Meat-packing magnet Sam Martz has given his 4,700+ collection of golf books to UBC.It is the greatest collection ever assembled on the sport that will be kept intact and available for public perusal. Martz believes he has put together the third-largest collection of golf books in North America, behind the collection of the United States Golf Association and one that is in private hands.The University of Chicago houses the collection of Arthur W. Schultz which is made up of 1,600 books but according to Ralph Stanton, head of rare books and special collections for UBC, "doesn't come close to the...
Books as Investments. Asia Joins the Fray
This came in a bit late for my previous post Book Collecting Juice which including a link to a recent article in the Telegraph about books as an investment.The Standard, an English language paper in Hong Kong, has a piece by Ronald Chan titled Judging the Fine Print which comes on the heels of the inaugural Hong Kong International Antiquarian Book Fair that will take place from November 30 to December 2Chan, founder and chief executive of the private investment company Chartwell Capital, says:"The growing interest in rare books has finally hit Asia, with alternative investors seeing them as an...
Book Collecting Juice
Timothy Taylor has a great piece in the December issue of The Walrus titled Unlimited Editions: a collector's obsession of award winning books. Taylor profiles John Meier of Vancouver, B.C. whose collection of the Governors General Award winners trumps that of the Canadian government. A fascinating read, sprinkled with bibliomania, espionage and Howard Hughes .Upon first seeing the collection Taylor says:And then I saw them, looming in the grainy half-light. Custom-built glass-front bookcases from floor to ceiling along every available wall, every shelf full, the colours of a thousand spines seeming to rustle in the darkness. And in the same...
Drink Books
Camper English has a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle today on collectible cocktail books titled Bartenders shake and stir their way through cocktail history.English, who writes the booze blog Alcademics talks with Josey Packard, a bartender at Alembic in the Upper Haight who also studies recipe history and collector John Burton, owner and instructor of the Bartenders' School of Santa Rosa, about their interest in older cocktail booksHighlights:-The first known cocktail book is "How to Mix Drinks" by Jerry Thomas and was published 1862.-"Because of their proximity to sticky liquids, well-used cocktail books often don't hold up over time,...