tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51511443380193174292024-02-07T00:46:12.678-05:00THE BOOK TROUTBooks, Book Selling, Book Reading, Book LovingRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-3298508783002497562024-02-01T13:37:00.002-05:002024-02-01T13:37:53.598-05:00<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Old Saratoga Books has just released a list of some of the titles we have in stock that are listed in the Bibliography of American Literature, or BAL. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This ten-volume BAL, published between 1955 and 1991, is a detailed bibliographic record of American imprints from colonial times through 1930. Though literary tastes have changed since the BAL was first published, it remains a standard reference and starting point for collecting American writers. Our list, which can be seen in full <a href="https://mailchi.mp/00ff9248673b/gk3zzp2vyp" target="_blank">here,</a> represents some of the BAL titles we have in stock.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are some highlights from the list:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokf4ZWRi15Uz7SdSLkZcB4NPdtLa8wQ25cz1zGDZOBxq8L-YEytbmdZQEqK9RE5Bne0N6yKwQ5JTPAFMIBS1fYXzDpjmaSgw1z6-z3KO_4fuSFThBCYgBrWRUMZKYZeOqGIE8r-RkUR7oIExSKt1AYQSGnqaOKRe_0Nsvfr-dHN34guF3Cto70WwTpVoj/s883/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="577" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokf4ZWRi15Uz7SdSLkZcB4NPdtLa8wQ25cz1zGDZOBxq8L-YEytbmdZQEqK9RE5Bne0N6yKwQ5JTPAFMIBS1fYXzDpjmaSgw1z6-z3KO_4fuSFThBCYgBrWRUMZKYZeOqGIE8r-RkUR7oIExSKt1AYQSGnqaOKRe_0Nsvfr-dHN34guF3Cto70WwTpVoj/s320/3.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Bangs, John Kendrick, The Dreamers: A Club. Being a More or Less Faithful Account of the Literary Exercises of the First Regular Meeting of that Organization, NY and London: Harper and Brothers, 1899, first edition. Black and white illustrations by Edward Penfield. Original brown cloth with red, black, and gilt design of a lively lobster on front boards. A collection of twelve stories parodying the literary stylings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Harding Davis, James Whitcomb Riley, Rudyard Kipling, William Dean Howells, and other contemporaries. Good. Boards lightly worn, waterstain at top edge of first sixty pages. BAL 741. $35</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dIP0jk3-6Wt49A59QgYPMorgMqJ-F_7SZxiqYmhMGJMvpenvNiZRp33aQVWdG8OZjMS9HV5DuPQR1N-jZoYCErgzYYBQhSnnDf2nq1_Xt1ePQcx3MwNkK1F8Q6npBNPpS7UD3ZtETNFkDB0fnkR7RbWQynnSu8Ce3XztxfcV8ZFr8vxK6pum7k1nSVma/s295/17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="200" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dIP0jk3-6Wt49A59QgYPMorgMqJ-F_7SZxiqYmhMGJMvpenvNiZRp33aQVWdG8OZjMS9HV5DuPQR1N-jZoYCErgzYYBQhSnnDf2nq1_Xt1ePQcx3MwNkK1F8Q6npBNPpS7UD3ZtETNFkDB0fnkR7RbWQynnSu8Ce3XztxfcV8ZFr8vxK6pum7k1nSVma/s1600/17.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Hardy, Arthur Sherburne, His Daughter First, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903, first edition. 349pp. Dark green decorative cloth with rose and chalice design on front boards and spine by Decorative Designers. VG. Boards rubbed, erasure mark on front free endpaper. BAL 7049. $20</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5glblHCYSx2HcCpQoxedNIh1vSj69ll756NbY81bk1GmYjNZ-0Ug0r4qbV6bqu-tSyPP0rvG3GcatD5V13Fb8pJkuJVZWpjcogGOsGNRIKpNlY64hs7a9-8XD0SSSDMB8hehBY9UNBaf9-ZIf0-4dOnjZeGQxSseXA01SI0YernIerPR7hvn75eVzeX-n/s301/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="200" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5glblHCYSx2HcCpQoxedNIh1vSj69ll756NbY81bk1GmYjNZ-0Ug0r4qbV6bqu-tSyPP0rvG3GcatD5V13Fb8pJkuJVZWpjcogGOsGNRIKpNlY64hs7a9-8XD0SSSDMB8hehBY9UNBaf9-ZIf0-4dOnjZeGQxSseXA01SI0YernIerPR7hvn75eVzeX-n/s1600/5.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Bangs, John Kendrick, Peeps at People: Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1899, first edition. 12mo. Dark green cloth with orange, black, and white design of woman writing in notepad on front boards. 185pp + 6pp publisher ads. Many black and white plates by Edward Penfield. VG. Boards rubbed, light foxing to rear several leaves. A collection of humorous stories imagining interviews with famous people of the day (polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, authors Rudyard Kipling and Emile Zola, etc) by intrepid female reporter Witherup. BAL 739. $30</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu8m-M1BaaTY7eTQAo-vM28X0iJS5M3IKDts6ngs2GGM0z2MI9DBsEGy3yI651sXaTxKG_cnd6-rdMFPqpZmtjqzWtAky7bTxNnIZwjfIC5HymvMRtce4Qg-6f7D2xMAEuDSHxVX3guzLC8TVGMj1y9lWh3HIGy53mP1Dj-1D1GJd-82POlQ5JOoMIhk-D/s883/30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="587" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu8m-M1BaaTY7eTQAo-vM28X0iJS5M3IKDts6ngs2GGM0z2MI9DBsEGy3yI651sXaTxKG_cnd6-rdMFPqpZmtjqzWtAky7bTxNnIZwjfIC5HymvMRtce4Qg-6f7D2xMAEuDSHxVX3guzLC8TVGMj1y9lWh3HIGy53mP1Dj-1D1GJd-82POlQ5JOoMIhk-D/s320/30.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Smith, F[rancis] Hopkinson, Colonel Carter’s Christmas, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903, first trade edition. Eight color plates by F.C. Yohn. Original green cloth binding with green, gold, and white design of holly-draped punch bowl and candlesticks on front boards. TEG. xiv, 159pp. Nostalgic novel of the antebellum South. VG. Boards lightly toned and rubbed, water spot on lower left corner of front boards. BAL 18236. $30</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqAgKHU3_07_uyupevDKSKVv6DE9YlY7XCKtxLShN-J6mbqQKJ4CvCFHJqJRrhO-2r4n6Sz1iwrpcpyCVP8Kh1T4EerDRZjrBNmLAwdmHuorE-Vx1cxuOaKiR_BVWe3FEt3-oO9CYsP1plaZ4zR3jPD6C84ccvFV6ypL-9k2IeSyE9Pbi1VLws-rss4Kc-/s310/24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="200" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqAgKHU3_07_uyupevDKSKVv6DE9YlY7XCKtxLShN-J6mbqQKJ4CvCFHJqJRrhO-2r4n6Sz1iwrpcpyCVP8Kh1T4EerDRZjrBNmLAwdmHuorE-Vx1cxuOaKiR_BVWe3FEt3-oO9CYsP1plaZ4zR3jPD6C84ccvFV6ypL-9k2IeSyE9Pbi1VLws-rss4Kc-/s1600/24.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Holmes, Oliver Wendell, The Last Leaf, Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1895, reprint. 12mo. Gray cloth sides with white cloth spine stamped in gilt and black. Top edges gilt. Unpaginated.VG. Boards soiled and worn, chip missing from head of spine. Inscription on first front flyleaf "To Ralph - With the hope that He may cling in the Spring. Chicago/94." BAL 9055. $25</span><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Be sure to sign up for our <a href="https://biblio.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7b143c485c2035d980e172831&id=7a3f8a2807">semi-annual newsletter </a>to receive advance notice of our future E-lists, as well as exclusive coupons. </p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-72946543865347329652023-10-11T12:48:00.002-04:002023-10-11T12:48:24.176-04:00Books by and about Women<p> Old Saratoga Books has just issued its latest E-list of Books by and About Women:</p><p>Some of the highlights include:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGdDcfe8vLF5uY36V7r9CpIccMtOrFSwqB3QozoK1JuP6TbUZcW3wvsHT4gtnNvyYXNeVbrzSt_Gtn4SYbIgTS0co1jlzj8veRKcl_heMUMg5giUnFJeiQdq61rHpw4ybrSFJcaB7MiWvJRk2QB5I6m1-BGVkKejGyHt3VPP4a_jfn2e1yhcYgwXwYn3Am/s961/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="961" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGdDcfe8vLF5uY36V7r9CpIccMtOrFSwqB3QozoK1JuP6TbUZcW3wvsHT4gtnNvyYXNeVbrzSt_Gtn4SYbIgTS0co1jlzj8veRKcl_heMUMg5giUnFJeiQdq61rHpw4ybrSFJcaB7MiWvJRk2QB5I6m1-BGVkKejGyHt3VPP4a_jfn2e1yhcYgwXwYn3Am/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photographs of the 1930s, Cleveland, OH: The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1980. Photo-illustrated wraps. Measures 9 x 10 inches. 64pp. 85 black and white photo reproductions. Checklist. Inscribed by the late, legendary Berenice Abbott on the title page. VG. An exhibition of Abbott’s documentary photographs of New York City and other American urban scenes shot privately and under the auspices of the WPA. The exhibition was curated by Michael G. Sundell and was shown at the New Gallery from November 7 - December 6, 1980. $125</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyYTeOYEv_yJkhZkzgxIR4IIYyl7LL2jf40FbZ2obKMRbOc3rVBBYScba7Lp4w3Gbme6Mb2rcF_JXYUL5ejdwwr6qDHeGwwOMs7xcJbXPGmT2__tifetS5a63n0MifRIEF3ibt7PGJAiBFgYYmUD52ZLNUJ2swaGnEhh4aY3RmJAJkuqs7oM0s1Pru6X_/s898/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="634" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyYTeOYEv_yJkhZkzgxIR4IIYyl7LL2jf40FbZ2obKMRbOc3rVBBYScba7Lp4w3Gbme6Mb2rcF_JXYUL5ejdwwr6qDHeGwwOMs7xcJbXPGmT2__tifetS5a63n0MifRIEF3ibt7PGJAiBFgYYmUD52ZLNUJ2swaGnEhh4aY3RmJAJkuqs7oM0s1Pru6X_/s320/9.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><p>Cooper, Katherine [Katherine Saunders], The Haunted Crust, Etc., NY: George Routledge & Sons, 1871 first American edition. 269pp. Brown decorative cloth with holly leaves and title stamped on front boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Fair. Musty, boards worn, top edge of rear boards gnawed, contemporary owner names on front flyleaf, waterstains to rear fifty pages. A collection of five short stories by the English Victorian author. The title story is a tale of ghosts, hunger, and a Christmas feast snatched from the mouth of a street cur. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English notes that “her lucid, often evocative style and the subtle, sympathetic treatment of characters from humble life” drew contemporary reviewers to compare her to George Eliot. $30</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyk0MR_H0WBYD9TZ5njBNOi-zB872SCQnp_qN7dWTnERi-ENpT0MhPHVqT7WJXeuZOLSDDQVOgd_jD-L8PVQgAX5DM0A6OS8mGjXxQncaY_skfK7_Sxvms5lFUKbIYfb_AhD7n3FPuFgONv3LmURZ2vjD2qWjZ2ALE0SlamRvbG2mlbwMTH6b6a_MZoly/s898/19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="574" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyk0MR_H0WBYD9TZ5njBNOi-zB872SCQnp_qN7dWTnERi-ENpT0MhPHVqT7WJXeuZOLSDDQVOgd_jD-L8PVQgAX5DM0A6OS8mGjXxQncaY_skfK7_Sxvms5lFUKbIYfb_AhD7n3FPuFgONv3LmURZ2vjD2qWjZ2ALE0SlamRvbG2mlbwMTH6b6a_MZoly/s320/19.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><p>Hart, Frances Noyes, Pigs in Clover, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1931, first printing. Blue cloth with paste-on front and spine labels and deckled fore-edge. xiii, 297pp. Endpaper map, black and white maps. VG/Good. Edges rubbed, two pages of book reviews neatly pasted in on rear endpapers, jacket price-clipped, chipped with closed tears, faded at spine. A lovely copy of this early 1900s autotour narrative of a trip though the French countryside. $75</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rRNYM7CZc_JHlQEJ7AKAtg-05q5Fu5xSQkFP-BRYHH0lDcos49yhMPjFdBnCLPduap46K9nZ-Tezii_Jg3aY2YkC9dW45WeYws-rwLzr2Cj60eZVvd5EHZTzrgUN8FagFLqFaUqjd-GVqbBjbO3kFpQmWJmPgbKxDq4t3R1RuuH0VZ_xDz8ThHFnVO77/s898/29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="816" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rRNYM7CZc_JHlQEJ7AKAtg-05q5Fu5xSQkFP-BRYHH0lDcos49yhMPjFdBnCLPduap46K9nZ-Tezii_Jg3aY2YkC9dW45WeYws-rwLzr2Cj60eZVvd5EHZTzrgUN8FagFLqFaUqjd-GVqbBjbO3kFpQmWJmPgbKxDq4t3R1RuuH0VZ_xDz8ThHFnVO77/s320/29.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><p>Morrison, Toni and Slade Morrison, Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? NY: Scribner, 2003, first printing. Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre. Signed by the late Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison, and her late son, Slade Morrison, on the front free endpaper. VG/VG. Front free endpaper wrinkled, jacket lightly worn and has one inch tear at head of spine. A frisky graphic novel version of Aesop's classic fable. Photos of the Morrisons and Lemaitre on rear jacket panel. $150</p><p>To see the full catalogue, check out this link:</p><p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/ce56d601256d/bti9k4fgx0">https://mailchi.mp/ce56d601256d/bti9k4fgx0</a></p><p>And to receive our semi-annual Old Saratoga Books newsletter, coupons, and first crack at our future E-lists, you can sign up for our mailing list here:</p><p><a href="https://oldsaratogabooks.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7b143c485c2035d980e172831&id=7a3f8a2807">https://oldsaratogabooks.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7b143c485c2035d980e172831&id=7a3f8a2807</a></p><p><br /></p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-78273148616008623142023-07-31T13:58:00.001-04:002023-07-31T13:58:11.972-04:00<p> Our latest E-list of books about the book arts has just been published. It's full of books about typography, book design, fine press printing, bookplates, and more. </p><p>Here is the link to the full E-list:</p><p>https://mailchi.mp/90ebf03c5635/1cw4h8azg0</p><p>And here are some of the highlights:</p><p>Type Spacing, by E.R. Currier, NY: J. M. Bowles and Company, 1912, limited edition. VG. Spine cloth eroded.One of 300 copies. Brown cloth spine. 19pp. Printed paper-covered boards. Printed on cream-colored laid paper. Currier Press printer's mark and initial T on page three drawn by Frederic W. Goudy and printed in orange ink. A republication of an article by Currier which originally appeared in the August 1910 edition of The Graphic Arts magazine. Printed by Norman T. A. Munder and Company of Baltimore. Inscribed by Munder on the title page "To some good friend of Mr. John Hoyle". "...The choicest type face in the world may have its beauty or its legibility nullified by bad spacing. The tools are not superior to the workman." $100</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP-gGhaODJlYKMVQ0BIYZxBZFMw4YnANLdkeuS5OranFapLqxvGiUUSb4lOuOOWczygA-mYv9sVwVIfK7FaOYkokrTDOhq_z9aPF0yMZCYoKQPEoCWySxeoEcxWaYAQWaNUNwYN75uMGiowE99-HlqaGIZVt_ZM0u3jTH7aS5uB_wk6P-CeimPztNe1rQz/s839/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP-gGhaODJlYKMVQ0BIYZxBZFMw4YnANLdkeuS5OranFapLqxvGiUUSb4lOuOOWczygA-mYv9sVwVIfK7FaOYkokrTDOhq_z9aPF0yMZCYoKQPEoCWySxeoEcxWaYAQWaNUNwYN75uMGiowE99-HlqaGIZVt_ZM0u3jTH7aS5uB_wk6P-CeimPztNe1rQz/s320/2.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Libro Illeggibile N. Y. 1, by Bruno Munari, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1967. One of 2,000 numbered copies (#208). Stapled black card covers with red illustrated glossy jacket. Short descriptive text in Italian and English on rear jacket flap. Measures 8.5 x 8.5 inches. VG. Rear jacket flap creased.Artist book by the Italian designer with black and translucent pages with die-cut holes, threaded through with a red string. $400</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44msXHtpXCCMHNbD5D0e5iKn84aiD_eRMVfGOXJubM6eAze44RWYkV5ozFi4RGaRHCzs1Yc9flSXluMwkqtssbCtVWdqoPog5WMBS_MnzKM5eeBIdnBKl1Sm0-Nnei_Ygq44rSOxSY9Qr4_fqSoWhTuykqXLDJIeszTOCHB-h2ds_gWyKiJwxX_7Ziz78/s839/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="830" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44msXHtpXCCMHNbD5D0e5iKn84aiD_eRMVfGOXJubM6eAze44RWYkV5ozFi4RGaRHCzs1Yc9flSXluMwkqtssbCtVWdqoPog5WMBS_MnzKM5eeBIdnBKl1Sm0-Nnei_Ygq44rSOxSY9Qr4_fqSoWhTuykqXLDJIeszTOCHB-h2ds_gWyKiJwxX_7Ziz78/s320/8.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><br /><p>Demonstrations of Type and Illustrations by Letterpress, Lithography and Sheet-Fed Gravure on Fine Text Papers, NY: The Canfield Paper Company, [1950]. Patterned paper-covered boards over green cloth. VG. Boards rubbed. Promotional book by Canfield Paper Company showing different appearance of the same illustrations and photos appearing on nine kinds of papers, printed through three kinds of printing methods. $25</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIxrd8X3sQf8C3-yEBGnaDBY1KyA32En-WcXD7tlZocewVJ8OCIESffIjjrqHYQp6BdnHsyAy2LUXIXPddmYc3E6bdAKIc-mBn5sJzezennI2yTVj050k7XqOnbnPyvC9_JI4BsOiksy6Y-BjSowPvt23NK_9rFR_-SVEIw_k_ye9_vq5BBmUyH4kmTXZ/s839/15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIxrd8X3sQf8C3-yEBGnaDBY1KyA32En-WcXD7tlZocewVJ8OCIESffIjjrqHYQp6BdnHsyAy2LUXIXPddmYc3E6bdAKIc-mBn5sJzezennI2yTVj050k7XqOnbnPyvC9_JI4BsOiksy6Y-BjSowPvt23NK_9rFR_-SVEIw_k_ye9_vq5BBmUyH4kmTXZ/s320/15.jpg" width="120" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Engraved Bookplates: European Ex Libris 1950-70, by Mark Severin and Anthony Reid, Pinner, UK: Private Libraries Association, 1972. One of 2,000 copies. 176pp. Green cloth binding. Presents over 500 bookplates (including some of Severin’s) with gazetteer and index of bookplate artists and many reproductions, review of technical symbols, bibliography. 4to. VG/VG. Boards worn, jacket faintly soiled. $65</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMSMg9yPhbsstB9aZpWMi0e2iA6X2tKUI0T7f3WTEqdcCUPMumbWt1f4G-a5yrZLt3pUx5dmhZu6OzY-fetxxy4z1dGsV0sEgigbi6TbfhbN4eXO77hl8j8fE76RJWaT8q8eDTw10vglskgF3pVoD-4gB5Jej9Sjde1H5uPjlKGHbwpfwug57GMw79WZZu/s839/23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="563" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMSMg9yPhbsstB9aZpWMi0e2iA6X2tKUI0T7f3WTEqdcCUPMumbWt1f4G-a5yrZLt3pUx5dmhZu6OzY-fetxxy4z1dGsV0sEgigbi6TbfhbN4eXO77hl8j8fE76RJWaT8q8eDTw10vglskgF3pVoD-4gB5Jej9Sjde1H5uPjlKGHbwpfwug57GMw79WZZu/s320/23.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-22367059618144211422021-07-14T15:38:00.005-04:002021-07-14T17:50:30.194-04:00A New E-List of Antiquarian and Collectible Children's Books<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0zipY0sppaRkV01-BqlaqE6MAsaP3W4FSKLhwTpn-jdl5uCbYMJe5aLT2KJgg7yBCqcN3dgotAv5XyUur-wkPl6waojjkmaS5OYdDdC4zin5MmPMYhxz15FeZN6KymQ8ialQXrU20Ktmu/s699/22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0zipY0sppaRkV01-BqlaqE6MAsaP3W4FSKLhwTpn-jdl5uCbYMJe5aLT2KJgg7yBCqcN3dgotAv5XyUur-wkPl6waojjkmaS5OYdDdC4zin5MmPMYhxz15FeZN6KymQ8ialQXrU20Ktmu/s320/22.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Old Saratoga Books has been fortunate to acquire a large collection of antiquarian and rate children's books recently. We put together an E-list of these titles for your review at this <a href="https://mailchi.mp/824ef45165de/ojcyrbflx2" target="_blank">link. </a></p><p>Here are a few highlights from this children's book list:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jIQ5035XYB6g8R63BHR_YEv_mGlLjA6A5x9pnX8n-S9opnMXkD7zYJQiNzu6uaQa1-sQ_rV4XT5Eo8GBN7IU3IgWlA2Z6CMR3J_nAbdK9s4NVJ2Yp54xmJhh_q8QOMUS3AMUYa_oBAlO/s700/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="495" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jIQ5035XYB6g8R63BHR_YEv_mGlLjA6A5x9pnX8n-S9opnMXkD7zYJQiNzu6uaQa1-sQ_rV4XT5Eo8GBN7IU3IgWlA2Z6CMR3J_nAbdK9s4NVJ2Yp54xmJhh_q8QOMUS3AMUYa_oBAlO/s320/4.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Animal Stories for Little People, NY: A.L. Burt Company, nd. Circa 1890s-1900s. Brown cloth decorated on front boards and with color inset illustration by J. Watson Davis of Asian man with long ponytail riding a bear illustrating inside story of Wang Lee. Unattributed color frontispiece of parade of animals riding bicycles. 120pp + [2]pp of publisher ads. Engravings throughout. VG. Boards lightly worn, corners rounded, pages toned, some light finger soiling. A compilation of short stories about animals ranging from orangutans to pet dogs and cats. $25</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmeSZ0xSHxlyYPYD91PfuOz-ADd5S8odJm64jJwj2Ge5TVQx7q0SloPlcOmmb0zpCPLK1ypOZV60vcODsVLMi4in_owfIY7-RQm3xayJ95H1C0eXB8Jsr4RHR9_q5IU2EoZ8GZ5qtgSaw/s700/7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="561" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmeSZ0xSHxlyYPYD91PfuOz-ADd5S8odJm64jJwj2Ge5TVQx7q0SloPlcOmmb0zpCPLK1ypOZV60vcODsVLMi4in_owfIY7-RQm3xayJ95H1C0eXB8Jsr4RHR9_q5IU2EoZ8GZ5qtgSaw/s320/7.jpg" /></a></div><p>J’Apprends l’Orthographe: L’Orthographe de l’Avenir, by Mlle. H.S. Bres, Paris: Librairie Hachette, nd. Circa 1910s primary school spelling book. Text in French. Color illustrated paper-covered boards over brown cloth. 64pp. Four color plates and 256 lively engravings after Steinlein, Le Mouel, Baseilhac, and others. VG. Boards mildly worn, pages toned. Attractive linocut bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. $50</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMuk0O2JrmipvpJjULtri4swAaRz6kziPqcfuSqzbV6haPf96julpiCiEcrBlPl_Fgl8GZr7sLxJQwPMAC2qsoaQuOxF41lZIw2e3Sy41-HjtdfvqNXibqqfZJuzrvHNqYUBR-zW_m1_n/s701/18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMuk0O2JrmipvpJjULtri4swAaRz6kziPqcfuSqzbV6haPf96julpiCiEcrBlPl_Fgl8GZr7sLxJQwPMAC2qsoaQuOxF41lZIw2e3Sy41-HjtdfvqNXibqqfZJuzrvHNqYUBR-zW_m1_n/s320/18.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Truant Peter, NY: McLoughlin Bros, nd. Circa 1860s. Pink sewn stiff wrappers printed in red and black. Measures 6.5 x 4.5 inches. [8]pp. Vibrant color printed engravings by Cogger on each page of text. VG. Wrappers and illustrations are remarkably bright and fresh. Some light foxing to center leaves. A title in the publisher’s Peter Prim’s series. Contains two cautionary tales in verse for young children. The first, Truant Peter, tells of a boy who skips school to go fishing, only to be pulled into the ocean by a big fish, where he is subsequently rescued by fishermen. The second story relates the story of Idle Frank, an odious boy who pulls his sister’s hair, ties a stick to his dog’s tail, and grows up to be a homeless beggar. $100.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9mmMgmWJ_yv0sUTDatoB9uX-AHNne0Ois6j35q7ENBkqnToFA3UERqTPY54lFpbBlcdQdCIwRUx7EFFuMzRgYUEK96I2q0g96ZcTYFY8zgN9xzT3BkxS_12fodRzo5mMuyOJLTFk3c6u/s700/21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="538" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9mmMgmWJ_yv0sUTDatoB9uX-AHNne0Ois6j35q7ENBkqnToFA3UERqTPY54lFpbBlcdQdCIwRUx7EFFuMzRgYUEK96I2q0g96ZcTYFY8zgN9xzT3BkxS_12fodRzo5mMuyOJLTFk3c6u/s320/21.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Cartile cu Apolodor, by Gellu Naum, Bucharest: Editura Ion Creanga, 1979, first edition. Color illustrated softcover. Trippy color illustrations by Dan Stanciu. 128pp. Text in Romanian. Good. Covers worn, stain to page tops and top edge of front cover. A bizarre collection of children’s verses about the travels of a penguin named Apolodor, which include a trip to Tunis and then a tour of the United States (he is a cowboy in the West, visits the Statue of Liberty, a Ku Klux Klan meeting in St. Louis(!), and then a boat trip down the Mississippi with two black Americans.) $50</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83XAwdsD9U2_6JZJ4VuEeLc2PJp8dVE-zUh5CkwzQcxDZpXyMGRs6lIj-V5qTJtzCoNTE7_ks1AyK61ze6jE1-iA-hje5Btrac0FPoprAsIIHfDqA8JwTeezqmDNfduksNO-c3SjA44h4/s699/24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83XAwdsD9U2_6JZJ4VuEeLc2PJp8dVE-zUh5CkwzQcxDZpXyMGRs6lIj-V5qTJtzCoNTE7_ks1AyK61ze6jE1-iA-hje5Btrac0FPoprAsIIHfDqA8JwTeezqmDNfduksNO-c3SjA44h4/s320/24.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>The Donkey Dick and Other Stories, by Mrs. George Cupples [Ann Jane Dunn Douglas Cupples], London: T. Nelson and Sons, nd, circa 1870s. Blue decorated cloth with title stamped in gilt on front boards. Measures 6.5x4 inches. [52]pp. Good. Second signature loose, spine cracked. A short story for young readers on each page with engraved illustration. Most stories involve moral tales about young people and animal profiles. $50</p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-80384172233409838042017-04-12T14:54:00.000-04:002017-04-13T05:05:34.503-04:00Vermont Booksellers Spring Fair and Book Hunting in VermontMy good friend Barb seemed to have an inordinate amount of fun assisting me with manning a booth at the Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair last September. She readily agreed to come along on a joint book hunting and genealogical research expedition to Burlington, Vermont this past weekend. <a href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/">Old Saratoga Books</a> was signed up as an exhibitor at the <a href="http://www.vermontisbookcountry.com/springfair">Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association Spring Fair </a>on Saturday, April 8th at the Burlington Hilton and Barb was interested in doing some family history research at the <a href="http://library.uvm.edu/sc/">University of Vermont Library's Special Collections</a>, so we made it an extended weekend.<br />
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We started our journey on Thursday with a trip up Vermont's historic Route 7A from Bennington to Dorset, stopping along the way at thrift shops, antique stores, and the <a href="https://thevermontcheesehouse.com/">Cheese House</a> to load up on books, treasures, and lunch (some great Mustard and Ale Cheddar and lavash crackers). Switching onto Route 7, we made our way to the beautiful town of Wallingford, Vermont, and the Helping Hands consignment shop where we really scored. We loaded up on some great clothing finds (polka dot dresses for the both of us for upcoming graduations and weddings), some books, a funky 50s lamp shaped like a leaf ($1!), elegant pajamas (Vermont Country Store donations in pristine condition), artwork, and even a spoon rest painted with a rat design. The Rutland Goodwill was huge and Barb was thrilled to find a hand model for her knitting creations and we both scooped up some unique artwork.<br />
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It was a dark and stormy night by the time we rolled into our hotel on the outskirts of Burlington so we caught a late Korean dinner at <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/naru-asian-restaurant-williston">Naru</a> and tucked ourselves into bed for a full day of genealogical research the next day. Barb was tracking down some ancestors at the University of Vermont's Bailey-Howe Library Special Collections and they had five boxes of files awaiting her. I was her scanning assistant and read a book while she took notes and burbled excitedly over some finds among the letters, legal documents, ledgers, and other historical items they provided. The staff was wonderfully accommodating (we were able to personally thank one of the librarians again the next day when she came into our booth at the Book Fair) and the scanner was a thing of beauty: easy to use, free, and delicate documents were immediately emailed to Barb to examine later in detail.<br />
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The Special Collections area had a small exhibit of Vermont patent medicine broadsides which were fun to examine. I also found a small stash of free books- library discards- conveniently located on the way to the rest room, so that was a plus. Note that parking is at a premium on the UVM Campus, and you will have to hike a bit (for us it was in the driving rain, which was at least not snow) from the visitor's parking lot. We warmed up later that afternoon with a Mexican-El Salvadorian-Filipino lunch at <a href="https://www.esperanzavt.com/">Esperanza Restaurante</a>, which we both recommend. Good tamales, ceviche, and lumpia!<br />
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We still had a free afternoon, so we pointed the van north and headed half an hour up to St. Albans, Vermont, an historic town with a vibrant Main Street and popped into <a href="http://www.theeloquentpage.com/">The Eloquent Page</a>. Donna Howard is the longtime owner of this bookstore which carries new and used books, with a specialty in books about costume and fashion. Her store is in a Victorian storefront with patterned tin ceilings, comfy reading chairs, and soaring shelves packed with unusual and reasonably-priced books. I got some great titles for some upcoming catalogues on 20th century history and of course, some books for my own home library.<br />
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Donna is also the Book Fair manager for VABA's Spring Fair, so she was busy with last minute arrangements on top of her bookstore duties. The Eloquent Page has strong sections in Vermontiana, American and European history, cookbooks, and children's books, as well as a good selection of fiction, organized by genre and title. A great shop for readers and collectors, and even other book dealers!<br />
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Saturday saw a frosting of snow for the opening of this Spring Book Fair, but we were undaunted and got there early to set up and prowl around other dealers' books. I was testing out two new face-out bookshelves that my husband made (er, copied) from John Hess at <a href="https://www.catamountbooks.com/">Catamount Books</a>. John's booth is a thing of beauty, with lots of eye-catching dust jackets and book covers, and he was correct in stating that this shelf design allows sellers to bring less but sell more.<br />
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The crowds were strong for the first four hours, but then sales and attendance dropped dramatically and the last two hours really crawled. That's where having a buddy like Barb was key, as she graciously let me steal away to talk shop and peruse other dealers' offerings. I found some nice antiquarian literature and women's history at Jean Hopkins' booth, a funky bound volume of phrenology at Fred Wright's booth (that's Fred and son Chris in photo below), and a great broadside temperance ditty at Jean Tudhope's booth.<br />
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The VABA Spring Book Fair was a good "provincial" fair for buying and selling. Loading in and out at the Hilton was easy, with no bottlenecks other than the hotel's revolving door. You had to time things just right to blast through with your loaded boxes, particularly in my case since I had forgotten my hand cart and was making use of one of the Hilton's ginormous luggage trolleys.<br />
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Barb and I finished up our book hunting adventures the next day with a trip to Burlington's <a href="http://www.resourcevt.org/">ReSource </a>nonprofit thrift shop. The books were plentiful and cheap and I loaded up on lots of store stock. Barb scored again with a worm factory for her garden. We finally had some nice spring weather to drive in and the ride back was sunny and gorgeous. Another cheese and cracker lunch at Dakin Farm in Ferrisburgh, VT sustained us until we could get to <a href="http://www.bookmobilevermont.com/">The Bookmobile</a>, in Rutland, VT. I forgot to take pictures, but it was a great space full of new and used books. I bought a nice stack of older cookbooks, 60s music, poetry, and natural history, and then it was back in the van heading south for a nice homeward welcome.<br />
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-78367370217744972372017-02-08T08:50:00.001-05:002017-02-08T08:55:28.229-05:00A Vinegar Valentine for a Mannish FemaleI was recently at an antique store and leafing through some paper items when I spotted this colorful illustration and poem:<br />
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It depicts a caricature of a woman in tailored attire accessorized with walking stick, natty hat with hat pin and a pair of oversized ears. The cartoon is printed on tan paper, almost like a thin lunch sack and has red, blue and yellow overlays. It measures 27 x 16 cm. No printing on verso. "1899" penciled neatly at lower right corner.<br />
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"A Mannish Female<br />
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Failing wholly to win a portion<br />
Of admiration as a she,<br />
You try to capture it by donning<br />
The air and garments of a he.<br />
But the scheme won't work; it only serves<br />
Your lack of charm to advertise:<br />
Folks once were willing to tolerate you,<br />
But now you force them to despise."<br />
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What in the world was this thing, I wondered? Was it a critique of a woman's rights activist? A lesbian? An advocate for rational dress for women? (As an aside, I just finished reading an excellent book, <u>Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine </u>by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, about the surgeon who pioneered many plastic surgery techniques. He treated many heavily disfigured women whose faces burned when they were quickly engulfed by flames from their layers of flammable and restrictive garments while cooking or working by lamplight).</div>
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A query at a rare book librarian's listserv unearthed the answer: this item is a Vinegar Valentine, a particularly misogynist example of an odious form of late 19th century/early 20th century "humor". It would have been sent anonymously to reinforce the social and gender mores of the sender. One can only imagine what the recipient thought of this particular bullying message, though this ephemeral item was preserved over the last century, so perhaps it was never sent. </div>
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Women who didn't know their place were not the only targets of these sour communiques. Poets, "hen-pecked" husbands (who supported their suffragette wives), fashion dandies, "floozies", surly sales clerks, mean bosses, and others could receive these mean-spirited missives which rolled off the penny presses to serve an increasingly literate population in the UK and US. </div>
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To see more examples of Vinegar Valentines and to learn more, here are some other informative articles to peruse:</div>
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Salon - <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/13/vinegar_valentines_an_old_tradition_of_sending_mean_cards_anonymously.html">When Valentines Were Really, Really Mean</a></div>
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Collector's Weekly - <a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/happy-valentines-day-i-hate-you/">Happy Valentine's Day, I Hate You</a></div>
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Library Company of Philadelphia - <a href="http://librarycompany.org/gayatlcp/section7.html">Comic Valentines from the McAllister Collection</a></div>
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The "Mannish Female" vinegar valentine described above is available from Old Saratoga Books. Please inquire for details. </div>
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Here's hoping you only receive the nicest kind of love notes this Valentine's Day!</div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-50897342323698526052016-02-06T08:14:00.000-05:002016-02-06T08:14:06.042-05:00Photography Books and Photographic ItemsOur <a href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/home//photography_catalogue.pdf">E-list No. 4: Photography</a> has just been issued and highlights some unique, signed and otherwise interesting books on photography, photographic ephemera and original photographs. Here is a sample for your delectation:<br />
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7) <b>Walker Evans at
Fortune, 1945-1965</b>, Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1977. Pictorial softcover. Oblong 4to. Very
Good. Essay by Lesley Baier. Foreword by Ann Gabhart. Catalog notes, 53
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Evans took for Fortune during his long tenure with the
magazine. They are quite different from his iconic Depression-era images of sharecroppers and Southern small towns, as published in Let
Us Now Praise Famous Men, though these urban street scenes, architectural details and common hand tools share the same
quiet, austere beauty. $25</div>
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listing lectures, gallery talks, films and other public programs and resources
associated with an exhibition of the work of New York City photographer
Helen Levitt. The exhibition was held at The Metropolitan Museum
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15) Photograph Postcard Booklet] <b>Etablissement des Soeurs de </b><b>Notre-Dame, Bastogne</b>.
Detachable photograph postcard book showing the Sisters of Notre-Dame school in Bastogne, Brussels, circa
1910-1920s. Photos by Ern. Thill, Brussels. Captions in French. Printed
blue card covers. Most all of these 27 postcards have their original
tissue guard. No postcards appear to be missing. Measures 9 x 15
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school, including the library, chemistry lab, music room, home
economics kitchen, chapels, classrooms, art rooms, etc.The Sisters of
Notre-Dame ran this Catholic primary and secondary school in the late
19th and early 20th centuries in this small town in the mountainous
Ardennes region of Belgium, near the Luxembourg border. The town was
the scene of fierce fighting during the last year of World War II and
it is possible that this school is the same educational facility as the present day Institut Nortre-Dame in Bastogne. Not found in WorldCat.
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portrait of a seated man and standing woman (the better to show off
one's best dress and its underlying voluminous hoops and petticoats).
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20) [Cartes de Visite] Three related Civil War era cartes de
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Sinclearville, NY" and "1504" handwritten there as well. Very Good. Image
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3) Standing woman in fancy gown, snood and cameo against
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2 x 3.5 inches. Front mount edged with two red ruled borders and
stamped at lower right "Photd. by Schoonmaker, 282 River St.,
Troy, N.Y." Penciled inscription on verso "Jane Link, pa
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Sinclearville is a small village in Chatauqua County, in far
western New York State. It was known as Sinclearville from 1809 when
it was founded by Revolutionary War Major Samuel Sinclear until
1887, when it was officially incorporated and "clarified" the
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Maria;Johnsen, Hanne; Kozanic, Dean; Veling, Tim, <b>My Place</b>, Christchurch, NZ: Canterbury University Press, 2005. Softcover. Very Good. Measures 23 x 20 cm. Foreword by Bruce Ansley. 145 pp.</div>
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Fine Arts' The Place in Time Project, in which New Zealanders are interviewed and photographed in situ in their homes, shops
and other favorite haunts. Many black and white photos. WorldCat
records only three copies, all residing in New Zealand. No other copies listed
for sale in the trade. $50</div>
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Panoramic Cameras, Magic Lantern, Kodak, Movie, </b><b>Closeup of the
Inventor and the Kodak State</b>, NY: The House of Little Books, 1940, first edition. Brown cloth with titles stamped
in gilt on front boards and spine. Very Good. No jacket, boards rubbed,
top corners heavily worn. Many photos and illustrations. xvi, 95
pp.</div>
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Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy </b><b>Decarava : January 20
to March 20, 1983</b>, NY: Studio Museum in Harlem, 1983. Softcover. Very Good. Covers very lightly rubbed.
Preface by Willard C. Butcher, foreword by Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, introduction by A. D. Coleman and essay by C. Daniel Dawson. Footnotes. Chronology and bibliography by Sherry Turner
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Featuring Work by the Photographers Teaching in </b><b>the State University of
New York</b>, Brockport, NY: State University of New York, 1983. White
pictorial stapled wraps. Very Good. Light foxing to front cover. 36
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Phyllis Galembo, Tyrone Georgiou, Bonnie Gordon, Charles Heasley,
RobertKeough, Les Krims, Nathan Lyons, Mel Rosenthal, Jim Sylvia,
Michael Teres and John Wood. $15</div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-50356871647701868312016-01-26T11:39:00.001-05:002016-01-26T11:39:42.820-05:00The Book of the Day: Cheap Thrills at the Used Bookstore<div class="MsoNormal">
Restaurants may have the Catch of the Day, but at Old Saratoga Books, we have The Book of the Day. It has become a daily source of amusement and pleasure at our mom and pop used bookstore, not to mention a quasi-rivalry, to see which one of us can sell The Book of the Day when it is our turn to man the front desk. </div>
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Sometimes the Book of the Day is one of our pricier books.
It certainly perks us both up to have sold something in the three or four figures. Selling
a nice Rockwell Kent illustrated Moby Dick was satisfying. Book of the Day
kudos were earned for wrapping up an expensive cocktail book for a mixologist
collector. Convincing a customer to splurge on a crisp copy of a signed modern
first edition always brings a smile, but often the Book of the Day is something
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We salute each other whenever the Book of the Day is some
honking big volume that resists easy shelving or which has thunked one of us in
the head or tripped us up as it juts out from the shelves. We both do our darndest to avoid taking them in but somehow these herniators and unwieldy
tomes sneak in the shop. When these
biblio-behemoths attract someone’s attention and go home with them, they are
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Selling the complete works of an author earns double Book of
the Day honors. Sets of Dickens, Thackeray and O. Henry, the most common
multi-volume works we encounter in our area, bring even more prestige, but I was
never so chuffed as when I sold a set of 50 books about various kinds of antiques,
written in Italian no less, to a woman who thought they would make a lovely engagement
present for some lucky couple. The binding was naturally quite attractive, but they took up
so much bookstore real estate and upstate New York is not chockablock with
people who are fluent in Italian, so I had worried that they would molder on
our shelves until Dan and I ourselves became antiques.<br />
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The Book of the Day is often some poor book that has
languished at the shop for years. Before we even opened our shop doors we
responded to a Pennysaver ad about buying the stock of a retiring bookseller named
Leonard. Some of these “Leonard” books, as we have referred to them now for
over twenty years, somehow still populate the darkest recesses of our drama and
poetry sections, no matter how many times we comb through and cull them. When a
customer brings a Leonard book to the desk (I can recognize the former seller’s
distinctive price code on the front flyleaf), I just about pull a rib muscle in
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Then there is that special breed of books that catch our
fancy for reason of their exquisite jacket art or bindings or some strange
title or subject matter that we face out or place in the shop windows. I love
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that someone brings to the desk and which I may reflexively think has been
plunked from our 3-for-$1 bargain carts, but actually bears some audacious price (i.e., anything
more than 33-1/3 cents). In this case,
the Book of the Day might be Jane Fonda’s Workout Book, a cookbook by the
Frugal Gourmet, a Da Vinci Code hardcover, or --be still my heart-- a self-help or business title. Bam! The customer is not only buying
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And then there’s the Book of the Day category which makes
each of us smile the most: when we sell the perfect book to the perfect person,
like someone who relates that they have been looking for a certain title for
years or to complete a series. Many
Books of the Day have been purchased by one of our young customers who’s now in
high school, who has been collecting books since he was two feet tall. His mom
usually rewards him with a bookstore shopping trip after a successful semester
and he always picks out interesting historical material, from biographies to
Victorian store ledgers to ephemeral items. Whatever he buys is usually pretty
cool and it’s so satisfying to ring up his book finds and see how enthused he
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-41781123306715345022015-04-14T14:19:00.000-04:002015-04-14T14:19:22.837-04:00NYC Antiquarian Book Fair 2015Having attended and exhibited at a number of "provincial" book fairs, it was a special treat to visit the grandaddy of them all, the ABAA's <a href="http://nyantiquarianbookfair.com/">New York Antiquarian Book Fair.</a> My reconnaissance mission was overlaid with the pleasure of seeing some bookseller friends in action and having my daughter want to accompany me after so many years of thinking what her dad and I do is hopelessly pointless and boring.<br />
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The Book Fair is the premiere attraction of New York City's Rare Book Week and had begun on Thursday with an evening preview. I arrived on Sunday, when I thought the crowds would be thinner and I could spend more time browsing. The atmosphere did seem a bit more subdued than I had imagined and there was more than a hint of general weariness among all the booksellers, given that this marathon event had begun with Wednesday setup and travel, and weeks of preparatory duties before that. I don't even want to think about the logistics of what some of the international dealers had to go through for this event. <br />
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While we were in line for tickets I ran into Molly Russakoff, of <a href="http://www.mollysbooksandrecords.com/">Molly's Books and Records</a> in Philadelphia. Molly and I met last year at the <a href="http://www.bookseminars.com/">Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar </a>(CABS). She and I were both anticipating looking at some amazing book booths, having such a greater knowledge of what it takes to acquire, present and sell antiquarian material - not to mention having to schlep it all in. <br />
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I spied a few other alumni from the CABS Class of 2014 who were assisting various ABAA booksellers, including Mr.<a href="http://jrrbooks.com/"> Jeffrey Rovenpor</a>, Noah Goldrach, and <a href="http://nelsonharst.com/">Nelson Harst. </a><br />
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CABS Director and Minneapolis-based bookseller <a href="http://www.rulon.com/">Rob Rulon-Miller</a> was there with an artful display of unusual dictionaries (one of his specialties), illustrated books and assorted antiquarian material. I had never seen a copy of Rockwell Kent's first illustrated book <i>Architec-tonics: Tales of Tom Thumbtack, Architect </i>and Rob noted that his copy is particularly rare for having retained its original dust jacket. That's Rob on the right with the lanyard and Rockwell at center stage on the lower bookcase shelf resplendent in his smashing light blue jacket. <br />
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Two of the most welcoming and humorous booksellers I know were anchoring a booth at the east side of the Armory: Ron Cozzi of Buffalo's <a href="http://oldeditions.com/">Old Editions Bookstore</a> and <a href="http://www.abaa.org/booksellers/details/jeffrey-bergman-books">Jeffrey Bergman</a>. For his 21st consecutive New York Book Fair, Ron was surrounded by an impressive array of Rivers of America series books, regimental histories and beautiful bindings, but he most tempted me with two titles; an 1890s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog">Gollywog</a> picture book for children- which, though lovely and interesting- makes Little Black Sambo look politically correct; and a 1970s MOMA art exhibition catalogue featuring a jacket illustration by Henri Matisse in bold black brushstrokes. Jeffrey was busy stacking up modern firsts for a customer while I was ogling Ron's books, but he was very gracious to interject a nice welcome. <br />
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The books and other items at the Fair were universally magnificent and worthy of homes in the most sophisticated book collection, library or museum. How about that page out of Virginia Woolf's passport, complete with her photograph and signature? Interested in a copy of <i>Slaughter House Five</i> bedazzled with an inscription and self-caricature by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., complete with his ever-present smoking cigarette? I saw illuminated leaves from the 15th century, engravings of the extinct dodo, a Figbash doll handmade by Edward Gorey, a hastily scribbled lyric from the pen of Bob Dylan, a sea of miniature books, an R. Crumb pen and ink of himself and his wife seated at a bar, Ernest Hemingway's first book of poems, medieval illustrations of popes with dragon bodies, antique maps, Big Bill Broonzy's autobiography, and a range of truly rare and beautiful items, all in impeccable condition. It was heady stuff.<br />
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While most items at the New York Book Fair were well out of my price range, I did pick up a nice book for my reference collection from Boston's <a href="http://www.bromer.com/shop/bromer/index.html">Bromer Booksellers</a>, where the range of Goreyana particularly entranced a certain graphic design student raised on <i>The Gashlycrumb Tinies</i>. <br />
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Brattleboro, Vermont-based booksellers Matthew and Adrienne Raptis of <a href="http://www.raptisrarebooks.com/">Raptis Rare Books</a> were there with a large and sumptuous array of biblio-eye candy; truly one of their gorgeous catalogs come to life. Classic literature, fine sets and books about economics and finance comprise the bulk of their stock and all the high spots were there in luscious condition.<br />
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I was delighted to stop in and peruse the offerings from two other CABS faculty members, Nina Musinsky of Gotham's own <a href="http://www.abaa.org/booksellers/details/musinsky-rare-books-inc">Musinsky Rare Books</a> and <a href="http://store.briancassidy.net/shop/cassidy/index.html">Brian Cassidy, Books</a>, whose antiquarian stock could not be any more disparate. Nina's inventory are jewel-like examples of early printed books, like almanacs with exquisite embroidered covers, illuminated book of hours, books with hand-colored plates of 18th century fashions, and incunabula.<br />
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Skipping ahead several centuries we get to the kind of material that Brian Cassidy unearths and preserves for us all: zines, mimeographed handbills, poetry chapbooks and broadsides, photograph archives, scrapbook albums and literary ephemera that document the "cultural detritus" of more contemporary times. Brian and Ian Kahn of <a href="http://www.luxmentis.com/">Lux Mentis</a> shared a booth, the most vivid and eye-catching of the Fair in my opinion, and Kahn took particular pleasure in ribbing Brian after I hailed him with "Perfessor Cassidy!". That coming from a man whose booth was crowned by a picture-poem worthy of the Red Hat Society.<br />
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I was eager to check in with Greg Gibson at <a href="http://tenpound.com/">Ten Pound Island Book Company</a>, who, in addition to his brilliant writing in his own books and blog, had recently welcomed me so warmly into the fellowship of <a href="http://www.ioba.org/pages/">IOBA</a>, but he was elsewhere, probably sniffing out amazing maritime history rarities from his colleagues. Greg has already blogged up his thoughts about the New York Book Fair (and the two shadow book fairs) <a href="http://bookmanslog.blogspot.com/2015/04/glub.html">here</a>. You can also check out Rebecca Rego Barry's review of the three NY Book Fairs at <a href="http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/2015/04/new-york-a-post-fairs-book-report.phtml">Fine Books and Collections</a>.<br />
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In addition to visiting the New York Book Fair, I packed in some more literary doings by attending an interactive production of Hamlet, rambling through Central Park to peek at the Hans Christian Andersen and Alice in Wonderland statues and examine the books, paintings and sculpture at The Frick Collection. A memorable weekend of wonderful books and events, indeed.<br />
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-50645155283169268512015-04-02T10:38:00.001-04:002015-04-02T10:38:31.119-04:00Guilty Pleasures of the Used and Rare Bookseller<br />
I cultivate a certain professional persona as a seller of used and rare books. In the nineteen years since opening our bookshop, my husband Dan and I have sought to continually improve our inventory, book knowledge, and the atmosphere at our store. We don't go around in tweedy jackets but we keep up a certain quiet, cultured ambiance at the store. I endeavor to represent this venerable trade in a respectable, professional manner, and am certainly more staid at Old Saratoga Books than I am in my off-hours when I can let my proverbial hair down.<br />
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Booksellers are the guardians and purveyors of our collective wisdom and culture and there's a certain erudition, gentility, and even snobbishness that goes along with that. I and my colleagues need to be well and widely read and give off a whiff of civilization along with our books. But not everything we do is so refined or reeks of high culture and we are not all brushing up on our Latin or contemplating the bust of Homer in our off-hours. <br />
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Allow me to part the curtain.<br />
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While I do enjoy classic and literary fiction, books about books, history and science titles, bookseller memoirs and serious biographies about serious people, not all of what I read is so rarefied. There are my decidedly unrefined reads and other guilty pleasures that I now reveal to you all:<br />
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I shamelessly used my daughters so I could read the Harry Potter books aloud to them when they were young and used them as human shields so I could revel at a midnight book release party for <i>The Deathly Hallows</i>. I gobble down murder mysteries and the ribald antics of the cowardly, philandering hero of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series. I like collections of Zippy the Pinhead comics. I furtively read Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants books when I am straightening the juvenile section. I like Dickens and Twain, Robertson Davies and Michael Ondaatje, but count Katharine Dunn's <i>Geek Love</i> and James Hamilton-Patterson's <i>Cooking with Fernet Branca</i> among my favorite novels. I love reading Jane Austen, but find equal pleasure in Stephanie Barron's mystery series featuring the writer as sleuth. <br />
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More dirt: I play a lot of elegant, refined music in the shop that doesn't disrupt browsing. Classical, jazz, acoustic blues, and some world music impart the right bookstore atmosphere. There are a couple of CDs at the ready of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Native American War Chants for when I want to drive certain solo time wasters from the premises. However, when the doors close and it's just me and Sam the cat, you might hear Motown with the bass turned way, way up; Michael McDonald or Hall and Oates belting out some 80's fluff pop; or some more contemporary booty-shaker propelling me around the shop during the closing routine. <br />
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But wait. It gets worse. When I am not home snuggling up with a good (or awfully unserious) book, I might have the television on, and--- hold onto the lapels of your smoking jacket--- it's not all public television. I enjoy a good sweeping costume drama or cerebral British detective show, but I hereby admit to some other terribly trashy viewing. I find the Trailer Park Boys amusing. I like watching the Yankees clobber the Red Sox. I binged with my daughter through hot sleepless nights last summer viewing Don Draper's stop and start meltdown on <i>Mad Men</i>. The other kid got me hooked on watching Jackson Galaxy (surely not his given name) tame errant felines on episodes of <i>My Cat From Hell</i>. If there's a whoopee cushion, fart joke, silly walks or an extended series of bad puns in a comedy sketch, that would be me guffawing like a lovesick elk in the background.<br />
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I polled a few of my bookselling buddies to see what their guilty pleasures are. They were very gallant to divulge this information along with me. Nothing beats the cathartic thrill of airing your hidden unrefined habits...unless it's the thrill of seeing what your buddies are up to when they are not in the public eye.<br />
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For Charles Schmieg of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blackpawbooks">Black Paw Books</a> in Massachusetts there's a sensory trifecta involving the auditory, visual and gustatory realms:<br />
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<span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2e.$mid=11427840178724=299bb21da65182b4819.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2e.$mid=11427840178724=299bb21da65182b4819.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">"The
first guilty pleasure that comes to mind is my taste in music. Being
introverted as a child, I spent many hours reading in my room and
listening to my clock radio. That experience has left me with a
lifelong nostalgia for seventies pop (“yacht rock”). If I worry about
losing my iPhone, it is that someone will someone will discover my
Spotify playlists--Kenny Loggins, Doobie Brothers, Little River Band,
and more than a little disco. </span></span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2e.$mid=11427840178724=299bb21da65182b4819.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2e.$mid=11427840178724=299bb21da65182b4819.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">Being a teenager in the eighties has also left its mark. I still have a
soft spot for the movie “Red Dawn” (the original 1984 movie, not the
2012 remake). Perhaps it has something to do with growing up in New
Hampshire during the Cold War, but I’m always up for watching a bunch of
high school kids take on the Soviet Army. (Wolverines!). </span></span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2e.$mid=11427840178724=299bb21da65182b4819.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2e.$mid=11427840178724=299bb21da65182b4819.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">My taste in food also has its low points: scrapple, pork rinds, Chicken
in a Biskit crackers, White Castle hamburgers. Every Thanksgiving my
mother makes a lime jello salad with cream cheese, walnuts, and canned
pineapple (“Kermit Salad”). It is my favorite thing on the menu, even
if I pretend otherwise. </span></span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2e.$mid=11427840178724=299bb21da65182b4819.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2e.$mid=11427840178724=299bb21da65182b4819.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">Upshot is, heaven for me might be being holed up in the mountains with
Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, and Charlie Sheen, eating pork rinds and
listening to Steely Dan. Of course I would never admit this."</span></span></blockquote>
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I am joined in admiration for the fictional adventures of the boy with the lightning bolt scar by Megan Bell of <a href="http://www.undergroundbooks.net/">Underground Books</a> in Carrollton, Georgia:<br />
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John Hess of <a href="http://catamountbooks.com/">Catamount Books</a> in Arlington, Vermont <span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".sa.$mid=11427408929568=2da74c29fac84987333.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".sa.$mid=11427408929568=2da74c29fac84987333.2:0.0.0.0.0.0"> likes what he calls "spoof" books,</span></span> like <i>Little Me, Cards as Weapons</i> and this instructional example:<br />
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Brandon Rison of <a href="http://www.oddfellowbooks.com/">Oddfellows Books and Collectibles</a> in downtown Topeka, Kansas notes:<br />
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I suppose my confession is that I am a "high brow" bookseller by day
and a consumed super geek by night. I read several comic titles
religiously, attend comic book conventions (probably more than I do book
fairs) and have been know to dress as a Wookie on the rare occasion.
Further, I spend at least two nights a week playing role playing games
and in addition to a few odd books, have hundreds of Dungeons and
Dragons and Warhammer miniatures filling my bookcases at home."</span></span></blockquote>
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"My guilty pleasure is putting out one of my stash of favorite children's
books and rereading it yet again - Cherry Ames, Where the Wild Things
Are, Winnie the Pooh, the Five Little Peppers series, the Miss Bianca
series, the Chronicles of Prydain, Tom Swift, Chronicles of Narnia,
Asterix - I love them all."</blockquote>
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I hope you all have enjoyed this walk on the wild side of antiquarian bookdom, though I must say that I'm a bit disappointed that no one revealed any felonious behaviors or truly bizarre hobbies like hamster taxidermy. But I thank all of my book friends for gamely baring their unserious sides to us all and I think rather more highly of them, not less, for it.<br />
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So, what's your guilty pleasure? Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-26135809723866941852014-12-23T15:29:00.001-05:002014-12-23T15:29:47.537-05:00Booking at Austin's Antiquarian Books in Wilmington, VermontAfter a hectic holiday bookselling season it was a much-needed treat for Dan and I to visit Garry and Karen Austin at their jewel-box store, <a href="http://www.austinsbooks.com/">Austin's Antiquarian Books</a>, just up the road a-piece in Wilmington, Vermont. I've known Garry for several years now, as an exhibitor at some of the regional book fairs he organizes, and have always enjoyed his combination of professionalism and teasing banter during the setups and breakdowns. After driving past his bookstore twice now on my way between Bennington and Brattleboro, and looking wistfully in my rear view mirror (but not for too long, because Route 9 is a bit twisty), I was determined to get out for a visit.<br />
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Garry and Karen graciously agreed to meet us at their shop on one of our mutual days off (or was this my first "or by appointment" antiquarian bookstore visit?) for a quick tour and then we headed out for a bookseller's lunch. Their shop has two floors full of beautiful bindings and interesting antiquarian titles. There are all sorts of book alcoves tucked into corners of the first floor, crowned by large front room with a majestic stone fireplace. At all turns there were interesting displays of handsome and tempting books and it was hard to break away from browsing and be social. <br />
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Some of the bookstore specialties include books about Theodore Roosevelt, Western Americana, flyfishing, natural history and travel, and each had its own nook.<br />
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The Book Trout couldn't resist this shot of a print of its cousin, the Brook Trout, hanging on the wall.<br />
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I headed upstairs for a bit of browsing with my good friend BABS, the Books about Books section, and looked over a wide selection of literary biographies, gardening books and history titles. Every book was in impeccable condition, and each section was populated with interesting choices in a range of prices. You can browse 2,000 or so books that have been been catalogued on the shop's <a href="http://www.austinsbooks.com/browse.php">website,</a> but the serious bibliophile will want to head over in person to ferret out those hard-to-find titles in the Austin's specialties.<br />
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The shop is spacious, well-lighted and invites luxurious browsing. I picked up a few interior design tips for our shop, but, mindful of our hosts' post-lunch need to get back to packing last-minute holiday book orders, I had to rein in my desire to while away the rest of a very pleasant afternoon in the stacks and headed out with our party of four for some local grub and book shop talk. The Austins ran several used and rare bookshops in Maine before opening their present location in 1993 and it was great to hear their stories about bookselling in the pre-Internet era.<br />
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Austin's Antiquarian Books is open Thursday through Sunday from 10:30 to 6. The shop is located at 123 West Main Street (Vermont Route 9) overlooking the Deerfield River. Garry and Karen are open all five seasons (summer, fall, winter, mud and spring) and can be reached by phone: 802-464-8438 or by email: mail@austinsbooks.com. Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-82874126090940520072014-11-01T18:09:00.002-04:002014-11-01T18:09:55.785-04:00Booking at Catamount Books in Arlington, VermontI recently had a lovely autumnal book hunting trip with a bookseller friend, Richard Mori of Mori Books, across the New York border to Arlington, Vermont. Home of artist Norman Rockwell, this picture perfect town boasts the classic beauty of a mountainous landscape, lovely older homes and winding streets.<br />
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Arlington is also home to <a href="https://www.catamountbooks.com/shop/page/1?sessid=mywhUmCJoLOAtbZWMESyyQh188qheJmcEa1vNhrp9jcXRObiRELk3Xuxgp1uZq5o">Catamount Books</a>, the open shop owned by my <a href="http://booktrout.blogspot.com/2012/03/bookselling-at-burlington-book-fair.html">book fair buddy </a>John Hess at 198 Pleasant Street.<br />
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That's John in the above photo silhouetted on the second floor space of Catamount Books. John used to have a shop along Main Street in downtown Arlington, but recently built this garage/bookshop and moved his 15,000+ tomes upstairs (many more await his ministrations in the first floor storage area).<br />
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John's got a surprising amount of books packed into this well-lit space and there were gems hidden all through the shelves. I kept finding books that I had been searching for myself and for customers, and there were new intriguing titles that were inexpensively priced so that even I, a bookseller fairly low down in the biblio-food web, could purchase them for resale without qualms. <br />
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John's got a great eye for unusual subjects, lovely bindings and titles that I've not come across in my years of bookhunting. I picked up three boxes of treasures, including several titles by Gene Stratton-Porter, regional history, illustrated classics, a fun book on spiritualist Eusapia Palladino, children's books, geology titles, and many more for shop stock. Richard found many books in his specialty areas of Scouting and children's literature and we both came away very pleased with our purchases.<br />
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Bookshop hours are Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12:30 pm to 5 pm, though John advises that it is best to call ahead (802-282-9769) to make sure of these hours or to set up an alternate appointment since he and his delightful wife Cheryl might be out having fun with their passel of grandchildren (I saw two of them in residence and can verify that they were awfully cute). <br />
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-25841154578129419332014-10-20T16:48:00.000-04:002014-10-20T16:48:00.029-04:00The Albany Antiquarian Book Fair - 40th Edition, October 19, 2014With a new venue, <a href="http://www.albanyinstitute.org/about-the-albany-institute.html">the Albany Institute of History and Art</a> (AIHA) , the 40th annual <a href="http://www.albanybookfair.com/">Albany Antiquarian Book Fair</a> was held yesterday under crisp autumn skies. There were twenty-seven booksellers from New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Ontario and Quebec with tables brimming over with displays of books, manuscripts, letters, ephemera and maps strategically nestled among three floors at the museum. <br />
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Old Saratoga Books was there with a selection of children's books, science, history, art and assorted titles. My hot sellers were local history and art titles, sleazy vintage paperbacks and ephemera, including a bookplate from the Sesame Reading Club of Albany, which went to an AIHA volunteer who is excited to hunt down the history of this private reading group, a Victorian mourning card and some railroad stock certificates. I was pleased to see many of my in-store customers in attendance and there was a pleasant buzz of bookish conversations and purchases throughout the day, especially during the first two hours. <br />
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My book booth neighbors, Ann Brockschmidt of <a href="http://www.carnegiehillbooks.com/">Carnegie Hill Books</a> and Richard Mori of<a href="http://literarytourist.com/browse.php?mod=usedbooks&pid=820"> Mori Books,</a> had both stayed overnight with Dan and me before the Fair, so we had the benefit of a lot of great book conversation the night before to charge us all up. A new bookseller friend, John Spencer of <a href="http://www.riverow.com/">Riverow Bookshop</a>, completed our corner of museum floor 2A, and while the scary clown poster went back home with him,<br />
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I did witness John making lots of book and postcard sales, as well as the sale of the elaborate wooden bible stand pictured above. Riverow Bookshop wins the distinction of having the book title which most amused me at the Fair, "Practical Dope on the Big Bores".<br />
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Dan Gaeta of <a href="http://www.johnbalebooks.com/">John Bale Book Company</a> and Will Monie of <a href="http://www.wilmonie.com/">Willis Monie Books</a> anchored the adjacent hallway. Dan had brought an eclectic assortment of ephemera, photographs, and oddball language dictionaries, while Will's shelves held notebooks of historical ephemera and books about antiques. I picked up a Thornton Burgess bibliography for myself and an illustrated 19th century blacksmithing book for the bookshop from Will and I know Ann raided Will's shelves for several other decorative arts books, so he was a popular destination for other booksellers.<br />
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Montreal bookseller <a href="http://www.wilmonie.com/">Wilfrid M. de Freitas</a> had a most impressive booth display, crowned with an 1801 land grant document and wax seal granted by King George III. Both Mr. de Freitas and Susan Ravdin graciously showed me some of the highlights of their booth as they were setting up, and it was a treat to look over their collection of Winston Churchill writings, Booker Prize novels (and to discuss our mutual admiration for Julian Barnes) and unusual books about hat making, mah johngg, phrenology and finger rings.<br />
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Another highlight of the Albany Book Fair was meeting Buffalo book legend Ron Cozzi of <a href="http://oldeditions.com/">Old Editions</a>. He and his compadre <a href="http://www.abaa.org/booksellers/details/jeffrey-bergman-books">Jeffrey Bergman</a> had honored us with their presence at our dinner table a few days before the Fair and it was an privilege and a delight to make their acquaintanceship. Dan and I got the benefit of many years of bookselling advice and booking-on-the-road advice from Ron and Jeff, and their advice is helping us enormously as we plan our transition from used bookstore owners to antiquarian booksellers. <br />
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The 40th Edition of the Albany Book Fair was great fun and a great education. I made some book sales, I made new bookseller friends and contacts, I bought some good store stock (especially at the AIHA silent auction room), and most importantly, I saw what my colleagues display, buy and do at an impressively appointed regional book fair, so I came away very happy, if very tired, from "Book Fair week" in my neck of the woods. Kudos to Biblio impresario <a href="http://www.austinsbooks.com/">Garry Austin </a>for promoting and organizing another impressive Book Fair and to AIHA Director Tammis Groft and her flotilla of staff and volunteers for hosting us at the Museum. Can't wait until next year....but first, a long and well-deserved nap!<br />
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-57966776160758079332014-10-08T09:12:00.000-04:002014-10-08T09:12:07.790-04:00A Mighty Rain Dampens the 2014 Brattleboro Book FairA jewel box location, glittering book offerings, autumn leaves nearly at peak and a tie-in with a four-day literary festival were a powerful combination, but not enough to overcome torrential rains at the <a href="http://www.vermontisbookcountry.com/summerfair">Vermont Fall Book Fair</a> this past Saturday at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. <br />
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<a href="http://www.abaa.org/booksellers/details/jeffrey-bergman-books">Jeff Bergman</a> was there with a stellar selection of modern firsts, signed books and photographs and a great collection of books about books and bookseller memoirs, (though he told me the "really great stuff" doesn't go on the road with him. Can only imagine those biblio treasures.) I couldn't resist a shot of "The Bankrupt Bookseller" (the orange jacketed book) and the troika of the Lone Ranger, Roger Maris and Hillary Clinton. <br />
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My fellow 2014 <a href="http://www.bookseminars.com/">Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar</a> buddy Charles Schmieg of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blackpawbooks">Black Paw Books </a>came to Fair. He ended up with an interesting inscribed chess book and since we were both still buzzing with book energy from our CABS experience, we talked about the book business and our plans for quite some time. Charles is the taller one.<br />
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Patricia McWilliams of <a href="http://www.hermithillbooks.com/">Hermit Hill Books</a> in Poultney, Vermont had a terrific display of fine bindings and interesting titles. Her shop is just across the New York border from Granville, the "Slate Capital of the World" and is worth a trip if you are in our neck of the woods. Patricia reported great sales this summer and let's hope the trend continues. That's Patricia on the right mulling over her final display, with <a href="http://lizzyoungbookseller.com/">Lizz Young</a> on the left. Lizz is a specialist bookseller who sells books about food, drink and the domestic arts, and her stylish display is shown below. She really utilizes height and unusual shelving accents to punch up her book displays and I will be trying to incorporate these aspects in my own configurations for future book fairs. Lizz also has one of the most interesting and erudite <a href="http://lizzyoungbookseller.com/blog/">book blogs,</a> so be sure to check that out.<br />
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On the subject of effective book fair displays, my book booth neighbor John Hess of <a href="https://www.catamountbooks.com/shop/page/1?sessid=88mwjwYea57fmn05m5svTMcHpNlXsmy90aYjwGjDqs1uMHP9dfxRF3fk34tri6oC">Catamount Books</a> in East Arlington, VT, has had great success with his self-constructed shelves that allow for the more attractive bindings and jacket art to be faced out. John reports that since he started using these shelves, he brings fewer boxes of books but sells more! Now that's something any bookseller's back and shoulders can appreciate. I forgot to capture an image of the shelves in all their book-loaded glory during the Fair (and you would have seen the spaces where books had been sold), but here's a fuzzy photo of them just before John packed them up.<br />
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New Hampshire bookseller <a href="http://www.localantiquesdealer.com/New-Hampshire/Michael-Daum-Bookseller-27687.html">Michael Daum</a> was busy pricing up some of his stock when I strolled by his booth, so I didn't disturb him, but he is one of the most approachable bookseller colleagues I have met at the Vermont and Albany book fairs. Michael also has one of the best bookseller voices in the business: a rumbling, smoky-toned baritone with lots of New England Yankee inflections. And then there's his beautiful books...<br />
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My own book wares, a colorful mix of colorful older children's books, New England history, art, antiques and a few of my better books, were designed to appeal more to the walk-in crowd than my fellow book dealers. Unfortunately, the unzippering of the clouds with two months of long overdue rain timed to drench the world directly after the Brattleboro Fair opened took care of those crowds and the book fair attendance was quite thin. I still consider the Fair a success, because I did buy and sell from some of my colleagues, and I learned quite a bit from chatting with them and observing what kinds of books they brought, but here's hoping the <a href="http://www.albanybookfair.com/">Albany Antiquarian Book Fair </a>on Sunday, October 19th at the Albany Institute of History and Art will be a less soggy af-FAIR. <br />
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-4787019631329134072014-09-16T11:49:00.001-04:002015-03-29T08:41:46.030-04:00A Bookseller/Customer's View of the Sept. 13-14, 2014 Brooklyn Antiques and Book FairThe inaugural <a href="http://www.brooklynantiqueandbookfair.com/">Brooklyn Antiques and Book Fair </a>was held this past weekend at the spanking new Greenpoint Expo Building and this was also the first show held at this new venue. Everything was very sparkly and shiny as my daughter Leigh and I attended on Saturday afternoon. A two-hour preview had been held the night before, and my conversations with various booksellers report that attendance and sales were good. When we arrived around 11 am on Saturday, the crowds were respectable, with several people browsing around each of the booth and good numbers of book purchases tucked under their arms, always healthy signs. <br />
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I liked the sleek glass and chrome lines of the Greenpoint Expo and the lighting inside was really good for viewing the books, even on an overcast day.<br />
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There were some exuberant customers, as well. This wise guy jumped in as I was steadying my camera for a shot of a bookseller friend, so that gives you some impression of Brooklyn's biblio-energy.<br />
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I first spied Don Lindgren of <a href="http://www.rabelaisbooks.com/">Rabelais</a>, in Portland, Maine, who brought a savory sampling of books and ephemera about food and drink. An eye-catching array of bookseller brochures and postcards were on the front table as you checked in, but none more so than Don's lurid trade card, a purplish selection of head cheese and other jellied meats, which is sure to be my favorite book mark for a while before I enshrine it on our bookshop wall of biblio-flotsam.<br />
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It's basically a <a href="http://www.rabelaisbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&pageName=Search&categories=&category_id=0&fromForm=1&category_id=0&authorField=&titleField=&publisherField=&dp1=&dp2=&priceStart=&priceEnd=&keywordsField=liquor+license&kwconj=and&orderBy=author&recordsLength=25&firstEd=&signed=&jacket=">1697 liquor license from that bastion of Puritan culture, Massachusetts</a>. An exquisite historical item indeed. <br />
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I bought a couple of books from <a href="https://www.ilab.org/eng/booksellers/1659-sanctuary_books.html">Sanctuary Books</a> for my reference library, <a href="http://www.strangeandwonderfulbooks.com/pages/buy.html">Strange and Wonderful: An Informal Visual History of Manuscript Books and Albums</a>, and <a href="http://shakespearesbeehive.com/publication/">Shakespeare's Beehive</a>. The former showcases a great variety of unique handmade books from a variety of eras and I was interested in obtaining it both for the intriguing images and for examples of how to catalogue such one-of-a-kind material. The latter is a fascinating look at the 1580 dictionary which Daniel Wechsler of Sanctuary Books and his colleague George Koppelman purchased and believe to be Shakespeare's own, heavily annotated copy.<br />
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I was persuaded to buy both of these books by the knowledgeable and enthusiastic young woman who works for Sanctuary Books, whose name I unfortunately didn't get. As she was totaling up my purchases, I saw my CABS 2014 colleague Evan Bates of <a href="http://www.pictographbooks.com/">Pictograph Books</a>, and I helped sell him on the Strange and Wonderful volume too, and perhaps sold the Sanctuary Books bibliographer on the virtues of CABS 2015. We also both ran into Nelson Harst, of <a href="http://nelsonharst.com/">Antifurniture</a>, another CABS seminarian, so it was a mini-CABS reunion.<br />
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It was a pleasure to finally meet Forrest Proper of <a href="http://www.joslinhall.com/">Joslin Hall Rare Books</a>, after many years of Internet camaraderie. Here Forrest poses beside a counter display for a (then) forthcoming book about the malingering effects of atom bomb testing on Bikini Atoll. <br />
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<a href="http://literarytourist.com/browse.php?mod=usedbooks&pid=820">Richard Mori</a> and his magical Mori van were in attendance and his booth was well populated with folks perusing his nostalgic children's books, art books and his inventive displays. He certainly packs in more colorful items per square inch of booth space of any book fair bookseller I know.<br />
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I asked Richard about a few of the books he had on display and he was gracious and erudite as always, explaining the significance of each. Then I made the mistake of asking him to show me two beautifully bound books that had fore-edge paintings. Richard leaned in and whispered that they were erotic in nature and looked toward my daughter. I awkwardly croaked out that she was over 21, so he cast a baleful eye at me and my bad maternal instincts and proceeded to show off their hidden paintings.<br />
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Aye caramba! One exhibited a scene of a man and woman busy with a small terrier and goat, respectively, while the second, a Walter Scott novel, displayed a kilted man showing his Scottish Independence with a little Highland Fling sans undergarments.<br />
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After that excitement, it was off to visit my bookseller buddy, Peter Luke, the Emperor of Ephemera. His body language was hilariously morose: he seated in a folding chair facing his U-shaped booth, legs out, hands laced behind his head, brooding. Turns out he had just discovered that the Brooklyn Book Fair was a two-day deal, and he was mourning his lack of a free Sunday. He reiterated that the preview had been very successful for him, and pointed me towards some great Adirondack railway brochures that I snapped up. While we were chatting, Michael Zinman, the ebullient keynote speaker at CABS 2014 strolled up, looking for items for his many areas of social history collecting, so after a quick handshake for both book maestros, it was off to browse some more biblio offerings <br />
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After another purchase, a history of New York City's Book Row, I had exhausted the patience and blood sugar levels of my daughter and pack mule (she was carrying my purchases so I was free to talk, which in my case involves lots of wild gesticulations). It was time to get her some sushi and trudge back in the pouring rain, our books hidden under our shirts to protect them from the elements.<br />
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The next day we visited the <a href="http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/natural-histories">American Museum of Natural History</a>, where, after a solid two hours in the Hall of Minerals (payback for yesterday's book fair. Ask me about fun facts about stibnite) we ferreted out a small but very edifying and visually appealing display of scientific illustrations from the Museum's rare book collection. The exhibition runs through October 19th.<br />
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-76663468293251486912014-08-26T14:26:00.000-04:002014-08-26T14:26:08.197-04:00The Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar 2014: Accept No Substitutes!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br id="docs-internal-guid-8b2d2e5a-1379-4634-2f35-282b959bb01e" /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our CABS faculty displayed all these anatomical features and more. They gave us constant gifts of invaluable information and patient answers to our many questions. CABS is incorporated as a nonprofit, so having the faculty members take a week away from their businesses -as well as all the time spent organizing, writing and rewriting the lectures, traveling and recovering from this tumultuous week- is no small effort. It was evident that CABS faculty sincerely wanted every last one of us to share in their knowledge and success in the antiquarian book trade. While the sessions were full of information and entertainment, there was also plenty of sincerity and heart.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The best way I know how to repay these smart and dedicated book professionals is to incorporate their teachings in my own business and to impart what I've learned to others coming into the book trade. As they exhorted, I don't want to be a quasi-bookseller, I want to really "look at the books", and I don't want to give them Schulduberkatastrophe (Dan Gregory's fanciful phrase for guilt over having overstimulated and overwhelmed by all the information packed into the seminar week. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In short, my advice to anyone who is serious about studying, collecting or selling antiquarian books and ephemera, is : Get thee to CABS 2015! There are a number of scholarship opportunities that can help ease your decision and it will jump-start your further education in the trade. There is still much research and work ahead for me and the others in the 2014 CABS crop (they never did get around to showing us the secret bookseller’s handshake) but it was a wonderful introduction to an arsenal of skills, research techniques and range of antiquarian bookselling business models to explore further. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And that’s how I became a CABS-evangelist.</span></span></span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-64614733558251220222014-08-14T16:48:00.000-04:002014-08-14T17:05:00.893-04:00Book Hunting Down in Denver at the Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair & Aboard The Magical Mori Van<div>
I was off in Colorado last week to attend the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). Heeding the advice of CABS alumni, I gave myself a couple of extra days on the front side of this epic bookseller education to rest up for a week of adrenalin rushes, high altitude and sleep deprivation. I flew into Denver airport on Friday, August 1st, surrounded by flat grasslands and wondered where the vaunted Colorado Rockies were. It wasn't until after I had an early morning stroll around my hotel the next day that I caught a glimpse of the spectacular Front Range looming off to the West.</div>
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I caught the hotel shuttle to the Denver Mart, where the Rocky Mountain Book Fair was being quartered and happily browsed the 80 booths of booksellers from near and far. I was happy to greet former acquaintances and lots of new ones. I
chatted about the <a href="http://bibliophilegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/biblio_bibliophilegroup.com">Bibliophilegroup email list</a> with Eric Mayer of
<a href="http://www.bluebirdbooks.com/?page=shop/index">Bluebird Books</a>, bought a Hemingway bibliography and some bookseller
memoirs from the delightful Richard Chant of<a href="http://www.rmaba.org/rmbpf/2013/2013_FeaturedItems/ABA/ABA_2013.html" target="_blank"> Abacus Bookshop;</a> </div>
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applauded <a href="http://www.clausenbooks.com/">Clausen Books'</a> brilliant idea of displaying their travel books in a vintage
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and admired the Brobdingnagian ear decorated with acupuncture points
displayed in the booth of<a href="http://www.rmaba.org/rmbpf/2013/2013_FeaturedItems/CBL/CBL_2013.html"> Lori Hughes, Cookbook Lady</a>, of El Sobrante,
California, where tasty titles abounded- everything from the incomparable "Eat a Bug
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I also scored a good
illustrated horseshoeing title and a couple of other history titles from
<a href="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=43367">Orrin Schwab </a>and chatted about antique children's books and illustrated books at the booth of Ken and Shirley Donner (yes, they are related to those Donners).<br />
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classmates, including designer Barbara Mortkowitz and book fair exhibitor
Gail Santfleben of <a href="http://www.read-em-again.com/">Read'em Again Books</a>, gushing about our forthcoming
adventures. I had the chance to hear bookseller Sally Burdon of <a href="http://www.asiabookroom.com/">Asia Book Room</a> in faraway Canberra, Australia, one of the wonderful CABS faculty members,
give the keynote address at the Fair, and looked over letterpress printing and
book repair demonstrations.</div>
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Instead of only spending a couple hours at this Book Fair, I lasted the full 7 hours on Saturday. I do regret that I never did get to penetrate the force field of constant customers and
fellow booksellers that encircled larger-than-life bookseller <a href="http://www.kensandersbooks.com/shop/rarebooks/index.html">Ken Sanders</a>. His exploits in
hunting down book thieves are outlined in two excellent books I had previously read ("The Man Who Loved Books Too Much" by Allison Hoover Bartlett, and "The Poet and the Murder" by Simon Worrall). I'll have to wait until another book fair.<br />
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When things cooled down about an hour before closing, I managed
to get the attention of my New Hampshire bookseller colleague <a href="http://saratogabooksellers.blogspot.com/2010/12/trip-to-albany-antiquarian-book.html">Richard Mori,</a> who had offered me a ride from Denver down to CABS in Colorado Springs by Sunday. I never did get a firm idea from Richard about how we were actually going to
get my carcass, suitcase and now a heavy bag of book purchases down to
CABS.
Richard had remained steadfastly and unnervingly vague about the logistics of this travel when I
was in the planning stages of this trip. He just told me check in with him at his
exhibitor's booth at the Book Fair on Saturday,
the day before CABS officially started. Not wanting to pester him with
any more followup emails, I made sure I got to the Fair shortly after it
opened. I kept circling around his booth, but, consummate bookseller that he is, he was constantly busy! How unsettling for me,
if lucrative for him.<br />
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Finally, I butted into a conversation that I was certain was going
nowhere (the "customer" was asking for advice on how to get a fellow
bookseller to go way down on the price of one of his really great books, which Richard wisely kept redirecting into advice on pouncing on good books when they present themselves to you). Richard just cryptically stated that we'd "work it out" after we had packed up his booth. That took a really long time (he was the third to
last bookseller to leave the Denver Mart) because I kept gasping at the amazing books he kept nonchalantly showing and describing to me as we packed up his wooden shelf boxes and loaded them strategically into his Magical Mori Van. Understand that Richard's the Mad Max of the American Book Fair World, impressively
showing at 50 BOOK FAIRS PER ANNUM). His van ALWAYS has room for more books, since he buys almost as much as he sells at each weekly book fair.<br />
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When we were done he offered me a tour of Denver's neighborhoods topped off with dinner (an awesome green chile burger) and more bookseller advice. So much for resting up for CABS, but Richard, like most other members of our book trade, was so generous with his time, advice, encouragement and book lore, that I just couldn't beg off early. <br />
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The next morning he picked me up from the hotel which amazingly still had room for me and my suitcase and we were off on more book adventures, having breakfast with the lovely <a href="http://www.westsidebooks.com/">Lois Harvey</a>, a longtime Denver bookseller and mentor. Lois was instrumental in helping found the Denver Book Fair and was on the CABS faculty for many years, so I was impressed
already. They showed me more of downtown Denver by car and on foot, including the many streets that are named after authors (Lowell, Tennyson, Alcott).<br />
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Richard was off to buy Boy Scout books from someone who had stopped in his booth the previous day (would they fit into the van?) so I was free to shop in Lois' handsomely stocked and
creatively adorned bookshop, <a href="http://www.westsidebooks.com/" target="_blank">Westside Books</a>,
housed in a former auto garage. The shop had a wealth of unusual titles and in the seemingly short burst of time before Richard returned, I managed to purchase an armload of books about books, and a book for my
own personal collection, <u>I'm Papa Snap,</u> a children's book by Tomi
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By now I was really barricaded into the passenger seat, holding my suitcase
with my left arm so that it wouldn't clonk me in the head every time we
made a right turn and gripping my new book purchases between my shins in
the Magical Mori Van. Unbelievably, there was always more room for book purchases in this Van of
Infinitely Expanding Space. I expect that a student of quantum physics might like to examine this van and would make discoveries enough for a spectacular dissertation thesis.<br />
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We stopped at four more Denver bookstores, all of whom were
hosting a welcome brunch for CABS participants: <a href="http://www.broadwaybookmall.com/">Broadway Book Mall </a>
(bought a matted print of a screaming librarian), <a href="http://www.fahrenheitsbooks.com/">Fahrenheit Books</a>
(bought local history, Tasha Tudor, cookbooks and Gladys Taber), <a href="http://www.gcbooks.com/" target="_blank">Gallagher Books</a> (took advantage of their one-day CABS discounts to pick up some wonderful regional history titles and a book on
wassail.) Plus they shipped it all back home so I could fold back into The Van. <br />
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After our Gallagher Books haul, Richard and I headed next door to <a href="http://www.printedpagebookshop.com/">Printed Page Bookshop,</a> a group shop, where I traded cash for books about
caving around the Helderberg Mountains and more regional history. From
there, we entered the special time-space continuum of The Van and made our way to Colorado Springs, where I checked
into the CABS dorms at the University of Colorado. I burbled about books with my new roommate, Libby Ware of Atlanta's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ToadlilyBooks">Toad Lily Books</a> until the kickoff lecture with noted book collector Michael Zinman later that
evening.<br />
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Phew. So much for saving my mental and physical strength for CABS.<br />
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To be continued......Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-22263356141932295042012-08-23T09:35:00.001-04:002012-08-23T09:35:36.217-04:00Seen at the August 12, 2012 Brattleboro Book FairThe Book Trout was on the road at the as a first time exhibitor at the Brattleboro Book Fair, the summer show for the <a href="http://www.vermontisbookcountry.com/">Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association</a>. I had previously had a good experience at the Spring Book Fair in Burlington, and since Brattleboro is even closer to home, it was easy to pack the old Chevy Blazer up with some folding shelves and boxes of books (this time only seven boxes, which seemed a little skimpy after setting up). <br />
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We set up on Saturday during extremely unsettled weather conditions. My hair-o-meter told me it would rain imminently and it did, very hard, on the last trip back out to the car, with all my windows and back hood up. The temperature wasn't too bad inside the venue, but you can see that all those damp booksellers and their soggy boxes raised the humidity to rain forest levels and when we came back the next day to start the show, lots of softcover and paper items were curled up or droopy, causing some rearrangement of book displays.<br />
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I brought my mom, Carol Marie Davis, a Vermont author, to help me out with my booth. She has written two books thus far, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Moon-Spirit-Girl-Floridas/dp/0982165420/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345727073&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=moonspirit+carol+marie+davis">The Adventures of Moonspirit: A Girl from Florida's Past</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Peasant-Carol-Marie-Davis/dp/1936343835/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345727330&sr=8-1&keywords=anna+heart+of+a+peasant">Anna: Heart of a Peasant</a> and is researching on a third book, tentatively to be about some handmade dolls that travel up the Underground Railroad during the Civil War era.<br />
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Mom seemed to enjoy minding our booth at the Book Fair. Unfortunately my free labor situation may be in jeopardy as I was ratted out by my colleague, Richard Mori, who informed her that I was not only supposed to pay her for helping me out, but I was to throw in a free lunch! I'll find a way to fix his wagon at the next book fair.<br />
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My tables adjoined a space with Mary Faneuil Hill of <a href="http://www.vermontisbookcountry.com/member/olde-new-england-books/">Old & New England Books,</a> who had a lovely display of Tasha Tudor books and history volumes, spiced up with a couple of Punch and Judy puppets. Mary has a seasonal shop in Newfane (open May through October) and regaled us with stories about having Tasha Tudor come to her shop many times for signings and visits. <br />
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Mom really was excited to meet Donald H. Cresswell of <a href="http://www.philaprintshop.com/about.html">The Philadelphia Print Shop</a>, who appears often as an appraiser on the Antiques Road Show. He was very generous with his time with Mom and other fairgoers and she was thrilled to pose with him and an Audubon print of an osprey. Cresswell was one of several exhibitors who offered ten minute symposia throughout the Fair on various bookish topics such as prints, Theodore Roosevelt, and folk music. This continuing education idea is the brainchild of the gregarious Book Fair impresario Gary Austin of<a href="http://www.austinsbooks.com/"> Austin's Antiquarian Books</a> in Wilmington, VT.<br />
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(Intriguingly, right after the Fair I read <b>The Island of Lost Maps</b>, by Miles Harvey, which is all about the world of antique maps, and it turns out that Cresswell used to work for Graham Arader, who features prominently in the book. It's a fascinating read. And Mom recommended it to me, so you can see why I want to keep her on as an adjunct employee).<br />
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It was nice to see some familiar bookseller colleagues at the Fair. Donna Howard of <a href="http://www.theeloquentpage.com/">The Eloquent Page</a> in St. Albans, VT was there with an eye-catching booth, and I was pleased to see John and Carol Hess from Arlington, Vermont's<a href="http://www.catamountbooks.com/"> Catamount Books</a>. They are a delightful pair and I have to say that they won the Biblio-Synchronicity Award from my perspective with their side-by-side display of a copy of The Sucking Lice of North America next to a photo-essay entitled "Asses".<br />
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That's Susan above proudly offering a first edition of Wanda Gag's wonderful book "Millions of Cats" and Robert Heinlein's "Red Planet".<br />
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All in all, a great day at the Brattleboro Book Fair. The venue was well-lit and there was plenty of space for the crowds and exhibitors to spread out. We sold some books (mostly Vermont history, vintage paperbacks and children's books), gawked at many others and had some illuminating conversations about authors, illustrators, book history and other bibliophilic topics, so I will be sure to be back next year.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-71080424054230071932012-08-10T08:29:00.000-04:002012-08-10T08:29:15.681-04:00Vermont Antiquarian Book Fair in Brattleboro this SundayI am a busy bookwoman squirreling away some of my lovely recent acquisitions to bring to the Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Summer Book Fair this Sunday, August 12 in Brattleboro. The Fair runs from 10 am to 4 pm at the Withington Skating Rink in Brattleboro Living Memorial Park. For more information and directions to the Fair, see the <a href="http://www.vermontisbookcountry.com/">VABA website.</a> <br />
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<br />At my booth you will find me, my mother (an author of two books!) and lots of Vermont and New England history, folklore and books by Vermont authors. I'll also be bringing some choice books from our collector's section, including a lovely copy of <u>The Nutcracker</u> illustrated by the late Maurice Sendak, some Victorian etiquette books, a signed Mickey Mantle memoir, and some nineteenth century children's books.<br />
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Hope to see you in Brattleboro!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-48369586285713032402012-03-27T09:59:00.000-04:002012-03-27T10:01:37.138-04:00Bookselling at the Burlington Book FairHere's a helpful travel tip. When traveling in the pre-dawn hours to a destination you are unfamiliar with in a vehicle you are unsure of, it's helpful to avoid spooky mountain roads where your cellphone doesn't get reception. I foolishly set off at 4 am from Saratoga County, New York to exhibit my wares at the Vermont Book and Ephemera Fair in Burlington, hoping to arrive early for the setup. The plan was to arrange my book booth and then stroll around leisurely with a strong cup of coffee to see what my colleagues were selling before the official opening at 10 am.<br />
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While I spent a lot of time rehashing my book fair packing list (I remembered my cash this time, unless last November's Albany Book Fair, when I had to beg for singles from another bookseller) and picking out the books I wanted to bring to Burlington, I was less diligent about researching my driving route and ended up taking Route 9N through the Adirondacks to Ticonderoga, where I collapsed into a fast food restaurant after almost two hours of hairpin turns, a couple of deer in the headlights, 20-30 mph driving through villages through rain and fog and having my check engine light come on after grinding up a particularly steep incline. The cheery counter lady assured me that Burlington was only another hour and a half away, which proved to be the case and I made it in plenty of time to be set up.<br />
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I was greeted at the door by these three lovely women, who steered me to my booth and a bountiful breakfast setup, where a restorative few cups of strong coffee and some fresh pineapple got me back in business.<br />
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That's Donna Howard on the left, of the <a href="http://www.theeloquentpage.com/">Eloquent Page</a> in nearby St. Albans, who was the main Book Fair organizer and had boxes full of everything we exhibitors needed awaiting us at our booths, so I could just waltz in and get cracking. She also manned a lovely book booth herself, studded with antique children's books and interesting history and railroad titles. <br />
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I got to chat a bit with Barbara Harding of <a href="http://www.ottercreekusedbooks.com/blog/">Otter Creek Used Books</a> in Middlebury, VT as she was setting up. She had a gorgeous selection of P.G. Wodehouse novels, artfully arranged on light blue shelves, and indulged me with little light conversation about the author's hilarious character names, like Chuffy and Stilton Cheesewright. I will definitely have to plan a Vermont bookhunting trip in the near future and visit her shop, a self-described "community book store experience".<br />
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A couple of the antiques dealers had great displays. Carwin's Antiques of Morrisville, VT had both Dr. Seuss and a parade of glass paperweights beckoning from one booth,<br />
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while Jean Tudhope of Backdoor Antiques in East Middlebury, VT had great posters and ephemera to lure in shoppers. I most coveted her tray table, however, and will have to scout one up and bring it to my next Book Fair instead of juggling my cash box, receipts and pens in my lap when a customer checks out.<br />
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Caffeine in hand, it was time now to pop up my own book display. I had a half booth and had brought along another small table to pop up in the middle of the horseshoe area I shared with the delightful artist and bookbinder Carol Ceraldi, of <a href="http://grahamhillbindery.com/index.shtml">Graham Hill Bindery</a> in Craftsbury, VT. Carol lugged in a huge book press, clamps, binding supplies, rolls of leather and book cloth, (and a cello to schlep to orchestra practice after the Fair) and had a computer slide show on hand to display examples of her interesting bindings. She was busy throughout the Fair, chatting with attendees, doing various book repairs and making beautifully folded origami boxes out of her hand decorated pastepapers. Visit her website to see examples of her work on various book restorations, bindings and book enclosures.<br />
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Here's my setup. I only brought 7 boxes of books with me, rather than the 12 or so I've brought to other book fairs, since I thought that facing out more books (and more colorful books) would bring in just as many sales. <br />
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This proved to be true, though the bestsellers were overwhelmingly books
on Vermont history, folklore and books by Vermont authors. I should
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I had the good fortune to be near two other gracious and interesting booksellers, Sandy Lincoln of <a href="http://www.seasonedbooks.com/">Sandy's Books and Bakery</a> in Rochester, VT and John Hess of Catamount Books in Arlington, VT. I thought I had a shot of Sandy reading among her stacks of interesting books, (from R. Crumb art books to Sherlock Holmes), but none turned up later in my camera, so I will have illustrate with words how great it was to chat with Sandy and her husband about the book biz, global politics, and her unusual selection of titles. Sandy specializes in books about sustainable living, renewable energy, wilderness living, agriculture and cooking and her bookstore incorporates a garden and bakery/espresso sales. Another destination for my Vermont bookhunting tour!<br />
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John and his wife manned the <a href="http://www.catamountbooks.com/">Catamount Books</a> booth, which was stuffed with gorgeous antiquarian volumes. I spied several hard-to-find Cherry Ames nursing novels for a customer of mine, and saw lots of other unusual books in great condition. Arlington is not too far over the border from Schuylerville, so as we were chatting, I offhandedly asked if he knew anyone from his hometown who had been painted by Norman Rockwell. John immediately replied that his grandfather was the model for Norman Rockwell's iconic painting, "Freedom of Speech" .Note a resemblance?<br />
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As a bonus, my car didn't break down on my alternate route home and I got home just before dark to a warm welcome from the family and pets, with a cold glass of Gewurztraminer to boot! A great day!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-36033953958252781692012-03-24T07:56:00.001-04:002012-03-24T07:56:30.074-04:00Burlington and BooksRachel will be exhibiting some of our bookwares at the Vermont Spring Book and Ephemera Fair in beautiful Burlington, Vermont this Sunday, March 25th from 10 am to 4 pm. The Book Fair is being held at the Sheraton Hotel located at 870 Williston Road and admission is $4.<br />
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Some of the books and paper items we will be bringing including Vermont history and folklore, some new-to-us titles in art, music, how-to, country living, popular culture and an assortment of postcards and other ephemera. There are some interesting new acquisitions in poetry, Chinese antiquities and Americana that will also be on our table.<br />
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Dan and I visited the Burlington Book Fair a couple of years back and had a nice time chatting with Donna Howard of the <a href="http://www.theeloquentpage.com/">Eloquent Page</a>, who organizes the Fair and has an open shop in nearby St. Albans, Vermont. That's Donna, neatly turned out in her Edward Gorey T-shirt in the photo above. We bought a nice stack of books and blogged about our visit at the Book Trout at <a href="http://booktrout.blogspot.com/2008/04/field-report-book-fair-in-burlington-vt.html">this post</a>.<br />
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Hope to see you at the Fair. I'll be back with a report on how things go and on interesting bookspotting and people watching.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-88803143265850310082012-03-12T11:26:00.000-04:002012-03-12T16:01:52.418-04:00Guerrilla Marketing for Dummy Heads<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Ever the intrepid scrounger, husband Dan has come up with our most eye-catching street sign yet. We always find interesting stuff thrown out in the alley behind our shop and they often end up repurposed in our shop as shelf adornments or book ends, but I think Dan has outdone himself with his mobile street sign advertising our March-long Spring Cleaning Sale:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A rusty supermarket cart now sports a shelf of mounted beauty school mannequin heads (stamped with the names Debra, Sam (like our store cat!) and Deluxe Debra), festively adorned for St. Patrick's Day and expertly bungee-corded to the lamp post at the vacant lot at the main intersection of our fair village of Schuylerville. Dan or I take the Debras in each night for fear that they may be kidnapped by drunken patrons of the nearby sports bar and this certainly earns us some rubbernecking from passing motorists. It was a bit surreal the other day to see a passing car of nuns in full habit do some synchronized gawking at my lovely trio as I was taking them on their morning stroll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Judging from the number of remarks we're getting in the shop, this marketing madness is working well. I have had several local first-time customers tell me that the Heads got them inside our doors despite the fact that we've been around for 15 years and have book carts, flags and stacks of books on our sidewalk whenever weather permits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We're now planning our Easter makeover for the Debras, and may even continue this street side show longer if it continues to draw in new customers. Certainly, a Bastille Day tableau could be interesting. And the Debras are waterproof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a village that sports three storefront<a href="http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/index.php/a-christmas-story-movie-facts/the-leg-lamp/"> leg lamps a la A Christmas Story</a>, another vacant lot adorned with a selection of painted retro bicycles, and a hybrid horse/cow sculpture pastured into a landing pad of grass on the sidewalk next to our shop each spring, we think the Debras blend right in.</span> </div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-24152080965182478722012-03-02T10:47:00.000-05:002012-03-02T10:47:31.759-05:00A Visit to Atlanta Vintage BooksI was let out of our own bookstore for a short trip to Atlanta to check out
Emory College. The young' un has been dreaming of an education at this
fine academic institution, despite my entreaties that it is way too far
away, out of our budget, too much of a change from our hobbity rural
life, etc. She insists that this is her dream college, so off we went
for a four-day trip to investigate.<br />
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After a three-flight extravaganza that began at 3 am, followed by a
white-knuckle rental car drive up I-85 during rush hour, in which I was
consistently in the wrong lane, we flopped at our hotel for a quick
break. The plan was to freshen up, drive over to Emory to scope out how
to get to our scheduled tour the next morning, shop quickly at a used
bookstore and then seek out some delicious Southern barbeque.<br />
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I had thought that Emory was located in a northern suburb of Atlanta,
but it's really part of the urban area, replete with lots of traffic
congestion, so our introduction to Emory was not as auspicious as it
could have been. We sat in a big traffic jam past the Center for Disease
Control and Emory Hospital and saw people walk, push strollers, and
limp past with three-pronged canes overtaking us in our rental car. We
finally inched past our intended target, the Admissions Building, and
then headed out of the gridlock up Clairmont Avenue to catch the last
half-hour at <a href="http://www.atlantavintagebooks.com/">Atlanta Vintage Books</a>.<br />
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What a treat! We pulled up to the curb and saw a young man feeding and
petting a covey of long-haired cats on the sidewalk. He welcomed us and
when I told him we were looking forward to meeting one of our bookstore
colleagues, whisked us into the shop and introduced us to more cats and
Bob Roarty and Jan Bolgla, the husband and wife owners.<br />
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Jan was busy on the phone with customers during our visit, but Bob
was so kind and generous with his time, leading us both through the
labyrinth of wonderful book rooms, each more interesting than the next. I
love that different subjects get their own rooms and we had a grand
time talking shop, examining some of the gems in his rare books section
(a signed Finnegan's Wake! a signed Gone with the Wind! Tasha Tudors in
jackets!). Every once in a while, his delightfully exuberant employee
Mallory would whoop or snort from her corner cubby to punctuate our
discussion, and that made me laugh every time.<br />
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I wish I had more time to browse, but with hungry teen in tow and
mindful of the 7 pm closing time (which we exceeded by far) my perusal
was limited to the American history section. I am always looking to
replenish our colonial history and Revolutionary War shelves, as well as
our upstate New York history selections, so I did leave with an armload
of books that filled up my airline suitcase to its 50 lb. limit.<br />
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Bob probably would have kept the lights on all night for us, so generous
was he with his time and kindness, but after providing us with a short
linguistics lesson to help us in our travels ("all y'all" is the plural
of "y'all", "the great Unpleasantness" refers the Civil War) and some
detailed instructions to get us to Fat Matt's Rib Shack for dinner, we
reluctantly left. Bob also practically adopted my daughter into the
family should she end up at Emory, so I am very grateful to everyone at
Atlanta Vintage Books. Talk about the fabled Southern hospitality!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211857370548116268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151144338019317429.post-59160275959843247022012-01-24T10:09:00.002-05:002012-01-24T10:09:46.117-05:00Our February 2012 Bookshop Hours<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We are taking our annual break during the month of February at <a href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/">Old Saratoga Books</a> and will be open for reduced hours: Fridays and
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Sometimes it's a pile of orphaned books left on our doorstep when we open up and often it's a mound of garage sale leftovers, festooned with colorful price stickers. Most of these volumes end up in our to-be-donated-to-whatever-library-is-next-in-line-for-a-fundraiser-book-sale. Then there are those folks who show up with really lovely, unusual books that we've never seen before, and though the shelves are groaning from all the New Year declutterers that have brought us books, we simply pull out the check book and sigh.<br />
<br />In recent weeks we've bought many, many baking cookbooks from a former culinary student, boatloads of fishing and gardening books, a spate of books about film history and biographies about Hollywood's Golden Age, interesting pop-ups and books about paper art and origami, some antiquarian art and history titles, scads of classic science fiction paperbacks, and quite a nice pile of literary biographies. I've only put a handful of these titles online, so if you are interested in any of these areas, feel free to inquire about what's on the shelves.<br />
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Here's a little sampling of what these new collections contain:<br />
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<b><a class="rowoddauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34384&keyword=fly+fisher%27s&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Ritz, Charles; Piper, John</a></b> <b><a class="rowoddtitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34384&keyword=fly+fisher%27s&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">A Fly Fisher's Life</a></b> NY Crown Publishers 1973. Reprint Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.Foreword
by Ernest Hemingway, introduction by Arnold Gingrich. Large octavo.
Green cloth binding. Many photos and illustrations. Jacket lightly
tattered. In jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 285 pages.<br />
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<b><a class="rowevenauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34603&keyword=breakfast&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Lewis, C. S.; Como, James T.</a></b> <b><a class="roweventitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34603&keyword=breakfast&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences</a></b><br />NY Macmillan Company 1979. First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. n
jacket protector. Index, alphabetical index to the writings of C. S.
Lewis, bibliography. A compilation of memories about C. S. Lewis from 22
of his friends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages.<br />
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<b><a class="rowoddauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34489&keyword=unicorn&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Reichert, Mickey Zucker; Nye, Jody Lynn Nye; Ranieri, Roman A.</a></b> <b><a class="rowoddtitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34489&keyword=unicorn&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Anne Mccaffrey's the Unicorn Girl: The Illustrated Adventures</a></b>. NY HarperPrism 1997. First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
collection of short stories based on McCaffrey's character by Jody Nye,
Mickey Zucker Reichert and Roman A. Ranieri and illustrated by various
artists. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages.<br />
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<b><a class="rowevenauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34340&keyword=pastries&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Mesnier, Roland; Malard, Christian</a></b> <b><a class="roweventitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34340&keyword=pastries&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">All the Presidents' Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House</a></b>. Paris Flammarion 2004.First English Language Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. irst
printing of first English Language edition. Several pages of
photographs. "This extraordinary success story-told by the hero
himself-of a young French pastry chef who climbed his way to the top,
embodies the great American dream. After working at the Savoy in London,
the George V in Paris, the Princess in Bermuda, and the Homestead in
Virginia, Roland Mesnier took on the job of a lifetime as pastry chef to
the White House. He provides behind-the-scenes insight into the
characters, tastes, and obsessions of the five presidents and first
ladies he served during his 25 years in Washington. Seventeen
easy-to-follow recipes include the favorite desserts of all five
presidents and their families. " (rear cover blurb) ; 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" tall; 344 pages <br />
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<b><a class="rowevenauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34548&keyword=cat%27s&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Haddon, Kathleen</a></b> <b><a class="roweventitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34548&keyword=cat%27s&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Cat's Cradles from Many Lands</a></b> Longmans, Green and Company 1911 First Edition Hardcover Very Good.live
green cloth binding with cat's cradle figure and lettering stamped in
white on front boards. Index, bibliography, many illustrations. Gift
inscription penciled on front free endpaper, boards lightly rubbed. Many
examples of string figures, or cat's cradles from cultures around the
world, including Alaskan Inuit, the Torres Straits, Andaman Islands,
Yoruba tribes, Navaho Indian tribes and others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 95
pages.<br />
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<b><a class="rowoddauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34581&keyword=papercraft&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Palestrant, S.</a></b> <b><a class="rowoddtitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34581&keyword=papercraft&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Practical Papercraft: Over 400 Useful and Decorative Projects for Fun and Profit</a></b><br />NY Homecrafts 1950 Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket. any
photos and illustrations. Jacket flaps glued to endpapers and endpapers
darkened from the adhesive, usual library stamps and markings. Learn
how to make toys, costumes, flowers, lampshades, masks, boxes, stage
scenery, puppets and party decorations out of paper. ; Ex-Library; 8vo
8" - 9" tall; 119 pages.<br />
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<b><a class="rowevenauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34613&keyword=bride&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Kendall, Elizabeth</a></b> <b><a class="roweventitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34613&keyword=bride&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s</a></b><br />NY Knopf 1990. First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket<br />Jacket
price-clipped and curled at edges, foxing to page tops and bottoms.
Index, bibliography, notes, photos. A look at the changing role of
women, romantic love and how films mirrored these changes. ; 8vo 8" -
9" tall; 285 pages. <br />
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<b><a class="rowoddauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34634&keyword=art+treasures&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Gorling, A. ; Meyer, Bl; Woltmann, A.</a></b> <b><a class="rowoddtitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34634&keyword=art+treasures&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Art
Treasures of Germany: A Collection of the Most Important Pictures of
the Galleries of Dresden, Cassel, Brunswick, Berlin, Munich and Vienna.
with Portraits of the Most Celebrated Masters and Explanatory and
Biographical Notices</a></b><br />Boston Samuel Walker and Company 1873 Hardcover Good. Half-bound
in morocco with title and owner name stamped in gilt on spine. Contains
120 engravings after paintings by various European masters, including
Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Raphael, Titian, Murillo, Holbein,
Caravaggio and many, many lesser known Dutch and German artists.<br />
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<strong> </strong><b><a class="rowoddauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34629&keyword=home+movie&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Stevens, C. F. ; Ryskind, Morrie; Englander, James</a></b> <b><a class="rowoddtitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34629&keyword=home+movie&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">The Home Movie Scenario Book</a></b><br />NY Richard Manson 1927 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Fair dust jacket<br />Gray
boards with black cloth backstrip. Pages toned, jacket soiled and
tattered. In jacket protector. Several pages of advertisements for
camera stores and movie theatres. A collection of twenty plots for home
movies in a silent film format, as well as chapters on how to produce,
direct, act in, provide makeup, sets, lighting, and editing these home
productions. Ryskind was wrote and helped produce Broadway musicals (he
got a Pulitzer for "Of Thee I Sing", written in collaboration with
George Gershwin) , an award-winning Hollywood screenplay author and
"friendly witness" for the House Un-American Activities Committee in
1947.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169 pages.<br />
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<b><a class="rowevenauthor" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34622&keyword=graham&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">Thomas, Graham Stuart</a></b> <b><a class="roweventitle" href="http://www.oldsaratogabooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=34622&keyword=graham&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1317=1326800837131748f4a43a2c7307ec1f">The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book:</a></b><br />Sagaponack, NY Sagapress 2004 0711223971 / 9780711223974 Revised Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
revised, one volume edition of Thomas' trilogy of rose reference books:
The Old Shrub Roses, Shrub Roses of Today and Climbing Roses Old and
New. 158 color plates. Index, bibliography, line illustrations. ; 4to
11" - 13" tall; 359 pages.<br />
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