On Authors and Author Idolatry in the 21st Century
Throw pillow by, and available through Cafe Press.From the Booktryst Mailbox:Within your recent post, The Girl Who (NSFW) Loves Ray Bradbury, you opined that "Once upon a time the novel stood at the...
View ArticleFrom the Rarified Air to the Lower Orders of London
Over the past two weeks, Booktryst contributor Cokie Anderson has written about How the Other .0001 % Lives, Part I and II, presenting us with the splendid estates and extravagant parties of the...
View ArticleThe Man Who Married Text And Art
Front endpaper to: SATIÉ, Alain. Pour ainsi dire. Gravures de Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Roland Sabatier, Alain Satié, Jacques Spacagna.Paris: Éditions PSI, 1971.At the close of WWII, Isidore...
View ArticleBookbinding on Trial in Divorce Case
This week on Booktryst Divorce Court:For twenty-seven years, Robert Eick, a fifty-seven year old bookbinder in Madison, New Jersey, has been operating as R.A. Eick Quality Bookbinding.He and his wife...
View ArticleLame Duck Books To Close
Lame Duck Books, a mainstay of Cambridge, Massachusetts' Harvard Square, will close its doors on September 25, 2010.John W. Wronoski, who opened Lame Duck originally in Philadelphia in 1984, told the...
View ArticleThe Bars of Paris, A Bar-Room in the U.S.
LEGRAND, Louis. Les Bars. Paris: Gustave Pellet, 1908.Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (1863--1951) was a French artist who worked in etchings, graphic art and paintings. Many of Legrand's subjects were...
View ArticleProduct Placement Discovered in 19th Century British Novels
Back in the Saddle Again!Inspiriting Action!Feeling Better than Ever!Neurasthenia a Bad Memory!Men. Who Needs Them?According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Get Ready for Ads in Books,...
View ArticleOur Lady of the Bookshop, 1782
Beauty in Search of KnowledgeLondon: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett 30th Decr. 1782.Single sheet mezzotint hand-colored in gouache.Artist unknown. It's a story not found in any collection of...
View ArticleHow Did Hand-Colorists in the Past Know What Colors To Use?
AndalouseThis past Tuesday, our friend L.D. Mitchell at The Private Library, discussed Hand-Colored Plates, paying particular attention to the assembly-line process required to manually color...
View ArticleTom Congalton of BTC Celebrates 57 Years (on Earth), 25 Years in the Rare...
Fifty-seven years ago today, lil' neonate Tom Congalton, proprietor and grand panjandrum of Between the Covers books in Gloucester City, NJ, emerged from the darkness into the light; his mom was...
View ArticleMars Needs Lawyers! (A Rare Book Adventure)
SCHACHNER, Nat. Space Lawyer. NY: Gnome Press,1953.Cover by Ric Binkley."Nat Schachner's first science fiction novel in book form is delightfully different reading for the thousands of readers who are...
View ArticleThe Sinsational Vintage Porn Novel About the Rare Book Trade
[HUNTER, Evan]. JUDSON, Dean. Sin Dealer.N.p. [Chicago]: Pillar Books [Greenleaf Publications] PB 813, 1963.Cover by Harold W. McCauley.From Books to Boudoirs! Luscious Leigh Wentworth was an expert at...
View ArticleMeet Adele Mundy, Badass Space Librarian
DRAKE, David. Some Golden Harbor. NY: Baen Books, 2006.Cover by Steve Hickman.For conspiring against the government of Cinnabar, her family was massacred; she is the sole survivor. She's a scholar, a...
View ArticleSeventeenth Century Television’s Mr. Wizard
CARAMUELIUS, Aspasius [Gaspar Schott]. Ioco-Seriorum Naturae et Artis sive Magiae Naturalis Centuriaetres. Neapoli. N.p. [Würzburg], n.d. [1666]. From 1951 through 1965, a television show appeared that...
View Article“20th Century Propaganda” Wins Nt’l Collegiate Book Collecting Contest
Cover to comic book, Is This Tomorrow.Catechetical Guild, 1947.Andrew Fink, a student at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), has won First Prize in the 2010 National Collegiate Book Collecting...
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