In honor of our national pastime Book Patrol curated this list of collectible baseball material for our friends at Biblio.comEnjoy!'The first book devoted exclusively to baseball'Mayhew and Baker, publishers. The Base Ball Player's Pocket Companion: Containing Rules and Regulations for Forming Clubs, Directions for the "Massachusetts Game," and the "New York Game," from Official Reports. Boston: Mayhew and Baker. 1859. First edition. 16mo. 35(1)pp. Original flexible cloth-covered boards with a gilt illustration of a ball player. Old library stickers removed from the endpapers, small nicks at the extremities, a very good example in a custom quarter leather and cloth clamshell case. A...
Elizabeth Bishop Paints
"Pansies" Gouache and graphite on paper, 15 ” x 12 ¼” , 1960. Bishop’s largest and most finished recorded painting.Photo of Elizabeth Bishop for review of Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box. Photo by Joseph BreitenbachWhen the prominent poet Elizabeth Bishop died in 1979 her long time partner and executor Alice Methfessel unearthed a collection of 11 paintings and 2 assemblages that were done by Bishop between 1934-1978. The work spans much of Bishop's adult life, Bishop "worked as a painter as well as a poet, and her verse, like visual art, is known for its ability to capture significant scenes."Methfessel,...
Valentine’s Day is also International Book Giving Day
What a better way to spend Valentine's Day them to buy something bookish for a loved one and to give a book away to a child!International Book Giving Day encourages you to give, leave or a donate a book to a child.At Biblio, BiblioWorks is dedicated to doing just this on a daily basis - getting books in the hands of kids in communities in need. They believe that healthy communities require healthy minds. That's why they have been building libraries, supplying books and training librarians in the poorest communities of Bolivia since 2005.and if you are still looking for something...