Talking Book Collecting, Buying, and Selling with Brattle Book Shop Owner Ken Gloss

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English - February 10, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MB
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Horacio sat down with Ken Gloss from the Brattle Book Shop. The Brattle Book Shop has been in the family business since 1949 and has become a Boston landmark ever since. Ken is internationally recognized as one of the leading book appraisers in the world, regularly appearing on the PBS Antiques Roadshow. Ken is also a past president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America’s New England Chapter. He also sits on the Associate Board of the Boston Public Library.

Discussion topics include:

The History of the Brattle Book Shop in Boston

A trend of younger customers going to the shop

Growing up in the bookstore and treating it like a business

Learning the business from his father, George Gloss

Working with the PBS Antiques Roadshow

How the tastes of book collectors have changed over time

Buying large private collections

How the internet has changed the book buying and collecting business

Thoughts on the fractionalization of first edition books

One day finding Tamerlane by Edgar Allen Poe

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