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Terry Gibbs
Jun 14, 2011
Terry Gibbs, Gibbs Books, Williamsville, NY
I started as a book dealer quite by accident back in the 1980s. As a collector of photography and other interesting item from Automobiles...
Meryll Williams
Jun 13, 2011
Meryll Williams of Rainy Day Books (Australia)
All of my life I have been a book collector and all of my adult life I wanted to open a second hand bookshop. I settled for school...
David Friedman
Jun 12, 2011
Why I Belong to the IOBA
In the quiet darkness of a late fall night, circa 1923, my grandfather Charlie and his family packed their belongings and quietly left...
Kenny Parolini
Jun 10, 2011
BEST OF: The Boot Camp for Book Dealers
I had been hearing about the Colorado Antiquarian Book Market Seminar, as it is formally termed, for a number of years. Sometime a few...
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Alan Deffenderfer
Jun 10, 2011
BEST OF: Rare Book School, A Week Among Bright Bookish Minds
In years past, aspiring book dealers learned the trade by apprenticing with experienced ones. Today, with so few “bricks and mortar”...
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Chris Volk
Jun 8, 2011
BEST OF: Overlooked and Undervalued, The Bookseller’s Inventory Database
Most booksellers when evaluating their business assets will consider the cost and potential market value of their inventory, the cost of...
Vic Zoschak
Jun 7, 2011
BEST OF: “What’s this Book Worth?”
“Is it a first?” “What are the points of…?” “I can’t find a price guide for…?” “No copy on the net, and need to know the value of…?” Such...
Shirley Dyess
Jun 6, 2011
BEST OF: Appraising for Booksellers
All of you have gotten the phone call. The person on the other end has inherited or been given or found at a garage sale a book/books...