Vacant house. West Seattle. September, 2008Image © Book Patrol
Larry McMurty on Books
"No one claimed book collecting was rational""one of the best aspects of antiquarian book selling is that it is so educational""one reason I've hung on to book selling is that it's progressive--
Bookselling and the Democratic Convention
For a week supposedly devoted to politics, a fair amount of book news has been scattered throughout the coverage of The Democratic National Convention currently taking place in Denver. First, before the convention even got underway, booksellers around the country were up in arms about publisher Chelsea Green's decision to offer their book "Obama's Challenge" to convention-goers via a discount coupon for a copy printed by Amazon's POD service Booksurge. Next came word of Bush/McCain Tijuana Bibles available in Denver; several booksellers quickly expressed their desire to obtain copies. And most recently, it's been nice to see my old employer...
Where do you get these books?
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Link Dump
Here's some things I've enjoyed lately. They've been hanging around my news-reader while I considered creating longer posts around them, but offer them instead as a fairly straightforward list of recommended reading:The Lilly Library at the University of Indiana has an excellent online exhibition curated from their collection on miniature books. Great images, great history of the format.Bookn3rd put together a wonderful post on Books of Hours complete with a strong selection of resources from around the web.MUST READ: Chris Lowenstein of Book Hunter's Holiday muses on the state of the "bookstore community" in these days of fewer open shops...