By Bruce McKinney
Newspapers, as extraordinary as they are and have been, are simply a way to deliver information. They perform an important task but are only aggregator and delivery mechanism. The same is true for radio and television. They deliver information. The same is true for libraries. They aggregate and deliver information on demand. So too encyclopedias aggregate and deliver information. We have a history of relying on methods, sometimes for generations, but our goal is efficiency, the means ultimately unimportant. We do form emotional attachments as ten of millions of ...
By Michael Stillman
In a major case pitting a collector against a state for ownership of old documents, victory has gone to the collector. Richard L. Adams of Virginia prevailed over the State o...
By Bruce McKinney
Beneath the firm ground of books, long documented, recorded, saved and frequently valued lies an uncertain, quixotic mass of "un" material that is the emerging moveable feast o...
By Michael Stillman
The issue of the legality of selling old children's books in light of new lead content standards reared its ugly head again after written statements by one of the commissione...
By Bruce McKinney
Wikis are the future of book buying and selling on the web. Based on extensive subject and category bibliographies that are always growing Wiki Bibliographies permit acquirers...
By Michael Stillman
These are tough times to get the best prices for your books, but as we know, every rule has its exception. On March 13, the first comic book featuring Superman went under the...
By Bruce McKinney
Bonhams Butterfields recently posted an anonymous single owner sale of material on Hawaii and the South Pacific and scheduled it for April 6th. It will be conducted simultane...
By Michael Stillman
The Raab Collection has published a book we highly recommend to anyone who collects, or has an interest in collecting autographs. The Raab Collection is the Philadelphia base...
By Bruce McKinney
In 1942 the New York Public Library issued a 250 page catalogue on early books and other printed materials relating to the development of the railroad in the United States. It...
By Michael Stillman
Seth Kaller, of Seth Kaller Historic Documents, recently joined in for the traditional ringing of the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. This did not represent a su...
By Michael Stillman
AbeBooks recently published an article on "scripophily," the art of collecting stock and bond certificates. These are those decorative old certificates that were used to esta...
There are 20 catalogues up for review this month. Raymond Sutton offers books on natural history. James Cummins Bookseller offers sporting books. From Antiquariat Banhaf we find books from the Cont...