Book Reviews

The IOBA Standard is the journal of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and covers the book world, with a special focus on the online used, out-of-print, and collectible bookselling markets.

Book and author reviews

Other People’s Books: Association Copies and the Stories They Tell

Other People’s Books Association Copies and the Stories They Tell. The Caxton Club (2011). Like a junkie seeking a secret fix, I...

BEST OF: Books About Bookselling: Seeing Shelley Plain

Seeing Shelley Plain: Memories of New Yorks Legendary Phoenix Book Shop, by Robert A. Wilson. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. Sell...

Books About Bookselling: The Bookseller’s Apprentice

As the publisher’s foreword points out, “Anyone who has gone to Boston to look for rare books in this century will have memories of...

Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look

A Backward Look: 50 Years of Maine Books and Bookmen Francis M. O’Brien. Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1986. My first impression of...