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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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Neglected Americana: The Woman’s Rights Movement

Relics of revolutions are avidly collected— uniforms, bullets, swords, guns, and propaganda, are carefully preserved. Until recently,...

Martha Kelly

Nov 23, 2002

Neglected Americana: The Woman’s Rights Movement

Britannica 11

Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition Even in these days of fast internet access to all sorts of arcane information, when you can...

Forrest Proper

Nov 22, 2002

Give Me That Old-Time Religion

I read only reference books. Or so I say when asked if I still am a book reader when others discover that we have collected our way into...

Stephen P. Wurth

Nov 21, 2002

Mystery Reference Shelf or Two

Mystery and detective fiction is probably more popular today than at any time in its history, including the so-called Golden Age in the...

Michael S. Greenbaum

Nov 20, 2002

Ephemeral Assays—The Good Book

So much for the classical origins of ephemera. What does the term mean for us here and now in the opening years of the new millennium?...

Shawn Purcell

Nov 19, 2002

Fall 2002 MARIAB Book Fair: Good Finds and Growing Pains

Scenic views in Western Massachusetts make driving to the MARIAB Fall Book Fair a treat On Saturday, October 19th, the Massachusetts &...

Judith Tingley

Nov 18, 2002

Fall 2002 MARIAB Book Fair: Good Finds and Growing Pains

Midwest Bookhunters Book Fair, dePaul University, Chicago

The Midwest Bookhunters held their annual fall book fair October 13th, at the DePaul Student Center on the Campus of DePaul University in...

Aimee England

Nov 17, 2002

Midwest Bookhunters Book Fair, dePaul University, Chicago

15th Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair (SABF)

This year marked the 15th Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair (SABF). This annual autumnal event is said by many exhibitors to be one of the...

David Gregor & Theresa Calter

Nov 16, 2002

15th Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair (SABF)

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