An interview with ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS

Biblio checks in with ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS to learn more about their book business, collecting interests and more! To view and shop their inventory, click here.

When did you get started in bookselling?

1972

What drew you to bookselling?

I have always loved books.

Did you have any mentors in becoming a bookseller?

Probably Daryl Van Fleet who I worked with at P.M. Books in San Francisco. He is one of the great book scouts and a great bookman.

What are your specialties as a dealer?

Art, Modern First Editions, Signed Editions, Poetry, Avant-Garde, Book Arts, and rare books that catch my eye.

What's the most amazing book you've ever sold?

A collection of 19 books from the Czech Avant Garde (in Czech) that I sold at the Rocky Mountain Book Fair several years agao.

What is your favorite part of being a bookseller?

Definitely my customers!

Do you have an open storefront or have you in the past?

At present I operate on an "by appointment" basis, although I have had 3 open storefronts in the past.

If so, do/did you have any bookstore pets?

No.

What is the funniest / strangest / scariest thing that ever happened in your store?

So many...Many not bearing repeating.

What is your favorite bookshop (other than your own)?

Chatham Bookstore in Madison, NJ

What do you personally like to read? Collect?

Cookbooks.

What's your favorite book you personally own? Would you sell it, if the price were right?

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. I don't think I could bear to sell it at any price!

What one book would you buy if price were no object?

The Nuremberg Chronicles.

If you were stranded on a desert island and could bring three books, what would they be?

Finnegan's Wake, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher