Smitty and Bernie—Two Stories. One Old. One New.
Smitty: "Thank God I am an old maid with no issue." ... Bernie: The earliest email I can find from Bernie is from October 2007... Read More
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Life of a Bookseller
Ireland To and Fro
It has been about twenty years since I first visited Ireland with Allen and Pat Ahearn of Quill & Brush. They were good friends... Read More
Grumpy Old Booksellers and World Wide Web Version 0.0
The world of bookselling and booksellers has changed dramatically in the last 30 years or so... Read More
He Don’t Know Books
This is an old story. It likely took place in the mid 1980s... A phone call from outside the old railroad town of Brunswick, Maryland... Read More
Tree Song Part 4 or What May Not Have Actually Happened at the 2018 Greenwich Village Antiquarian Book Fair
Coffee, a light breakfast and then I headed downtown to Greenwich Village. It was brilliant day. Quite warm for February... Read More
“BOOKS FOR THE BLIND”
"Books for the Blind. Bob." Followed by a phone number. Very many of the phone messages taped to my office doorjamb... Read More