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antiquarian booksellers. women in the book trade. We learned earlier this week about the death of antiquarian bookseller Dorothy Sloan, “a pioneering woman in the book trade,” according to fellow bookseller John Windle. Kurt Zimmerman, a collector who worked for Sloan during his graduate school years in the early 1990s, said, “Her ...
1 de abr. de 2021 · The rare book world has lost another giant. Dorothy Sloan (1943-2021) died on March 14. A fifth-generation Texan, Dorothy was born and raised in Houston, where she met her first husband, Stephen M. Sloan, and where both of her children, Julia Ann Sloan (now Jasmine Star) and Anthony Vail Sloan, were born.
Dorothy Sloan, whose career in the rare book field closely paralleled the post-World War II expansion, saw it come to a close recently. She was an early advocate of the Americana Exchange and for almost 18 years a continuing member of Rare Book Hub.
9 de abr. de 2021 · Dorothy Sloan, the antiquarian bookseller who owned Texas-based Dorothy Sloan Rare Books and was a "pioneering woman in the book trade," died last month at the age of 77. Over the course of her long career, Sloan dealt in rare books, maps and works of art.
8 de abr. de 2021 · Trailblazing rare books dealer Dorothy Sloan hunted book fairs, estate sales and other places where undiscovered treasures could be found. The stories about Sloan’s intrepid career — which included identifying forgeries, fakes and stolen materials — came from all over Texas.
5 de abr. de 2021 · Austin American-Statesman. 0:01. 0:51. Dorothy Sloan identified forgeries, fabrications and stolen objects that sometimes upset owners and other dealers. The antiquarian book field has rarely...
Though there are many excellent articles and adventures in his recent book, this reporter, a longtime Dorothy Sloan fan, was extremely taken with his reminiscences of working with her as a young assistant, which he presented in a 2021 talk to the Florida Bibliophile Society.
