Including:

• National Presidents and ILAB Committee Convene Down Under
• Your ABAA Board: Works in Progress
• Letters to the Editor from Forrest Proper, James M. Ethridge
• 21st Annual Boston International Book Fair Succeeds Despite the Weather
• House Calls: Frog-Water Iced Tea; or a Brief and Felicitous Book Tour of the Southeastern United States, Pt. II
• Minutes of the ILAB National Presidents’ Meeting Sydney, Australia, October 28, 1997
• Blumberg Arrested
• Obituaries – Samuel William Katz, Annemarie C. Rischke Schnase
• Jason J. Rendell Scholarship Fund
• Lilly Library Offers Rare Book Courses

And more.

Including:

• William Hoffer (1944-1997): A Memoir in the Form of a Letter
• Book Collecting on the Internet: The Essentials
• Letters to the Editor from Jennifer Larson, Selby Kiffer, Marvin Mondlin, Allen and Patricia Ahearn
• Intellectual Property and Copyright on the Web
• Frog-Water Iced-Tea; or a Brief and Felicitous Book Tour of the Southeastern United States
• Recent Books by Members: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The Rosenthal Collection of printed Books with Manuscript Annotations. A Catalog of 242 Editions Mostly Before 1600 Annotated by Contemporary or Near-Contemporary Readers by Robert G. Babcock

And more.

Including:

• ABAA Relocates Headquarters
• Suppressed Introduction Causes Stir
• Letters to the Editor from Bo Wreden, Joel McKee Chapman
• New Venue for Los Angeles Fair
• Children’s Literature
• ABAA Publicity Campaign Update
• An Antiquarian Odyssey: Random Recollections of a Life in Bookselling
• ABA Responds to Greer
• Recent Books by Members: Appraisals: A Guide for Bookmen by Marvin Mondlin. Collected Books: The Guide to Values. 1998 Edition by Allen and Patricia Ahearn
• Carl Hertzog Book Design Award, 1997

And more.

Including:

• Bookdealers’ Archives: A Search for Buried Treasure
• ABAA in 2001: Predictions and Pipe Dreams
• February in San Francisco
• New Venue for Washington, D.C. Book Fair
• Booth Tax Reinstated
• New York Fair
• An Antiquarian Odyssey: Random Recollections of a Life in Bookselling
• ILAB Book Fair News
• ILAB Committee Meeting, February 3, 1997: Minutes
• New ILAB Publications on the Way
• Publicity Campaign Updates
• 1997 Warren R. Howell Award of Excellence in the World of Books Given to Byra J. Wreden
• Obituaries – James M. Carey, Colonel Henry Auerbach Siegel
• In Memoriam – Herman Cohen, George T. Goodspeed
• Briefly Noted: Canadian Bookplates by Robert Stacey. Roy Vernon Sowers: A Life in Rare Books by Roger Burford Mason. The Biography Database 1680-1820 Personal Research Edition, Disk One.
• Recent Books by Members: The Crustacean Codex by Thomas Suarez.

And more.

Including:

• ABAA Begins Publicity Campaign
• An Antiquarian Odyssey: Random Recollections of a Life in Bookselling
• Letters to the Editor from Donnis de Camp, John Crichton, Carol Maltby
• From the President’s Desk
• Boston Fair Celebrates 20 Years
• Let Your Fingers Do the Walking
• Yale Exhibits Bernard M. Rosenthal Collection
• ABAA Fights Fraud Here and Abroad
• The Power of the Pretentious Press
• Obituaries – Phyllis Nelson Mott, Jorg Schafer, Dr. Mitsuo Kodama
• Summer Study Opportunities for Bibliophiles
• Briefly Noted: Canvassing Books, Sample Books, and Subscription Publishers’ Ephemera 1833-1951 in the Collection of Michael Zinman by Keith Arbour. Antiquarian, Specialty, and Used book Sellers: A Subject Guide and Directory, Second Edition. 1997-1998, edited by James M. Ethridge and Katherine Ethridge. The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Project (NSTC). Series I and II (1801-1870)

And more.

Including:

• Fun in the Sun: The LA ILAB Congress
• New Beginnings: How and Why I Became an Antiquarian Bookseller
• Letters to the Editor from Paul Collinge, Priscilla Juvalis, F.J. Manasek, Thomas Suarez, Steven Bernard, Anthony Rota
• Commentary…
• ABAA Planning Committee Meets
• From the President’s Desk
• Publicity Coordinator Position Created
• An Open Letter from the ILAB President
• The R-Word and Other Ramblings on Cats.
• House Calls: “The Library from Hell”
• Briefly Noted: The Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustrations in North America and the Caribbean 1760-1895 an exhibition organized by William S. Reese and George Miles
• 13th Edinburgh Antiquarian Book Fair

And more.

Including:

ILAB/LILA Congress and Fair Issue

• Rare Book Affairs Then and Now
• Greetings from the ILAB/LILA President
• Greetings from the ABAA President
• Letters to the Editor from Bradford G. Lyon, Bennett Gilbert, Erik Heldfond, Fred Schreiber, Stave Bernard
• ILAB/LILA Announces $10,000 Prize for Best Bibliography or Book about Books
• At the ABA London Fair, June 27-29
• From the President’s Desk
• House Calls: “Western Americana”
• In the Toad’s Hole With Philip Larkin
• Books, Briefly Noted: The Bernard Becker Collection in Ophthalmology: An Annotated Catalog compiled by Lilla Wechsler, Chistopher Hoolihan, and Mark F. Weiner.
• Recent Books by Members: Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad, 1947-1957 by Leona G. Rostenberg. New Jersey Books 1801-1860: The Joseph J. Felcone Collection Volume II
• Obituaries – Jerome Melvin Edelstein, Irving Keats
• Joseph The Provider / Books Reorganizes Business

And more.

Including:

• Book Fair Rules Amended: Lottery Attendance, Outside Vendors Allowed
• Robert Fleck Elected New ABAA President
• Letters to the Editor from Paul P.B. Minet, F.J. Manasek, Roger Baskes, Wayne Somers, Tom Suarez, Robin Tabor, Jim Presgraves,
• Blumberg Required to Notify Librarians and Booksellers
• Ethics Committee Rules on Catalogues
• Ring out the Old, Bring In the New
• ILAB Congress Committee Seeks Forgeries
• House Calls: “Ripped”
• ABAA Lends Support to AAS Project, RBMS Preconference
• In Memoriam – Margaret DuPriest, Jay Kieffer, Nathan Ladden, Mary Kendall, Betty L. Means, Howard S. Mott, Robert Skull
• The Press of the Pegacycle Lady
• Recent Books by the ABAA Members: The Bookseller’s Apprentice by George Talbot Goodspeed. Blues and the Poetic Spirit by Paul Garon, Encyclopedia of New York State Ephemera & Americana by Harold Nestler. Birmingham Bound: Opinionated and Often Irreverent Essays on the Fifty Most Important Books About Alabama’s Largest City by Patrick Cather
• ABAA Logo Available in Digital Formats

And more.

Including:

• E-Mail Transcript: Segregation and D-Segregation at Book Fairs
• ABAA Signs Internet License and Service Agreement with Michael Harris
• Letters to the Editor from Michael Hollander, Tim Markey, Helen R. Kahn, Jim Presgraves
• A Message from the nominee for ABAA President
• 33rd Congress of the ILAB: Los Angeles 1996
• Once in a Generation
• Boston Book Fair Returns to Hynes Center
• While You Were Sleeping…
• The Significance of Primary Records: A Statement from the Modern Language Association
• Twenty-Five Propositions on Book Collecting
• From the Security Committee
• Symposium Honors Smith College Curator
• Servi Textus at Hill Monastic Library
• University of Iowa Offers Graduate Certificate

And more.

Including:

• ILAB and the Internet
• Letters to the Editor from Michael Hollander, Peter Stern
• Washington Book Fair Attendance Up
• FBI Agents Address ABAA Seminar
• Report from Brussels: The ILAB Committee and Presidents Meetings
• Going Down in History
• Nominating Committee Seeks Candidates
• Obituaries – Howard S. Mott, Aubyn Kendall, Harry Levinson, Timothy Mawson, Betty Steffy Means
• From the Archives
• From ABAA Headquarters
• Recent Books by BAA Members
• In the News: Rostenberg & Stern
• London ABA Book Fair, 1996

And more.