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The Ghost Forest by Greg King
A book grown from archives
Jun 19
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Scott Brown
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Collecting Books the Old Fashioned Way
How the Internet offered more yet we ended up with less
Jun 2
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Scott Brown
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May 2025
Is Dune the Most Expensive Novel of the 60s?
Plus a Centipede Press list and eBay auctions
May 19
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Scott Brown
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What's in a Name
Thoughts on the Title of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
May 12
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Scott Brown
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Field Notes from the French Quarter
A brief, unscientific dispatch from New Orleans
May 1
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Scott Brown
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April 2025
The Stop the Presses Myth
And the boring real world of book manufacturing
Apr 7
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Scott Brown
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The Stop the Presses Myth
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March 2025
States Rights
What, do you have an issue with that?
Mar 31
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Scott Brown
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When the Book Market Turns - Lessons from Three Recessions
Sometimes "all kinds of books and a lot of them" is not the best strategy
Mar 24
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Scott Brown
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The Billionaire Takeover of COAs Is Complete plus a Cormac McCarthy Mystery Solved
There is no rare first issue jacket for All the Pretty Horses; the billionaire take-over of COAs is complete, and why I still like guarantees
Mar 7
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Scott Brown
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The Billionaire Takeover of COAs Is Complete plus a Cormac McCarthy Mystery Solved
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February 2025
The Lost World of Small-Town Rare Book Shops
How a stranger's memoir perfectly captured my life selling antiquarian books
Feb 24
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Scott Brown
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A Collector's Quest for the Books that Made Jane Austen
Bookseller Rebecca Romney Resurrects the Stories Behind Pride and Prejudice
Feb 17
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Scott Brown
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Something New: Robert Frost's Lost Poem
A Rare Book Dealer Makes Literary History During a Routine House Call
Feb 10
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