Better prices on Mr. Bear

[globe@zipcon.net]

Michael!! how could your recommend HAlf.Com, anothre arm of EBAY devoted to 
putting the little guy out of work.  Anyway I doube a collectable like Mr Bear 
would ever show up there.
 Carolyn

Quoting Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>:

> http://www.abebooks.com is probably the best place to 
> access all the used book store inventories in the
> English speaking world. http://half.com also has 
> good coverage of used book store inventories in the US
> 
> I once ran a mail-order bookfinding service called
> Long-Lost Books, a great name which my mother 
> came up with for me. In those days, there was a weekly
> magazine from Newark NJ called Antiquarian Bookman
> which had ads listing titles various book stores
> were seeking. there used to be some grizzled old
> book men who used to read the current Antiquarian
> Bookman at the NYPublic Library, the one with the
> 2 lions on Fifth AVe. this way they got out of
> having to pay for a subscription. then they would
> quote sought for titles by sending 3 cent postcards
> to the searching bookstore offering the title at a 
> price somewhere above the price for that title which
> they knew was available at one or another of the 
> fifty or so used book stores on Fourth Ave downtown 
> which these grizzlies frequented. this was a small 
> living but there were a few inhabiting this bizarre 
> nook of the book world. the editor of Antiquarian 
> Bookman was an old codger who useta brag that his 
> periodical was the last one in America which 
> accepted advertising copy written by hand. this was 
> in the 50s
> 
> http://www.abebooks.com is named after Antiquarian
> Bookman the periodical
> 
> there is now only 1 used book store from the Fourth
> Ave book row of yesteryear surviving. this is the Strand
> Bookstore which is just as dusty-funky as it ever was
> 
> 



 Carolyn Siscoe
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