The February 8th Heritage Signature Book Auction is offering up as one of the major highlights of the sale a signed presentation copy of Hemingway’s first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. The book is signed by Hemingway to Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, editors of “The Little Review”, and first to publish some of [...]
After over a hundred years of publishing history and launching the careers of Canadian literary icons such as Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Mordechai Richler, Margaret Laurence, Michael Ondaatje and Rohinton Mistry (just to name a few), McClelland & Stewart is no longer Canadian. As of Tuesday, Random House has now become [...]
This great little stop-motion film, The Joy of Books, was done at the Type Bookstore in Toronto. When the owner is away, the books shall play!
It’s that time of year again when five great Canadian books (backed by 5 renown Canadians) do battle debate style for the Canada Reads title. This year’s twist, the books are all non-fiction: The Game by: Ken Dryden Defended by: Alan Thicke On a Cold Road by: Dave Bidini Defended by: Stacey McKenzie Prisoner of [...]
Each Spring, The Alcuin Society holds an annual competition for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. The 30th anniversary of the Alcuin Book Awards will be held this coming March 31st and is open to all Canadian book designers. The Alcuin Society encourages students, private presses and self publishing artists to participate in this [...]
The blog of the Providence Public Library which I came across a couple months ago, Notes For Bibliophiles has great regularly posts of new acquisitions and other interesting items from their collection, often with great pictures of pieces (particularly Americana) not often seen. A great example of a library making available and sharing it’s collection virtually with book lovers from [...]
Nigel Beale, who’s biblio interviews I’ve posted here before, has recently started an online venture The Literary Tourist. After recently purchasing the Book Hunter Press (publishers of the Used Book Lover’s Guides and owners of a massive online database providing traveling bibliophiles with instant access to info on over 8,000 used bookstores worldwide), Nigel has merged it with his already successful [...]
Very cool article via BoingBoing on a gentleman who built a beautiful, fully functioning, printing press for the San Francisco International Airport using steel, bamboo, oak, cork, and rope. Check out the full details with plenty of pictures on the artist’s site here. Another great site that I recently just discovered is You Are Not So [...]
As a huge fan of William Gibson’s work, I have managed to acquire just about every edition published of his work (most signed) and a wonderful assortment of other oddball magazines, ephemera and foreign editions. However, in the good dozen years or so I’ve been collecting Gibson, I’ve never even seen turn up for sale the [...]
This is simply jaw-dropping. The 40 gigapixel panoramic shot of the Strahov Philosophy Library in Prague (off-limits to the general public) allows one to take in the full splendour of the entire library or zoom in with incredible detail and clarity right down to the beautiful gilded details on the spine of a 17th century finely bound treatise. I’ve [...]