News Archive
03/02/2016
Who Killed the Book?
ABAA member Jeff Weber reflects on our changing habits and their impact on printed culture.
02/26/2016
Why Do We Collect?
Why do we collect? What impulses impel us to collect, and if we identify them, can they help us build our collection?
02/24/2016
Umberto Eco: In Memoriam
Rebecca Romney remembers the great Italian linguist and writer Umberto Eco.
02/18/2016
Documenting WWII Japanese-American Internment
Scott Brown of Eureka Books ponders the propriety of collecting items connected with the internment of US citizens of Japanese origin during WWII, and also reveals some of the tricks to authenticating such items.
02/15/2016
The Savvy Bookseller: Establishing a Photography Workflow
How to organize your photo library and workflow. The third part in Kaitlin Manning's series of posts aimed at taking better photographs of rare books and ephemera.
02/11/2016
Lemmy: A Real Son of a... Librarian
Thoughts on a passing of Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister and collecting heavy metal memorabilia from ABAA member Brad Johnson.
02/05/2016
Five Los Angeles Writers
To get you in the mood for the California Antiquarian Book Fair (which takes place in Pasadena next weekend), we look at a few seminal Los Angeles authors.
