Let me just start by saying that it's as impossible for a bookseller to evaluate a book based on a photo as it is for a doctor to tell you about your health based on the photo a urine sample (I learned my lesson THAT time!). So when a guy sent me a photo of a Harry Potter book today and asked what it was worth, while … [Read more...]

I get to know a lot of people after it's too late to meet them. Their books tell me who they were. Go into a stranger's house and look at their books, and you'll come as close as possible to reading their mind. The other day, I got to meet Warren through the books his widow brought me. She came with her daughter and … [Read more...]

A sad occurrence yesterday at Printed Page Bookshop provides a cautionary tale for all of us. A young woman came in and showed me a photo of a vintage poetry book she'd seen in the store a few days earlier. "Do you still have this?" she asked me. Sadly, we had sold the book over the weekend. People, when you are in a … [Read more...]