One of the publishers from crime fiction’s past, was a little name that tried to become a bigger power among heavy hitters. Not necessarily…
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Finding A Book In The Vast Tubes of the Net
I have an illustration that I slid off of an eBay auction about a billion years ago, when you could still do that. I…
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A Little Paper Ephemera Excursion
After spending a nice day and night at a B&B in the Pocanos, we were perusing locations on the iphone where we could delve…
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Great Books: The Long Lonely Leap
From time to time we will share some entries from a terrific website called Bookride. If you are a book fan of any sort…
Read MoreValuable Guides To First Editions
Like most booksellers , I never really thought much about first editions until I became a bookseller. I collected books of all sorts, had…
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Detecting water damage in less than a second
Once a book gets wet, it’s likely to develop mold. Even if its now apparently dry, some damage has already been done and you…
Read MoreChoosing From An Overwhelming Abundance of Books
“I have been invited to so many conferences on “The Death of the Book” that I suspect it is very much alive,” wrote Harvard…
Read MoreSome like it damp: creepy crawly critters
There four creepy crawly critters like to live where its damp. If you can positively ID these four critters, you’ll have good odds of identifying books that have been improperly stored somewhere damp.
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