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Bob Maddox
Jun 10, 2013
Squid Ink Books – Tucson, Arizona
I was always an avid reader: fiction, science fiction, natural history, dinosaurs, and on and on. I grew up in a dirty and dull steel...
Mike Tuck
Jun 10, 2013
Bungalow Books – Pueblo, Colorado
I fell into bookselling quite by accident. I had been a bartender in Toronto during the 80’s, but relocated to Southern California in the...
Suzanne Mantell
Jun 6, 2013
Warwick Books, South Pasadena, California
Being around books, and buying and selling them, makes me happy. I sometimes try to enumerate the reasons why. There are the obvious...
IOBA
Mar 10, 2013
Spring 2013 (Vol. XII, No. 1)
Table of Contents From the Editor From the President “Don’t Do It!” A Small Association Building the World’s Best Collection of _________...
Howard Prouty
Mar 10, 2013
From the Editor
Less than three weeks after assuming the position of Editor, I am pleased to present the first issue of The Standard for 2013, and to...
Chris Volk
Mar 7, 2013
From the President
Traditionally, newly elected IOBA Presidents started out the year with a message to the members. I was going to do that in this issue,...
Gregory Gibson
Mar 6, 2013
“Don’t Do It!”
Editor’s note: My first encounter with this article was actually at its debut, as a talk delivered by Greg to the Class of 2009 (of which...
icc568
Mar 5, 2013
A Small Association
This is the story of a minor bibliographic mystery, and how it was solved. It’s just a small story — no big reveal to be picked up by the...
