Sitemap - 2024 - Dispatches from the Rare Book Trade

Space, the Final Frontier for Book Collectors

Sell Your Books When You're Dead

I Couldn't Recognize Cormac McCarthy from His Author Photo, Could You?

Is Martha Stewart the Next Julia Child?

Why Science Fiction Is Hot Right Now and Why It Might Stay that Way

Books, Comics, Pulps, Letters, and Drafts Stolen from James Strand of Portand, OR

Backlist: Autopen and Real Signed Copies of Brian Wilson's I Am

What Book Collectors Can Learn from Art Collectors

Collecting for Investment Revisited

Frankensigned Monsters a.k.a. Signed on a Tipped-in Page

Where Do You Get Your Books?

Doing Your Own Research and Other Book Collecting Pitfalls

My Wife Finally Found Something Interesting About Collecting

The Captain America Caper: A $3 Million Comic's Journey from Theft to Auction

How to Win at eBay

$187,740 - The Price of Publicity

Tracking Forged Cormac McCarthy Proofs Around the World

Cormac McCarthy's Early Proofs: How to Tell the Real from the Fake

How to negotiate prices with booksellers

Why I Don't Trust COAs

Backlist: Pricing without a Net. A Case Study for The Souls of Black Folk in a Dust Jacket

Backlist: Slabtown. Comments on the Mania for Plastic Cases on Collectibles

Backlist: Cage Match: The Notorious RGB vs Black Spider-man

Why are book descriptions so loooooooong?

Backlist: A Bibliography of Larry McMurtry's In a Narrow Grave

Where Do Books Go? Thoughts on Provenance

More About Books As Investments

Backlist: The Eagle and the Bookseller

Backlist: Thoughts on Autograph Authentication, with Kurt Vonnegut forgeries as an example

Backlist: With a Little Help from My Friend(ly Robot)s

Thoughts on Investing in Books