Stanton's Inferno

For as long as I’ve worked with collectible books and book collectors, I’ve never been able to fathom why it is that people collect Bi...

The Internet has had a vast impact upon the way that we do business. With Amazon encroaching from all sides, it seems that for the maj...

I was reminded recently of another perversion that takes place in bookshops (and other emporia, no doubt) and, although I have already...

Much of what happens at this blog is about the incredible stupidity of the customers and clients of booksellers; however, don’t let tha...

Having purchased books from a punter (or having had them dumped anonymously upon us), the task of cleaning them is the next phase. “Cleanin...

Being in the second-hand book business, it’s our job to engage with people who bring in books to us for the purpose of exchanging them ...

The literary world is hung up upon the notion of what, having gone into print, is “worthy” and what is not. This is a peculiarity of onl...