The Americana Exchange website you see today is the 5th iteration in the company’s 11 year history. The look is refreshed and the databases enlarged to handle the ever-increasing volume of records. In mid August the AED reached five million full text records. Over the next two years we’ll reach six and move on to seven. While the site is different it is also very similar. Here is an update.
The home page looks familiar but the images are larger and automatically reorient the nearby text to accommodate more images if and as needed. These flickering ads incorporate up to 20 images ...
The Goodyear Tire folks of Akron, in the mid 1980’s decided, under the direction of Janet Schirn of Chicago, a past president of the American Society of Interior Designers, to build a collection of...
A day at the races
I took a week off to think about the future of book collecting and was reminded that a week is not a very long time. Oh well, it was what was possible. This isn’t going to ...
The FBI (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation) is still looking for the owners of 28 maps and books stolen by map seller E. Forbes Smiley sometime before 2006. Smiley was the major Martha's Vineyar...
This month’s article is the outgrowth of a query to an on-line list-serve populated mainly by book dealers. No long ago the following post was received:
“Suppose for the moment that you are a "civ...
September marks the start of the fall auction season and this promises to be an extremely busy one. The amount of material coming out has been growing rapidly over the past couple of years as colle...
On September 21st in Zurich, Switzerland Koller Auctions is holding their twice annual sale of interesting and important works on paper including autographs, manuscripts and illuminated manuscripts...
As the fall calendar takes shape there are 53 events scheduled and invariably many more that will be announced soon. Here is an overview but also check the auction calendar for more events and the...
A major art auction is scheduled for November 20 at Christie's in London, and while we normally don't write about art auctions, this one has a connection to books. The collection arose from the wor...
The past ten years have seen the already endlessly described transition from traditional bibliography, book selling and book collecting from the last days of the way Grandpa did it to the advent of...
In France, when there’s a castle—or a church—there’s an old book not far away. Rich people and religious people have indeed been the guardians of arts and culture for dozens of centuries. There lay...
Here is a story that isn't news, or if it is news, it's old news, which sounds like an oxymoron to me. However, it was new to me, and probably will be to many of you, so here it goes, two years lat...
The dog days of summer are obviously not the best of times for mailing new catalogues. Everyone is holding on to the last days of summer, enjoying their final vacations, before the fall onslaught o...
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://pjupgrade-qadev.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
