Earlier this year I met a local book dealer with a dramatic back story. Seems he relocated to Florida after a particularly unpleasant divorce, leaving behind a book store and its inventory. Today, he buys estates, picks through the spoils and auctions off the best booty online.
Fortunately, he maintains a small client base and knows each of his patron’s particular obsessions quite well. Those fortunate enough to have made his acquaintance get first dibs on the occasional treasures which wash up on his literary shore.
Sadly, finances restrict me from expanding my library much these days … but I have made a few small, significant purchases I’m pleased to report. From time to time, I’ll post information about these and future acquisitions.
Among my recent purchases is A Song of the Naked Lands, by Robert E. Howard, printed by Roy A. Squires in 1973. This letterpress edition was limited to 230 copies, mine being copy 182. The original envelope was included in the sale.
In his essay “Collecting Robert E. Howard,” Don Herron says:
“The titles the late Roy Squires printed on letterpress from handset types are high points of the book-making art for the Howard collector.”
Fortunately, he maintains a small client base and knows each of his patron’s particular obsessions quite well. Those fortunate enough to have made his acquaintance get first dibs on the occasional treasures which wash up on his literary shore.
Sadly, finances restrict me from expanding my library much these days … but I have made a few small, significant purchases I’m pleased to report. From time to time, I’ll post information about these and future acquisitions.
Among my recent purchases is A Song of the Naked Lands, by Robert E. Howard, printed by Roy A. Squires in 1973. This letterpress edition was limited to 230 copies, mine being copy 182. The original envelope was included in the sale.
In his essay “Collecting Robert E. Howard,” Don Herron says:
“The titles the late Roy Squires printed on letterpress from handset types are high points of the book-making art for the Howard collector.”
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