By Renée Magriel Roberts
Harwich Port. With the success of Amazon.com in the realm of bookselling, we may perceive the Internet as revolutionizing — in the sense of improving — the bookselling business. From the point of view of the customer, some things have certainly improved dramatically. For example, a single click of a mouse now gives the customer access to an incredibly wide selection of new and used books that were previously unavailable unless a buyer was willing to invest considerable time, money, and effort. However, from the point of view of the traditional bricks-and-mortar s...
By Mike Stillman
We’ve all seen the long lists on the bookselling sites. Abebooks, in particular, can easily have dozens of copies of a book available, even of ones once thought to be fairly un...
Lot 121 is a Papal Bull from Pope Calixtus III, the first Borgia pope, who served from 1455-1458. Calixtus was already 77-years of age when elected Pope, and his relatively brief papacy was consume...
By Mike Stillman
This month we have four new catalogues pertaining to America that collectors won’t want to miss. There is “Catalogue 86” from James Cummins, “Rare Americana” from David M. Lesse...
That has nothing to do with Steve Forbes’ book collection. By searching for “Steve Forbes” in quotation marks, we only find listings for the combination of “Steve” and “Forbes” together. This reduc...
By Bruce McKinney
In 1938 Scribner’s Book Store, on its way to issuing about
175 catalogues during its corporate life, issued #115, American Historical
Novels: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century. ...
By Bruce McKinney
On Thursday December 4th Swann Galleries in New
York, in two sessions, is offering 511 lots of
printed and manuscript Americana. For Americana
collectors there is a great d...
By Bruce McKinney
The principal art form of dealer scholarship has been the book dealer’s catalogue and many of these catalogues are prized by the cognoscenti for their research and definitive ex...
By Bruce McKinney
Scribners Catalogue #115: The Inside Story
For those of you who have just read American Historical Novels: Scribners Catalogue 115 Revisited this is the contents of tha...