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 […]
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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 Marcia McBrien How and where readers buy books – and how they bought reading material in the past – is a question “just as serious as it is fun,” said Paul J. Erickson, director of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Speaking to the Book Club of […]
by Marcia McBrien The Book Club of Detroit’s annual holiday luncheon is always a joyful and well-attended occasion. The mood at this year’s event was especially celebratory, as BCD marked its 65th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Our special […]
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 Jennifer Larson, FABS Chair JOIN FABS via Zoom for Bookish Presentations and Discussion The FABS (Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies) special interest Zoom groups are up and running! We invite you to share items from collection(s), discuss bookish matters and learn from fellow bibliophiles in an informal group setting […]
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, […]
Morris, Jerry. 2023. The 7 Book Blogs of Jerry Morris: Selected Posts. Edited by Charles Brown. St. Petersburg: The Florida Bibliophile Society. By Rebecca Rego Barry Jerry Morris was an exceptionally welcoming figure in the world of book collecting. I know this from personal experience, having begun a correspondence with […]
by James P. Keenan, Director, ASBCD What is a Bookplate? Since the mid-fifteenth century, distinguished artists and their patrons have given serious attention to this art form. A bookplate represents pride in the ownership of books. It is a miniature graphic art print developed to adorn books providing a convenient, […]