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}]
Entries from September 2011
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}]
Howard S. Mott, Inc. is celebrating its 75th Anniversary! Howard S. Mott, Inc. was one of the founding firms of the ABAA, joining in 1949 when the association was formed. Proprietor Donald N. Mott ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
A comic book collector and dealer, Gary Colabuono, displayed a number of very rare ashcan comic books last weekend at Chicagos Comic Con. An ashcan comic is a hand drawn, unfinished version of a co... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The Victoria & Albert Museum has a neat video on their website that shows the process of creating a hand-printed and hand-bound octavo. Please click here to watch (Note: there is no audio on the video... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
This item was still reported missing as of May 30, 2019. The following item was reported missing during transport: Eleonora Maria Rosalia, Herzogin zu Troppau und Jagerndorff. FREYWILLIG-AUFFGESPRUNGE... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]