Moonrise over Laredo, Texas as the sun sets over its book trade.Recent events in Laredo, Texas have compelled Tex Rex, King of the Singing Cowboys, to step out of retirement from his home on the range and croon the ballad of sad book-café about a big American city now scandalously - incredibly - without a single book shop; unbelievable but true.As I walked out on the streets of LaredoAs I walked out on Laredo one dayI spied an old book shop all shuttered and closed downShuttered and closed down all night and all day.I see by this closing that books...
Skirts In Dust Jackets: Indie Women, Wayward Wives, Soiled Damsels, Sassy Lassies, and Hard-Boiled Dames
Meherin, Elenore. "Sandy." Gosset & Dunlap, 1926."She defied life's Conventions in her search for THRILLS!"Photoplay edition.Women on the move, on the make, on the day shift, on the night shift, on their feet, on their backs, on the go, on their way, onward and upward.Sometimes a rare book catalog is organized like a library exhibition, the dealer/cataloger as curator to a wide variety of books that when grouped together tell a compelling story.West, Mae. The Constant Sinner (Babe Gordon). Macaulay, 1931.4th printing, first with ths title and dust jacket.The story of a dope-dealing prostitute who has anaffair with a black...
Famous Authors Drawn, Not Quartered
Martin Droeshout's 1623 Engraving Of William Shakespeare.The purpose of any portrait is to capture the essence of the subject. To somehow convey in a single image not just the outward appearance of the sitter, but his soul. But if the subject is a great writer, does that task become impossible? Poet Ben Jonson thought so, and maybe the curators at Princeton University's Firestone Library do, too.Those curators have just opened a new exhibit of 100 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, marble sculptures, and plaster death masks, depicting literary giants. The title of the gallery show is: The Author's Portrait. But the...
Mac in a Book: BookBook Got You Covered
The folks at Twelve South have just unveiled their latest Mac accessory, the BookBook, and it brings a whole new meaning to e-books.The BookBook is a hardback leather carrying case for your MacBook or MacBook Pro."Zip it closed and your baby is nestled between two tough, rigid leather hardback covers for a solid level of impact absorbing protection. The rigid spine serves as crush protection for an additional line of defense. BookBook creates a hardback book structure that safeguards your MacBook like few other cases can." These one-of-a-kind designs come in two colors; Classic Black or Vibrant Red and retail...
Prozac on Every Page, Please: “I Need Happy Books!”
It’s a rough world out there. Read enough about it and reach for an anti-depressant. As often as not, readers head for the books to take them out of this world into another, if only for a little while.What happens when even books suck you into the muck of human existence? Is there no escape?“Hi. I have been reading about a book every other week for the last couple of years and it seems that most of the books I end up reading are sad and make me more cynical about the world, such as books by Kafka, Orwell, Dostoyevsky,...