Collecting "Stranger’s Guides" >> Book Collectors News & comic book murder

AE Monthly - the Magazine for Book Collectors & Booksellers

Ten years ago, David Gerstel of Montreal, Canada, a long time collector of travels and voyages, searching for a less costly collecting opportunity began to collect AmericanStranger’s Guides, books published mainly in the 19^th century to help itinerants understand cities they would visit. These are intensely local directories, often with maps, always with advertisements, listing essential details for the newly arrived.

A dozen years later David is moving on, ... [s]elling what he has collected now becomes the challenge.

To do this he has enlisted the help of Bernie [Bernhard] Lauser of Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts in Vancouver. Bernie is an interesting choice as he is one of the few dealers who represent sellers wanting to sell thematic collections as well as archives.


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"While special 'event posters' are nothing new to the Phish scene, the skyrocketing hype surrounding themboth at the show and in the later re-sale marketis a post-hiatus phenomenon. The situation has caused many tense scenes at the point of sale of posters before shows, and created a new fetish item among fans with a long history of obsessively cataloging the Phish experience. Accordingly, a whole new community has sprung up among the 'poster people', to stand as yet another subgenre within the world of Phish fans."

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