WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:05.559 It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Deli Leazy, Boston's 2 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:06.240 new radio. 3 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.599 We always on Friday night is week ease you at 4 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:18.800 the weekend. We have two hours left and we're going 5 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:20.719 to be talking with Ken Gloss in just a moment, 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.399 but I'll remind you that we will do our last 7 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.320 final Friday of the year before the November election. The 8 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:33.000 November election is on November fifth, So as I think 9 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.719 all of you know for the last now seven months 10 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:38.640 and soon this would be the eighth month since last March. 11 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.560 On the last Friday of the month, sometimes it was 12 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.759 the thirtieth or the thirty first, other times it was 13 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:47.159 the twenty seventh, of the twenty fifth or whatever. And 14 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.719 tonight it's October twenty fifth. We would have a little poll, 15 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.200 a little snap poll in that what we call the 16 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.119 twentieth hour, on who you would be inclined to vote 17 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:01.640 for for president. Of course, we started off with the Ames, Trump, Biden, 18 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:06.599 and Kennedy. Kennedy has dropped out, as has Joe Biden. 19 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.719 It is now Trump and Harris and we will do 20 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.599 our final, our eighth poll during the eleven o'clock hour. 21 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.120 But before we do that, I'm delighted to have back 22 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:18.680 a regular guest in this program, my great friend Ken 23 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:22.000 Gloss of the Bradle Bookshop, and we're going to talk 24 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:25.480 about a couple of book events coming up in Boston 25 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.480 won this weekend and a bigger one next weekend. And 26 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:33.480 also Ken Gloss has always been willing to share with 27 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:37.719 us some books or some manuscripts that he has recently 28 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.879 had his hands on, and he's also willing to give 29 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.840 you an idea if you have a rare book or 30 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:50.400 a rare manuscript in your possession. Ken, welcome back to 31 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:51.760 Night Side. How are you, sir? 32 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:54.959 I'm fine, and it's a lot of fun to be 33 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:59.719 back and talk with you, and looking forward to these 34 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.400 books events, which of course I'm very involved with. But 35 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:08.719 it's just really good talking with you. It always is, well, Ken. 36 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:13.400 I think if I could call anyone a bibliophile, it 37 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:18.879 would be you. You love books. You've spent your entire life 38 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:26.240 surrounded by books, and basically you have made a life 39 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.800 associated with books. And what a wonderful life you have 40 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:34.199 you have had and that you continue to have followed 41 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:38.520 in your dad's footsteps the Brattle Bookshop, and many people 42 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:41.479 used to get confused you're on West Street, You're not 43 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:44.280 on Brattle Street. But I know there was a point 44 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.639 in time. What is the derivation of the Brattle Bookshop? 45 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:48.520 Was it at some point? 46 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:53.280 Well, what happened was in nineteen forty nine my parents 47 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.360 were getting married. The Brattle Bookshop, which actually you can 48 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:01.159 trace back to the eighteen twenties, was literally going back 49 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.080 out of business, and my mother had five hundred dollars 50 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.879 and with that they bought half interest. Now, the thing 51 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.360 about Brattle Street, which was where the bookstore was, there 52 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:16.199 was a small street in what was Scarley Square of 53 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:20.960 Boston called Brattle Street. And to make it even more confusing, 54 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:26.280 the street doesn't exist anymore. It's where City Hall Plaza 55 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:30.479 is now noticed Scary Square. 56 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:32.840 And all the entertainment that ensued there. 57 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:38.520 All the entertainment then, very interesting entertainment. I have to 58 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:41.400 admit I was way too young to take part. I 59 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:42.439 just heard about it all. 60 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:49.120 Yes, me too, But no street, the more famous Brattle 61 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:50.479 Street in Cambridge. 62 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.520 Well, what I had to do was in the early 63 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.759 seventeen hundreds in Boston, We'll go back a few years 64 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:00.159 to get the story. There was a very very rich 65 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:05.000 merchant named Thomas Braddell. He had some land in Boston, 66 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.000 and he owned an awful lot of land in Cambridge. 67 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:12.639 Thus Brattle Street in Cambridge, and that's where the name 68 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:17.560 comes from, a very rich Bostonian in the early seventeen hundreds. 69 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:22.439 Wow, that gets us back aways. So for people who 70 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:28.439 don't understand that, oftentimes you find your inventory. If you 71 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.600 want to go find a New York Times current bestseller, 72 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:36.160 you probably go to Amazon. You probably go to if 73 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:41.680 there are any Barnes and Nobles left bookstores. So that's 74 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.560 not what you deal in. You deal in books that 75 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:49.720 you have bought from families or from estate sales, and 76 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:55.120 people go and browse your bookstore like crazy. You're on 77 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:56.600 West Street in Boston. 78 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.959 Yeah. Well, it's actually very interesting. One of the things 79 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:05.319 that people don't realize about the business. So and they 80 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:09.240 picture someone in the book business sitting behind talking with 81 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.600 people about books, but they don't think of is we 82 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:17.079 just moved twenty thousand books out of someone's house in 83 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:20.560 one of the Boston suburbs. I was in Connecticut two 84 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:25.600 days ago moving about two thousand books. In Maine yesterday 85 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:31.279 moving a thousand or more. And it's really a physical 86 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:34.600 job too. But it's also it's the hunt. It's the search. 87 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.800 It's sort of like being Jim Hawkins on Treasure Island, 88 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:41.439 never knowing quite what you're going to meet. And most 89 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:45.639 people who are interested in books are interesting people. So 90 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.639 you meet a lot of real characters and fun people 91 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.720 and brilliant and that's one of the joys of the 92 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:52.920 whole business too. 93 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.399 So give us the name, and we're going to obviously 94 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.839 talk about these book fairs that are coming up, the 95 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.000 one this weekend and the one next weekend. And I 96 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.439 also do want to encourage people if they'd like to 97 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.120 call in and inquire if they have some manuscript or 98 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:13.959 book and that of years past, and they would love 99 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.439 you to venture an estimatest of with the value of that. 100 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.680 And you never know, you never know what's been sitting around. 101 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.439 Because just recently a colleague of mine, I do the 102 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:27.879 Antiques bro Show, I've done that for over twenty years, 103 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:32.040 but a colleague in North Carolina was at an estate. 104 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.079 Really nice to say to North Carolina. They were looking 105 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.480 through furniture that was over two hundred years old. They 106 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.680 opened up one of the draws. There was a piece 107 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.279 of paper in the draw. That piece of paper was 108 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:50.639 an early, very early printing of the Constitution. It went 109 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:55.639 up for auction, and so over nine million dollars. So 110 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.319 that had been sitting in a probably a piece of 111 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:02.720 furniture for two hundred thirty or forty years, and all 112 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.800 of a sudden it was found. And so that can happen. 113 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:11.920 It is unusual though, but a lot of it is 114 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.360 just you know, people have sod. 115 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.079 Let me ask you. You said, you, colleague, that was 116 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:19.000 he in the in the process of buying the furniture, 117 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:22.079 or was he at the estate sale and going through 118 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:24.959 the home and figuring out what he wanted to purchase. 119 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.199 No, he wasn't. He was in there as an appraiser. 120 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:31.720 Now there was the estate and the lawyers had called 121 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.480 him in to look through the furniture, look through all 122 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:40.079 the objects. He wasn't an expert in books and manuscripts, 123 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:44.399 but he was very knowledgeable. So when he spotted it, 124 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.519 he knew, wait a minute, this is something we've got 125 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:51.560 to get people in and really look at. And obviously 126 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:56.199 everybody was sort of taken aback and surprised. And you know, 127 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:57.680 it still happens. 128 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:02.720 I mean, if I'm not mistaken, the number of original 129 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:09.639 declarations of independence and constitutions. They pretty much of you know, 130 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:14.439 the original documents. They have some I think estimate as 131 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:17.600 to how many of those remain in existence. And it's 132 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.040 it's it's not a big figure in either within either group. 133 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:26.639 Correct, it's in the twenties and thirties. The Constitution is 134 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.560 even rarer. I mean, it's a piece of paper, you know, 135 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.159 and it's a piece of paper, and it's well over 136 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.879 two hundred something years old. And the other thing about 137 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.240 them is a lot of the copies that you hear 138 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.279 about or can see or view are in institutional library 139 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:53.440 state underglass, not only under glass, but you know they're 140 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.200 never going to come up for sale or be available 141 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:00.960 to the public, so you know it's one. So that's 142 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.360 an extreme example, although I have to admit I one 143 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.879 time got called in to do an appraisal and I 144 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.879 wasn't told about what the appraisal was going to be 145 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:16.720 ahead of time. I walked in a building basement, folding 146 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.600 table fluorescent lighting, and there was a copy of the 147 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:25.600 Bill of Rights, the Pilgrim chartter and a copy a 148 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:28.679 printed copy of the Declaration. But at the top it 149 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.840 said this is a true and authentic copy in ink, 150 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:37.159 signed John Hancock, and I wasn't and I will admit 151 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.600 I put my little finger on each one of them, 152 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.120 and I remember putting my finger on a more. Now 153 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.320 those are in the Massachusetts State Archives at the museum 154 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:49.360 near the Kennedy, but I saw them before they ended 155 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:54.679 up under glass. And when you talk about thrills, that's 156 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:55.240 one of them. 157 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.600 Unbelievable. My guest is Ken Gloss, you'd like to join 158 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:00.639 the conversation. We're going to talk about a couple of 159 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.960 events coming up which are open to the public. Uh. 160 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.840 And if you are a bibliophile or someone of that interest, 161 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:11.639 you you're going to be and you're going to enjoy 162 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:14.519 this next hour. I know my friend David Breadnoy, one 163 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:17.559 of my predecessors in this this night side at what 164 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.240 was it was called the David Brudnoy Show at the time, 165 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:26.279 but in this time frame at WBZ, was has an 166 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:30.279 extraordinary capacity to read and absorb information, and of course 167 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:32.600 he was a writer as well as a reader. I'm 168 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.120 not close to where David Brudnoy was, but I do 169 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.200 have more than a passing interest in books and a 170 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:41.320 friendship with Ken Gloss that goes back many years. He's 171 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.360 a great guy to deal with. If you have something 172 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:46.200 in your possession that you'd like to ask him about, 173 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.200 feel free to join the conversation At six one, seven, two, five, 174 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:53.360 four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten 175 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:56.600 thirty we get back. We'll talk more with Ken Uh 176 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.559 and also talk about these two events, one that that 177 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:03.519 starts this weekend here in Boston and one that is 178 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.960 a big, big event next weekend. We'll get to all 179 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:10.240 of that. Feel free to participate. Make this a conversation 180 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:12.960 that involves you as well. We'll be back on night's 181 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.879 side with Ken Gloss of the Brattle Bookshop on West 182 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:19.360 Street in downtown Boston after this. 183 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.720 Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World 184 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:27.000 Nights six studios on WBZ News Radio. 185 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.360 My guest is Ken Gloss to the Bradle Bookshop. So Ken, 186 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:34.879 let's talk the event this weekend and the event next weekend. 187 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.200 Let's start with this weekend. I assume both of these 188 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.559 are open to the public. There may be an admission charge, 189 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.080 but let's talk about this weekend first. 190 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.639 Well, well, first of all, they're both definitely open to 191 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:50.639 the public. Matter of fact, we love the public to 192 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.639 come because those are the people that we've won an 193 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.159 interest in get reading and collecting and so on. So 194 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:03.120 the one this week weekend is called the Boston Book Festival. 195 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.799 It's mostly new books and a lot of authors centralized 196 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:13.799 write in Copley Square. It's free, there's no charge at all. 197 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:17.240 We have a booth right in front of the Boston 198 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:21.240 Public Library. We're probably the only ones really bringing old 199 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:27.360 We wanted to represent the old books and the older items, 200 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:33.080 whereas most of the others speakers, thousands of people come. 201 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:41.279 Copley Square is humming with literature, young children's authors, major authors, 202 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:45.120 and it's going to be a beautiful day. It's outdoors 203 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:48.600 and then in a lot of the buildings of churches 204 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:49.039 and so. 205 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:49.759 On in the area. 206 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.039 Right, I mean, if you're going to be in the 207 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:57.559 Boston area, definitely get by Copley Square tomorrow and I'll 208 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:00.399 tell you that this fare it's been going for I'm 209 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:04.000 not sure fifteen twenty years now, and they've had good 210 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:08.039 weather almost every single year. So that's the Heavens is 211 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.559 saying it's something to go and see, and we will 212 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.279 be representative there and we're bringing in this fair. We 213 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:22.200 don't bring our rare items. We bring general books, some history, 214 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.679 We bring this year. I think a lot of the 215 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:29.039 sort of older nineteen forties and fifties paperbacks with the 216 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:35.919 lurid covers and stories more general outdoor pick up a book, geeve, 217 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.919 you can look and collect. And then what we also 218 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:40.960 do is try to encourage a lot of the people 219 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.080 and new books say hey, there's going to be an 220 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.399 old and rare book show coming up in a few 221 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.799 weeks too. So it's a lot of fun. 222 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.080 So the event tomorrow, it sounds to me like it's 223 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.720 set up in that park that is really Copley Square, 224 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.120 but you're not on the on the steps of the 225 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.080 Public Library, and you're not at the front of the 226 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.919 complete Plaza hotel. You're in that that public space. 227 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.879 Correct, well, the public space is being redone right now, 228 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:13.879 that big park. So literally we're on the sidewalk in 229 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:18.519 front of the Boston Public Library. The old yeah, right 230 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:22.720 right on there is where it is it used to 231 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.080 be in that park, but the park's being renovated. 232 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:29.000 And then a lot of the oftentimes Dartmouth Street is 233 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:33.639 closed to traffic. It is so is it closed to traffic, 234 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:34.519 it will be closed. 235 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:38.399 It will be closed to traffic tomorrow. They have I 236 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:41.159 think a few food trucks, but then they have a 237 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:45.080 lot of lectures that again you can go into the 238 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:50.120 churches in the area. And it's just a really fun, light, 239 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:55.840 easy event where people are just trying to promote literacy, 240 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:59.759 reading and uh and how could we not be at 241 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.799 some thing that's that's showing books And we've done it 242 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:05.919 since it first started and it's a fabulous event. 243 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:10.000 So okay, so let's talk about the big event, which 244 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:14.559 is the following weekend, Friday, the eight of November through 245 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:19.440 Sunday the tenth. That's at the Heinz Convention Center in 246 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:22.559 downtown Boston right by they share the Sheridan Boston Hotel. 247 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:26.320 Yeah, and that's and that's an event that I think 248 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.279 it's in the forty seventh or eighth year in Boston. 249 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:35.360 The organization is seventy five years old, but it's it's 250 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.320 about one hundred one hundred plus dealers from all over 251 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:46.000 the world, from Europe, some from the Eastern Europe, Great Britain, 252 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:49.799 tell then all over the United States. Dealers come and 253 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:55.840 they have basically old or rare but almost any area 254 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:57.519 of subject that you can think of. 255 00:15:58.279 --> 00:15:58.399 Uh. 256 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.960 Friday, it's I think from four to eight and there 257 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:06.000 is a twenty five dollars admission charge. But I'll tell 258 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:09.279 you a secret. If any of you people listening now 259 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.720 want to go to the Friday night opening, I'll bet 260 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:13.240 you if they got in touch with me, I could 261 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.320 come up with comp tickets for them. I made sure 262 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:17.559 to have a bunch. 263 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:20.960 Okay, But then you may stop by. 264 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.799 Or call or email or something, and we'll make sure 265 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:26.480 they get them. 266 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.600 And we'll give that information at the end of the hour, 267 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:32.320 so that people have a chance to get a piece 268 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.240 of paper, a pencil, and we'll give them your email 269 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:37.279 or a phone number where they could reach out to 270 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:38.559 the bookshop. 271 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.600 Absolutely, and then Saturday and Sunday it's free. There's no 272 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.120 admission charge because we don't want to discourage people from 273 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.000 coming in and looking. And a lot of people they 274 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:50.080 go to a show like or they hear about it 275 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:53.000 and they think it's very erudite and they think that, 276 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:58.159 you know how I would we be interested. But it 277 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:01.679 covers almost every subject that you can think of, and 278 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:05.000 not everything is high priced. Matter of fact, we make 279 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.480 an effort to have a lot of the dealers to 280 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:10.519 have things under one hundred dollars, just so it's a 281 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:14.279 little more accessible, matter of fact, to give you an idea. 282 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.400 And this is when we have some speakers, maybe one 283 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:21.640 you know, Dick Johnson over at the Sports Museum. He's 284 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:24.599 going to be speaking on Sunday. But one of the 285 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.039 things that I was saying I'm hoping to get before 286 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:30.960 the fair that I thought would interest you. I am 287 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:35.079 trying to buy an eighteen nineties photograph of the Boston 288 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.480 Latin School baseball team. 289 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.640 But you know I did not play on that team. 290 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.160 I want you to know that that was before my time. 291 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.400 Well, I was more likely to root for the team 292 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.799 when you were there than I was at this one. 293 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:53.079 You know. 294 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:58.240 But it's things come in like that. 295 00:17:58.960 --> 00:17:59.119 Now. 296 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:03.640 There will be letters of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, There'll 297 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.759 be cookbooks signed by Julia Child. One of the things 298 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.359 I know that I'm bringing is a program from the 299 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:16.759 from the nineteen twelve World Series first year at Gunway Park, 300 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:22.200 Red Sox win the World Series. Se Yeah, and a 301 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:26.759 program from it. Also, I have a promotional brochure for 302 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:30.480 Titanic if you want to go on a cruise, I 303 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:35.519 don't recommend it, but I have the brochure for it. 304 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:38.759 So all of that is there and if someone comes 305 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:42.039 in and you know, maybe you're going out Saturday night, 306 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.559 or you're around Sunday afternoon, maybe you don't want to 307 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.759 watch the Patriots game or something like that. You can 308 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:52.960 come there spend an hour or two. And I think 309 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.480 most people, if they figure they're going to spend an hour, 310 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.039 they end up at three to four. And you can 311 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:01.759 actually touch these things. Another book that I know someone 312 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:02.759 is bringing, let me. 313 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:04.599 Ask you that there's a question, ken that I have, 314 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:10.000 and that is the how tight is the security at 315 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:14.480 this It is the forty sixth Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, 316 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.920 and again November eighth to the tenth at the Hinz 317 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:23.240 Convention Center, you know, very you know, conveniently located on 318 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.079 Boylston Street, right, you know, sort of the back of 319 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.039 the Sheridan Boston Hotel lost the Sheridan Hotel whatever they 320 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.880 call it these days. How tight is the security when 321 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.319 some of the documents of the papers that you suggest 322 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:39.119 are there, I mean all. 323 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:42.200 There worth thousands of dollars and tens of thousands. Well, 324 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:45.839 first of all, there is a co check. You can't 325 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:52.519 bring bags in. There are security guards checking when you 326 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.200 leave the you know that you have receipts and so on. 327 00:19:56.519 --> 00:19:59.839 But each deal has a booth and you have your 328 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:01.519 people in the booth. 329 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:04.000 You got to you gotta be Obviously, none of my 330 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.759 audience is going to go there and try to do 331 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:08.279 anything illegal. Ken, I'm going to take a very quick 332 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:10.200 got to take you a very quick break here because 333 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:13.079 because of all of the the activity tonight in the 334 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:16.920 Middle East, we're expecting a CBS special news report. My 335 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:20.240 guest is Ken Gloss or the Brattle Bookshop. If you 336 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:22.240 want to join the conversation, you have the numbers. But 337 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:24.319 before we get back to Ken, this is a special 338 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:26.440 news report from CBS on the Middle East. 339 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.440 You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's 340 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:32.119 news radio. 341 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:36.880 My guest is Ken Glass, Ken Gloss of the Brattle Bookshop, 342 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:39.640 and we are talking about a couple of events coming 343 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:44.759 up tomorrow and next weekend. The event tomorrow is in 344 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:48.440 Copley Square in Boston, uh in front of the Boston 345 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:52.160 Public Library that Ken talked about it. And then the 346 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:58.039 book fair the forty six is an international into Boston 347 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:04.039 International Interquarian Book Fair from November eighth to the tenth. 348 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:09.640 Next next weekend at the Hinds Convention Center. Again, Ken 349 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:14.359 said that the admission charge tomorrow, there's no admission charge, 350 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:16.359 and there is an admission charge to the event on 351 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:23.200 Friday night, but there was there's no admission charge for 352 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.599 Saturday and Sunday. But Ken said that he might be 353 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:30.640 able to get a few comp tickets. So if you're 354 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.039 interested for next Friday night, Ken will give it an 355 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.400 address an email later on during this hour, which will 356 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:39.319 which he gets you in there. Ken, before we get 357 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:43.839 the phone calls, I have a question, and it's it's 358 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:45.519 kind of a general question, but I think you could 359 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:51.079 probably answer it. I know that if if there was ever, 360 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:55.240 say a book of Abraham Lincoln that had some relationship 361 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:57.240 to Lincoln that he signed, or a book signed by 362 00:21:57.240 --> 00:21:59.880 George Washington, or for that matter, a book signed by 363 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:05.400 Franklin Roosevelt, it would be of a gnomeous value. But give 364 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:09.000 us an idea if someone wanted to, say, to try 365 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:12.759 to build a collection of some books signed by presidents. 366 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:15.880 I'm not talking about again the Superstar Press. I'm talking 367 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:21.920 about a Franklin Pierce, Martin van Buren, Rutherford B. Hayes, 368 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:24.920 or something like that. I'm in many of those books 369 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:29.039 from the presidents of the nineteenth century, maybe the early 370 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:34.400 twentieth century that are are available, and if so, what 371 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:37.319 would it cost to build a you know, a small 372 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:40.640 library of a presidential library that you would never have 373 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:43.440 a hope of having a Washington book or obviously there's 374 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:48.720 no there's no autobiography of Abraham Lincoln signed because obviously 375 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:52.640 he never wrote an autobiography. What what would a book 376 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:56.119 signed by I don't know, James Buchanan or someone you 377 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.440 know that area, Zachary Taylor or someone like that, a 378 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:04.119 lesser known US president Benjamin Harrison. How much how much 379 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.759 would a book like that be worth? 380 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:13.279 They can probably range anywhere from four or five hundred 381 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:16.799 to maybe one thousand and fifteen hundred, depends on what 382 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:20.079 the book is, how it signed. Also would depend what 383 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:24.799 it signed when they were president, which collectors prefer as 384 00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:28.039 opposed to before or after. So you know, you can 385 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:32.599 get all sorts of variations on that, but no, they're 386 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.720 out there. Actually, a really interesting one that sells for 387 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:42.599 maybe around fifteen one hundred of dollars is a Life 388 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:45.880 of Franklin Pierce. But one of the reasons that one's 389 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:50.400 collected it was written by Nathaniel Hawthorn. He wrote the 390 00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:54.640 campaign biography for Pierce, and what do you know, he 391 00:23:54.759 --> 00:23:57.160 got a government job after that, Halikan did. 392 00:23:58.359 --> 00:24:04.759 And so the the books are about Pierce, written by Hawthorne, 393 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:06.359 signed by Peers. 394 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:11.160 Yeah, fifteen twenty five hundred. Now the other thing that you've. 395 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:14.400 Had, of course, is in New England from New Hampshire. 396 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:17.440 Is New Hampshire, so that would be an interesting but yeah, 397 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:21.359 the lesser known presidents there's less demand. And yeah, you 398 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:25.839 could in the mid hundreds to mid thousands you could 399 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:30.960 get most everything. And if you're looking to collect modern presidents, 400 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:33.720 I mean Jimmy Potter wrote a lot of books and 401 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:38.240