for a variety of reasons, ...
Chapter 715 I’m Not The Only Bookseller Who, For Better Or For Worse, Loves Book Fairs 14 Apr 2012 | 09:48 am
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair is happening this weekend — and I’m here, where I usually am, in California. Some day at some point in the future, I will make my way to the New York Antiquarian Boo...
