One of Tim Miller's claims in his now infamous shady marketing masterpiece, FlatSigned.com Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary, was that he "even went so far as to attend" the ABAA's California Antiquarian Book Fair, or "Convention" as he calls it, in San Francisco to try to resolve his differences with certain members of the organization with "but was escorted out of the convention by those known in inner-circles as 'The Cartel.'"Well, here's how ABAA member Peter Stern saw it:The cartel? That was mostly me. I had done very little business with Mr. Miller. As a matter of fact, I believe we...
Q: How do you eat a whale?
A: One byte at a time.Twittering Moby Dick.
Where do you get these books?
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,
Where do you get these books?
In my shop, this is easily one of the questions I am asked most frequently. Luckily, Nigel Burwood of Bookride has of late been explaining, in an excellent series of posts, just exactly where he and other dealers traditionally procure stock. Informative for both outsiders and current booksellers alike, with lots of stories from the trade thrown in for good measure:Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.
Link Dump
Here's some things I've enjoyed lately. They've been hanging around my news-reader while I considered creating longer posts around them, but offer them instead as a fairly straightforward list of recommended reading:The Lilly Library at the University of Indiana has an excellent online exhibition curated from their collection on miniature books. Great images, great history of the format.Bookn3rd put together a wonderful post on Books of Hours complete with a strong selection of resources from around the web.MUST READ: Chris Lowenstein of Book Hunter's Holiday muses on the state of the "bookstore community" in these days of fewer open shops...