20 Monday May 2013
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Books, Bookshops, Rare Books
All the books at Bygone Books are finally on shelves and back online after being in storage for nearly the past 9 months – Yikes!
Please visit the Bygone Books website here
[ http://www.bygonebooksvermont.com/index.php ]
My books are also listed at Biblio.com here
[ http://www.biblio.com/bookstore/bygone-books-inc-burlington ]
And will be again on Abebooks in the next few days…
Thank you for stopping by!
31 Monday Dec 2012
Posted in Ephemera, Literary calendar, Postcards
Wishing Book Lovers everywhere a
safe, warm & peaceful New Year!
08 Friday Jun 2012
Posted in Domestic Arts, Exhibitions, Vermont Resources
Tags
Jeff and Cricket Quilts, Patterns of History, Quilting, Quilts, Vermont, Vermont Historical Society
This is just lovely! – The Vermont Historical Society has an extensive Quilt collection that ranges from whole-cloth examples from the early 1800s to a commemorative piece from 1991, all being documented as Vermont-made. The collection is now available to view in an online exhibition called ‘Patterns of History’ – you can view it here.
Log Cabin Quilt: A wool, linen, and cotton quilt in a Log Cabin Variation pattern made by Ella Hay Harris of Ludlow, Vermont, in the late 1800s. [image from the VHS Website]
There are 9 Galleries of quilts – click on each image to see a larger image and details. The exhibit was created by Katherine Poarch, with photography by Jeffrey Lomicka of Jeff and Cricket Quilts.
23 Wednesday May 2012
Posted in Books, News, Reading Lists
Tags
1book140, Book Clubs, Jeff Howe, New York Times Book Review, Pride and Prejudice, Reading, The Atlantic, Twitter
Want to join a Book Group with nearly 66,000 members? – here is your chance – and quite delightful to see all these people READING! [and tweeting about it!]
[Image from NYTimes: nice to see Pride and Prejudice there!]
Here is the article in the New York Times Book Review from this past weekend [May 20, 2012] by Jeff Howe, the originator of 1book140:
The May book currently being discussed in the travel-writing category is Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad.
Why not join the conversation? As Mr. Howe says as he ends his NYTBR essay, “Maybe the book isn’t dying, after all. It’s just getting a social life.”
[The Atlantic 1book140 logo]
18 Friday May 2012
From the Literary Tourist Blog:
Literary Agent Kelly Sonnack has put up a Facebook page – “Save the Bookstores 2012″ – for an annual event she launched last year to help ‘Save Bookstores’. This is the poster that one of her clients, children’s book illustrator Sam Zuppardi, designed for this year’s campaign.
As Sam puts it: “All you have to do is head into town on June 16th and pick up a few books from somewhere other than the internet. There’s nowt like a good browse, after all.”
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Sounds like a plan! – so head out on June 16th to your local new and used book shops – and then lets make a habit of it…
[Image from the Literary Tourist blog]
16 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Exhibitions, Libraries, Rare Books
You can visit this virtual exhibition of “The Body in the Library” at the Monash University Library
The jig-saw puzzle murder / by Walter F. Eberhardt. (Covent Garden : Puzzle Books, [1933])
Source: Monash University Library
07 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in Authors, Books, Literature
Tags
I direct you to my post on Charles Dickens at my Jane Austen in Vermont blog, as we celebrate today his 200th birthday!
02 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in Illustrators, Jane Austen
24 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Postcards
[Image: Postcard - illustration from
Thomas Nast Christmas Postcards. Dover, 1985.]
Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas!
13 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Book History, Books, Exhibitions, Libraries, Literature
From Pen to Print: The Handwriting Behind the Book is an exhibition that features handwritten letters, notes, postcards, and other manuscripts that reveal personal, private, and otherwise veiled aspects of the production of books. Putting authors’ manuscript materials on display alongside their print books, the exhibition reveals the passions, obsessions, lofty dreams, and gritty realizations triggered by the writing and publishing process. These materials capture the relationships between 19th- and 20th-century American authors, editors, and readers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Cary, Rufus Griswold, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Anne Warren Weston, Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke, Charles Folsom, and Robert Frost. These writers’ correspondence and notes, paired with rare, early editions of the books discussed therein, bring many fascinating facets of composition and publishing to light, notably the working relationships between authors and their editors and the interactions between authors and their readers. The exhibit also offers such curiosities as digitally enlarged signatures and passages from autographs, cross-hatched letters, and a selection of author portraits.
This exhibition is the result of an innovative, ongoing partnership between UMass-Boston’s English M.A. Program and the Boston Public Library. UMass-Boston students take a semester-long course in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Room, engaging in hands-on research that generates a student-curated exhibit. This exhibition presents the results of a seminar that focused on the scholarly transcription and annotating of handwritten texts. Previous years’ topics have included books from colonial Boston, Shakespeare, public poetry, and the origins of the British novel.
The exhibition is free and open to the general public. It is located in the Rare Books Exhibition Room on the third floor of the Boston Public Library’s McKim Building, and is open M, T, W, F – 9am – 5pm; Th – 11am – 7pm. The exhibition runs through March 30, 2012.
