bookselling – The Ticknor Society

2022 Collectors’ Roundtable

November 12, 2022, 3:30 pm, Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, Hynes Convention Center We returned to an in-person Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair in 2022 after a three-year hiatus. The Ticknor Society hosted our annual Collectors’ Roundtable, during which we announced the winner of the 2022 Ticknor Collecting Prize, Dr. Jessica Linker, for her entry…

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.

Book Fair Secrets: a Roundtable Discussion

October 17, 2002, Boston Public Library This roundtable discussion was hosted by the New England Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America, its chair, Peter Stern, presiding over a panel of Boston-area booksellers. Greg Gibson of Ten Pound Island Books (Gloucester, MA), Greg Powers of Powers Rare Books (Manchester, NH), Priscilla Juvelis of Priscilla…