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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.

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Pray Tell, Private Hell

While on a mid-week visit to Antietam last April I noticed another guy touring the nearly deserted battlefield. He looked about my age...

Rock Toews

Apr 19, 2008

Images of Book Culture

Book Culture (formerly Labyrinth Books) 536 West 112th Street, New York, NY http://www.bookculture.com

Shawn Purcell

Apr 18, 2008

House Calls

I don’t mean to sound insensitive with the following account, but things like this happen in the world of house calls. My son was along...

Shawn Purcell

Apr 17, 2008

Harry Hansen

Original glossy newspaper file photo, measures 8” by 10”, rubber stamp on reverse reads, “Photographic Illustrations by Nick Lazarnick,...

Shawn Purcell

Apr 16, 2008

Auction Action

Softcover music books can be surprisingly valuable, so I attended what was billed as a 1950s music store stock auction one nice Sunday...

Apr 15, 2008

Book Store Labels: F. Loeser & Co., Brooklyn, NY

Flitted out of an old book and now slipped into the bottom corner of my monitor.

Apr 14, 2008

Bookplates: St. Andrew’s Society Library

From the inside front cover of Essays on Property and Labour as Connected with Natural Law and the Constitution of Society by Francis...

Brian Cassidy

Apr 13, 2008

Fall 2007 (Vol. VIII, No. 4)

Table of Contents Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look From the Editor The ABE Bookseller Ratings Deception Rare Book School: A Week...

IOBA

Sep 17, 2007

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