By Michael Stillman
Another year has come to a close, and before we move on to the new year at hand, it is time to take a look at the top auction sales for 2005. Exactly one year ago, we issued the first annual listing of the top 350 sales of books, manuscripts, and related ephemera at auction. This year we go 150 better. We present the top 500 list, and for those in a rush, the link to the AE 500 can be found near the end of this article.
Some people fear that the growing presence of eBay and other online resources will spell the doom of the traditional auction. If so, there was no s...
Bruce McKinney
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Recently we added ABE books to the sources we run retained keyword searches on every
night for MatchMaker members. It's an important addition.
MatchMaker i...
By Karen Wright
We interviewed Joanne Sealy, Manager of de Ville Books in New Orleans. She and her Mom, who is a spry 85-year old, are still cleaning books, painting, and renewing the booksto...
By Bruce McKinney
On December 2nd in the minutes leading up to the 10:00 am start of the auction of Glen Dawson's Los Angeles Imprints, 1843-1873 at Johns' Western Gallery in San Francisco, bid...
By Michael Stillman
The case has not garnered the notoriety of the Forbes Smiley case, where the New England map seller allegedly sliced valuable old maps from Yale and other libraries' rare bo...
By Renée Magriel Roberts
Long ago in a galaxy far, far away I was not a bookseller, but a VAR (value-added reseller) for ATT. Our company designed automated accounting systems for retail/point...
By Bruce McKinney
Fyoder Dostoevsky had it right. Crime and punishment are inextricably linked. These links are not entirely mechanical
however. They are also emotional and as emotions c...
By Michael Stillman
Looking back at news from the book world this past year, I ran across the BISG (Book Industry Study Group) survey of the used book world released in September. Most of you p...
By Bruce McKinney
During the last month of 2005 we added interesting historical source material to the AED, the Americana Exchange Database, which now contains 1.293 million records. In some c...
