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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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...
Newest Arrivals at Downtown Brown Books
Subscribers to this Substack get early notice of new arrivals to my website as well as discounted prices from what these books will list for on the online marketplaces. Subscribers have their privileges.
List 146 is now live on my website...
Pinocchios, Frankensigned Monsters, and 11 Other Kinds of Signed Books
A Typology of Book Signatures, Ranked from Worst to Best
On a Stuff Dreams Are Made Of podcast episode, the hosts Ryan Condal and David Mandel asked me about the best kind of signatures in books for collectors. I answered briefly. Here’s t...
The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
I don’t perform well under pressure. On The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of podcast, which dropped yesterday, I was asked what the most valuable book of the 1970s was. I couldn’t come up with an answer on the fly.
That’s not a question I get aske...
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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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