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 known for their quality, they did try hard. They signed up some known authors whose contracts perhaps expired with other publishers, and some names never heard of before or since. Collectors […]Read More
I have an illustration that I slid off of an eBay auction about a billion years ago, when you could still do that. I loved it so much, I tried to make jewelry, print it, do various and sundry things, but as it goes, dpi is notoriously low on eBay and most of the world […]Read More
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 into more books, cooking pamphlets, postcards, etc like we’d bought for each other at antique malls as Christmas presents and we came across The Archive in Landsdale PA. We were lured […]Read More
From time to time we will share some entries from a terrific website called Bookride. If you are a book fan of any sort the site should be on your Must Visit list. Today’s entry is called The Long Lonely Leap. Below is an excerpt from the article. For more information on this book as […]Read More
Like most booksellers , I never really thought much about first editions until I became a bookseller. I collected books of all sorts, had a particular fondness for antiquarian books, but I never seemed to be overly concerned about the edition of the book was that was in my possession – unless it was a […]Read More
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 generally want to avoid them all together. A dousing also is a lot more obvious than a book that’s just been kept somewhere damp for a long time. When you’re quickly […]Read More
“I have been invited to so many conferences on “The Death of the Book” that I suspect it is very much alive,” wrote Harvard Librarian Robert Darnton in an article in the December 23 issue of the New York Review of Books (“The Library: Three Jeremiads,” LVII:20, 22-26). Darnton went on to note that very […]Read More
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.Read More
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