Literary Leanings
From time to time we and our friends publish articles about books, book collecting, and book fairs. We link to those articles here. Enjoy!
Featured Guest Blog: Nancy Johnson and the Antiquarian "A"
Nancy Johnson of Nancy Johnson Events LLC tells all about the history of the San Francisco Book, Print, & Paper Fair®, and its storied Antiquarian "A"
Never been to a book fair? Feeling a little bit daunted? Who better to point you down the right path than our own Cynthia Gibson, who remembers full-well her first book fair. (It was Frankfurt. She was six. She lost a tooth. Get her to tell you sometime.)
Old salt (and salt of the earth) Greg Gibson of Ten Pound Island Books regularly opines on book fairs, the book trade, life in books, and life in general. Find his wit, wisdom, and woes (always presented with a healthy pinch of salt!) here.
Handling Rare Books: What Not To Do
The Rules. All three of them. You'll be surprised at what they actually are. (Hint: No White Gloves! No White Gloves!)
Day by day. Blow by blow. Rare Book School's summer program at UVa in Charlottesville is immersion therapy for book geeks. (You should go.) Here, one exhausted-but-happy attendee's experience.
Those mysterious "points of issue." They determine what is, or is not, a First Edition. Or, hmm — do they? What they are, and some sources for identifying them.
The Antiquarian Booksellers Benevolent Fund was founded by booksellers, for booksellers. When a dealer or a member of his family falls ill, or experiences a natural disaster or other crisis, the ABBF steps in. This is a very, very good thing.