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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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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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The Lost World of Small-Town Rare Book Shops
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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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Something New: Robert Frost's Lost Poem
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How a $12 Copy of Ulysses Started a Book Empire
Remembering Bookseller Natalie Bauman
Feb 3
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Scott Brown
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How a $12 Copy of Ulysses Started a Book Empire
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January 2025
An Accidental Stephen King Collection
More books from the Tom Garner collection
Jan 13
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Scott Brown
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An Accidental Stephen King Collection
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Tom Garner, Collector
Three decades ago, when I was just getting started as a bookseller, the late Tom Garner, an attorney in San Marcos, Texas, became one of my first…
Jan 6
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Scott Brown
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Tom Garner, Collector
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December 2024
Space, the Final Frontier for Book Collectors
Plus new arrivals from Downtown Brown Books
Dec 23, 2024
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Scott Brown
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Space, the Final Frontier for Book Collectors
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Sell Your Books When You're Dead
You don’t have to be a rare-book dealer very long before you’ll hear a collector lament that they need to sell their books before they die.
Dec 2, 2024
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Scott Brown
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Sell Your Books When You're Dead
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November 2024
I Couldn't Recognize Cormac McCarthy from His Author Photo, Could You?
Some of the things Vanity Fair got wrong about Cormac McCarthy
Nov 22, 2024
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Scott Brown
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I Couldn't Recognize Cormac McCarthy from His Author Photo, Could You?
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Is Martha Stewart the Next Julia Child?
Following a new documentary, interest spiked in Stewart's books
Nov 6, 2024
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Scott Brown
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Is Martha Stewart the Next Julia Child?
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Why Science Fiction Is Hot Right Now and Why It Might Stay that Way
Observations from the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair
Nov 1, 2024
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Scott Brown
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