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Atherton, Keaveny and the cast of characters at Atherton’s new bookstore join a community of antiquarian book lovers in the building...
...Thursday morning last week, Michael Atherton moves deftly through the small antiquarian bookstore he opened three weeks ago at the top of a winding staircase above Curious George Goes to WordsWorth...
...roughness has always made them precious to the Japanese connoisseur. Koetsu once sold his house to raise the money--30 gold coins--for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy. Later he came to see the ownership of such exalted things as "a nuisance" and the antiquarian enthusiasms they aroused as irrelevant: better to make them for oneself...
...roughness has always made them precious to the Japanese connoisseur. Koetsu once sold his house to raise the money - 30 gold coins - for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy. Later he came to see the ownership of such exalted things as "a nuisance" and the antiquarian enthusiasms they aroused as irrelevant: better to make them for oneself...
MacNeil is currently on the boards of the Mass. Historical Society in Boston and the American Antiquarian Society in Worchester. He as serves as a trustee with the Augustus St. Gordon's historical site in Cornish...