ANNOUNCEMENTS

The 2026 IOBA scholarship recipients have been chosen and notified. Two international members and two enterprising U.S. applicants will be attending the prestigious seminars known in the trade…

IOBA is happy to admit and welcome the following applicants to full membership:

Nathan Gabbard, Owl Creek Books

Los Angeles, California USA

Lucy Amelia Kruesel, Diatom Books

Rochester,…

IOBA is an inclusive organization, and membership is not limited to sellers of rare or antiquarian books. However, we do require our members to display professionalism—both in book…

Presented by Ed Lefkowicz

In this visual culture, great photos will help you sell books, manuscripts, and ephemera. This webinar will help you up your photographic game using…

A watermark is a distinguishing mark or design incorporated in paper during the making. The mark may be incorporated by die impression or rolling, or by variation in the…

The following quick guide to the codes most likely to be used by booksellers has been provided by Nathan Barker of Kayleigh Books. Before he was a bookseller,…

Editor's Note:

I first met Garry at the 2013 edition of the Colorado Antiquarian Bookselling School. He was from the opposite side of our country and very much…

[Andrew Langer, Andrew Langer, Bookseller (Editor)]: Bookjackers are a part of the world of Internet selling for booksellers. These are sellers that work with data describing books and not…

A part of our collective knowledge comes from knowing how to makes use of the wide variety of resources that are now available on the Internet. This note…