“Grab Every Book That Grabs Back”: Notes from the 2017 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize This summer at Honey & Wax, we asked young women across the United States to tell us what books they were c... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from October 2017
Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s Gudis, Catherine It was reported that the package was removed from a customer's mailbox, ripped open, exhibition catalog removed, and the empty packaging left nea... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
What leaped off the pages and (figuratively) screamed "Buy Me!" as we thumbed through the most-recent catalogs from ABAA members. Well, these items for starters... THE LAST TYCOON: An Unfinished Novel... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from February 2017
Even if you are not able to be in Oakland for the 50th annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend, you can still browse some of the dealer's material (virtually) through their ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
UPDATE (12/04/2020): All but one of the titles on this list have been recovered. Still missing is the following title: 1. Attavante Degli Attavanti, Cicle of. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM - BOOK O... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from January 2017
You've no doubt heard the great news that Assembly Bill 228 has been introduced by California State Assembly Members Gloria and Chiu. If passed, this bill will provide significant relief from the most... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The 50th annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair will take place in Oakland, CA from February 10-12, 2017. Recognized as one of the world's largest and most prestigious exhibitions of an... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Bernard M. Rosenthal was born in 1920 in Munich. Most of his immediate family left Munich for Florence in 1933, left Italy for France in 1938, and arrived in the US in 1939, each move in response to t... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Bookseller Ed Smith (Ed Smith Books) interviewed Kurt Brokaw, a professor and film critic, who likes to moonlight as a rare bookseller (specializing in noir paperback originals) on the streets of Manh... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
“The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.” -- from “The Answer” by Robinson Jeffers Within his lifetime, the work of Robin... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]