Rare Book Monthly Articles - September - 2007 Issue

The Gifted in Pursuit of the Valued

The Gifted in Pursuit of the Valued

By Bruce McKinney Two stops from Times Square and a ten minute walk toward the Hudson River brings me to a lovely building to meet Madeline Kripke, an extraordinary woman who lives among her books, manuscripts and ephemera in a frenzied embrace with words and their history. Emotionally charged words in particular have pride of place. Getting through the front door is an undertaking for open space long ago lost its argument with material and conventional order. Today the printed word in many forms occupies all the expected spaces such as shelves and also every table top and counter. The ais...

Red Stars Over Abe:  AbeBooks Goes Live with its Ratings

Red Stars Over Abe: AbeBooks Goes Live with its Ratings

By Michael Stillman Abebooks finally went live with its Bookseller Rating system last month, and we have heard two reactions from the dealers: so what, and this represents a knife in the hear...

Bookseller, Interrupted

Bookseller, Interrupted

by Renée Magriel Roberts Early this month I was busy with the daily routine -- you know, crisply processing orders, corresponding with customers and suppliers, doing data entry, hauling boxes o...

Reaching AE and the AED by Cell Phone

Reaching AE and the AED by Cell Phone

By Bruce and Tom McKinney A great database is no greater than its accessibility. For more than ten years databases of books have been evolving online and for the past five the AED, the largest ...

What is More Expensive than a Collectible Book? -- The Outrageous Cost of College Textbooks

What is More Expensive than a Collectible Book? -- The Outrageous Cost of College Textbooks

By Michael Stillman We received a press release from multi-site book searcher BookFinder.com that highlights one of the major cost issues with books these days. No, we are not talking about th...

AE:  It's on to Year Six

AE: It's on to Year Six

By Bruce McKinney At the stroke of midnight over the evening of September 2nd as the second hand plows on into the 3rd in San Francisco, in Australia it's already late afternoon, rush hour in E...

An Auction:  The Dust Settles in Indiana

An Auction: The Dust Settles in Indiana

By Bruce McKinney Beginning on August 9th and continuing through the 12th the Robert J. Brown Company of Indianapolis brought to conclusion the long considered sale of material owned by the Si...

The Passing of the Second Bookend:  Madeleine Stern Dies at 95

The Passing of the Second Bookend: Madeleine Stern Dies at 95

By Michael Stillman The other half of New York's most famous "bookends" passed away two weeks ago, bringing a close to an era and a story never to be repeated. Longtime bookseller Madeleine Ster...

A New Mexico Book Fair

A New Mexico Book Fair

By Bruce McKinney The first annual Santa Fe Antiquarian Book Show is to be held October 5 and 6, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is a book fair springing to life and the culmination of more than s...

Google Scholar -- One More Book-Related Tool from the Internet Giant

Google Scholar -- One More Book-Related Tool from the Internet Giant

By Michael Stillman In the past, we have taken a look at some of Google's services that relate to books, whether selling, collecting, or using for research. There is Google Book Search, the prog...

AbeBooks Auctions 14 Signed Penguin Orange Classics for Charity

AbeBooks Auctions 14 Signed Penguin Orange Classics for Charity

By Michael Stillman AbeBooks will be holding a special, one-item online auction from September 6-11, all for a good cause. Collectors of modern novelists will certainly be tempted to place a bid...

Seventeen Booksellers' Catalogues Reviewed In Section Two

Seventeen Booksellers' Catalogues Reviewed In Section Two

Seventeen new bookseller catalogues are reviewed in Section Two of AE Monthly for September. There is modern literature from Ken Lopez, literature and entertainment from Waverly Books. There is a c...

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