Today at the Rare Book Cafe' the coffee was hot and the talk was cool

Portrait of the bookseller as middle-aged co-host

We had a fine time on Rare Book Cafe today! Michael Slicker of Lighthouse Books told us about a collection of military medical texts he acquired recently, including a treatise on gunshot wounds from 1555. We talked of the challenges of rapid growth in cities, often overwhelming the neighborhoods where lease rates could support indie bookstores, and how that affects doing business; and I talked about polio memoirs from when every summer was a time of worry for American parents. Edie Eisenstein told us new news of miniature books, and we all told some war stories:

Here's a link to the program: