Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas (I sure did!) and are looking forward to great things in the New Year. Thought I would sneak in a quick last post of 2010 to wish everyone all the best for 2011! And to take the opportunity to show off my new antique globe, gifted to me this Christmas by my lovely [...]
One of Canada’s premiere fine presses, Heavenly Monkey, started up a blog about a month ago to share info and images of what limited edition projects they are currently working on, along with other fine and private press related news items and books they’ve come across. This is great news for the fine press enthusiast as HM proprietor [...]
Memoirs of a Bookshop Girl is a wonderful little chapbook written by Heather E. Thomson, one of the friendly faces often found behind the counter at Patrick McGahern Books. I picked up a copy of the chapbook last weekend (from Heather herself, who was gracious enough to sign it for me), and a few days later read it in [...]
A wonderful audio interview at Nigel Beale’s Nota Bene with bibliophile and academic Roderick Cave on the Golden Cockerel Press. A great historical overview of the press along with plenty of great insight from Cave (who has relentlessly studied the Golden Cockerel Press for years) on the engravers, authors and printers who were involved with [...]
Found this little gem of a bookish quote on the front endpaper of a copy of Charles Kingsley’s Prose Idylls we recently acquired. Not sure if it is a Kingsley quote from the book itself (did a few Google searches and came up with nothing), or a petite pensee spilling onto the page from a previous [...]
A new letterpress shop has just opened up in Ottawa called the Dempsey Press. A mom & pop style operation specializing in fine stationary and ephemera, but are also willing to do custom work on their beautiful vintage Heidelberg Windmill Red Ball Press aptly named “Heidi”. They’ve also just recently launched a great little webshop offering up some nicely designed Xmas [...]
An excellent article from the BBC on Operation Mincemeat, a British plot to pass off a dead tramp as an officer carrying secret documents in order to fool Hitler and the Nazis into believing the Allies next target was Greece. One of the masterminds behind the elaborate plot, none other than Ian Fleming.
CBC’s Canada Reads has announced the 2011 panel and the books they will defend, including for the first time ever a graphic novel. The panel and there books are: Sara Quin - Essex County by Jeff Lemire Lorne Cardinal - Unless by Carol Shields. Georges Laraque – The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou. Debbie Travis - The Birth [...]