May/June 2004
features
Shop Talk
Amazon takes on antiquarians and books good enough
to eat.
Book Collecting and Real Life
The truth about book collecting by Wayne
Somers Books hold a curious position among life's good things: unlike
good health and sensual pleasure, they can be stockpiled.
Gold in Them Thar Hills
Books bring historic mining towns back
to life by Adair Lara "It took me almost a year to discover
I'd moved to a writer's idea of heaven."
A direct warning about the impending
demise of pulp magazine by Neil Mechem A gnawing, late-night fear
is worming its way into a small segment of the collectables maelstrom,
and a fate not shared by many other accumulators of stuff—that is,
the collectors themselves will outlive market interest in their
hobby.
Signs of Freedom
If you though completing a set of 56
Declaration of Independence signors was hard, try tracking down
the 280 signors of India's constitution by Amy Stewart "Hitkari
made a visit to the National Archives to copy the names of all the
signatories of India's historic constitution. He had little difficulty
finding the original document, which was ungaurded and unattended
in the veranda of the building."
A Bookseller on Wall Street
So
much for the quaint, neighborhood used bookshop. Alibris' sales
in 2003 exceeded $45 million.
Point Well Made
On The Shelf
Reviews of A Splendor of Letters and A Pound of Paper.
On the Block
The Maurice Neville Collection of Modern Literature
On the Market
Offbeat Catalog Listings and Rare Specimens
Bookings
Upcoming Book Fairs and Auctions