Monthly Archives: June 2007

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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Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller, Catalogue Number 123: World’s Fairs & Expositions, 1851-1940.

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Garrett

517 items, from London in 1851 to Brussels in 1958. Though Selvaggio pretty much covers the waterfront (or perhaps the Midway), there is much here on the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and several of the later fairs (San … Continue reading →

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And suddenly the memory revealed itself.

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Garrett

I don’t usually follow the market in contemporary children’s books (and its sundry related material) with anything that might be construed by the unwary observer as attention, but the news at last reached me today (via Daddy Types) that an … Continue reading →

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Bookworm & Silverfish, Catalog 582.

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Garrett

206 items, in the Bookworm & Silverfish broadsheet format. Much of Mr. Presgraves’ usual assortment of old sheet music (including a lot of 13 pieces of ante-fire Chicago sheet music, 1857-1869, priced $650 for the batch), as well as miscellaneous … Continue reading →

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Peter L. Masi – Books, Catalog 187.

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Garrett

443 items, with the usual emphasis on ephemeral material and a further emphasis in this catalogue on Business & Industry. Peter’s material tends to be interesting and attractively priced, though necesarily sparingly described; when he does grow discursive (the eye … Continue reading →

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John Michael Lang Fine Books, Recent Acquisitions List 21.

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Garrett

Amid much gnashing of teeth over the graying of the antiquarian book world, there comes in my post office box this morning another reminder that there in fact exist booksellers of a younger sort (where by younger sort one means … Continue reading →

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On the taxonomic branches of gee-whiz factors in bookselling.

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Garrett

The Wall Street Journal has run a “gee-whiz” article about an upcoming sale at Sotheby’s in conjunction with the June book fairs in London. The collection being auctioned off has been built around a catalogue of high spots, Connolly’s The … Continue reading →

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