Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is hosting an amazing exhibit of the work of the contemporary Japanese artist Shinsuke MinegishiIt will feature a variety of Minegishi's work including wood engravings for limited edition books; prints in which he employs both lithograph and wood engraving techniques; and simple wood engravings. Minegishi is a Japanese printmaker and wood engraver living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1970 and moved to the United States in 1993. He graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1998, and has been has...
New York Times Visits the Arion Press
Nice plug for Andrew Hoyem and his Arion Press in the Week Ahead section of today's Sunday New York Times. Michael Kimmelman paid the press a visit and in its San Francisco digs and ties it in nicely to the Arion booth at the International Print Fair in New York.There is still hopeNYT article hereArion Press here
Good Night Zzzzzzzz Shops
It is official - Amazon has finally pulled the plug on zshops. After years of treating it like a bastard child who they wouldn't let out of the house or better yet let anyone visit the house they finally pulled the plugZ shops is where all the great books, ephemera and related material that was produced in the pre- ISBN era lived. Mind you, the ISBN system of identification was created in 1967 by David Whitaker and Emery Koltay so pretty much all original material published before 1967 was relegated to one's Z shop or better yet Book Siberia.It doesn't...
The Dumbing Down of Bookselling
Granted Amazon is the Godzilla of the new book business and much of their energy has been channeled in redefining the new book business. And one must take their hats off to them for what they have accomplished. Of course, I am all for the independent bookseller and the independent spirit but one must always be open to change. Too many new booksellers spent their energy running for the hills, and not enough energy in attempting to transform their businessBut the real growth area in books is on the used, rare and out-of-print side of the equation. A side that...
The Book , Anselm Kiefer and the Universe
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. We start with our favorite:Buch mit Flügeln (Book with Wings), 1992-94Lead, steel, and tinCollection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum purchase, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Endowment Fund. © Anselm KieferSF Museum Exhibit here