Rare Book Monthly Articles - March - 2004 Issue

Abe Increases Rates;<br>Alibris is Going Public.<br>What&#146;s Next for the Book Sites?

Abe Increases Rates;<br>Alibris is Going Public.<br>What&#146;s Next for the Book Sites?

By Michael Stillman Two significant announcements were made this past month concerning the online bookselling sites. The one which garnered the most attention came from Abebooks, which announced it was raising the commissions it charges on sales by 3%. Formerly at 5%, the new charge is 8% (plus a monthly listing fee based on the number of books the seller posts). The reaction from booksellers was fast and predictable. No one likes their costs to rise. While Abe may be a bargain compared to Alibris or Amazon, with commissions of 20% and 15% (but without posting fees), booksellers wer...

March:  On the Prowl on eBay

March: On the Prowl on eBay

By Bruce McKinney March has proven to be an interesting month for me on eBay. I’ve been buying one or two items a week while bidding, with varying degrees of gusto, on several others. I haven...

Americana From Michael Brown Rare Books

Americana From Michael Brown Rare Books

Item 8 is an 1860 manuscript account by one Hiram Wilson describing a colony of runaway slaves in Canada. Wilson began working as a missionary to the escaped slaves in 1836, and estimated the numbe...

A Catalogue of Colonial Americana<br>From the William Reese Company

A Catalogue of Colonial Americana<br>From the William Reese Company

By Michael Stillman America’s colonial period is a relatively overlooked time among collectors. There were no great wars like the Revolution or the Civil War. The French and Indian War was abou...

James Cummins Latest Catalogue<br>Covers a Variety of Material

James Cummins Latest Catalogue<br>Covers a Variety of Material

By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller offers catalogues covering a wide range of material, and Catalogue 88 is no exception. However, this catalogue does include a particularly strong co...

The Wild Southwest<br>From Almagre Books

The Wild Southwest<br>From Almagre Books

By Michael Stillman Almagre Books of Bloomington, Indiana, recently published its “List 58A,” or more specifically, “New Mexico, Texas, and the Southwest, Mexico and Latin America.” This is a w...

The Making of a Cape Cod Library

The Making of a Cape Cod Library

By Renée Magriel Roberts Viewing a library for the first time is like having a ticket to the invisible world of the mind of its founder. Sometimes I feel like we should have special permission ...

FootNotes:  For the Next Generation of Online Book Listings

FootNotes: For the Next Generation of Online Book Listings

By Bruce McKinney The world of books, once the staid backwater of the information age, is moving along at a quick pace these days, thank you. Books, until recently the solid and predictable bri...

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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
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    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Knight's An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Locke's Important Treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The Richly Illustrated First French Edition of Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales.
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    Leland Little, Jan. 22: A Rare Photograph of David Bruce Brown and #48 Fiat.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: George Cruikshank (England, 1792-1878), Archive of Sketches, Notes, and Letters.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Extremely Scarce Copy of Die Samländische Ode (The Samland Ode), Signed by Max Pechstein.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Andy Warhol's The Thirteen Most Wanted Men Exhibition Catalogue.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Edward Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Every Building on the Sunset Strip.

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