Monthly Archives: February 2012

A safari to the remote corners of my own house this week – and from there to the attics of my mind.  In fact just having a clear-out to make way for all the fresh purchases (really must do a … Continue reading →

On the road again to hand out another of the ABA’s Fifty Years a Bookseller badges.  This time a trip to Lincolnshire with Vice-President Brian Lake (Jarndyce) to seek out our old friend Michael Holman now in retirement in Lincolnshire. … Continue reading →

Out and about this week – distributing flyers for the new series of seminars on book-collecting, which kicks off at Senate House (London University) next Tuesday with a session from the well-known and formidably articulate Rick Gekoski.  In a trade … Continue reading →

The ABA occasionally awards someone with an honorary membership.   These are most often given to luminaries from outside the immediate world of rare book dealers, but who are deemed nonetheless, as the citation runs, to have rendered “signal service to … Continue reading →

“Booksellers are often rather odd.  This is not surprising since we have all managed to escape or avoid more regular forms of work. It is also a trade for which there are no rules.  It can be conducted from a … Continue reading →