click to enlargeAltered books are one thing but altered bookmarks open up a whole new can of worms.Back in November of 2007 the Book Design class from Cornish College of the Arts paid a visit to Wessel & Lieberman. One of the students, Mare Odomo, grabbed a bookmark and went to work. I am not sure where the glove part comes from but; nonetheless, what a treat to see.See more of Mare Odomo's work at Flickrand here's an Altered Bookmark project for the kids via suite101.com
Mixing the New with Old : 21 New(er) Books We Like
Display table at Wessel & Lieberman that holds many of the 21 New(er) Books We LikeFor those who follow Book Patrol you've heard this song before. For a bookshop to survive in today's rapidly changing landscape one must take a more integrated, holistic approach to bookselling. The days of being able to survive selling just new books, or to a lesser extent used books, are just about up. The current seismic tremors in the publishing world coupled with the new and emerging modes of content delivery just might be the straw that breaks the traditional bookstore's back.Here in Seattle, in...
The Fax Man : The Archive of Austin G. Cooley
Associated Press Wirephoto, Model 6000, S/N 6148We spend a lot of time here at Book Patrol talking about how technology is affecting the book and newspaper world. Tonight Jeff Bezos continues his Kindle 2 media tour with a stop on Nightline where he boldly claims that "books in their current form are becoming obsolete" and that "over time E-books will be the only way people read books." Only time will tell if the book as a physical object will become extinct. What is in danger of becoming extinct in our lifetime; however, is the printed newspaper.Interestingly enough, we are currently...
Required Viewing
Recently, CBS Sunday Morning gave us 6 minutes of Bibliomania at it's finest with this report from Paris.It begins with a trip to the apartment of a self-professed bibliomaniac. This guy is first ballot.Then we get some time with the dynamic duo of John Baxter and Martin Stone.Baxter gives us a little evolutionary history of one type of collector; the modern firsts collector - how one goes from simply a reader - to hardcover first edition- to a signed copy - to advanced proofs. As Baxter says in his 2003 book chronicling his biblio-escapades, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of...
The Page Curler hits Seattle : Cara Barer Exhibit at Wessel & Lieberman
Carousel 25" x 25" Edition of 25Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of Cara Barer.The event will highlight the dynamic photographs the Houston-based artist and showcase her sculptural approach to the book.Shot on a black background, found books take on color and shape, elegantly transposed by the artist’s hands into recognizable forms. The dirtied, warped, and sometimes dyed leaves of text may become the wings of a butterfly, the gills of a mushroom, or the intricately symmetrical crystals of a newly formed snowflake.Two Dreams 14" x 14" Edition of 25Cara Barer studied Art...