Fifty Years a Bookseller: or, The Wolf at Your Door
Rare books of all kinds can be found online, at libraries and at fairs somewhere, some place every minute of every day around the world. What were once called rare books has evolved into collectible paper and now subsumes every manifestation of paper and ink, into a single field and today databases aggregate most of the offers into an answer proffered in a fraction of a second. Presto everyone with an iPhone is an expert. So what happens then when someone who has spent his life, over the past 50+ years working in the trade and now, ambling into his dotage, remembering the many interes...
