Comments for Bibliophagist http://blog.bibliophagist.com Consuming rare books. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on I despair of providing an appropriately dreadful pun in the headline. by Edward Vielmetti http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=43#comment-1367 Edward Vielmetti Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:14:17 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=43#comment-1367 The original is clearly preferable to the reprint when the reprint goes through a scanner and then a 600dpi printer without any careful correction of drawings, engravings, plates or other images; the sample output from some 191x era stuff from the Espresso Book Machine at the U looks like a bad photocopy of the images though the print looks fine. The original is clearly preferable to the reprint when the reprint goes through a scanner and then a 600dpi printer without any careful correction of drawings, engravings, plates or other images; the sample output from some 191x era stuff from the Espresso Book Machine at the U looks like a bad photocopy of the images though the print looks fine.

]]> Comment on When noodling around on the Internet adds value to my stock. by Martin Kelley http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=41#comment-1363 Martin Kelley Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:55:16 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=41#comment-1363 Fascinating, I instantly recognized that style. Fascinating, I instantly recognized that style.

]]> Comment on Talking to the invisible hand. by Representatives of the book trade attempt to describe this bibliopolic elephant. at Bibliophagist http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=39#comment-1352 Representatives of the book trade attempt to describe this bibliopolic elephant. at Bibliophagist Thu, 29 May 2008 18:33:36 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=39#comment-1352 [...] shop space. It is perhaps worth noting that within a week or two of the visit from a bookseller who remarked, “You don’t have very many books here,” I received a call from a bookseller [...] [...] shop space. It is perhaps worth noting that within a week or two of the visit from a bookseller who remarked, “You don’t have very many books here,” I received a call from a bookseller [...]

]]> Comment on Talking to the invisible hand. by Brian http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=39#comment-1304 Brian Thu, 15 May 2008 17:49:58 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=39#comment-1304 Pictures of new space? Please? Pretty please? Pictures of new space? Please? Pretty please?

]]> Comment on Some preliminary notes on the aesthetic merits of interesting catalogues. by books @ brian cassidy dot net http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=38#comment-1280 books @ brian cassidy dot net Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:53:41 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=38#comment-1280 [...] colleague Garrett Scott perfectly capturing my own thoughts on what makes a great bookseller catalogue. Too spot-on to not [...] [...] colleague Garrett Scott perfectly capturing my own thoughts on what makes a great bookseller catalogue. Too spot-on to not [...]

]]> Comment on Some preliminary notes on the aesthetic merits of interesting catalogues. by Notional Slurry » links for 2008-04-29 http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=38#comment-1279 Notional Slurry » links for 2008-04-29 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:34:52 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=38#comment-1279 [...] Some preliminary notes on the aesthetic merits of interesting catalogues. at Bibliophagist (tags: books catalog collecting lists miscellanies aesthetics exploration) [...] [...] Some preliminary notes on the aesthetic merits of interesting catalogues. at Bibliophagist (tags: books catalog collecting lists miscellanies aesthetics exploration) [...]

]]> Comment on Some preliminary notes on the aesthetic merits of interesting catalogues. by Mike Widener http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=38#comment-1278 Mike Widener Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:36:03 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=38#comment-1278 My nomination for catalogues as quasi-literature: Maggs' series of four "Books and Their Readers" catalogues. John Drury Rare Books has done several interesting thematic catalogues, the latest being "Radicals and Reform." And I can't help mentioning the heading for a Scottish cookbook in a PRB&M catalogue several years ago: "How to cook haggis, but not why". My nomination for catalogues as quasi-literature: Maggs’ series of four “Books and Their Readers” catalogues. John Drury Rare Books has done several interesting thematic catalogues, the latest being “Radicals and Reform.” And I can’t help mentioning the heading for a Scottish cookbook in a PRB&M catalogue several years ago: “How to cook haggis, but not why”.

]]> Comment on As the Mighty Wulritzer descends into the pit to the strains of Bronislaw Kaper: An update. by finer http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=35#comment-1245 finer Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:44:53 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=35#comment-1245 sorry to be mssing all the collegial company this year in the Bay Area. real regrets. high five to all the merry makers high up on Hilgard. partner and I are taking a maiden voyage - or is it a pilgrimage? - to Israel next week. Distiller story is somewhat amusing, though my bias on that book is that it is, though rare, not exactly never available. i have had it in stock twice in the past thirty years. other booksellers have had copies as well. $ 4,600 is a major auction house price. but that's not really a price which I think booksellers are apt to be influenced by. even so, we all have opinions., and those are not even remotely a precious commodity in the book trade. sbf sorry to be mssing all the collegial company this year in the Bay Area. real regrets.

high five to all the merry makers high up on Hilgard.

partner and I are taking a maiden voyage - or is it a pilgrimage? - to Israel next week.

Distiller story is somewhat amusing, though my bias on that book is that it is, though rare, not exactly never available. i have had it in stock twice in the past thirty years. other booksellers have had copies as well. $ 4,600 is a major auction house price. but that’s not really a price which I think booksellers are apt to be influenced by. even so, we all have opinions., and those are not even remotely a precious commodity in the book trade.

sbf

]]> Comment on Garrett Scott, Bookseller: Catalogue 19 by Stan Austin http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=28#comment-1207 Stan Austin Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:06:51 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=28#comment-1207 It may interest you to know that the True Light Church in NC and SC believe Theophilus Gates was an angel sent of God to perform a special work. His work is foretold in Revelation. It may interest you to know that the True Light Church in NC and SC believe Theophilus Gates was an angel sent of God to perform a special work. His work is foretold in Revelation.

]]> Comment on On the inherent depravity of postlapsarian bibliopolic endeavors. by Bill Tozier http://blog.bibliophagist.com/?p=12#comment-49 Bill Tozier Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:47:15 +0000 http://bibliophagist.com/?p=12#comment-49 A followup notion—<a href="http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2004/07/19/the-ratchet-auction" rel="nofollow">the ratchet auction</a>, or perhaps "ratchet sale", or maybe less liltingly but technically correct "Dutch auction with stochastic resetting"—is actually a much more economically sensible proposal (if I do say so myself). A followup notion—the ratchet auction, or perhaps “ratchet sale”, or maybe less liltingly but technically correct “Dutch auction with stochastic resetting”—is actually a much more economically sensible proposal (if I do say so myself).

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