Aug 2, 2021
One of the best ways to become a successful, fulfilled antiquarian bookseller is to establish close, long-lasting relationships with enthusiastic, committed, ideally well-heeled, collectors. Justin Schiller is a pioneer in the field of rare, collectible children's books. During his career he has developed extraordinary...
Mar 28, 2021
Novelist, screenwriter and essayist Larry
McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning
1985 novel Lonesome Dove, a sweeping historical epic
that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive cattle from the Rio
Grande to Montana. (Update: Larry died
yesterday, March 25, 2021).
He grew up on a ranch outside of Archer...
Jan 27, 2021
The son of prominent book collector Kenneth E. Hill, Jonathan A. Hill grew up in a house filled with old books. After graduating from university in 1974 he served a classic apprenticeship, working for four leading antiquarian booksellers in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. In 1978 he started his...
Mar 8, 2020
Greg Gibson is the author of four books, including Gone Boy: A Walkabout about the murder of his eighteen-year-old son Galen. After receiving his BA from Swathmore College in 1967, Greg enlisted in the United States navy and worked as a shipfitter until 1971. After his discharge in 1971 he moved to Gloucester, Mass. and...
Feb 29, 2020
"Heather O'Donnell grew up in the library stacks and bookstore aisles of suburban Delaware. In 1989, she moved to New York City, where she studied English at Columbia, and held down a series of bookish jobs on the side: working the cash register at the Strand, shelving photobooks in the Avery Library, sifting the slush...