When Barnes & Noble decided to close their Chelsea store in New York City many thought that the small rare- and out-of-print-book department that was housed at that location for the last 8 years would disappear too.Instead the company decided to not only relocate the department to a larger store on Broadway and 66th Street but is also "spending a significant sum on the department, installing custom display cases with locked glass doors" and moving it to a more prominent location on the second floor of the store.Although they are claiming that there are no plans to "replicate the effort...
Another online book…
...I like a lot, this time a children's picture book. Christoph Niemann's The Boy's and the Subway is his charming account of his sons' love affair with NYC transit. Nicely captured.
Power Moby Dick
I really like this elegantly annotated online version of Moby Dick. Simple and well-designed.
The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art
Illustration Copyright © 2002 by Yumi Heo. From Henry's First Moon Birthday by Lenore Look.The Getty Gallery at the Los Angeles Public Library is currently hosting, The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art, the first U.S. exhibit devoted exclusively to the image of the child in contemporary picture-book art.“Today, more talented artists by far are involved in picture-book making than ever before, with art schools, museums, and galleries most recently becoming devoted to picture-book illustration as an art form,” said picture-book historian Leonard S. Marcus.They exhibit focuses on illustrations of the last ten years and is divided into...
The Where of Reading : Field-Tested Books
Talk about books and technology. Is the book on life support? The reader? Is information going in? or coming out?This fantastic screenprint was designed by John Solimine of Spike Press in an edition of 400 for the recent publication of Coudal Partners' Field-Tested Books. It also serves as the cover art.For over six years now the folks at Coudal have been asking been asking people to send them 300-500 words about a book they read somewhere; a “certain book read in a certain place.”The Field-Tested Books book contains three years of reviews featuring 143 entries from more than 90 contributors....