Editor’s note: This essay was adapted from a submission Doug made last year to the George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Collecting Prize, for which he was awarded Honorable Mention. by Douglas Scott Brown “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I may be the […]
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By Alexander Ames and Mark Samuels Lasner We wish to make the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies aware of a new book from the Grolier Club that illuminates an important specialty of book history and collecting: the art of the ex-libris. Edited by Alexander Lawrence Ames and Mark Samuels Lasner […]
by Joshua Shelly Editor’s note: Joshua Shelly (Ph.D. Duke 2023) won Second Prize in the 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest co-sponsored by the ABAA, FABS, the Grolier Club and the Rare Books division of the Library of Congress. We are pleased to share Dr. Shelly’s description of his collection. […]
Editor’s note: This review is reprinted from the Jan/Feb 2024 issue of The Caxtonian with the kind permission of John Hoover and The Caxton Club. by John Hoover Virginia Kramer and Timothy Hawley. A Bibliography of The Printery: The Private Press of Kay Michael Kramer. St. Louis: Mercantile Library Association, 2023. Limited […]
by Mark J. Ferson (This article is based on a presentation by Dr. Mark Ferson to the Book Collectors’ Society of Australia via Zoom on 4 March 2023, and first appeared in Biblionews 419, Sept. 2023. FABS thanks Dr. Ferson and the BCSA for permission to reproduce it here.) My […]
By Enrique Vazquez An overview of notable titles. Listening Point was the primary inspiration for the collection. The Boundary Water Canoe Area (BWCA) is a protected chain-of-lakes spanning over one million acres along the Minnesota-Canada border. It was here that my family brought me to camp at a young age, […]
By Richard Kopley There are sweet spots in any book collection. In the midst of the highest shelf of my Hawthorne collection is a sweet spot so sweet that I sometimes visit just to see it. It took me two years to work out the author of the anonymous 1842 […]
By Bruce Kennett Wise and witty stories, they are a pleasure to read, but to savorthe line and color art is its own special experience. — Steve Heller The name W. A. Dwiggins will certainly be familiar to many FABS members. Dwiggins (1880–1956) was a quintessential maker, and a volcano […]
Editor’s Note: For the full article by Tim Inkster please visit https://www.devilsartisan.ca/ In 1981 Robin Skelton established the Malahat Awards for the Design of Poetry Books in Canada. I quickly recognized this as an opportunity to promote the quality of the contract book printing we were selling to a clutch […]
Editor’s Note: The following tribute to bibliophile and Friend of FABS Jerry Morris was published in The Florida Bibliophile, April 2022, Volume 38, No. 8. Thanks to Florida Bibliophiles President Charles Brown for permission to reprint. For Jerry’s final post, click HERE. Jerry Morris, Vice President of the Florida Bibliophile […]