Phoenix Books Rise Again
One of the publishers from crime fiction’s past, was a little name that tried to become a bigger power among…
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…
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…
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…
Valuable Guides To First Editions
Like most booksellers , I never really thought much about first editions until I became a bookseller. I collected books…
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…
Choosing 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…
Some 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.
