In her new book Trading in Memories: Travels Through a Scavenger's Favorite Places Barbara Hodgson takes us on an unforgettable trip around the world. From the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul to an ephemera show in Portland, Oregon we get a front row seat as Hodgson works her magic unearthing relics of material cultural. As the collector knows, the pursuit, in many cases, is as fulfilling as the acquisition.The fruit of travel is in "collecting fragments of people's material lives" says Hodgson in the introduction; in Naples it was tearing posters off the walls, in Portland it was a mugshot, in...
Catalogue 39: A Winter Miscellany
We are pleased to announce the availability of Catalogue 39. The catalogue consists of 124 items in a variety of subject areas as well as an insert featuring 21 newer books.Among the highlights are a stunning copy of the signed limited edition of Faulkner’s ‘These 13’; a fifty year run of the Royal Geographical Society journals from 1830; Theodore Roosevelt’s ‘Ranch Life...’ in its original printed dustjacket; a rare 19th century guide to the Yellowstone; and a 17th-century map containing one of the earliest views of Manhattan.View the catalogue onlineView and download the catalog in PDFView the insert onlineIf you...
‘The Cedar Branch Chronicle’ by Jocelyn Curry
Seattle: 2007. One-of-a-kind. Sculpture, mixed media; Yellow cedar, watercolor and laser images on paper. Designed specifically for its location at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers. // For 'The Cedar Branch Chronicle', Curry collected one natural artifact and one man-made artifact during her daily walk. Without any self-imposed rules other than scale, upon returning, a watercolor 'journal-entry' composition was created from these found objects on a uniform 3-1/2 x 7" card. The thirty-one daily paintings are suspended from a dramatic 17-foot long cedar branch found on the shores of Puget Sound near the artist's home. The finished installation is essentially an alternative...
The Reminiscences of a Seattle Bookseller
"That was the day that I really understood I could buy books and sell them for more money. That was the day I got hooked by books."Taylor Bowie has been selling books in Seattle for over 40 years. My first job in the book trade back in the early 1990's was working for Taylor at Bowie & Company. At the time I was working as a residential therapist at an in-patient facility for troubled kids and was beginning to show signs of social service burn. Taylor's friend happened to be the cook at this place and Taylor and I would...
The Growing Bestiary of Briony Morrow-Cribbs
The "Cabinets of Curiosity" of the 16th and 17th century is the jumping off point for Morrow-Cribbs. These rooms of mythical constructs blur the boundary of fact and fiction, where the real and the imagined share the stage.Morrow-Cribs says she "uses the mediums of print and the book arts (and occasionally ceramics) to create a graphic connection between the recognizable 'real' world and my invisible, 'fantasy' world.Her latest project is providing 11 aquatint prints to accompany the first book publication of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's prose poem Iskandariya. The book is designed and published by Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey.Milroy says...