Dispatches from the Rare Book Trade
Scott BrownA periodic essay on rare books, bookselling, and book collecting, used as a hook to interest folks in my newly catalogued books.
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eBay *Really* Doesn't Care About Fraud
ChatGPT’s take on the current state of eBay’s security department
Last month, an inscribed first edition of The Shining appeared on eBay with this description: “Very good condition[.] is from the james strand collection[.] I had nothing to...
Shiny Object Syndrome Revisited
A few weeks ago I wrote about Shiny Object Syndrome, a term I borrowed from Rachel Harris, an accountant here on Substack.
Friends of the ’Stack over at the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (SDAMO) podcast took the subject and ran with it in a rec...
James Strand Comics for Sale. Right Now!
As this Substack post went out to subscribers, the James Strand comic and pulp collection is loading on MyComicShop.com.
I have to add them to our shop, https://www.mycomicshop.com/stores/strandestate, one at a time, so it might take 15 or...
A Tale of Two Comic Book Stores
The personalities of the two biggest online comic book stores could not be more dissimilar.
Mile High Comics fills a funky, wedge-shaped warehouse pressed against a Union Pacific rail spur, the building’s odd angles dictated by the diagon...
Of course there's a German word for it
A regular reader of these missives asked, “Can you do a Dispatch on the translucent spiderweb paper used as jackets? What’s the story behind it?”
An example of spiderweb glassine on The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Com...
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Scott Brown is the proprietor, packer, shipper, cataloger, photographer, and janitor of Downtown Brown Books, operating out of a secret location in Northwest Portland, Oregon.
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