UPDATE: The books have been recovered. The following books were stolen during transport in England on July 22, 2011. 1. Ceruti, Benedetto & Chiocco, Andrea; CalceolarI ivn. Veronensis a Benedicto ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from September 2011
Last March, the trade lost a great bookseller and, sadly, now a great bookstore as well- Serendipity Books of Berkeley, CA has closed its doors after almost 50 years. Today the NY Times posted a b... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following item was stolen after being recently acquired at auction: . Ingleby's Whole Art of Legerdemain, containing all the Tricks and Deceptions, (Never before published) as Performed by the Emp... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The Long Island Museum presents: Photography and Genealogy with Ray Smith What’s in a Photograph? Sunday, September 18, 2011 • 2 p.m. ABAA member Ray Smith will be presenting a lecture and worksho... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The LA Times has a piece online about the top bibliophilic spots in New York City. Please click here to read. A glaring omission made in the article is that if you are planning your bookish journe... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The September issue of Americana Exchange features an article on Vic Zoschaks (Tavistock Books) annual free workshop on bibliographic references. Click here to read. Kudos to Vic for his generosit... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Fine Books & Collections has a great interview with Norman Kane of The Americanist. Please click here to read it. Congratulations, Norman! The Americanist [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from August 2011
Last week I posted a link to Lorne Bairs review of his experience as a faculty member for the 2011 Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. This week we have a brief and lovely essay from Zhenya Dzhavgov... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
ABAA member Lorne Bair has just returned from the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar, where he is on faculty. He wrote a very enjoyable piece on his experience at this year's seminar on his blog, which... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Brent Ashworth, a Utah rare book dealer and collector, claimed that he had found a 200 page manuscript proving Butch Cassidy did not die in a 1908 shootout, as historians believed, but lived to old a... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]