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Giving Back to Bookselling
Posted by hughlh
Bookselling has been good to me as a career. Right now, I am on hiatus from selling as I closed my open shop and am transitioning to a catalogue only shop (Around the end of first quarter 2008- let me know if you want to get on the catalogue list).
I have learned a ton from other booksellers, both in person and from their catalogue descriptions. That is why I started this blog (and the one before it) and why I have decided to make my archives available to the whole world on the internet.
Yes, that’s right. I will make archives of my past catalogue descriptions available on this site (they will be found here). I know that I am taking several risks here.
- People might steal my descriptions verbatim. Yep, it could happen, and probably will. But, I decided long ago to err on the side of generosity and assume everyone is good until proven otherwise. For the record, this site is copyright with all rights reserved. I want you to read it, link to it and tell your friends about it, but you may NOT copy any part of it and claim it is yours (yes, this even means on eBay).
- People will criticize my descriptions. Yep, that will happen too, and honestly, some of it will be warranted. My early descriptions are horrible and you may find a few “good condition for its age” scattered around. We learn and we progress, or we die. If a description is with no redeeming merit at all, I will not list it. Some have no use but to serve as a bad example.
Overall, I feel it is worthwhile; there are some descriptions there that took hours to write, the research behind some of them took weeks. Others I knocked out in about two minutes.
Because of image theft, I have decided to NOT put corresponding pictures with the descriptions.
This is a work in progress, and it involves a layout change and a site redesign. Because I am screening and posting each description one at a time, it is a labor that will take some time… probably months. In the end, however I hope to have a resource that will be of benefit to the community. You will be able to search the archives by keyword, so if you input “wormholes” into the search box, out will come a list of descriptions with that term in the description. Hopefully, a new generation of bookseller will learn to describe and use terms and elevate the Trade… Or maybe not.
We will see.
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