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 […]
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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 […]
Editor’s note: Jerry Morris of the Florida Bibliophiles, the guest author of this post, passed away on April 3, 2022. Jerry was a staunch supporter of his home book club and also of FABS. His enthusiasm for the Republic of Books and his genial personality will be missed by all […]