John O’Mara: “A bookseller who collects…a bartender who drinks?”

October 21, 2004, Signet Society, Harvard Square

John O’Mara, of John O’Mara Fine Rare Books, entertained us with the story of his own personal collecting of annotated sixteenth-century books (with examples on exhibition) and how it relates to the current state of the book trade and book collecting.