NOTES OF A USED AND OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK DEALER

Issue 25. August 10, 2002

1. A Backward Glance
2. Damon Runyon as a Writer
3. A Conshohocken Character Goes to a Baseball Game
4. Damon Runyon: Biographical Stories
5. Tough Love
6. Sing a Line
7. Waiting in Line

Issue 24. July 2, 2002

1. How One Becomes a Book Dealer. Another Conshohocken Story.
2. Notes
3. Two Famous Book Dealers
4. Starting On Book Repair

Issue 23. Monday, June 4, 2002

1. A poem on American poetry by Anonymous
2. Soviet espionage in WWII
3. Augustan Reprint Society reprints

Issue 22. May 2, 2002

1. Espionage and all that
2. Books out of place
3. Strange sound from the city

Issue 21. Saturday, March 23, 2002

1. Riff on the physical book
2. More on alternate street names in NYC
3. The War in Spain
4. A dusty Evelyn Waugh
5. Jeager lost, Yeager found.

Issue #20. February 12, 2002

1. Non-stop around the world one way or another.
2. Read and eat.
3. Note on WTC
4. Looking forward to looking back.

Issue 19. January 22, 2002

1. Finding unity in the book.
2. Notes on travel notes
3. Here comes Hunza again.

Issue #18. December 31, 2001

1. Review. If you have the legs for it you can walk from Afghanistan to Shambala.
2. Cityscape. An alternate street name in an alternate language. A Larry Conshohocken Story
3. Observation. On weighty books.
4. Continuation. Other ways to use books.

Issue #17. December 10, 2001

1. Book People. Uses of books when the reading stops
2. Book Makers. Shadowy people around the scribbler
3. Meta-Politics. Is the water rising or the boat settling?

Issue #16. November 20, 2001

1. Book Trade: The Ex Library Book
2. Book Trade: Join the Struggle Against Book Deterioration
3. Politics: Read Another Book
4. Book Recommendation: If You Missed Madness, Catch Bedlam.

Issue 15. October 31, 2001

1. Humor in the decade between slapstick and politics.
2. Unexpected knowledge for even the casual reader.
3. What ever happened to??
4. Toward a 9/11 bibliography.

1. Book trade: Kinship is the first connection, sometimes onerous but always full of news and opinion. Elmer Conshohocken Story #6
2. Bibliography: Toward a reading list. Arab history and culture.
3. Game: Toward a parlor game. Find the felon

Issue 13. September 21, 2001

• Part I
1. Observation. Walking around the premises.
2. Book Trade: Ned Polsky discovers another avocation
3. Book Titles. Circling the periphery.
• Part II
4. Memoir by a U.S. Coast Guard officer of his up-close experiences on 9/11/01, southern tip of Manhattan.
5. The Editor's note. The bright side.

Issue 12. September 4, 2001

1. The Book Trade. Elmer Conshohocken's Daddy finds himself.
2. Book Review. Three forbidding philosophers turn out to be human
3. Notes and Recommendations.

Issue 11 August 16, 20001

1. The Book Trade. An Elmer Conshohocken story, #5, Confidence
2. Book Collecting. A few more technical competence titles, albeit not Nevil Shute
3. Question for your consideration. Invent your own parlor game

Issue 10 August 2, 2001

1. The Book Trade: An Elmer Conshohocken Story. #4. Don't go away mad.
2. Book Review. An historical novel by Maurice Samuel
3. Book Collecting. Even an informal note can count as a writing.
4. Casual notes and links

Issue 9 July 16, 2001

1. The Book Trade. An Elmer Conshohocken story. Number 3. Doing time reading
2. Observation. Billy Budd = Philip Spencer?
3. Project. Parlor Game Number 6. Ritzy winners.
4. Review. Presidential biographies.

Issue 8 June 29, 2001

1. The Book Trade. An Elmer Conshohocken Story. #2. An actor's choice
2. Parlor Game with or about books. #6. Bread, beverage and thou
3. Observation. A byway in WWII

Issue 7 June 15, 2001

1. The Book Trade. Confused mission. An Elmer Conshohocken story
2. Perception. Do it right! Do it now! Shute and Ellsberg
3. Opinion. All is not lost yet. Hypnosis at work.

Issue 6 June 4, 2001

1. Book collectors in their variety
2. Game #5. Something like a happening
3. For sale. An unusual geology book

Issue 5 May 18, 2001

1. The Psychology of President Woodrow Wilson
2. Follow-up on book dealer want lists. Remembering the recent past.
3. Follow-up on ebooks. Watch out for the onrushing future
4. Book trade. Bagged.

Issue 4 May 3, 2001

1. The Seagoing Jeep: One Way or Another It’s Magic
2. Parlor Game with Books: Game #4. One Way or Another It’s Fiction
3. The Book Trade: Want Lists, Ephemeral Except for a Few Scraps.

Issue 3 April 17, 2001

1. Book Trade. A sale is a sale for all that.
2. Parlor Game. A search for meaning.
3. Rosenberg on Doyle. Another detective at work

Issue 2 March 30, 2001

1. J.B. Priestley and Lost Empires.
2. Non-fiction within fiction. Wheels within wheels.
3. Parlor game. Except for the Marx Brothers, very much like a quiz.
4. The book trade. At the beginning, the end
5. The electricity and internal combustion crises. I am writing this on my bike just before sundown

Issue 1 March 15, 2001

1. 10% discount on our novels for our Newsletter readers
2. Book trade: A prediction
3. Parlor game. The hidden book, the hidden identity
4. Book trade. A spicy tip.
5. Twayne Authors Series. 24 titles available.
6. Links. Two academics, difficult to read but nice to know they’re there.

"Notes of a Used and Out-of-Print Book Dealer" is a free biweekly email newsletter intended for the general book public. This includes collectors and dealers, librarians and editors, academics and students, readers and writers, either intense or casual.

Each issue's content varies among several themes:

• The book trade and book collecting,
• Book perceptions, opinions, and reviews,
• Parlor games organized around books,
• Recommended books and associated www links of interest
• Subjects of opportunity and occasion.
• The continuing series of the adventures of Elmer Conshohocken in the used book trade.

The editor, Alvin Katz, has had a deep interest in books since he received his first Big-Little book at age six so he is a bibliophile from an early age. Collecting interests as a youth were Arthur Conan Doyle and William Saroyan. Collected sociology as part of his graduate studies. He taught that subject for many years at local NYC colleges and universities. Collecting led him to selling, then to a book search service. He became a formal book dealer in 1977 when he registered for a re-sale number with N.Y. State. Published an independent want list for a number of years. Now selling mail order from his own general stock of about 10,000 titles almost exclusively through the net.

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