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ILAB
One Hand on the Wheel - The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers During the 1990s
07 Mar 2011
In 1985 I was elected to the committee of the ILAB, the international umbrella organization then uniting the national associations of eighteen…
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ILAB History
Menno Hertzberger
07 Mar 2011
Menno Hertzberger tells us about the origin of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and its first few years
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ILAB
Half a League Onward by Percy H. Muir
07 Mar 2011
As I sat, or stood, on the platform in Amsterdam in 1947, presiding over the first ever international meeting of antiquarian booksellers, I often…
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Booksellers Booksellers in History
Sotheran's: 250 Years of Bookselling
03 Mar 2011
It's rare that an antiquarian bookshop should have a history as long and rich as the jewels of its stock. But with Sotheran's in London's Sackville…
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Rare Book Trade
The Worth of Rare Books
27 Feb 2011
An Interview with ILAB President Arnoud Gerits in the Hong Kong Economic Times, February 2011
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Booksellers Obituaries
In Memoriam: Bob de Graaf, Antiquarian Bookdealer, Publisher and Bibliographer (1927-2011)
17 Feb 2011
Lorsque des libraires d'ancien parlent entre eux d'un « grand libraire », ils n'ont pas toujours la même idée en tête. Pour certains, il s'agit d'une…
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16th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography Update
23 Jan 2011
The 16th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography will be awarded in 2014 to one or more bibliographies or books about books published between 2009 and…
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ABA History
ABA History 1906-1984 (Part 1)
01 Jan 2011
This short survey of the British ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATION consists of the account of its first half-century prepared by Dudley Massey for…
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ABA History
ABA History 1906-1984 (Part 2)
31 Dec 2010
At this point - except for a tributory bow towards all those, named or not, who had set and kept the ABA in motion, and a passage on the then…
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Motoring
Insider Collecting: Rare Books on Automobiles, Ships, Steam Coaches
22 Nov 2010
One of my principles in gathering books is to read a book perhaps in a paperback edition and having 'assessed' it, either put it back into stock,…
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Book Fairs Japan
The Tokyo International Antiquarian Book Fair 2010
22 Nov 2010
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Booksellers Anecdotes
Sheila Markham's Conversations
21 Nov 2010
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