A book dealer is born...

My son attended his first big show in NY this summer. He was my assistant at the Carriage House show (the same weekend as the NY ABAA event). He his officially in charge of miniature books and has spent a fair amount to time reading about them and learning about what different types and what to look for, etc., etc., etc. He does not yet know as much about them as he does about Pokemon or dinosaurs...but hope springs eternal.

The NY fair was a great show and the ABAA event was wonderful to visit...I look forward, if all goes well, to be there in a few years.

My favorite sale of the weekend was a very early (1855) sationary counter book. A simply wonderful item that I (and my client) wanted to be certain went to a good home (were it would not be broken up by a paper dealer and sold in peices). I am pleased to say it was acquired by a lovely older woman with a long history in the stationary realm and was entirely taken with it. She spent nearly an hour looking at it...page by page...she finally turned to me and said, simply, "I must have it." I love moments like that. She sent me a thank you note several days later on engraved Cartier stationary...defintely the right home.