Famed author and bookstore proprietor Larry McMurtry will be downsizing his store “Booked Up” in Archer, Texas, early August by shedding over 350,000 books by auction. A good article on this massive auction can be found on the Fine Books & Collections website. And I thought the 40,000+ books we sold off when closing down [...]
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Interesting, and rather eye-catching, sculptures by artist Alicia Martin. Somehow I feel this scene could just have easily been pulled from my wife’s dreams…
Advanced notice of another great arts event held in Deep River early this fall.
Rockcliffe Park Public Library Annual Book Sale April 14-15, 2012 380 Springfield Road, Ottawa 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Saturday 12:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sunday Proceeds go to support the Rockcliffe Park branch of the OPL.
Here are a few bookish events to add to your calendar for the upcoming year: Mini-Mammoth used book sale The Friends of the Ottawa Public Library hold a sale one Saturday every month of the school year to replace the annual Mammoth Used Book Sale, so keep an eye on their website for upcoming dates. [...]
An Ottawa Press Gang member brought to our attention a friend of hers who owns a Linotype machine and casts type slugs to order for letterpress artists. They have a great selection of typefaces to choose from and plenty of ornaments to compliment your work. You can find them online at www.linotypesetting.com. Be sure to [...]
The Exile’s Papers by Wayne Clifford Part three of what will eventually become a four part, 800 sonnet magnum opus for Clifford, The Exile’s Papers: The Dirt’s Passion is Flesh Sorrow deftly makes use of the sonnet (with creatively crafted form as demonstrated through nested parenthesis in That small lie about the soul) to paint [...]
The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG) is thrilled to announce it is in the planning stages of Art of the Book 2013, a juried exhibition of members’ work. Submissions are welcomed from the traditional to cutting edge design. The categories will be: Fine Binding; Papermaking; Paper Decorating; Calligraphy; Box Making; Fine Printing; and [...]
CBBAG Book Arts Fair, Saturday, June 16, 2012, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. CBBAG will be holding a Book Arts Fair in Toronto on June 16, 2012, at Eastminster United Church on Danforth Avenue, next to the Carrot Common. Admission is free for the general public. CBBAG members are welcome to exhibit (and you can [...]