Last weekend France and I spent the majority of our time in the Dealer’s room at Can-Con 2010 and I must say that I have mixed reviews about the event. While I must applaud the efforts of the organizers to revive Ottawa’s sci-fi convention (one hasn’t been held in Ottawa for over a decade), many aspects of [...]
We just received a few copies of the lavishly illustrated book, The Star Weekly at War, highlighting the best of the Toronto Star war art covers and articles from the Second World War years. A truly amazing compilation of wartime artwork from the Star pulled together and skillfully selected by a local Ottawa collector. Here is [...]
After great success at the World Sci-fi convention in Montreal last year, we will partnering up once again with Andrew Cornell from Cornell Booksellers to take on the Montreal Con*cept convention this October 1-3rd. The event is promising to have a great mixture of literary and film/tv events planned with author guest of honour Tad Williams and media guest [...]
Well, the move into our new home went quite well with only a few minor hiccups here and there. Although, we can’t really complain as we got lucky with two beautiful days in which we did the majority of of our move (seriously, who moves in the middle of a Canadian February?) A big thanks to all those who helped us [...]
Well we’ve got ourselves nicely set up and running at the Ottawa Antique Market, which is working out marvelously I might add, and have been busily packing our personal possessions for our big move into our new home this Thursday. With plenty of work to be done over the next week or two to get [...]
With our move only a couple weeks away, the last thing I should be doing is acquiring more printing equipment. However, this fun little Edison Rotary Mimeograph from 1904 was too good to pass up (loads of info on the Edison Mimeograph and other historical copying machines available here). In fact, I got it by trading a box of [...]
The majority of the books we didn’t plan to keep for use at the Ottawa Antique Market or book shows was packed up and shipped off yesterday to a gentleman in Barry’s Bay who is starting up a huge secondhand store for that area. 400+ boxes packed with over 22,000 books and weighing nearly 16,000 [...]
A few months ago I was interviewed by Nigel Beale for his literary blog Nota Bene on the history of the private press and more specifically the collecting and Canadian aspects of fine press editions and letterpress printed works. The interview lasts about 40mins and was quite fun to do, so hope you enjoy!
After being heavily admonished by members of our Ottawa Press Gang at this morning’s Wayzbrunch, here goes a quick catch-up on events of the past few weeks to be followed by a flurry of posts over the next few days to tick off all the items on the “To Post” list that has been growing [...]
Wishing everyone the very best over the holiday season and into the New Year. 2009 certainly was an amazing year for us with lots of joy (our little baby Emma and a new home) along with a good helping of change (relocating Bytown Bookshop to the Ottawa Antique Market). Here’s hoping 2010 holds the same [...]