Category Archives: booksellers

On Shakespeare’s Annotated Dictionary, links and news.

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Garrett

(8 May 2014: I’ve let this slide since the initial flurry of stories. My one update is something of a meta-update: Wechsler and Koppelman have their own page of links to press stories and interviews here. There’s at least one … Continue reading →

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The anatomy of a melancholy trade.

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Garrett

Friend and colleague Lorne Bair has just published an essay on becoming and on being an antiquarian bookseller, with some apt bourbon-fueled ruminations on why we enter the trade: In the end, everyone I know who does this job well … Continue reading →

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Representatives of the book trade attempt to describe this bibliopolic elephant.

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Garrett

In response to a moderate groundswell of demand, I have mounted several photographic views of the [relatively] new book shop space. It is perhaps worth noting that within a week or two of the visit from the bookseller who remarked, … Continue reading →

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What rhymes with “Finger-Spitzengefuehl”?

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Garrett

Rostenberg and Stern — the musical! I decided to make this story a musical because I’ve known Madeleine and Leona for well over 20 years and I’ve always felt that their story was a story for our time. (Here’s more … Continue reading →

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The supposed gentility of the world of books is oft but a mask for duplicity.

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Garrett

Bookseller Ken Sanders has been a long-time scourge of the biblioklept and bunco steerer, and he will be honored as such at the upcoming Gold Rush Book Fair. (Note that “Sanders” is the preferred spelling of his surname; the misspelling … Continue reading →

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Then I was struck with the happy thought that a bookselling blog may in fact be inherently flawed and doomed to failure.

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Garrett

Booksellers as a group (he says, gesturing expansively) exhibit a strange combination of hail-fellow, well-met collegiality and knives-drawn competitiveness. I blush to admit that as a bookseller I can appreciate the impulse to hoard information (the identity of a particularly … Continue reading →

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