If you are a late baby boomer or a baby boomer with kids there is a good chance you have either read or been read a children's book illustrated by Eric Carle.For me it was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (1967, his first illustrated book) which was in heavy rotation when my daughter was about a year old.The Tacoma Art Museum is having an exhibit of his work through January 21, 2007If you are driving up to Seattle or down to Portland or beyond it might be worth a quick pit stop in Tacoma.Beside his stature as...
Extra Shipping Charges – My 2 cents
Oh wait that should be 4 cents!The hot topic in the used book blogosphere is whether or not it is appropriate for a bookseller to contact a customer after a sale is completed to request additional monies for shipping.I would start with looking at the Bookseller & Payment Information link for the seller, (this is what it is called on ABE but each sales channel has it's own version)This is what we say:Shipping Terms: Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or...
Guild of Bookworkers 100th Anniversary Exhibit
In honor of the Guild of Bookmakers 100th anniversary Book Patrol will regularly feature one book from the Contemporary Exhibition of Juried Works and one book from the Retrospective Exhibition.The exhibit is currently on display at the Grolier Club in NY and will travel around the country in 2007.Our first installment features two of Seattle's own book artists. Bonnie Thompson Norman's "Primer for Democracy", a fitting post election piece, and Claudia Cohen's beautiful binding of Rudolf Koch's Schriftgiesserei im Schattenbild, 1936 A Primer for Democracy: Seattle, 2004. 8 x 8 x 8 centimeters. was created in a class just before...
Anselm Kiefer and the Book
Zweistromland/The High Priestess, 1986-89. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo. Lead, steel, glass, copper wire and mixed organic media, approx. 460 × 884 × 180 cm.In honor of the exhibit Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Book Patrol will feature one of Kiefer's book related works until the exhibit ends at the end of January.Here is our second installment: Zweistromland/The High Priestess, 1986-89The work consists of 200 lead books (each weighing 300 kilos or a little over 600 pounds) arranged on two steel book shelves which are leaned against each other, but...
Bookseller Resisters League: Book Stalls Demolished – Booksellers Resist!
Due to the changing landscape in the book world many booksellers have closed up shop recently but this story tops them all. Over 100 bookstalls were demolished in one fell swoop in the Koti area of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The government has built new stalls for the booksellers elsewhere and when the November 4 deadline to move came and went the demolition team showed up with many book stall owners still entrenched in their stalls"The Koti book stalls besides being a landmark are popular among the students for availability of all kinds of secondhand booksPolice resorted to lathi-charge...