by Vince McCaffrey | Jan 6, 2025 | Annotations
Below is a note to be attached to those shelving units we have managed to save. Tim Harkness was an old-fashioned craftsman with an artists’ sense for detail and the touch of an inventor. I asked him to make shelves for us, after seeing the work he did at Spencer...
by Vince McCaffrey | Aug 11, 2024 | Annotations
My friend Bill was an extraordinary fellow. He lived a life outside of the time he was meant for. But he knew that. Most of us are simply products of our age. “Life is all timing,” he often said. It was an unhappy voice that said it. If he had been born a generation...
by Vince McCaffrey | Aug 1, 2023 | Annotations
Bookselling is not what it used to be. Never was, really. For me, it was always what I was willing to make of it. It’s probably that way with most independent booksellers. I’ve known a few and the motivations are as diverse as the individuals themselves. Maybe an...
by Vince McCaffrey | Apr 22, 2022 | Annotations
(Too little, for sure. And all of it arguable.) I have learned that Harper Torchbooks, a non-fiction softcover imprint of Harper & Row from 1956 to 1979, are of such generally excellent quality that they should always be looked for when buying used books,...
by Vince McCaffrey | Aug 20, 2020 | Annotations
A friend has passed away. Given my own age, this in itself is not surprising, but James Wu was a considerably younger man and remembered that way even more so because we had not seen him in a bunch of years and when last we did, at a gathering of the old crew, his...
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