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THE STANDARD
The IOBA Standard is the journal of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and covers the book world, with a special focus on the online used, out-of-print, and collectible bookselling markets.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Book and author reviews
Joanna Kafarowski
Sep 9, 2011
Other People’s Books: Association Copies and the Stories They Tell
Other People’s Books Association Copies and the Stories They Tell. The Caxton Club (2011). Like a junkie seeking a secret fix, I...
Shawn Purcell
Jun 1, 2011
BEST OF: Books About Bookselling: Seeing Shelley Plain
Seeing Shelley Plain: Memories of New Yorks Legendary Phoenix Book Shop, by Robert A. Wilson. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. Sell...
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Shawn Purcell
Jul 23, 2008
Books About Bookselling: The Bookseller’s Apprentice
As the publisher’s foreword points out, “Anyone who has gone to Boston to look for rare books in this century will have memories of...
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Shawn Purcell
Sep 17, 2007
Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look
A Backward Look: 50 Years of Maine Books and Bookmen Francis M. O’Brien. Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1986. My first impression of...
Shawn Purcell
Sep 10, 2007
Ephemeral Assays: Self Listing
When making a large haul, all kinds of things turn up in the net. Even if it’s only books, rather than loads of paper, inscriptions and...
Shawn Purcell
Sep 4, 2007
Ye Olde Booksellers: Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms
Ye Olde Booksellers Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms by Guido Bruno (Detroit: The Douglas Book Shop,...
Shawn Purcell
Sep 3, 2007
Blurbettes: Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes
Blurbettes: Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes by Robert Kanigel (Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2007)...
Sharon Heimann
Jun 30, 2007
From the Editor
I recently received a review copy of Fairs, Markets and the Itinerant Book Trade (various editors and authors), hot off the Oak Knoll...
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Shawn Purcell
Apr 29, 2007
Book review: Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co
Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co., by Lynne Tillman. NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. Books & Co. was...
Shawn Purcell
Jan 28, 2007
Book Review: Of Bookmen & Printers, by Ward Ritchie
Of Bookmen & Printers: A Gathering of Memories, by Ward Ritchie. Los Angeles, CA: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1989. Books about booksellers can...
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Lynn Wienck
Sep 20, 2006
Book Reviews The Art of the Book & Beauty and the Book
The Art of the Book: A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration and Binding, by Charles Holme....
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Joyce Godsey
Sep 19, 2006
Book Review: Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia by Anton Gerits
Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia: Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller, by Anton Gerits. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004....
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