Rare Book Monthly Articles - July - 2004 Issue

Despite a Few Clouds Over Title,<br>Texas Auction a Huge Success

Despite a Few Clouds Over Title,<br>Texas Auction a Huge Success

By Michael Stillman Texas has its reputation. It’s been said that Lyndon Johnson stole his first election in 1948. If so, he wasn’t the only Texan guilty of stealing during that era. Someone or some persons were busily sneaking books and manuscripts from the Texas State Library around the same time. And those without access to the state archives were doing the next best thing: printing up new copies of antiquities. Like their 19th century counterparts, these 20th century outlaws left their mark on the land. Today, whenever important Texas documents come up for sale, there will always be...

The New American Cyclopedia, 1857 – 1866<br>A Time Capsule of the 19th century

The New American Cyclopedia, 1857 – 1866<br>A Time Capsule of the 19th century

By Carl Burnham One of many interesting collections we have acquired recently is The New American Cyclopedia: A Popular Dictionary Of General Knowledge, a sixteen-volume set (of which we have fou...

The Old Booksellers of New York and other papers<br>By William Loring Andrews

The Old Booksellers of New York and other papers<br>By William Loring Andrews

By William Loring Andrews New York: Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Five PREFATORY NOTE THIS brief account of the old booksellers of New York includes—with very few exce...

So you want to be a Wise guy

So you want to be a Wise guy

By Bruce McKinney It can be difficult, in collecting printed material, to know what to collect. The printed universe is enormous. Whether to define collecting ambitions by subject, period...

Google&#146;s Froogle:  Is It There Yet?

Google&#146;s Froogle: Is It There Yet?

By Michael Stillman There is a way to have your listings picked up by the world's most popular and powerful search engine, and shown on one of the most heavily trafficked websites in existence....

A Last Connection to<br>The Civil War Dies

A Last Connection to<br>The Civil War Dies

By Michael Stillman One of the last, tenuous threads to America’s great Civil War was broken, or at least appeared to be broken, this past Memorial Day with the passing of Alberta Martin. At t...

Book Related Web Site Rankings for July

Book Related Web Site Rankings for July

By Bruce McKinneyIn the July issue of AE (click here for a link to that story) we introduced online ratings of book related sites as a way to understand relative performance. In this, the second m...

Collecting Fine Bindings and Designs: Margaret Armstrong

Collecting Fine Bindings and Designs: Margaret Armstrong

By Renee Roberts This weekend I was, as usual, working, going over some boxes of books that had just arrived, and a slender volume caught my eye. It was bound in green silk, with the word “Mus...

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