http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2004/06/18/the-drunkards-auction Pontification without all the gritty gravitas Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:53:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2004/06/18/the-drunkards-auction#comment-25947 On the inherent depravity of postlapsarian bibliopolic endeavors. at Bibliophagist Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:23:26 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2004/06/18/the-drunkards-auction#comment-25947 [...] In any event, for a fairly concise look at the general evolution of the book auction, see Nicolas Barker’s 1995 essay for ABPC; for a scholarly study of the workings of the early 20th century auction ring, track down a copy of Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman’s Anatomy of an Auction (which appears to have gone out of print). And for one alternative model of pricing, see the proposal for the “drunkard’s auction” at Notional Slurry. [...] [...] In any event, for a fairly concise look at the general evolution of the book auction, see Nicolas Barker’s 1995 essay for ABPC; for a scholarly study of the workings of the early 20th century auction ring, track down a copy of Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman’s Anatomy of an Auction (which appears to have gone out of print). And for one alternative model of pricing, see the proposal for the “drunkard’s auction” at Notional Slurry. [...]

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