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}]
Entries from September 2011
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}]
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}]