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Terry Gibbs
- Jun 14, 2011
Terry Gibbs, Gibbs Books, Williamsville, NY
I started as a book dealer quite by accident back in the 1980s. As a collector of photography and other interesting item from Automobiles...
Meryll Williams
- Jun 13, 2011
Meryll Williams of Rainy Day Books (Australia)
All of my life I have been a book collector and all of my adult life I wanted to open a second hand bookshop. I settled for school...
David Friedman
- Jun 12, 2011
Why I Belong to the IOBA
In the quiet darkness of a late fall night, circa 1923, my grandfather Charlie and his family packed their belongings and quietly left...
Kenny Parolini
- Jun 10, 2011
BEST OF: The Boot Camp for Book Dealers
I had been hearing about the Colorado Antiquarian Book Market Seminar, as it is formally termed, for a number of years. Sometime a few...
Alan Deffenderfer
- Jun 10, 2011
BEST OF: Rare Book School, A Week Among Bright Bookish Minds
In years past, aspiring book dealers learned the trade by apprenticing with experienced ones. Today, with so few “bricks and mortar”...
Chris Volk
- Jun 8, 2011
BEST OF: Overlooked and Undervalued, The Bookseller’s Inventory Database
Most booksellers when evaluating their business assets will consider the cost and potential market value of their inventory, the cost of...