Bert KrakThe latest nifty offering from Penguin is a series called Penguin Inks where tattoo artists were commissioned to come up with cover designs for 6 modern classics.Chris ConnThe series is set to debut in June.More at Shelf Talk, the book blog of Entertainment Weekly.While we're talking tatts. Here's a women who sacrificed her back and arms for Alice in Wonderland.click image to enlargeand finally, don't forget Jeff Johnson's recent acclaimed memoir Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink.Thanks to @mikecane for the lead on the Alice tattoo
Two Experts Talk Literature In Film
Our colleague, Kevin Johnson, of Royal Books in Baltimore, recently participated in a video about literature in film produced by Walter Reuben, the highly respected Los Angeles-based movie poster dealer-scholar. It deserves to be seen by anyone even remotely interested in the intersection of the written word and celluloid.Kevin has been, and continues to be, one of the most respected rare book dealers in the world specializing in cinema-related volumes and books into film. He is also the author of the acclaimed The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir, in two volumes covering 1940-1949 and 1950-1965, respectively. Beautifully...
The Rebirth of a Bookmobile
It started innocently enough. Over dinner a friend mentioned that he saw a used bookmobile for sale on Craigslist and wished he could by it.That was all the impetus Tom Corwin needed, "By the end of dinner, I had come up with this whole concept of buying the bookmobile myself, and having authors join me, taking turns behind the wheel, and driving across the country interviewing people about the books that have touched their lives and creating a documentary film and a Web-based literacy outreach component" Corwin told the San Francisco Chronicle.He was soon off to suburban Chicago to buy...
When Jackie Met André: Jacqueline Kennedy’s Gift Book to Malraux
André Malraux (foreground, left) with Jacqueline Kennedyand JFK, state dinner at the White House, May 11, 1962.The personal gift of Jacqueline and President Kennedy to French Minister of Culture André Malraux, in celebration of his visit to Washington, D.C. in May of 1962, has surfaced.It is a book. Not just any book but a perfect copy of the great British caricaturist George Cruikshank's Remembrancer of a Tour on the Continent, a series of eight hand-colored aquatint engravings gently satirizing European travel.London: Published by H. Humphrey, June 30, 1821."[Jacqueline Kennedy] had a degree in French literature and was captivated by the...
Rare Book Dealer Saves Collector, Is Rewarded With Magic Tea (A Cautionary Tale)
Always pleased to hear from ***.Last week, he sent a message asking for help with book he was considering acquiring for his collection, a volume from 1877 he’d discovered on the Internet and had never heard of before. I did some research; No auction records, no copies in institutional libraries worldwide. It was a humdinger, unrecorded anywhere in this area of book collecting, a real find and exciting.While looking into this book I discovered another volume by the same author, a short, twenty-five page treatise from 1867 significant, as I learned, as being one of the first, if not the...