Viva Las Vegas! Bauman Rare Books Needs Your Help April 16, 2010

Bauman Rare Books – Las Vegas Are the dice of life rolling snake eyes? Are you tired of your ho-hum job? Are you ready for adventure? Consider a job in the exciting, fast-paced and fabulous world of rare book selling in Las Vegas, where you’ll deal in the rarest of the rare while lounging at poolside, daquiri in hand while nubile maidens with pulchritude a’plenty fan you with palm fronds and keep that cocktail fresh…

Peake Archive Takes British Library To New Heights

Mervyn Peake, Self-portrait, submitted to the Royal Academyin 1931. Now in the National Portrait Gallery. (All Images Courtesy of the Mervyn Peake Estate, mervynpeake.org ) He’s been been likened to Tolkien, Dickens, Kafka, and Poe, but the work of poet, painter, playwright, author, and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) defies comparison. Anthony Burgess wrote in his introduction to the first volume of the Gormenghast Trilogy, Peake’s most famous work: “There really is no close relative to…

Yoko Ono Collects Rare Books: The Book Patrol Interview April 15, 2010

I had lunch with Yoko Ono during the 2010 New York Antiquarian Book Fair. That’s a sentence I figured I’d have about as much chance of writing as, “I accept the nomination of my party for President of the United States,” but with less probability of actual realization. At the Fair on Saturday, I noticed Yoko Ono quietly walking the aisles. I thought, I must talk to her about rare books. And immediately I thought,…

Attendance Numbers For 2010 New York Antiquarian Book Fair Released April 13, 2010

Sanford L. Smith and Associates, organizers of the 2010 New York Antiquarian Book Fair, today released official attendance numbers for this year, the Fair’s 50th anniversary. Last weekend, 5100 book lovers made the pilgrimage to the Park Avenue Armory to hunt for treasure, up from 4800 attendees in 2009, an increase of 6.25%. In 2008, at the height of the speculative bubble in the rare book world, attendance was 5800. Clearly, attendance took a dive…

Paper Your Walls With Books

“Library” wallpaper design by Tom Slaughter. Cavern is a New York and Los Angeles-based boutique wallpaper and textiles design firm that invites us to re-imagine our living environment. Their hand silk-screened, eco-friendly designer wallpaper draws inspiration from the natural world and urban landscape. The design patterns are graphic and stylized, yet maintain an expressive, organic aesthetic that enlivens any space. Pre-Fair installation set-up. Last weekend’s 2010 New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue…

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