Rare Book Monthly Articles - December - 2004 Issue

A New Search Engine (And Why You Should Care)

By Michael Stillman There's a new search engine on the block. Some of you will be saying, "who is it?" Others will say, "why should I care? Isn't this a site about books?" This is addressed to the former. Those who do not see the connection are probably deeply rooted in the past, living in the present, and not seeing the future. Online sales, or at least online introductions, are an important and growing part of the book business. And, online bookselling is quickly requiring more than having your books listed on an online site, with thousands of other booksellers. Those who take charge ...

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December Auctions <br>Lost in the Moment

By Bruce McKinney The December book auctions offer this year, as in past years, an extraordinary array of books, manuscripts and ephemera for the collector to reward him or herself with somethi...

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Bill McBride Publications on Book Collecting: A Review

by Renée Magriel Roberts As any book collector or seller well knows, properly identifying first editions can be more art than science. There are many similarities, but no standardized way in w...

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Got a Revolution, Got to Revolution

By Bruce McKinney While the Jefferson Airplane were singing the lyrics of Volunteers in the late 1960's just across the bay, Moe and Barbara Moskowitz, foot soldiers in the revolution, were b...

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Burning Desires

By Bruce McKinney It's not supposed to be this way. A library accumulates a million old, and in many cases, rare books. The collection represents years and years of accumulation, care and ve...

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Biblio, Bibliopoly, Bibliophile: Just Who Are These B's?

By Michael Stillman I doubt that anyone ever intended it this way, but the book sites appear to have ranked themselves with letter grades, at least by size. The largest sites are the "A's," Am...

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The Road Home

By Bruce McKinney Michael Good of Michael D. Good Books, at 67, is cleaning up the debris and parsing the accumulated inventory born of a thousand buys made for his San Anselmo shop since 1981...

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The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria

Reviewed by Bruce McKinney I recently read a remarkable book, The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria. It is a small book of very large ideas. It speaks not from ideology but from openness a...

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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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