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Monthly Archives: September 2007

We’re pro comics around here

Friday, September 28, 2007

This fall’s BOOKFORUM is available for your perusal online. BOOKFORUM is a wonderful, only occasionally stuffy, magazine on the Art (please note the use of capitalization) of literature.
The issue in question contains a couple of interesting Comics-related articles. First off, check out this great discussion primer for the non-comics reader: Karin L. Kross’s review of [...]

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“Inventories can be managed, but people must be led…”

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The truly excellent AntiquarianBookNews.com site has a recent post up about one of the most incredible book sales that will happen in my lifetime. The last remaining privately-held copy of the Magna Carta is going up for auction on December 10th.
Am I the only one amused that Ross Perot is loosely connected to this historic [...]

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Grand Opening Redux

Monday, September 24, 2007

Okay, I’ll admit it; my enthusiasm got the best of me and none of the AbeBooks.com listings were actually working on the site: mea culpa. There is a brief period between uploading my book listings and when those listings are actually indexed for searching–yet another lesson in delayed gratification apparently. So, without additional fanfare: Cornellbooksellers.com is now sending [...]

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Grand Opening!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

After a gruelling year of research and acquisition, Cornellbooksellers.com has finally launched our website, AbeBooks listings and this blog. As I mop the sweat from my brow I sit back and bask in a sense of having completed the first leg of what will surely be a marathon.
Please visit both our book store site at [...]

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