Tomorrow is “Buy Indie Day“, the latest foray in the seemingly never-ending quest to help the independent bookseller. Why should we care? It’s all about the intangibles. We can’t compete on price but the value of what else is offered cannot be duplicated by the chain or online experience. Here’s a little example:
In 2007, Wessel & Lieberman had an exhibit of the work of Briony Morrow-Cribbs. Amy Stewart was in town with her husband, then editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine, Scott Brown for the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. While in town they stopped by the shop. The visit introduced Stewart to the work of Morrow-Cribbs and here we have their first collaboration.
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart. Etchings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs. Illustrations by Jonathon Rosen. Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.
Greenscapes: Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest by Joan Hockaday.
“Meticulous, intensely observant, industrious, and visionary, [Olmsted] left a legacy that is still enjoyed daily by people across the Pacific Northwest.”
The Early Louis Sullivan Building Photographs by Crombie Taylor and Jeffrey Plank. Published by William Stout Publishers, 2001.
“Reproduces for the first time a treasure-trove from the architects’ archive, which document Sullivan’s pivotal structures and interiors. This is the most extensive survey of Sullivan’s building photographs ever produced.”
View all the offerings on our ’21 New (er) Books We Like’ table