Chronicle of a “Fort-Rare” Book... - By Thibault Ehrengardt

Voltaire wrote that the discovery of the New World was probably the most important event of our globe, and he would surely say that the internet revolution equals it. This New virtual World affects every aspect of our lives – including the most important one, tracking down old books. Thanks to digitalized libraries, free access to the catalogues of booksellers from all over the world and the descriptions of auction sales, one hardly needs to leave his home in order to conduct some research on a specific book. This I experienced lately, trying to “corner” a French book of poetry said...

You find yourself today on this landing page just as thousands of others do. You may simply be curious, here to do research or check Matchmaker arrivals, trying to stay up on the news, following upcoming auctions, reading Recent Auction Reports or parsing the Wikis. On AE virtually every need relating to books, manuscripts and ephemera is met. If you have books to sell this is the logical and least expensive site to list your material.

The cost for all privileges on the site is $37.50 a month or $340 a year. You have continuing access to more than two million records in the AED and the right to list up to 15,000 items in Books for Sale. Matchmaker, Footnotes and Web Catalogue are included.

Material in Books for Sale is matched continuously against three separate universes: [1] AE’s on-site traffic, [2] against all listings posted in Wiki Bibliographies, and [3] posted onto the major search engines to come up in search results around the world. It is the best listing value on the net.