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Barbara: Of the many projects you have taken on in your life, Bibliophile has been important to many booksellers. Let’s begin there. What is Bibliophile, how many subscribers do you have, and how does one subscribe? Lynn: Bibliophile is an email list for buying and selling books among its members, and discussing issues of interest related to book collecting and the book trade. The list also covers Books Wanted. There are between 1100 and 1200 subscribers. To subscribe,...

Julie Fauble, who had previously been on the IOBA board and served as Treasurer of IOBA, was elected as president. Anne Poe Lehr in the new Vice President. Christine Volk, the current Secretary and acting Treasurer, was re-elected as Treasurer. Jerry Blaz was re-elected as a Member at Large, and in addition, three new Members at Large were also elected: David Burdette, Maria Bustillos and Alyce Cresap. The board will officially assume their duties on February 15th, but in the

Table of Contents From the Editor First IOBA Workshop The Out-of-Print and Antiquarian Book Market Seminar IOBA Q & A Column Interview with Piet Wesselman, of Antiqbook Maria Bustillos of Popula Max Woosley (Holy War author reveals all (well, some). Ok, a little!) A Short History of Paperbacks Fear and Loathing in a Small Town P.O. Regarding Black Writers & Literature the IOBA/ABE Search

Here’s our last 2001 issue of The Standard. We hope you will find it entertaining and informative, and that it will persuade more of you to volunteer to contribute in the future. I’m always open to ideas for new sections or types of articles or interviews. Or just more of the same type of thing we’re publishing now–come on, volunteer and make my day! We have our great and educational Q&A section by Jean McKenna, which I hope will be in each issue. Len Lanfranco gives us more

On December 4, 2001, Vic Zoschak of Tavistocks books presented the first IOBA sponsored workshop on identifying first editions at his bookstore in Alameda, California. Emphasis was on which are the best reference materials and how to use them – the books covered ranged from early printed books of the 17th century to modern first editions. A complete report on the workshop will be in the next issue of The Standard. Future workshops will be on the East coast, and on different s

The Boot Camp for Booksellers opened on Sunday evening on the fifth of August at the beautiful Colorado College campus in Colorado Springs. After giving a warm welcome, Director Mike Ginsberg introduced the faculty. The two scholarship recipients for this years seminar were asked to come forward. Kate Lindeman of Newburgh, New York, and Jennifer Sarratt of Tempe, Arizona received their scholarships from Ed Glaser and a round of applause from the participants. Mike then introd

Q. Would a member be kind enough to explain to me what a “Fourth Printing Before Publication” means (as noted in a copy of Andersonville). A. The publisher did a first printing of xx copies, for a book which was going to be sold in Sept, for example – Before the September release date came, the publisher had so many advance orders for this book from bookstores that it had to go back to print more copies 3 times (2nd printing before pub, 3rd, etc…) Any later printing before pu

Q: Piet, how and when did you originally get into the book business? As a high school dropout I wanted to become either a bookseller or a journalist. Bookseller was easiest. I worked in a (new books) bookshop and with a publisher from age 17 to 23. But during these years I got interested in academic matters while reading a lot of the books I handled, so I got serious and after my army service moved to Amsterdam, finished school in evening classes and went to the University to