Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
14th October 2021
Attentive readers will have noticed that there was no blogpost last week. I was in York, teaching at YABS, the York Antiquarian Book Seminar: three-and-a-half days talking about books and bookselling to some wonderfully engaged students keen to know more. It’s always an enjoyable few days, and this year particularly so as going away to […]
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11th June 2015
‘No one buys more books than booksellers.’ This was the advice given to those setting out in the trade at the inaugural York Antiquarian Book Seminar last year by the American bookseller, Lorne Bair. Lorne was talking about old books, but I suspect that the same may well hold true for reference books, too. I […]
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