Rare Book Monthly Articles - July - 2011 Issue

Death of Eccentric, 104-Year-Old Lady Leads to a Museum for her Art and Books

Death of Eccentric, 104-Year-Old Lady Leads to a Museum for her Art and Books

A 21,000 square-foot mansion in Santa Barbara, California, will one day be the home of a fabulous museum, including art and books from an old and spectacular personal collection. Not much is known about the collection, especially the books, though a first edition of Paradise Lost is said to be part of the library. It seems to be more oriented to visual art, but the owner was the half-sister of William Andrews Clark, Jr., whose books were bequeathed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California Los Angeles when he died in 1934. It is one of the more important ...

Finding the auctions on AE

Finding the auctions on AE

Auctions are at the heart of AE and can be a bit difficult, for newcomers, to understand.  They are the most complete set of features and indices ever assembled for the auction field.  These servic...

Gone Missing? Tracking that expensive lost shipment

Gone Missing? Tracking that expensive lost shipment

This is my 32nd year in the antiquarian business as a small dealer based in Hawaii. Up until May of this year I used to boast I’d never lost a shipment. Certainly I’ve had packages that were dela...

A Book Still Worth Reading:  Anatomy of an Auction

A Book Still Worth Reading:  Anatomy of an Auction

The rare book business is the art of identifying attractive material, stocking it and then connecting with those who have the desire and resources to acquire it.  The business takes many forms, an ...

Booking It in Europe - Volume II!

Booking It in Europe - Volume II!

Hello again.  When last I wrote, we were zipping off to France.  For the second part of our trip, we didn’t spend a whole lot of time in bookstores as our time was short and we did have so much els...

Joe Newman returns to Bookselling, Brings a Fine Art Perspective

Joe Newman returns to Bookselling, Brings a Fine Art Perspective

After five years in the rare book trade, Joe Newman, of Milford, Connecticut spent the next six selling paintings for dealers in Connecticut and New York, while writing a novel and going to graduat...

Google Books Hearing Postponed

Google Books Hearing Postponed

A hearing on the Google Books settlement has been postponed to July with no indication that the parties have been able to overcome the thorny issue that led a judge to strike down the original sett...

Billy I kid you not

Billy I kid you not

You can imagine why William became a gunfighter.  He apparently didn’t like his original name, William Henry McCarty, and took as its replacement a worse one:  William H. Bonney.  Having then demon...

End of an Era - Last World War I Vet Passes On

End of an Era - Last World War I Vet Passes On

Word came over the news wires a few weeks back that the last combat veteran of World War I has died. Claude Choules joined the British Navy at the age of 16, serving for a year before the war ended...

A Whale of a Book, A Whale of A Sale

A Whale of a Book, A Whale of A Sale

Submitted by John Renjillian on behalf of the C.H. Booth Friends of the Library Beginning on July 9th and continuing through July 13th the C. H. Booth Friends of the Library are holding their annu...

A1:  It's Back…Sort of…

A1:  It's Back…Sort of…

A1 Books, a pioneer in online bookselling once larger than Amazon, has made something of a return from the grave, though just how much of a return is still to be seen. A1 began selling textbooks on...

Who knew?

Who knew?

The race for the Republican nomination has barely begun and already the results are in.  The AED is now ready to predict the winner.  To add suspense I will list hopefuls in alphabetical order and ...

iPads, eReaders and the British Library

iPads, eReaders and the British Library

The British Library recently announced that it is offering an "app" that will allow users to read over 60,000 19th century books from the library's collection on their iPads. I can't believe I am e...

12 New Catalogues Reviewed in Section 2

12 New Catalogues Reviewed in Section 2

There are 12 new catalogues reviewed in Section 2 this month. The Columbia Trading Company offers a selection of books pertaining to the sea. The Arader Galleries are focused on one of those seas i...

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