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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Biblio-Connecting Apr 1, 2018 to the Present



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All monthly posts are published in a continuous post; however, the original continuous post reached its limit in size and I had to begin a second continuous post. Here is the link to view the original continuous post July 5, 2011 to Mar 2, 2018.



Biblio-Connecting Apr 1, 2018 to the Present


WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING APRIL 2018



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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


Last month I posted a photo album of the Florida Bibliophile Society's tour of USF Special Collections.  Now a picture might be worth a thousand words, but when you add thousands of words to describe those pictures, it is well worth another look.  Kudos to FBS Secretary Gary Simons and The Florida Bibliophile Newsletter Editor Charles Brown:

FROM THE FLORIDA BIBLIOPHILE




Here are some photos of the presentation of Cameron McNabb, our guest speaker in March:

Cameron McNabb on Paradise Lost



FBS Speaker for National Poetry Month


FBS Member Peter Hargitai in Hollywood!
(link is below the image)


Peter was our speaker for National Poetry Month last year.  And besides his poetry, he talked about his book Daughter of the Revolution and gave a "behind-the-scenes look" of themaking of the documentary by Tunde Talas.  You can read about it in the May 2017  Florida Bibliophile.


Results of the Lee J. Harrer Student Book Collecting Essay Contest
See below

$500 Winner:  Autumn Howard, USF Sarasota-Manatee
$100 Runner-Up:  Jaya Nair,  St. Petersburg College
$100  Runner-Up:  Tara Kraft,  Arizona State University (online)

Autumn Howard will read her winning essay at the Florida Bibliophile Society Banquet at Brio Tuscan Grille, Tampa on May 20th. All thirteen contestants were awarded free FBS membership for the remainder of this season and next. Thanks go to the FBS members who distributed contest posters throughout the Tampa Bay area. We had thirteen students from nine different colleges submit essays. Thanks go to FBS founding member Lee J. Harrer for providing $500 towards the contest. And thanks go to Micheal Slicker, Proprietor of Lighthouse Books, and to the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association for providing $100 each towards the contest.



Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
Say hello to the members of the Florida Bibliophile Society at the Hospitality Table near the entrance to the book fair!  And stop by and see me and Irene Pavese on Sunday when we do book appraisals.


FABS TOUR




A personal milestone.  I finally completed the cataloging of the 255 volumes of dictionaries and other reference works that the American lexicographer Joseph E. Worcester bequeathed to Harvard in 1866.  I've been cataloging the books at my leisure for the last 18 months or so.  Next up is to catalog the 1395 volumes listed in a catalog of Worcester's personal library.  It will be easier to catalog them since they are listed by title only, whereas the 255 volumes given to Harvard were listed by author, title, date and place printed:
An American Lexicographer on Library Thing!





BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Kate, The Parchment Girl



FOUND ON THE WEB



FBS Member Ben Wiley's Review




Designing a Uniform Series





A Lightning-Fast Rare Book Appraiser






An Impressive Austin Dobson Collection at the Beinecke




Books that Started As Blogs







RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library


Another One That Got Away, One I Gave Away, and One That Headed My Way; or, The Adventures and Misadventures of MoiBibliomaniac



RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Collected Poems by Austin Dobson, London:  Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co 1909 8th edition, ALS and holograph poem

Party of One:  The Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman by Clifton Fadiman, Cleveland:  World Publishing Co. 2005

Red Raider's Diary by Merrill Thomas Dewan, Pittsburegh:  Rose Dog Books, 2009, Inscribed by the author

Official Postmasters' Account and Record Book, Edmeston Post Office, Otsego County, New York, Jan 1911 to Dec 1912, Wm. L. Cooke, Postmaster

Cinderella: A Peepshow Book, Illustrated by Roland Pym, Long Island City:  Folding Books Ltd, 1947 (a pop-up book)

A Memoir on the Origin of Printing:  In a Letter Addressed to John Topham by Ralph Willett, Forest Hills, N.Y. :  Battery Park Book co. 1978

Selected Letters on Politics and And Society by Alexis de Toqueville, edited by Roger Boesche, Berkeley: University of California Press 1985

American Vertigo:  On the Road From Newport to Guantánamo (In the Footsteps of Alexis de Toqueville) by Bernard Henri Lévy, London:  Gibson Square 2006

Huck Finn's America:  Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece by Andrew Levy, New York:  Simon and Schuster 2015 (donated to the Florida Bibliophile Society monthly raffle).

Noah Webster's First Edition of an American Dictionary of the English Language  (facsimile edition) San Francisco:  Foundation for American Christian Education 2000 (12th printing)

Sir Winston Churchill:  His Life and Paintings by David Coombs Philadelphia:  Running Press 2004




Welcome to Biblio-Conecting May 2018




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AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


Florida Bibliophile Society Banquet
Brio Tuscan Grille, Tampa
Sunday, May 20, 2018 1:30pm
FBS Members and Guests Only
The members of the Florida Bibliophile Society were so impressed with the food and the service at Brio Tuscan Grille last year that they asked to hold this year's season-ending banquet there as well!

      Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Dell De Chant, Chair of Religious Studies, University of South Florida.  Dr. De Chant will speak on the religions of the world, their major distinctions, and how they interact in a pluralistic society.
     Lee J. Harrer will be awarding the prizes to the winners of the Lee J. Harrer Student Book Collecting Essay Contest at the banquet.  The two runners-up, Jaya Nair and Tara Kraft, will receive checks of $100 each, which were provided by the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association and by Mike Slicker, Proprietor of Lighthouse Books.  The first-prize winner, Autumn Howard, will receive a check of $500, which was provided by Lee J. Harrer.
     Autumn Howard will read her essay at the banquet.  All members of the Florida Bibliophile Society will receive a keepsake published for the banquet, which contains the essays of all three winners of this year's Lee J. Harrer Student Book Collecting Essay Contest.
     And to add to the festivities we will hold a silent auction of books donated by Florida Bibliophile Society members!



FABS TOUR



Check out the Book Fairs and Other Events at Bookfairs.com



Listen to FBS Member Steve Eisenstein and His Guests on Saturdays 12-2 pm EST.



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Glenn Shea's Book Notes



FOUND ON THE WEB



A Paper by Paul Ruxin

Samuel Johnson's House of Abode


Women Book Cover Designers


The Roycrofters


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My Sentimental Library

From the Book Barn in Niantic, Ct. to the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair in St. Petersburg, Fl.






WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING JUNE 2018

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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



The Slow Read of Willa Cather's My Antonia




BookCon NYC Jun 2 and 3






Find the Book Fairs and Literary Festivals in Your Area




FBS is on Summer Break Until September



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Bijzondere Collecties:  
check out Nijhoff's Art Typographique Metabotnik! 




FOUND ON THE WEB



Book Mending at the Lilly Library





From Ralph Dumain's Autodidact Project



Shakespeare Online



Victoria and Albert Museum:  Artists' Books



RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Best Biographer of Them All?





RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Samuel Pepys and the World he Lived In by Henry B. Wheatley London:  Bickers and Son, 1880

The Great Mail Robbery by Clarence Budington Kelland New York: Walter J. Black 1951

S. P. E. Tract No. XLVI Fine Writing by Logan Pearsall Smith Oxford: Clendon Press 1936

First Aid and Health Prepared by the American Red Cross and the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for the use of Bell System Employees 1927

Helpful Hints in English, A Companion Volume to "Better Say"  compiled by James C. Fernald New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1911




Welcome to Biblio-Connecting July 2018




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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


http://detroitbookfest.com


Find the Book Fairs in Your Area


University of Virginia Eminent Miniatures Exhibit


Interview of 2018 Tavistock Books Educational Scholarship Winner Ellen Saito





BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


FBS Member Edward Cifelli's You Don't Say

Edward Cifelli, the newest member of the Florida Bibliophile Society, is the author of Longfellow in Love:  Passion and Tragedy in the Life of the Poet, due out in October.  In the blog post above, he discusses his reasons for writing about Longfellow.  Ed will give a presentation about his book at the April meeting of the Florida Bibliophile Society.






FOUND ON THE WEB



 About Them Books!


The Treble Clef and Book Lover's Club in Richmond


Studies in Starrett


Liverpool University Press:  the Byron Journal

Decorative Papers at Nostell Priory



Opening the Vatican's Secret Archives



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My Sentimental Library

Logan Pearsall Smith and the Things He Wrote


Biblio Researching

The Demise of Lindmark's Book Shop, Poughkeepsie, New York


RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard, Boston:  Little, Brown C., 2000

Eye of the Beholder:  An Illustrated Anthology by Richard Jeffries, Southampton:  Ashford Press Pub., 1987

The World of Suzie Wong by Richard Mason, Tainan, Taiwan:  Universal Book Co., 1959

America (The Book):  A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart, New York: Warner Books, 2004

Past Forgetting:  My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower by Kay Summersby Morgan,  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1976

Portraits of Courage:  A Commander in Chief's Tribute to American Warrors by George W. Bush, New York:  Crown Publishers, 2017

I was a Teen-Age Dwarf by Max Schulman, New York:  Random House, 1959

The Dickens-Kolle Letters edited by Harry B. Smith, Boston:  The Bibliophile Society, 1910

The Author Looks at Format edited by Ray Freiman, s.l.  American Institute of the Graphic Arts, 1951

The Art of Writing 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D. by Maggs Bros.  London:  Maggs Bros. 1930

Selections From the Letters of Thomas Sergeant Perry edited by Edwin Arlington Robinson, New York:  Macmillan Company, 1929

You Don't Say:  Random Essays and Fugitive Thoughts by Edward M. Cifelli, Bloomington:  iUniverse, 2017

Hidden History of the Mid-Husdon Valley: Stories From the Albany Post Road by Carney and Tatiana Rhinevault, Charleston: The History Press, 2011

The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co.: Footnote to an Enquiry by John Carter and Graham Pollard, London: Rubert Hart-Davis, 1948

The Harvard Book: Selections From Three Centuries edited by William Bentinck-Smith,  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955, second printing (advertised as the 1982 Revised Edition)

The Harvard Book:  Selections From Three Centuries, Revised Edition edited by William Bentinck-Smith, Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1982.  The Revised Edition contains an essay I wanted that wasn't published until 1978:  "Memories and Reflections on the Occasion of Reading Samuel Johnson by my Former Neighbor, Mr. Walter Jackson Bate" by Kevin Starr.



Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Aug 2018




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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



The Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair



There are six other major book fairs across the country in August.

Find the Book Fair Nearest Your Area



The Pettus Collection of Nautical Fiction at the Book Club of California


Baseball Exhibition at the Library of Congress


Upcoming Exhibitions at the Smithsonian



Selections From the Carol F. Schimmel Collection



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Churchill Book Collector



FOUND ON THE WEB


Hereford Cathedral's Chained Library


Women in Rare Books


The Value of Signed Books



The Papers of Benjamin Franklin



DSNA Member Sites


Poisonous Books in the Library of the University of Southern Denmark









RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library


A Serendipitous Visit to the Library of Kurt Zimmerman



Cursory Remarks About Politics


Cursory Remarks About Congressional Oversight & Oversile


RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Anecdotes of Literature and Rare Books by William Beloe, London:  F. C. and J. Rivington 1807

Gazette of the Grolier Club  Number 67, New York:  Grolier Club 2016 (contains a memorial of Gabriel Austin by Alfred Bush and coordinated by Jonathan A. Hill)

Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen, Cambridge, Ma: Candlewick Press 2006

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life by Henry Hitchings, London: Macmillan 2008

Samuel Johnson's Insults by Jack Lynch, New York:  Walker & Co. 2005

Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer, Philadelphia:  Quirk Books 2018 (for my wife's Barack Obama collection; a detective spoof starring Barack Obama and Joe Biden)

Rare Books Uncovered by Rebecca Rego Barry, Minneapolis:  Voyageur Press 2015 (inscribed to me by Kurt Zimmerman as a memento of my visit to his library)

Rare Books Uncovered by Rebecca Rego Barry, Minneapolis:  Voyageur Press 2018 (paperback edition; contains four additional stories)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, London:  Women's Press 1983 (1st UK Edition for 50 cents)

Jerry by Gerard Wallace, s.i., s.n. 2002

Chinese Philosophy in Classical Times by E. R. Hughes, London:  J. M. Dent & Sons 1971

Stories From Grimm edited by Francis Lillian Taylor, Dansville: F. A. Owen Publishing Co. 1907

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee, New York: Harper Collins 2015

Hershey:  Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams  by Michael D'Antonio, New York:  Simon & Schuster 2006

The American Spirit:  Meeting the Challenge of September 11 edited by Robert Sullivan, New York:  Life Books 2002


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Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Sep 2018




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AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


A Preview of the 2018-19 Florida Bibliophile Society Season


The 2018-19 Florida Bibliophile Society season is about to begin. And I'll be posting event notices for each meeting. But today I want to give you a preview of our speakers and their presentations.  If you're from the Tampa Bay area, or just visiting, our meetings are free and open to the public.

September: FBS member Gary Simons, editor of the Curran Index, an online reference project identifying contributors to 19th Century British periodicals, will give a presentation on the English Annuals that he collects. He has over 120 of them. These are holiday gift books published in England from 1823 to 1856. They are books with ornate bindings containing interesting engravings and prose and poetry from known and not-so-well-known contemporary authors.

October: FBS member Ben Wiley, a retired professor of film and literature, will give a presentation on his current work as a movie critic for the Tampa Bay's Creative Loafing online magazine.

November: Sarasota author Don Bruns will give a presentation on his Quentin Archer Mystery Series, the #3 best-selling mystery series on Amazon this year. And he will sign copies of his latest book, No Second Chances, the # 27th best-selling book on Amazon in February.

December: Holiday party for dues-paying FBS members. Fun!

January: FBS member Lisa Bradberry, film scholar, will give a presentation on the silent movie/early talkies film industry in Florida.

February: Wilson Blount will be our guest speaker for February, Black History Month. His topic will be Black History; he lived it. Wilson Blount marched across the bridge in Selma with Congressman John Lewis in 1965. Then he served his country in the United States Air Force, beginning as a second lieutenant in 1966, and retiring as a Colonel in the Air Force Reserves in 1999.

March: FBS Vice President Charles Brown will give a presentation on the Simplicissimus Story. Simplicissimus was the main character in a series of novels about life during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). These books are considered to be the first German adventure novels.

April: FBS member Ed Cifelli will give a presentation on his book, Longfellow in Love, published this very month (August 2018). He will sign copies of his book after his presentation.

May: Circus Historian Larry Kellogg will be the keynote speaker at the season-ending banquet at Brio Tuscan Grille. The winner of the 2019 Lee J. Harrer Student Book Collecting Essay Contest will read his/her essay at the banquet.


Gary Simons
Forget-Me-Not: The Literary Annuals of Yesteryear


 
As he did in September, 2016 , Gary Simons opens the 2018-19 Season of the Florida Bibliophile Society as our speaker for the September 16, 2018 meeting. The meeting will begin at 1:30 pm at the Seminole Community Library, 9200 113th St. North, Seminole, Florida 33772. Admission is free and open to the public.

Our speaker, Gary Simons, has had successful careers in both the education field and the private sector. He was a Professor of Chemistry at Wichita State University. But after being granted tenure in 1978, he decided to go to work in the private sector. For the next 28 years he was either director, vice president, or president of E-Systems, Energy Systems International, Automated Office Services, or AC Technologies. In 2007, Gary decided to go back into the education field.  For the next four yearse, he was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of South Florida. In 2011, Gary acquired a Doctor of Philosophy in Literature and became an Adjunct Professor at USF, where he still teaches a variety of literature and writing courses.

English Literature is his specialty, and Gary has had articles about William Makepeace Thackeray, Jane Austen, and nineteenth-century periodicals published in Victorian Periodicals Review, Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism,, Studies in Bibliography, and Nineteenth Century Studies, just to name a few.

Gary is the editor of the Curran Index, an ongoing online research effort to identify the authors of stories, poems and articles which appeared in the Victorian Press.

Gary is the Secretary of the Florida Bibliophile Society, and the Florida Bibliophile Society has received numerous accolades for its newsletter, The Florida Bibliophile, particularly for Gary’s reporting of the meeting minutes. Several out-of-town members have remarked that his recounting of what went on during the meetings makes them believe they may very well have attended the meetings themselves!

 I mentioned before that Gary was our speaker in September 2016. He gave a presentation on Catherine Gore, the Silverfork Novelist, whose books he collects. Gary also collects English Annuals. He has about 120 of them. These are gift books published in England for the holidays from 1823 to 1856. These books have ornate bindings and contain interesting engravings, and prose and poetry from known and not-so-well-known contemporary authors. And on September 16th, Gary Simons will give a presentation on his collection of English Annuals.

We’ll see you on September 16th!


U of Penn Conference on Women's Voices From the Wilderness


Bridwell Library Exhibit of the Pietists


There are Numerous Book Fairs in September
Find the Book Fair Nearest You



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


David Levy's Blog: Edmond Hoyle, Gent.



FOUND ON THE WEB


Gateway to Library Catalogs



The Curran Index


A Short Story By My Ozark Radio Hour Friend Dan Krotz


Scott Husby's Database of Bookbindings on Incunables


Latin Terms From AWOL


Reviews of Books Useful to the Collector by William Butts


Bookmarking Book Art Curated by Robert Bolick


RECENT ACQUISITIONS


The Crockett Almanacks edited by Franklin J. Meine, Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1955.

Centennial by James Michener, New York: Random House, 1974. No.245 of 500 copies printed.

Danmarks Historie by Johan Hvidtfeldt, Ib Koch-Olsen, and Axel Steensberg, Kobenhavn: Det Danske Forlag, 1950-52 two vols (fifty cents).

Danmarks Kronike by Saxo Grammaticus, Kobenhavn: Samlerens Forlag, 1951 (fifty cents).

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, edited by Percy Fitzgerald, London: Allen and Unwin, 1924, (vols 2 & 3 of 3 vols only).

House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger, New York: Dutton, 2018.

You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter, New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 20009.

Great Photographs of World War II,  Pleasantville: Reader's Digest, c.1964.

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton, New York: Barnes & Noble 2004.

Modern Islamic Literature From 1800 to the Present edited by James Kritzeck, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1970.

Little Kahuna and Da Menehune by Tom Aki and Elizabeth Lee, Printed in China c.2009.

A Celebration of Poets, Showcase Edition Owings Mills, Md: International Library of Poetry, 1998.

Braude's Treasury of Wit and Humor by Jacob M. Braude, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c.1964.

The Presidents of the United States by John and Alice Durant, Miami: A. A. Gaché, 1975, two vols.




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My Sentimental Library


A History and Census of The Paradise of Poets Printed at the Carnegie


Cursory Remarks About Politics


The Fair Dinkum Down Under News About Donald Trump



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WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING OCT 2018


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



Ben Wiley:  Movie Reviewer
Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down
Florida Bibliophile Society
Sunday Oct. 21, 2018 1:30 PM
Macdonald-Kelce library


Oak Knoll Fest



Brattleboro Literary Festival Oct 11-14, 2018


Wells College Book Arts Exhibit Oct 18 to Nov 30



Follow the Map Harvard Symposium Oct 25th, 26th



There are Numerous Book Fairs in October
Find the Book Fair Nearest You



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Erik Kwakkel's medievalbooks




FOUND ON THE WEB


A Replica of the Jefferson Memorial in Florida



Books About Books



Mark Cockram, Bookbinder



Benjamin Pauley's Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker



RECENT ACQUISITIONS


The Afterlife of Aldus:  Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade edited by Jill Kraye and Paolo Sachet, London:  Warburg Institute 2018 (Bibliographical Society Book Selection).

Library Mouse:  A Friend's Tale by Daniel Kirk, New York:  Abrams Books for Young Readers 2009 (adapted for Chick-fil-A).

Titi Livii Patavini Historiaeum libri priores Quinque:  in usum juventutis academicae by Livi, Uticæ: Excudebat G. Williams 1821 (Provenance: Thomas Williams 1806-1872).

The Life and Speeches of Thomas Williams:  Orator, Statesman and Jurist 1806-1872 A Founder of the Whig and Republican Parties by Burton Alva Konkle, Philadelphia:  Campion & Company 1905

Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson, NewYork:  Morrow 1995 (a gift from Lee Harrer).

2012:  The Little Horn of Prophecy by Peter Hargitai, Bloomington: iUniverse 2009.

Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman, Alexandria: Time-Life Books 1993.

Keeping Boswell 'in Constant Repair' The Life of Johnson in Manuscript, The David Fleeman Lecture 2014 by Gordon Turnbull, Melbourne:  Johnson Society of Australia 2018 (a gift from John Byrne).

The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt newly edited by Roger Ingpen, New York:  E. P. Dutton 1903 (Vol II only).

The Complete Kama Sutra:  The First Unabridged Modern Translation... translated by Alain Daniélou, Rochester Vt: Park Street Press 1994.

Fear:  Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward, New York:  Simon & Schuster 2018.




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My Sentimental Library

Learning About the Crockett Almanacks, Sabre-Tooth Revisited, and Bill Cole


Contemplations of Moibibliomaniac

Fear: Trump in the White House


House of Trump, House of Putin: the Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

Cursory Remarks About Politics

Fear: Trump in the White House


House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

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Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Nov 2018


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



Miami Book Fair Week Nov 11.18, 2018


Boston Antiquarian Book Fair Nov 16-18, 2018


Find the Book Fair Nearest You




Don Bruns at the
Florida Bibliophile Society Meeting
Seminole Community Library



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Special Collections, University of Houston LibrariesDocumenting Riversideby UH Audiovisual Archivist Emily Vinson




FOUND ON THE WEB


Rapping About Strunk and White's The Elements of Style



A Search Source For Publishers


A Photographer's Tour of Scotland's Books


Alicia Golden Visiting the Getty Museum


A Tribute to Maureen Duke






RECENT ACQUISITIONS

The Address [s.l.] Big Jump Press 2018 (2017), The Inaugural Addresses of Barack Hussein Obama and Donald John Trump designed, printed and bound dos-a-dos by Sarah Bryant and Anna Embree, 2nd ed. No 14 of 100 copies printed.

How a Book is Made by Phebe Snow, London:  Routledge and Paul, 1960.

Books and Book-Collecting by G. L. Brock, London:  Deitch, 1980.

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore:  A Novel by Matthew Sullivan, New York: Scribner, 2017.

My Bookstore:  Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop by Ronald Rice, New York:  Black Dog and Leventhal, 2012.

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe, New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Conversations, Or, The Bas Bleu:  Addressed to Mrs. Hyde by Sidney Ives, [s.l.]: Stinehour Press, 1977.

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro, New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.  The Years of Lyndon Johnson Series.

The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro, New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.  The Years of Lyndon Johnson Series.

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, New York:  W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

The Birds of Ohio by Bruce G. Peterjohn,  Bloomington:  Indiana Press, c1989.

The Big Book of Hoaxes by Carl Sifakis, New York:  Paradox Press, c1996.

Ether and Me; Or "Just Relax" by Will Rogers, Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press, 1973.

Thank God for the Atomic Bomb and Other Essays by Paul Fussell, New York:  Summit Books, 1988.

The Uses of Diversity:  A Book of Essays by G. K. Chesterton, London:  Methuen, 1927.

River Spirits:  A Collection of Lumbee Writings edited by Stanley Knick, Native American Resource Center Publications, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 2003.

Essays and Essayists edited by Sir John Henry Newbolt, London:  Thomas Nelson and Sons, c1928.

Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy by John McCabe, New York: Signet, 1968.

The World of Comedy by Thomas Leeflang, Leicester: Windward, 1988.

Jim Davis by John Masefield, New York:  Grosset & Dunlap, c1914.

Mahzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur : A Prayerbook for the Days of Awe = Maı̀Æzor la-yamim ha-nora im by Jules Harlow, New York:  Rabbincal Assembly, 1978.

But - Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos, New York:  Boni & Liveright, 1928.




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My Sentimental Library

An Historical Account of Thomas Williams and his Copy of Livy's Historiarum

Cursory Remarks About Politics

Ford vs Kavanaugh: Veritas Valebit

Sermon on the Mount of Trump



UPCOMING BLOG POSTS

Biblio Researching:
A Bibliographic Checklist of the Early Editions of The Elements of Style

Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac:
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis (book review)

My Sentimental Library:
Clifton Fadiman & Anne Fadiman: The Wine Lover and His Daughter





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Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2018


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


Seton Hall University Know More Giving Tree Nov 19-Dec 7


Find a Chanukah Event Near You Dec 2-10


Tree Lighting at the Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco Dec 3


A Christmas Carol at Penn State Dec 3-6


The Legend of the Christmas Spider Puppet Show Dec 15





FOUND ON THE WEB


100 Christmas Stories from AmericanLiterature.com




Bob Dylan Reading Twas the Night Before Christmas





BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Long-Time Blogger Sarah Faragher's Blog About Books Used & Rare







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My Sentimental Library

A Book With a Rather Dubious but Collectible Record of Ownership

Contemplations of Moibibliomaniac

Another Glorious Day of Toodling

Cursory Remarks About Politics

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis




UPCOMING BLOG POSTS


Biblio Researching

A Bibliographic Checklist of the Early Editions of the Elements of Style before the New Year 

My Sentimental Library

The Rochester Press: Number Seven of the Twelve Blog Posts For Christmas (Dec)


Clifton and Anne Fadiman: The Wine Lover & His Daughter & Their Books  (After the New Year) 




I am finally on Twitter!

twitter.com/JerrtyM (Jerry Morris)

twitter.com/SentimentalMy (My Sentimental Library)



RECENT ACQUISTITONS

A Correspondence Between Noctua Aurita of the Desert and Philomela of the King's Dale by William Huntington, London: E. Huntington, 1809 (Relics of Charles Lamb).

History of the Library of Congress Vol I 1800-1864 by William Dawson Johnston, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904 (Vol II was never published).

Collector's Choice by John T. Winterich, New York: Grolier Club, 1954.

Some Random Recollections: An Informal Talk Made at the Grolier Club, New York 21 October, 1948 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York:  The Typophiles, 1949.

The Roycrofters Shop: A History by Elbert Hubbard, Easr Aurora:  The Roycrofters, 1908.

Rosenwald and Rosenbach, Two Philadelphia Bookmen: Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum & Library from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress April 30 to July 31, 1983 by Kathleen T. Hunt, Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1983.

First Editions, Association Copies, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts by Esteemed Authors of the Nineteenth Century Collected by the Late Harry B. Smith, New York, Author of "A Sentimental Library".... New York: Anderson Galleries, 1936 (a gift from my friend Gary Simons).

Danish Emigrant Ballads and Songs  by Rochelle Wright, Carbondale:  Southern Illinois University Press, 1983 (for my wife's Danish Collection).

Young Mr. Obama:  Chicago and the Making of a Black President by Edward McClelland, New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010 (for my wife's Obama Collection).

Casting Bones by Don Bruns, Surrey, England: Severn House, 2016.  signed by the author after his presentation before the Florida Bibliophile Society on Nov 18, 2018.

Nine more books acquired and identified in the blog post, Another Glorious Day of Toodling.




Christmas Books Published by the Late Don Brady


Pavoratti & Domingo Singing Cantique De Noel/O Holy Night




Welcome to biblio-connecting Jan 2019


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS




Lisa Bradberry 
Filmmaking in Florida 1908 - 1933
Florida Bibliophile Society
Seminole Community Library
9200 113th St. North
Seminole Fl. 33772
Jan 13, 2019 1:30 pm.


FBS member Lisa Bradberry is a Tampa Bay native and a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. She is a lifelong movie buff with a special interest in movies made in Florida during the silent film era and during the early talkies era. As a film scholar, Lisa has received research credits or acknowledgements in a number of books, and has been interviewed on television programs such as Pinellas Past, Inside Pinellas, and Florida Crossroads. Lisa’s presentation will cover the history of film companies that traveled from the northern and Midwest states to Florida to make silent films during the winter months. Her presentation covers actors such as Theda Bara, Rudolph Valentino, Oliver Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who starred in films in Florida early in their careers before becoming famous. Her presentation also covers the role Florida played in early talking feature films.


Bibliography Week  New York City  Jan 22-26 2019


MLK Symposium at U Michigan Jan 21st



Book Fairs 2019



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BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Early Modern Female Ownership



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Women's Early Modern Letters Online


ilovetypography.com


ladiesofletterpress.com/


Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown New York 
Check out its Booklovers Blog 
 and its 
Booklover's Lane



RECENT BLOG POSTS


My Sentimental Library

The Rochester Press:  Number Seven of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas


The Early Editions of The Elements of Style

My Handlist of the Early Editions of The Elements of Style
A Reference List for Librarians, Booksellers and Book Collectors


Cursory Remarks About Politics

Can and Will the 116th Congress Override a Presidential Veto?




RECENT ACQUISITIONS


The Port Folio Vol VIII edited by Joseph Dennie. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1801

Hap Lee's Radio Joke Book: Famous Gags of Radio Stars by Hap Lee. Philadelphia: David McKay, c1935.

The Night Before Christmas: A Descriptive Bibliography of Clement Clarke Moore's Immortal Poem With Editions From 1823 through 2000 by Nancy H. Marshall.  New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.

Fighting the Flying Circus by Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1919. Inscribed: In appreciation of your confidence. Capt. Ed Rickenbacker.

Boswell's Clap and Other Essays: Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions by William B. Ober, M.D. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c.1979.

Ode to Charles Dilly by James Boswell. s.l. Privately printed for Elkin Mathews, 1928.

Samuel Johnson and his World by Margaret Lane. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.

Paraphs by Hermann Püterschein (pen name of W. A. Dwiggins). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. No. 1 of the Publications of the Society of Calligraphers.




WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING FEB 2019


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS




Wilson Blount: Reflections on
The Selma-to-Montgomery Civil Rights March
Sunday, Feb 17, 2019 1:30 pm
Macdonald-Kelce Library, University of Tampa


Wilson Blount marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with John Lewis during the Selma-to-Montgomery Civil Rights March in 1965. He will be the guest speaker at the February meeting of the Florida Bibliophile Society. Wilson Blount was a junior at Tuskegee University at the time of the march. After he graduated, he joined the United States Air Force as a second lieutenant and served at several locations stateside and overseas. In 1978 he began work in the Civil Service at Wright-Patterson AFB, and joined the Air Force Reserves the same year. He retired as a Colonel from the Air Force Reserves in 1999, and from Civil Service in 2000. He is co-founder of the Gen. Lloyd W. Newton Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen at Kirkland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The meeting is free and open to the public.  Please RSVP.


The Third Annual Lee J. Harrer Student Book Collecting Essay Contest


Miami International Map Fair Feb 1-3, 2019


San Francisco Antiquarian  Book, Print and Paper Fair 
Feb 9-10, 2019



Look for a Book Fair Near You



February 19 is Library Day in Florida!


BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Kimberly M. Thomas on the KonMari Method



FOUND ON THE WEB



Librarian Creates a Little Free Tree Library



Quirk du Jour:
A Facebook Page Created by My Friend Asta




Jonathan Smalter Answers the Question:
What is Ephemera?



R. I. P.  
Bernard C. Middleton, Bookbinder (1924-2019






RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library


A Book That Flew Undetected Under the RADAR



RECENT ACQUISITIONS



Vistas Iberoamericans or, Latin American Sights by William F. Rickenbacker.  Privately Printed, 1949.  Signed by Eddie Rickenbacker. Inscribed by Bill Rickenbacker to Leslie P. Arnold, one of the first airmen to complete an aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924 (Last month's blog post was about this book).

Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1919. Inscribed "Henry J. Palmer Jr. from Louis, Christmas 1931." Bookplate of Palmer on front pastedown. Photo of Palmer in uniform in front of a biplane. Deaccessioned from New England Air Museum.

Oceans, Poles, and Airmen: The First Flights Over Wide Waters and Desolate Ice by Richard Montague.  Inscribed by the author to a non-aviator friend with an a.l.s. to his friend tipped in.

Complete Book of Top Gun: America's Flying Aces by Andy Lightbody. New York: Beekman House 1990.

The Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft  by Robert Jackson. Bath, UK: Parragon Pub. 2006.

The Book of the Cheese:  Being Traits and Stories of "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese." London: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, 1937 (11th edition).

Word by Word: the Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper. New York: Panteon Books, 2017. Recommended by my friend George Spiero.

A Binge of Diet Jokes edited by Elizabeth Cotton.  Mt. Kisco: Exley, 1992.

English and American First Editions... Americana Relating to California and the West... Collected by Jean Hersholt. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1954.

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore.  New York: Rodale Books, 2006.  May this book never be laid to rest unheeded in front of Mother Earth's gravestone.


The Florida Bibliophile Society is now on Twitter.



Welcome to Biblio-Connecting March 2019

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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


Stanford Universities:  Warhol, Artificial Intelligence, and the Idea of the Archive


The New York Antiquarian Book Fair March 7-9, 2019



Charles Brown on the Simplicissimus Story March 10, 2019 

FBS member Charles Brown will give a presentation entitled “ The Simplicissimus Story: A Bestseller of the 17th Century . ” The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was a realignment of power in Europe with devastating consequences for civilian populations, with death rates as high as 50% in some areas. Germany was particularly hard hit. Within a few years of the end of the war, the author Grimmelshausen created Simplicissimus, a nameless peasant who is caught up in the war through a series of misadventures. It was an immediate success, spawning sequels, calendars, and other works, as well as giving German literature an enduring and unforgettable character and inspiring other works of literature into the 20th century.


William S. Peterson's Online Ongoing Bibliographical Study of George Mackay Brown



There are Over Ten Ephemera and Book Fairs in March.  See if There's one Near you!




BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



NYPL Schomburg Center:  History of the Green Book


FOUND ON THE WEB


The Wise Bone Folder


RECENT ACQUISITIONS



The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kemscott Chaucer, Cleveland: World Publishing, 1958.

Dangerous Deed or the Flight in the Dirigible by Captain Frank Cobb, Chicago:  Saalfield Publishing, 1927.

War Torn: Stories of War From Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam by Tad Bartimus, New York: Random House, 2002.

The Hunt for Red October  by Tom Clancy, Anapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984, second printing.

When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, edited by Sandra Haldeman Martz, Watsonville: Paper-Mache Press, 1991, second edition.

This is My God by Herman Wouk, Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.

The Athiest's Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts contrived and edited by Joan Kotter, New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007.

The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of a Partnership That Defined a Presidency by Kathryn Smith, New York: Touchstone, 2016.

Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner, New York: Wings Books, 1994.

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan, New York: Simon and Shuster, 1966.

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, New York: Atria Books, 2014.

The Book Collector's Journal Vol I No. 1-9, Chicago: Willliam Targ, 1936.

The Right Word III: A Concise Thesaurus Based on the American Heritage Dictionary edited by Pamela B. DeVinne, Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

The Written Word III: Based on the American Heritage Dictionary edited by Karen Stray Nolting, Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

The Word Book III:  Based on the American Heritage Dictionary edited by Beth Jaffe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.  All three books are housed in a slipcase sitting on my desk table and ready for use.





RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library


Those Who Write Them, Those Who Collect Them, And Those Who Write About Them



Welcome to Biblio-Connecting April 2019


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



Florida Antiquarian Book Fair April 26-28,2019


 Florida Bibliophile Society Meeting:  April 14, 2019
Longfellow in Love: Romance and Tragedy in the Life of the Poet
by Edward M. Cifelli

FBS member Edward M. Cifelli will be the speaker for the April meeting of the Florida Bibliophile Society. On Sunday, April 14, 2019, beginning around 1:45 pm, he will give a presentation about his latest book, Longfellow in Love: Passion and Tragedy in the Life of the Poet.

Ed is a retired professor of English from New Jersey. Ed joined the Florida Bibliophile Society during the summer break. And on his membership form, he identified himself as an author, an editor, a collector, a teacher, a student and a scholar. A search at the OCLC WorldCat website reveals a number of notches in his writing belt: Books he wrote about the American patriot David Humphreys and the American poet John Ciardi; Afterwords he wrote for editions of the Divine Comedy that Ciardi translated; an Introduction of an edition of Milton's Paradise Lost and Other Poems; editions he edited of the Index of American Periodic Verse; a Preface he wrote for an edition of Longfellow's Evangeline and Selected Tales and Poems; a book of his own random essays and fugitive thoughts; and finally, what may well be his masterpiece, Longfellow in Love: Passion and Tragedy in the Life of the Poet.

Ed follows Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as he pursues a series of romances. It begins in 1828, Longfellow’s year in Europe with Giulia Persiani. The following year, back in the U.S., he falls in love with Mary Storer Potter. They married in 1831 and traveled widely, but their happiness was cut short when she died in 1835. During his year of mourning, he met Fanny Appleton. She was an 18-year-old heiress, not interested in settling down with Longfellow, then 29 and a Harvard professor. But he was steadfast, and six years later she changed her mind and married him. For 18 years they were “America’s couple,”and then tragedy struck. Ed will sign copies of his book after his presentation. The presentation is free and the meeting is open to the public.

Arts Summary
A Visual Journey of the Pistner Collection of Miniature Books
At the Grolier Club, March 5 - May 18, 2019

Photographs by Corrado Serra


See if There's a Book Fair Near You This Month


FABS Study Tour to St. Louis Oct 23 -27, 2019


The Bixby Club of St. Louis is hosting this year's FABS Study Tour.  The Tour is limited to 50 people so don't wait too long to register for the Tour.

The Florida Bibliophile Society will be hosting next year's Study Tour to the Tampa Bay Area, April 22-26, 2020! The Study Tour to the Tampa Bay area is scheduled to coincide with the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, April 24-26, 2020.  I'll post more news about the Florida Tour here on this blog in the next few months.


FOUND ON THE WEB



BiblioCave




Robert M. Sarwark's Bibliography of the Damned




Abe Nemon's Old Book Appreciator



Orbis Typographicus



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Jeff Peachey's 500th Blog Post




RECENT ACQUISITIONS



The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor by James P. Delgado, College Station: Texas A& M University Press, 2016.

From Father to Son: The Letters of Eddie Rickenbacker to his son William, From Boyhood to Manhood edited by William F. Rickenbacker, New York: Walker, 1970.

Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War by John McCain and Mark Salter, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.

The Fabulous Mrs Miller: a True Story of Adventure, Danger, Romance and Derring-Do by Carol Baxter, Minneapolis: Scribe, 2010 (advance reading copy).

The Ultimate Book of Military Machines s. l. : Parragon Books, 2015 (s. l. stands for sine loco: without a place).

Eagle Day: the Battle of Britain by Richard Collier, s. l. Dutton, 1980.

The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away From the War in Iraq by Joshua Key, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007 (uncorrected proof).

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara, New York: Knopf, 2019.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama, New York: Crown, 2006.

The United States Constitution: Roots, Rights, Responsibilities by A. E. Dick Howard, Washington: Smithsonian, 1992.

John Muir's Longest Walk: John Earl, a Photographer, Traces his Journey to Florida; With Excerpts From John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Earl, Garden City: Doubleday, 1975.

Florida in the Making by Frank Parker Stockbridge, New York: De Bower, 1926.

The Reflections of  Kaua'i: The Garden Island by Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi, Aiea: Island Heritage, 2001 (second printing).

The Museum of Words: A Memoir of Language, Writing and Mortality by Georgia Blain, Brunswick, Victoria: Scribe, 2017.

The History of Making Books From Clay Tablets, Papyrus Rolls, Illuminated Manuscripts to the Printing Press, New York: Scholastic, 1996.

Please Bury Me in the Library by J. Patrick Lewis, Orlando: Gulliver Books/Harcourt, 2005.

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein, New York: Random House, 2013.

Poems of Felicia Hemans, a New Edition... by Felicia  Hemans, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1862 (bound in full leather).

I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me by Hugh Prather, Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.

Index of American Period Verse 1980 edited by Sander W. Zulauf, Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1982 (From the library of William Stafford).

The Fishing-Print Poems by R. B. Weber, Port Jefferson: Street Press, 1984 (From the library of William Stafford).

Rhymes of Our College and Others by B. A. Thaxter, Portland: the Press of Palantine Hill, 1958 (From the library of William Stafford).

Forum: Ten Poets of the Western Reserve edited by Peter Hargitai and Lotette Kuby, Mentor: Poetry Forum Program, 1978 (From the library of William Stafford).

A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems by William Stafford, New York: Harer and Row, 1982 (signed by Stafford on the title page.).

An Oregon Message by William Stafford, New York: Harper Collins, 1987 (formerly owned by Jean E. Thomson).

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, New York: Putnam, 2004.

The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer, New York: Grand Central Pub, 2008.

The Missing Chapter (Nero Wolfe) by Robert Goldsborough, New York: Bantam Books, 1994.

John Mistletoe by Christopher Morley, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931 (From the Library of Tom Bossort with his bookplate).




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My Sentimental Library


About Submarines, Submariners, and Pearl Harbor


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Welcome to Biblio-Connecting May 2019



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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



St. Louis Fine Print, Rare Book & Paper Arts Fair May 3-5, 2019


Is There a Book Fair Near You This Month?



 Florida Bibliophile Society 
End of Season Banquet, May 19, 2019 

The Florida Bibliophile Society ends another successful season with a banquet for its members and guests only at Brio Tuscan Grille, Tampa on May 19, 2019.  Circus Historian Larry Kellogg will be the keynote speaker.  Chloe Norris, winner of the 2019 Lee J. Harrer Student Book Collecting Essay Contest, will read her prize-winning essay.  Banquet attendees will receive a keepsake containing the top three essays of the book collecting contest.  





FABS Study Tour to St. Louis Oct 23 -27, 2019


The Bixby Club of St. Louis is hosting this year's FABS Study Tour.  The Tour is limited to 50 people so don't wait too long to register for the Tour.




The Florida Bibliophile Society will be hosting next year's FABS Study Tour to Tampa Bay, April 22-26, 2020.  We still have some sponsorship opportunities.  Please contact me at floridabibliophiles at gmail.com.





BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Uncle Blogsy's Book Fair Blog



FOUND ON THE WEB



A Retweet From the Private Libraries Association




Jerry Morris on the Rare Book Cafe!
(8 min, 20 secs into the broadcast)
 Florida Antiquarian Book Fair Sat. Apr. 27, 2019



Historic Libraries Forum


Copyright and the Public Domain


RECENT ACQUISITIONS



Longfellow in Love; Passion and Tragedy in the Life of the Poet by Edward M. Cifelli, Jefferson: McFarland and Co. 2018.

The Library Book by Susan Orlean, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.

The Librarian at Play by Edmund Lester Pearson, Boston: Small, Maynard and Co. 1911

The Care and Repair of Books by Henry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer, New York: R. R. Bowker

Gene Stratton-Porter: A Book Collector's Guide by David G. MacLean, Decatur: Americana Books, 1995.


RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library


Thirteen Books From the Library of William Stafford, Oregon's Poet


Of Jade Flower and Miss Jones by Don Thomson, Poet Laureate of Kern County



Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac


The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller by Carol Baxter


You can read all 245 of my posts at My Blog Browser.




Welcome to biblio-connecting June 2019


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



Congrats to my nephew Jeff Morris for his first comic book:
Paper Champion



Florida Bibliophile Society Banquet, Brio Tuscan Grille, Tampa, May 19, 2019

The members of the Florida Bibliophile Society enjoyed themselves at the end-of-season banquet at Brio Tuscan Grille on Sunday May 19, 2019. Kudos go to Linda Morris for selecting another delicious meal! Everyone raved about the food!  We met Chloe Norris, the winner of the Lee J. Harrer Student Book Collecting Essay Contest and Alexis White, one of the runners-up. Chloe Norris read her $500 prize-winning essay. Everyone at the banquet received a keepsake containing the top three essays of the contest. Thanks go to Charles Brown for creating the keepsakes! Our keynote speaker, circus historian Larry Kellogg, gave a powerpoint presentation about the circus that had everyone enjoying a behind-the scenes version of the greatest show on earth. The FBS members were generous with their donations for the silent auction, and with their bidding of the items up for auction. The biggest item was a limited edition of James Michener's Facing East with original lithographs and woodcuts by Jack Levine that was donated by FBS members Steve and Edie Eisenstein of Bric a Brac Books in Miami Beach. After much spirited bidding it went for $125! All told, the silent auction raised $323!



PBFA Book Fair, London, June 6, 2019



Is There a Book Fair Near You This Month?




FABS Study Tour to St. Louis Oct 23 -27, 2019


The Bixby Club of St. Louis is hosting this year's FABS Study Tour.  The Tour is limited to 50 members of bibliophilic societies so don't wait too long to register for the Tour.




The Florida Bibliophile Society will be hosting next year's FABS Study Tour to the Tampa Bay Area, April 22-26, 2020.  Our Tour will be limited to 50 members from our sister bibliophilic societies.  I'll have more information about registering for our Tour next month.

The Summer 2019 issue of Fine Books & Collections Magazine contains "Biblio 360," its 2019/2020 Guide to Book Clubs & Societies etc.  Here's the listing for the Florida Bibliophile Society and our FABs Study Tour is mentioned.






BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Ray Betzner's Studies in Starrett



FOUND ON THE WEB



The Franks Collection of Bookplates



The Hereford Mappa Mundi: The Beauty of Maps




The Font Detectives by Diane Peters




Nigel Beale Interviews KenLopez on Vietnam, Book Collecting and Author Archives





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My Sentimental Library
A Sentimental Airman's Second Aviation Collection


Contemplations of Moibibliommaniac
The Grammarian in the Bedroom, Or, A Whole New Dimension to The Elements of Style


Cursory Remarks About Politics
The Constitutional Crisis Over the Mueller Report




RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Paper Champion  by Jeff Duncan Morris, privately printed, 2019 (Inscribed to Uncle Jerry).

The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion by Robert S. Mueller, New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019.

The Sixth Floor:  John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation by Conover Hunt, Dallas: The Dallas County Historical Foundation, 1989.

Joseph and Me: In the Days of the Holocaust by Judy Hoffman, [Brooklyn]: Ktav Publishing House, 1979.

The Long Way Home;  An American Journey From Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin, New York: harper Collins, 2010.

Opening At Town Shores by Peter Hargitai, Tampa: Yellowjacket Press, 2019 (Inscribed by the author: "Thanks for being the glue that holds the FBS together").

Books and I  by Paul Lemperly, Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1938.

Dis ist das Buch der Cirurgia : Hantwirchung der Wundartzny by Hieronymus Brunschwig, New York: Editions Medicina Rara, [1970] A facsimile edition bound in full parchment (with slipcase) of a surgical treatise first printed in 1497. It was the prize on the Bucks on the Bookshelf  May 18, 2019 show. I was the first one to correctly answer Steven Eisenstein's trivia question.

The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves by Thomas Willis, Birmingham: the Classics of Medicine Library, 1978 ( Facsimile of the First English Edition of 1678).

Mermaid Dreams by Kate Pugsley, Plattsburg: Tundra Books of Northern New York, 2019 (From Library Thing Early Reviewers Program: the publisher sent two copies, which was perfect because I have two granddaughters who are mermaid nerds).

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Company, 2016 (print on demand).


We by Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Putnam, 1927.

Lindbergh, The Lone Eagle: His Life and Achievements by Geeroge Buchanan Fife, New York: A. L. Burt, 1927 (reprint).

Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1922-1928 New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovish, 1972.

Vehicles of the Air; A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics With Working Drawings by Victor Lougheed, Chicago: Reilly and Briton, 1909.

Flying: An Epitome Forecast by Claude Grahame-White, London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.

The First World Flight: Being the Personal Narratives of Lowell Smith, Leslie Arnold, Erik Nelson, Henry Ogden, Leigh Wade, and John Harding by Lowell Thomas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925.

The Three Musketeers of the Air; Their Conquest of the Atlantic From East to West by Hermann Köhl, New York: Putnam, 1928.

Transport Aviation by Archibald Black, New York: Simmons-Boardman, 1926.

The War in the Air: The Royal Air Force in WWII by Gavin Lyall, New York: Morrow, 1969.

A Royal Air Force 75 by J. M. Bruce, London: Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum, 1968.

Fleet Air Arm: Prepared for the Admiralty by the Ministry of Information, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943.

Wings of Man: The Legend of Captain Dick Merrill by Jack L. King, Glendale: Aviation Book Company, 1981.

The World in the Air; The Story of Flying in Pictures by Francis Trevelyan Miller, New York: Putnam, 1930 (Vol II only).

Little America : Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole by R. E. Byrd, New York: Putnam, 1930.

My Secret Life by G. Legman, New York: Grove Press, 1966.

Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, The Parallel Lives in Baseball's Golden Age by Allen Barra, New York Crown Archetype, 2013.

The Cloud Collector's Handbook by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011.

The Bugles are Silent: A Novel of the Texas Revolution by John R. Craggs, Austin: Shoal Creek Pubs, 1977.




WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING JULY 2019



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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



3rd Annual Detroit Festival of Books July 21, 2019





Is There an Upcoming Book Fair Near You?






12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age Nov 21-23, 2019



There are two upcoming study tours for the members of clubs belonging to the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS).  Each tour is limited to the first 50 FABS club members who sign up for the tours:

FABS Study Tour to St. Louis Oct 23-27, 2019


FABS Study Tour to Tampa Bay Apr 22-26, 2020


Here's a list of the member clubs belonging to FABS.



MY BIBLIO-CONNECTING BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Erica Obey's What They Read At Byrdcliffe



FOUND ON THE WEB




Carolyn Webb Interviews Chris Browne For The AGE


Fore-Edge Book Paintings at the Boston Public Library





The 6 Forgotten Giants: An Open Air Sculpture Treasure Hunt







Joy Harjo: First Native American Poet Laureate This Fall

Want to See What Australians Read?







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My Sentimental Library

J. H. Slater's Books About Books


Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac

The Library Book by Susan Orlean


Cursory Remarks About Politics

Mueller, My Fellow Americans, and Me: Finding Truth and Justice the American Way




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RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Scribner's Magazine New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Vol III Jan-Jun 1888 (contains "A Shelf of Old Books" by Mrs. Fields).

One Tiny Turtle by Nicola Davies, Cambridge, Ma: Candlewick, 2004.

Gift From the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh, New York: Pantheon Books, 2005 (50th anniversary edition).

Early [Editions]: A Bibliographical Survey of Some Modern Authors by J. Herbert Slater, s.l.: Forgotten Books, 2012 (classic reprint)

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Bibliography of His Complete Works by J. Herbert Slater, London: George Bell and Sons, 1914.

I recently purchased part of the reference library of a retired bookseller.  Too many books to list here. But I will be writing about some of them on My Sentimental Library blog.



WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING AUGUST 2019


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair




PulpFest 2019, Pittsburgh, Pa. Aug 15-18





Georgia Book and Paper Show Decatur, Ga. Aug 31st-Sep 1st



Is There an Upcoming Book Fair Near You?


An Ongoing Exhibition at the Huntington



Writers and Their Tools: A Univ of Ill at Urbana-Champaign Exhibit Thru Aug 30th




  Women Fight For the Right to Vote: An LOC Exhibit Until Sep 2020




There are two upcoming study tours for bibliophiles belonging to the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS).  Each tour is limited to the first 50 FABS club members who sign up for the tour:

FABS Study Tour to St. Louis Oct 23-27, 2019



FABS Study Tour to Tampa Bay Apr 22-26, 2020


Click here for a list of the member clubs of FABS.





MY BIBLIO-CONNECTING BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Michael Clapham's Chess Book Chats





FOUND ON THE WEB


Bookbinder Barbie Visits Syracuse




The William Blake Archive: http://www.blakearchive.org




 The Book Peddlers of France by Janalyn Martinez




From Book to Bookish  by Nicola Rodger, Independent Scholar



MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS

My Sentimental Library

A Librarian's Atta-Girl Book

Cursory Remarks About Politics

On the Future Whitening of the Statue of Liberty: God Forbid!

To Impeach or Not to Impeach, That is the Question



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RECENT ACQUISITIONS

The Tet Offensive and the Siege of Khe Sanh (Service With Honor Library) by James Arnold and Gordon Rottman, Kansas City: Osprey Veterans of Foreign Wars, 2006.

Hit the Target:  Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe by Bill Yenne, New York:  Dutton Caliber 2015 (book club edition).

... And the Not-Known End by Colton Storm,  New York:  Sixty-Fifth Street Books, 1941 (Inscribed: "For Ray [Epstein] whose abilities as a collector merit great respect." Colton Storm ii-22-75).

Science Fiction, Teacher's Manual by Sylvia Z. Brodkin and Elizabeth J. Pearson, Evanston: McDougal, Littell, 1974.

Bibliographical Contributions of the Duke University Libraries:  A Checklist of the United States Newspapers (And Weeklies Before 1900) in the General Library (Parts 1-6), by Mary Wescott and Allene Ramage, Durham: Duke University, 1932-1937





Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Sept 2019


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


R. I. P.  Richard Booth 1938-2019

I spent a weekend in 1989 buying books in Hay-on-Wye, Richard Booth's Town of Books, and wrote about it in my July 5, 2011 post to Biblio-Connecting:






Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair Sep 7-8, 2019


Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair Sep 7, 2019



Is There an Upcoming Book Fair Near You?




Fabrizio Lelli Lecture, Changing Minds, Kislak Center, Sep 10, 2019





The Florida Bibliophile Society will have its first meeting of the season at 1:30 pm on Sunday, Sept 15th at the Seminole Community Library.  Want to brag about that book you discovered in a bookstore last month?  Here's your chance!  The topic of the meeting will be "The Treasures We Found During the Summer Break!"  The meeting is free and open to the public.






Banned Books Week Sep 22-28, 2019


Aileen Bassis Exhibit, Reception and Artist Talk Sep 26, 2019




There are two upcoming study tours for bibliophiles belonging to the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS).  Each tour is limited to the first 50 FABS club members who sign up for the tour:

FABS Study Tour to St. Louis Oct 23-27, 2019



FABS Study Tour to Tampa Bay Apr 22-26, 2020


Click here for a list of the member clubs of FABS.



BIBLIO-CONNECTING BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH

Patrick Kurp's Anecdotal Evidence



FOUND ON THE WEB



Marlowe Benn Recommends 7 Books About Books




AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA



Maya Women Publishing Maya Books



From Library Dust to Just Dust


How Woodstock Got His Name

My friend Benjamin Clark, the old Exile Bibliophile, is the Curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, and is quoted in this article. I will interview him for the October issue of The Florida Bibliophile, the newsletter of the Florida Bibliophile Society.



MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS

My Sentimental Library
Henry Howard Harper and The Bibliophile Society 

Two More Derek Mason Aviation Books For My Sentimental Library

Cursory Remarks About Politics
OMG! Trump Wants to Buy Greenland!

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RECENT ACQUISITIONS


... And Brown:  A Chronicle of B. F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd., Library and Fine Arts Agents of London, With Emphasis on the Years Since 1902 by Lawrence Clark Powell, London: privately printed, 1959.

That Eager Zest: First Discoveries in the World of Books by Francis Walsh, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott,1961.

Bomber Pilot 1916-1918 by C. P. O. Bartlett, London: Ian Allan,1974. ALS from Bartlett to Capt. Derek Mason.

The Shape of the Aeroplane by James Hay Stevens, London: Hutchinson, 1953 (Three Christmas cards from the author to Derek Mason laid in).

Bob Hardwick: The Story of  His Life and Experiences by Henry Howard Harper, privately printed, 1911 (formerly owned by William F. Gable).

This Thing Called Fame:  Dramatic Episodes in the Life of a Literary Genius by Henry H.  and Marguerite Harper, Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1936.

The Romance of Mary W. Shelley, John Howard Payne and Washington Irving, Boston: Printed for Members of The Bibliophile Society, 1907.

Social Register 2004 Including the Social Register Observer, New York: Social Register Assn. (A magnificent gift from Robert H. Smith Jr. containing the obituary of Mary, Viscountess Eccles).

Grolier 2000: A Further Grolier Club Biographical Retrospective in Celebration of the Millennium, New York: Grolier Club, 2000.

Letters From an Outsider to an Insider by Henry Howard Harper, Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1932.



Welcome to Biblio=Connecting October 2019


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



The Florida Bibliophile Society
 Invites 50 Members From its Sister Clubs 
 To the Apr 2020 FABS Tour of the Tampa Bay Area


Click here for a list of the member clubs of FABS.



Princeton University: From the Bill Scheide Bequest
Exhibit continues until Dec 15, 2019



Peter D. Verheyen: A Bookbinder's Journey
Oct 17, 2019 Wells College


Mary Kay Watson: Tangled Shakespeare
Florida Bibliophile Society
Sunday, Oct 27, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Macdonald-Kelce Library



There are lots of book fairs this month!
Is There a Book Fair Near You?




BIBLIO-CONNECTING BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH

Richard Warren's Intangible Inclinations 1886-1974
Read from the bottom up


Richard Warren began his blog about the bookshops of Chicago with two posts on Ben Abramson and his Argus Bookshop.  Reading these posts reminded me that I have a book that Christopher Morley found in the Argus Bookshop.  And Vincent Starrett was one of the former owners!



FOUND ON THE WEB


The Making of the Book Clock


Book Collecting-
Because Hell is Filled With Empty Shelves



Rebecca Baumann: Collecting Paperbacks From Hell




Duke Engineering Projects



Browsers' Bookstore: Book Designer Monograms & Initials



A Poem About Two Women on an ICE Bus Being Transported to a Detention Center




OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS


My Sentimental Library

A Bookfellow Anthology Originally Found Wanting

Two More Derek Mason Aviation Books for My Sentimental Library

Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac

De Lolme, Cassius, and Publius on Impeachment

Cursory Remarks About Politics

De Lolme, Cassius, and Publius on Impeachment





RECENT ACQUISITIONS


The Man With the Branded Hand: The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist by Alvin C. Oickle, Yardley, Pa: Westholme Pub. 2011.

The Paradoxicon: A Collection of Contradictory Challenges, Problematical Puzzles, and Impossible Illustrations by Nicholas Falletta, New York: Wiley, 1990.

Poisoned Pages: A Booktown Mystery by Lorna Barrett, New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2018.

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg, New York: Liveright Pub. 2019

A Lonely Kind of War: Forward Air Controller, Vietnam by Marshall Harrison, Novato, Ca: Presidio Press, 1989.

A Bookfellow Anthology 1932 edited by George Steele Seymour, Chicago: Bookfellows, 1932.

The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, New York: Random House, 1998.

The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas: 50 Years of Holiday Comics by Charles M. Schulz, Kansas City: Hallmark Books, 2000.

The Bookbinder by Dr. Brian Beirl, Seminole: Bindings for Life, 2009.

Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial edited by Laura Palmer, New York: Vintage Books, 1998.

Tales From the Ballpark: More of the Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever Told by Mike Shannon, Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1999.


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WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING NOV 2019



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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS




The Florida Bibliophile Society
 Invites 50 Members From its Sister Clubs 
 To the Apr 2020 FABS Tour of the Tampa Bay Area


Click here for a list of the member clubs
 of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS)



Simon Lexley Lecture at the Grolier, Nov 4, 6:00 PM: In Search of Emery Walker


Jeff Peachey Lecture: Conservation of Dante's 1477 La Commedia


Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Nov 15-19, 2019


Book Fairs This Month in Boston, Miami, Baltimore and More...


The Florida Bibliophile
The Official Newsletter of the Florida Bibliophile Society



FOUND ON THE WEB


221B
Ray Betzner's 11 Chapters about Vincent Starrett's Poem.


Jim Hinck on Rules for Book Collectors


Smithsonian Project No. 631
Scrapbook of Early Aeronautica / Collected by William Upcott


Biblio.Com's List of Author Biographies and Bibliographies


BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Andrew J. Ricard's Graveyard Masonry




MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS


My Sentimental Library

Utopiana: A Seminal Report on Utopian Literature

Cursory Remarks About Politics

The Turks, the Kurds, and the Turd




RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany by Jane Mount, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2018.

Tangled Shakespeare:  A Midsummer Night's Dream by MKay B B Watson, Manchester, Vt: Canoe Tree Press, 2019 (signed by the author at her presentation before the Florida Bibliophile Society on Sunday, October 27, 2019).

The History of the Catnach Press at Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Alnwick, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and Seven Dials, London by Charles Hindley, London: Charles Hindley the Younger, 1887. ALS from the author to the British publisher William Tinsley asking him if he wanted to publish the book.

Everybody's Guide to Book Collecting by Charlie Lovett, Overland Park: Write Brain Books, 1993.

The Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia by Marie Elena Corey, Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, c.1989.

The University and the Press in Fifteenth-Century Bologna by Curt Bühler, Notre Dame: University Mediaeval Institute, 1958.

The Hollywood Book Club: Reading with the Stars by Steven Rae, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2019.

The Debate on the Constitution by The Library of America, New York: Viking, 1993, two vols.

Our Polar Flight by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1925.

My War by Andy Rooney, New York: Public Affairs, 2000.

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow, New York: Crown, 2019.

Cadillac Flight by Marshall Harrison, Novato: Presidio Press, 1991.

The Delta by Marshall Harrison, Novato: Presidio Press, 1992.

The Bathroom Fact or Flush Book by Russ Edwards, Saddle River: Red-Letter Press. 2014.

A Crown of Ages by Dan Hayman, Columbia: privately printed, 2012; signed and inscribed by Florida Bibliophile Society member Dan Hayman.  I had been led to believe that Dan was the author of this book. And in my copy of the book, he wrote:
To Jerry
Thank you so much for exposing me to my fictional self.
Dan Hayman
This book is Book No. 1 in my Not - the - Dan -  Hayman - I - Know Book Collection.


I visited Dan Hayman at his home during the Gainesville Getaway in October.  Dan is the one in the middle.  On the left is Neil Weijer, Curator of the Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Collection, Smathers Library, University of Florida.  And that is yours truly on the right.




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WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING DEC 2019




It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!














































Merry Christmas!

And Happy New Year!








Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Jan 2020

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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


From:  Of the Uses of Books  by Holbrook Jackson


Bibliography Week in New York City Jan 21-25,2020


Moi's Books About Books 

Jerry Morris: Presentation on Moi's Books About Books
Sunday January 19, 2020 at 1;30 pm
Seminole Community Library
9200 113th St. N.
Seminole, Fl. 34667
Moi's Books About Books is short for MoiBibliomaniac's Books About Books Collection. This presentation will be Jerry's fifth before the FBS. The first one was on "William Targ" in 2005, followed by one on "Mary Hyde" in 2006, on "Cataloguing Dead People's Books" in 2009 (libraries of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Charles Lamb on LibraryThing), and one on his collection of "Association Copies" in 2015. Jerry collects in many areas, but his largest collection, "Books About Books," now over 1300 books, includes books about book collecting, bookselling, bookbinding, book history, bookplates, libraries, and almost everything else that has to do with books.
Jerry's presentation is free and open to the public. 
After the meeting, FBS members and their guests will visit DoraLynn Books in Madeira Beach, where there are usually some Books About Books right there on the front counter.


FABS TOUR SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
There are still three sponsorships available!





The Florida Bibliophile Society
 Invites 50 Members From its Sister Clubs 
 To the Apr 2020 FABS Tour of the Tampa Bay Area


Click here for a list of the member clubs
 of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS)



BLOG  PICK  OF  THE  MONTH


Robert Bolick's Books On Books



FOUND  ON  THE  WEB


Robert Bolick's Name Index for "Bookmarking Book Art"





Michael J. Fryman's Literary Bibliography of Books About Books


Rex Parker's Presentation on Frederic Goudy/H. G. Wells




MY  OTHER  RECENT  BLOG  POSTS

My Sentimental Library

The Book-Plates of Samuel Pepys: Number Eight of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas

A Lonely Kind of War by Michael Harrison


Cursory Remarks About Politics

Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Gate

The Moral Code of John and Joan Q. Citizen

Vice President Mike Pence on Impeachment



RECENT  ACQUISITIONS



Adventures in Polar Reading by David H. Stam, New York: Grolier Club, 2019.

The Lost Book of the Grail: Or a Visitor's Guide to Barchester Cathedral by Charles Lovett, New York: Viking, 2017.

At First All Went Well...: And Other Brief Lives by Nicolas Barker, London: Bernard Quaritch, 2019.

The Leader's Bookshelf by Adm. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) and R. Manning Ancell, anapolis: Naval institute Press, 2017.

Descriptive Bibliography of the Modern Library 1917-1970 by Geroge M. Andes, Boston: Boston Book Annex, 1989.

Advanced 737 Development Summary by Boeing 707/727/737 Division, Privatley printed by oeing in Jan 1973.

Pi: A Hodge-Podge of Letters, Papers, and Addresses Written in the Last Sixty Years by Bruce Rogers, Cleveland: World Publishing, 1953.



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Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Feb 2020


February's Biblio-Connecting post is all about three upcoming events sponsored or hosted by the Florida Bibliophile Society.  Regular posting of Biblio-Connecting will resume in March.


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Mark Harris:  The Complete History of Comics Books. In Less than 30 Minutes.
Sunday Feb 16, 2020 1:30 pm Macdonald-Kelce Library, University of Tampa




Book Collecting Essay Contest 
Ends Feb 29, 2020



FABS Tour of the Tampa Bay Area Apr 22-26, 2020


Tour is Now Open To All Bibliophiles!



Tour Registration Includes 
One-Year Free Membership in the Florida Bibliophile Society



Welcome to biblio-connecting March 2020

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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



18th Century Book Commode at Heritage Auctions March 4th



The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair March 5-8, 2020



A Gentle Madness Symposium and Exhibit at Cushing Memorial Library Mar 19 -Aug 14


Florida FABS Tour Has Been Cancelled

The members of the Florida Bibliophile Society were prepared to host a FABS Study Tour of the Tampa Bay area. We invited FABS club member from our sister clubs across the United States to see the sights in Sarasota, St. Petersburg, and Tampa. Unfortunately, not enough people registered for the tour, so we had to cancel it.



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



A Blog Post About a Pop-Up Book Made in Kindergarten



MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library

About the Street Literature of Jemmy Catnach and Charles Hindley



RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Curiosities of Street Literature by Charles Hindley. New Intro by Leslie Shepard, London: Broadstreet King, 1966.

A Century of Flight (Tin-Can Collection Medacy Home Video, 2004.

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon, edited my Paul Hograth. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981.

Catnachery by Percy H. Muir, San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1955.

The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl, New York: Penguin Press, 2015


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Welcome to Biblio-Connecting April 2020



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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS

Florida Antiquarian Book Fair

Imagine that you're at the Book Fair... 
Do you smell the books?
Say hello to the exhibitors!



The Florida Bibliophile Society


Each year, the members of the Florida Bibliophile Society man the Hospitality Table at the entrance to Book Fair, greet the booklovers as they come in, and invite them to receive the Society's newsletter.  There's no book fair this year, but we want to invite you to read our newsletter. Here it is: The Florida Bibliophile. Email floridabibliophiles@gmail.com to get on the mailing list.

Florida Bibliophile Society


The winner of the 4th Annual Lee J. Harrer Student Book Collecting Essay contest is USF student Vicki Entreken. She will be presented with a $500 check at the Annual Banquet of the Florida Bibliophile Society in the Toscano Room, Brio Tuscan Grille, Tampa on Sunday, May 17, 2020. The top prize was provided by FBS founding member, Lee J. Harrer. The two runners up of the contest are USF student Anca Garcia and University of Tampa student Julia Wheelehan. They will be presented with $100 checks at the banquet. The runners up prizes were provided by Micheal Slicker, Proprietor of Lighthouse Books, Dade City, and the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (FABA). In addition to the monetary prizes, Vicki, Anca, and Julia will receive either a gift certificate or a book from Steve Eisenstein, Proprietor of A-Book-A_Brac Shop, Miami Beach. Congratulations to Vicki and to Anca and Julia! And thanks again to our contest sponsors, Lee J. Harrer, Mike Slicker, FABA, and Steve Eisenstein. Thanks too to the FBS members who distributed the contest flyers and to the FBS judges who had a most difficult time in the judging!



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Michael DiRuggerio's blog, Manhatten Rare Books



FOUND ON THE WEB



Influenza and Arthur Conan Doyle



Vintage, Rare & Antique Books: A Group of 5,000 Members


The Pulp Magazine Archive


Fritz Otto Thinks About Portfolios


Sightseeing From the Couch



 Transcript of COVID-19 Webinar for Librarians, Archivists (And Book Collectors Too!)




RECENT ACQUISITIONS



ÆG Egg by Peter and Donna Thomas and Anne Visboll,  Stryno, Danmark: Handmade by the families of P. and D. Thomas and A. Visboll, 1990.  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmMeu2ZL

The Dictionary Wars:  The American Fight Over the English Language by Peter Martin, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 

Poetical Quotations From Chaucer to Tennyson by S. Austin Allibone, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1884. Part of Allibone's Quotations.  From the library of medical historian Henry Rouse Viets with his bookplate.

Prose Quotations From Socrates to Macaulay by S. Austin Allibone, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1884. Part of Allibone's Quotations.  From the library of medical historian Henry Rouse Viets with his bookplate.

Great Authors of All Ages by S. Austin Allibone, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1885. Part of Allibone's Quotations.  From the library of medical historian Henry Rouse Viets with his bookplate.

The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time: In Two Lines or Less) by John M. Shanahan, New York: Cliff Street Books, 1999.

The Printery: A Forty Year Perspective by the St. Louis Mercantile Library, St. Louis: St. Louis Mercantile Library, 2001.

It Won't Stay Light Forever by Ed Weyhing, Anchorage, Ak: Fathom Pub, 2017.

Paul Elmer More by Arthur Hazard Dakin, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.

Hard Call:  Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them by John McCain, New York: Twelve, 2007. 

The Lives and Times of Archie and Mehitabel by Don Marquis, Garden City: Doubleday, 1950.




MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library

Julius Hopp and the Progressive Stage Society 1904-1906



A  HYPERLINK  TO  ALL  MY  ONLINE   ESSAYS



WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING MAY 2020


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THOSE  WE'VE  LOST  DURING THIS  CORONAVIRUS  PANDEMIC


Madeline Kripke, The Dame of Dictionaries


Madeline Kripke was a friend of mine.  I wrote an article about her, which will appear in the next issue of The Florida Bibliophile, and then I will post it on one of my blogs.



ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



What's on at the Folger?


Yale Law Library Online Exhibition



Rare Book School's Presswork: A Documentary



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Michael Gilleland's
Laudator Temporis Acti



FOUND ON THE WEB


Papermaking The Mark of the Maker


When We Had Bookmobiles


A Rare Word Quiz From BBC


The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism




Robert A. B. Sawyer on The Personal Library






MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library

Ventures in Book Collecting During This Coronavirus Pandemic




Cursory Remarks About Politics

1. WHO Coronavirus Covic-19 Warning

2. PPE: If Not Now, When?




A  HYPERLINK  TO  ALL  MY  ONLINE   ESSAYS





WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING JUN 2020


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



Twin Cities Bookstores Destroyed


ABAA Virtual Book Fair Jun 4-7, 2020


The Newsletter of the Florida Bibliophile Society: May 2020



A Conversation About Douglass Howell, Papermaker


Stephanie Wolff at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts



FOUND ON THE WEB



The Book Collector: Official Podcasts



Madeline Kripke on the 1864 Edition of Webster's Dictionary



Howard Prouty's Bookseller's Labels



Miniature Book Society Resources



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Chapel Hill Rare Book Blog:
Portrait of a Black Intellectual




RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Abraham: A Play by Roswitha, the Nun of Gandersheim, Translated by Richard S. Lambert,  Wembley Hill, England: The Stanton Press, 1922, No. 95 of 100 copies printed (Mary Hyde's copy with a presentation card tipped in stating, "For Dearest Mary, from David").

Himalayan Reverie by Philip Hofer, Cambridge, Ma: Privately printed for Philip Hofer, 1958 (presentation copy given to Mary Hyde with an A.L.S. from the author).

The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964 (4th printing) Presentation copy given to Donald Hyde with a T. L. S. from the author).

Introductions to the Catalogue of the Ashley Library by various hands, New York: William H. Smith, 1934.

A Tale of Two Books by Ward Ritchie, Van Nuys: Printed by Richard J. Hoffman for The Book Collectors, 1985.

A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Thomas Bridges, New York: At the Sentimental Epicure's Ordinary, 1809, two vols. (A. Edward Newton's copy, lot 277 in the 1941 Newton Sale).

Wings of  Tomorrow: the Adventures of a Cadet at the Air Force Academy by Marian Talmadge and Iris Gilmore,  New York: Dodd, Mead, 1958

The Old Book Collector's Miscellany, or, a Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities, Illustrative of the History, Literature, Manners, and biography of the English Nation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Charles Hindley, London: Reeves and Turner, 1871 (Vol I only, only six copies were printed on this coloured paper).

T. V. Chariot No. 9/10 Nov'78/Jan/79 Battlestar Galactica edited by Robert Cain, Mesa, AZ: T. v. Chariot Productions, 1958 (for my grandkids Dylan and Noah).




MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library

Whiling Away the Time with the Catalogue of the Library of a Collector and Amateur





A HYPERLINK TO ALL MY BLOG POSTS





Welcome to Biblio-Connecting July 2020


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS



Flash Exhibit:  Black Lives Matter



A Virtual 4th of July Celebration by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library



The Dali Presents: Midnight in Paris,1929



University of Michigan Library/Marks in Books/Curated by Pablo Alvarez



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Lara Tokarski's Bookworms



FOUND ON THE WEB



Cary Sternick's 19th Century Juvenile Series


Anthony Davis: Booksteps Walks in London


Cait Coker & Kate Ozment:  Women in Book History


The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library


Elle Hunt on Book Dedications


100 Fiction Books to Read in a Lifetime


Michael Dirda on Culling His Book Collection


Lev Grossman: A Not Very Rare Book Collector



RECENT ACQUISITIONS



Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas A. Basbanes, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days That Changed the World by Chris Wallace, New York; Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living With Books by Michael Dirda, New York: Pegasus Books, 2015.

Samuel Johnson's Unpublished Revisions to His Dictionary of the English Language edited by Allen Hilliard Reddick, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Air Taxi by Michael Noonan, New York: Meredith Press, 1967, From the library of aviation collector Arthur Ronnie, with his bookplate.

Windmill Pilot by Joe Archibald, New York: D. McKay, 1963.

The Treasury of American Sacred Song, With Notes Explanatory and Biographical by W. Garrett Horder, New York: H. Frowde, 1896.



MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library

Other People's Ownership Signatures in My Books


Cursory Remarks About Politics

Donald Trump: "Nobody's Ever Heard of Numbers Like This!"


Kudos to Trump Supporters For Not Attending the Tulsa Rally During This Coronavirus Epidemic



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As I watched Congressman John Lewis's body being carried in a horse-drawn carriage across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, July 26, 2020, I was reminded of the meeting the Florida Bibliophile Society conducted on February 17, 2019 to commemorate Black History Month.  Our guest speakers were Wilson Blount, his wife Bobbie, and their daughter Shana.  Wilson and Bobbie recalled their experiences of the 1965 Selma marches.  Their daughter Shana talked about how she learned of her parents' involvement in the marches.

The Blounts at the Selma Marches


Folger's New Book Club: Aug 6th. Registration Required


Weekly Bite-Sized Book History From Book Historia (Allie Alvis)


A Bibliographical Society of America Virtual Event Aug 20, 2020


The Newly Revamped Website of the Private Libraries Association



BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



Ellen Moody's Ellen And Jim Have A Blog, Two


FOUND ON THE WEB



Emily Martin's Artist Book, Oscar Wilde: In Ernest and Out




Emi Hastings' Bibliography of Works by American Women Book Collectors



From the Norfolk Library and the National Trust


Nigel Beale's Interview of Bruce Crawford on the Grolier Club, Book Collecting and Dickens



Nigel Beale, the host of The Biblio File, will be the Guest Speaker at the October 18, 2020 virtual meeting of the Florida Bibliophile Society. Florida Bibliophile Society members will have the opportunity to "interview" him after his presentation. Stay tuned for details.




RECENT ACQUISTIONS



How the Art of Printing Was Invented by Anton Bohm, [New Brunswick, Ct]" REM Miniatures, 1964 (From the library of Rabbvi Kalman L. Levitan, Founding Member of the Miniature Book Society, with his bookplate).

Helmut Lehmann-Haupt: A Bibliography by Donald C. Dickinson, New York: The Typophiles, 1975.

The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile by Bartholomew Gill, New York: Avon Books, 1995.

The Johnson Society 221st Celebration, Litchfield, England, 1930 (For his Presidential Address, A. Edward Newton read "Mr. Strahan's Dinner Party").

The New Negro in the South by Wilmarth A. Carter, New York: Exposition Press, 1967.

Moon Pie: A Biography of an Out-of-This-World Snack by David Magee, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2006.

The Revolt of a Tired Typesetter by David Magee, [San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1958.

The Two Tocquevilles: Father and Son by R. R. Palmer, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff, New York: Custom House, 2020.

Bluffing Texas Style: The Arsons, Forgeries, and High Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins by Michael Vinson, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.

Once Upon a Spine: A Bibliophile Mystery by Kate Carlisle, New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2017.

The Old Man From the Stars by Glenn Devlin, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.

A Restless People: Americans in Rebellion 1770-1787  by Oscar and Lilian Handlin, New York: Anchor Press (Doubleday), 1982.


MY OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS


My Sentimental Library

Searching High and Low For a Certain Boswellian


Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac


Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World by Chris Wallace (my review)



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WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECRTING SEP 2020



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Florida Bibliophile Society
The Florida Bibliophile Society will hold its first meeting of the new season on Sunday, September 20, 2020 beginning at 1:30 pm via Zoom.  The purpose of the meeting will be for FBS members and their guests to become familiar with Zoom.  Beginning in October, guest speakers will give virtual presentations for FBS members and their guests via Zoom to enjoy.  Nigel Beale will be the guest speaker on Sunday October 18, 2020.  Mark Samuels Lasner will be the guest speaker on Sunday November 15, 2020.  Registration instructions for the October and November presentations will be forthcoming.


BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH


Emma Sarconi's Blog



FOUND ON THE WEB



About Small Hands in Bite-Sized Book History


Thierry Boillot's Textoriana, the Textor's Library




The Projects of a Princeton Librarian



19th Century Literary Annuals




RECENT ACQUISITIONS



Catalogus Bibliothecæ Harleianæ in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum compiled by Samuel Johnson and William Oldys, Londoni: apud Thomas Osborne, 1743 (vol ii only).

True Crimes and Misdemeanors  The Investigation of Donald Trump by Jeffrey Toobin, New York: Doubleday, 2020.

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers edited by J. Kevin Graffagnino, Terese M. Austin, Jayne Ptolemy, and Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Ann Arbor: Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2017.

True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News by Cindy L. Otis, New York: Feiwel & Friends, 2020.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. A Tale by Samuel Johnson, London: John Sharpe, 1817.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. A Tale by Samuel Johnson, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1878.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. A Tale by Samuel Johnson, New York: Hurst, c.1904

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. A Tale by Samuel Johnson, New York: James Miller, c.1865

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson, Chicago:  A. C. McClurg, 1896.

I am acquiring the Rasselas editions for my Australian friend John Byrne. He wants to have a Rasselas edition for every year it was printed from 1759 on.  He currently wants the following editions from 1830 to the early 1900s, and prefers cloth-backed copies with decorated boards: 

1834,`36,`37,`39,`41,`42,`43,`45,`48,`51,`52,`53,`55,`56,`57,`58,`59,`61,`62,`63,
1866,`67,`68,`71,`73,`74, `75,`76,`77,`79,`81,`82,`85,`91,`93,`97.
Please quote books in good to fine condition to me: moibibliomaniac at gee mail dot com






OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS



My Sentimental Library


Other People's Ownership Signatures in My Samuel Johnson and James Boswell Books


Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac


Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World by Chris Wallace


Cursory Remarks About Politics


Donald Trump's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic: Willful Neglect or Gross Negligence?






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WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING OCT 2020


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Introducing Alice in the Land of Sunshine,


Nigel Beale: How To Talk To Bibliophiles
Florida Bibliophile Society Zoom Meeting
October 18, 2020 1:30 p.m.

Nigel Beale is the host and producer of The BiblioFile podcast. Nigel has interviewed more than 400 guests, including novelists Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh, Larry McMurtry, publishers Richard Charkin, John Galassi, and Stephen Page, booksellers James Daunt, Nancy Bass Wyden, and Sarah McNally, poets Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, and Galway Kinnell, and critics Daniel Mendelsohn, Adam Gopnik, and Robert Fulford, among many others.

Nigel will reminisce about The BiblioFile and some of the guests he’s interviewed. Then the tables will be turned, and FBS attendees will have a chance to interview the interviewer.




BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH



David Levy's Blog:  Edmond Hoyle, Gent.



FOUND ON THE WEB



30 Second Book Appraisals









Nicole Marie's Poetry blog, Words and Other Things
was my blog pick of the month in July 2015.



FABS Book Talk





RECENT ACQUISITIONS


Rage by Bob Woodward, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020.

Esto Perpetua: the Club of Dr. Johnson and His Friends by Lewis Perry Curtis and Herman W. Liebert, Hamdon, Ct: Archon Books, 1963.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, A Tale by Samuel Johnson, Two Volumes in One, forming part of Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select Novels, or Novelist's Entertaining Library together with Solyman and Almena by Dr. Langhorne, London: C. Cooke [1794] (Fleeman 59.4R/23).

Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, A Tale by S. Johnson LL.D., Hartford: Oliver C. Cooke, 1803  (Stated First American Edition on title page, but First American Edition was published in 1768 in Philadelphia) (Fleeman 59.4R/40).

Eighteenth Century Arguments For Immortality and Johnson's Rasselas by Robert G. Walker, Victoria, B. C: University of Victoria, 1977.

An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Living Authors of Great Britain, 1762 by William Rider, Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Library, 1974 (A gift from John Byrne).

Where Law Ends:  Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann, New York: Random House, 2020.

A Conversation Larger Than the Universe:  Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic 1762-2017 by Henry Wessells, New York: The Grolier Club, 2018.


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WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING NOV 2020




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INTRODUCING ALICE IN THE LAND OF SUNSHINE


Kudos to Charles Brown for creating this virtual tour













Alice Part I:  Sarasota Tour




Alice Part II:  St. Petersburg Tour









Alice Part III: Tampa Tour



ALICE  Part IV: Fort DeSoto Tour Next Month

RECENT ACQUISITIONS



The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, A Tale by Samuel Johnson, Bridgeport: S. Backus, 1809 (stated Second American Edition -it's not).

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale by Samuel Johnson, London: C. Cooke, 1794.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: a Tale by Samuel Johnson, Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1876.

Ellis Island: A People's History by Malgorxata Szejnert, translated by Sean Gasper Bye, London: Scribe UK, 2020.

Memoirs of the Life of John Adlum in the Revolutionary War edited by Howard H. Peckhamm, Chicago: Caxton Club, 1968 (a gift from Jackie Vossler).

Hart's Rules For Compositors and Readers at the University Press Oxford by Horace Hart, London: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1974 (a gift from John Byrne).

The Book Collector's Packet: A Monthly Review of Fine Books, Bibliography, Typography, and Kindred Literary Matters edited by Paul Johnston, Meriden: Crow's Nest, 1932 ( March, July, Nov issues).

Bob Hayman: This Business of Books, A Long-Time Ohio Bookseller Talks About the Book Business interviewed by Ron Antonucci, and edited by Roy Preece, Akron: Northern Ohio Bibliophile Society, 2003.

Cordially Invited:  History and Evolution of the Ampersand Club Invitations by John Moriarty, Minneapolis: Smart Set, 2020.

The Forger's Daughter: A Novel by Bradford Morrow, New York: Mysterious Press, 2020.

Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza, New York: Little, Brown, 2018.

Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann, New York: Random House, 2020.













WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING DEC 2020


                                                                                'Twas

                                                            And all thru the house....


































                                                       Merry Christmas to all!

                                   And to all a Good Night!



Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Jan-Feb 2021

This COVID-19 pandemic is continuing into 2021.  Bibliophiles, bibliophilic clubs, and libraries are doing most everything online nowadays.  So it is time to change the format of my biblio-connecting blog to better fit the times.  In this blog I will provide videos of past online events and notices of upcoming events every other month. If you'd like your organization to be included, please contact me at moibibliomaniac at gee mail dot com.


Grolier Club Videos

https://vimeo.com/user4535612


Caxton Club Upcoming Events

https://caxtonclub.org/events


Book Club of California Upcoming Events

https://www.bccbooks.org/programs/


Florida Bibliophile Society Meeting Recordings

Oct 18, 2020 Nigel Beale: How to Talk to Bibliophiles  Begins 25 minutes into the recording

Nov 15, 2020 Mark Samuels Lasner: Collector's Progress Begins 23:30 into the recording

Dec 20, 2020  Florida Bibliophile Society Holiday Party

Jan 17, 2021 Charles Brown: Henry Darger, Author & Artist Begins 2:44 into the recording

Feb 21, 2021  Rebecca Rego Barry:  Carolyn Wells in the Library


Library of Congress Online Events:

https://www.loc.gov/events/


Harry Ranson Center Online Programs

https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/online-programs/


Folger Encores

https://www.folger.edu/encores


Harvard Virtual Events

https://www.harvard.com/events


Yale Online Exhibitions

https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/browse-yul-exhibits/page/welcome




WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING MARCH/APRIL 2021

UPCOMING ONLINE EVENTS 

AND/OR 

RECORDINGS OF RECENT EVENTS

FOR MARCH/APRIL 2021



Book Club of California:
 https://www.bccbooks.org/programs/

Caxton Club:


Folger Shakespeare Library:
https://www.folger.edu/encores

Friends of the Princeton University Library


Harry Ransom Center:

Harvard University:

Institute of English Studies (Bibliographical Society of London)

 Library of Congress:

Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society:

Ticknor Society:

William Morris Society:

Yale University:
https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/browse-yul-exhibits/page/welcome

To submit your organization's online events for Biblio-Connecting, please contact Jerry Morris (moibibliomaniac at gee mail dot com)








UPCOMING ONLINE EVENTS 

AND 

RECORDINGS OF RECENT EVENTS

For May-June 2021



Book Club of California:
https://www.bccbooks.org/programs/

Caxton Club:


Folger Shakespeare Library:
https://www.folger.edu/encores

Friends of the Princeton University Library


Harry Ransom Center:

Harvard University:

Institute of English Studies (Bibliographical Society of London)

 Library of Congress:

Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society:

Ticknor Society:

William Morris Society:

Yale University:


To submit your organization's online events for Biblio-Connecting, please contact Jerry Morris (moibibliomaniac at gee mail dot com)








Welcome to Biblio-Connecting July/Aug 2021



My Personal Reference Websites


When I surf the web, I frequently bookmark the articles and websites that I find interesting.  Some of the websites have appeared in the Found on the Web section of my Biblio-Connecting blog posts.  A few websites, however, are no longer being updated, but the information they provide, in most cases, is still current.


On Visiting Bookshops:

http://essays.quotidiana.org/morley/visiting_bookshops/

Becoming a Bookseller:

https://ashrarebooks.com/2021/05/13/1971-becoming-a-bookseller/

Book Hunting as a Sport:

https://www.firesideangler.net/home/bookhunting.htm 

Why Do You Have a Personal Library?

https://www.librarything.com/topic/188145

Misperceptions About White Gloves:

https://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/articles/49

BookFairs.com:

https://www.bookfairs.com/index.html

The Book Arts Web:

https://philobiblon.com/site.shtml

Rare Book Hub:

https://www.rarebookhub.com/

KVK:  Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog:

https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/?lang=en&digitalOnly=0&embedFulltitle=0&newTab=0

Women in Book History: A Bibliography

http://www.womensbookhistory.org

Empty Mirror:

https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/about-us

RBMS: Your Old Books 

https://rbms.info/yob/

Steve Trussels' Books And Book Collecting:

https://www.trussel.com/f_books.htm

Steve Trussels' Eclecti City:

https://www.trussel.com

The Online Books Page:

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

Rec.Collecting.Books FAQ:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060831195923/http://netserver.massmedia.com/~mikeb/rcb/

Ralph Dumain's Autodidact Project:

http://autodidactproject.org/index.html

Care, Handling, and Storage of Books:

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/books.html

Smoke and Odour Removal:

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-collections/building-our-collections/caring-librarys-collections/smoke-and-odour

Web Resources For the Rare Materials Cataloger:

https://rbms.info/cat-resources/special-topics/

The Book-Lover's Library Series:

http://patrickspedding.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-book-lovers-library-series-18861902.html

The Torch Press:

https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1360&context=bai

Lakeside Classics:

https://www.townsendbooks.com/lakeside.htm

The Bookplate Society:

http://www.bookplatesociety.org

The Story of a Bookplate:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040707054547/http://abbookman.com/ABBookman_F071604.html

Bookplates. Pratt Institute:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34900073@N07/sets/72157613160345964/?page=18

The British Book Trade Index:

http://bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The Scottish Book Trade Index:

https://www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index/

Exeter Working Papers in Book History  

https://bookhistory.blogspot.com/2014/10/homepage.html

The French Book Trade:

http://fbtee.uws.edu.au/main/

Lucille's Publishers:

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/PUBLISHR.HTM

Biographies of Classical Essayists:

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/BiosEssayists.htm

Linda M. Campbell's American Lit Selected Bibliographies 

 https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/biball.html

The BL Incunabula Short Title Catalogue:

https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search

Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry 1579-1830:

http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/Welcome.php

The National Department of Poetry:

http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2014/01/the-national-department-of-poetry.html

The Curran Index to Victorian Periodicals:

http://curranindex.org

Private Libraries in Renaissance England:

https://plre.folger.edu.

UK Library Hub Discover:

https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/advanced-search/

CERL Thesaurus:

https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/_search

Bibliography of Online Neo-Latin Texts

http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/

Archivalia: 

 https://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6107864/

Gateway to Library Catalogs:

http://www.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#lc

NYPL Digital Gallery:  

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org

Historic Libraries Forum: 

 https://historiclibrariesforum.com

NY State Library Auction Catalogs Collection:  

https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/qc16542.htm

From AACR2 to RDA Library Cataloging:

https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/rdaoverview#pubnotidentified

OCLC Classify:

http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?swid=11950540

The National Archives:

https://www.archives.gov/research

National Union Catalog Search of Manuscript Materials:

https://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

Catalog of Copyright Entries:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/

Cornell University Copyright Information Center:  

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

First Line Index of English Verse (The Folger):

https://firstlines.folger.edu

First Line Indexes (BSA):

https://bibsocamer.org/BibSite/Woolley/index.pdf

Literary Clubs in the U.S. :  

http://www.literaryclub.org/id18.html

The Chicago Literary Club:

https://www.chilit.org/content.aspx?page_id=0&club_id=11539

The Ephemera Society of America:

https://www.ephemerasociety.org

The Bookplate Society:

http://www.bookplatesociety.org

Heraldry: A Roll of Early American Arms

https://www.americanheraldry.org/heraldry-in-the-usa/roll-of-early-american-arms/

British Armorial Bindings:

https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca

Heraldry Online Blog:

https://heraldryonline.wordpress.com

Book Repair For Beginners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkkmibNzfzs

How To Make Your Own Archival Book Cloth:

https://crafts.tutsplus.com/tutorials/bookbinding-fundamentals-how-to-make-your-own-archival-book-cloth--craft-3294

English Bookbinders:

https://cool.culturalheritage.org/byorg/abbey/an/an14/an14-1/an14-111.html

Edge Decoration in Hand Bookbindings:

https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/cases/edgedecoration/index.html

The Collectors Club (Stamps):

https://www.collectorsclub.org

UK Reading Experience Database:

http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/

The John D. MacDonald Home Page:

http://www.jdmhomepage.org

American Rhetoric:

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/index.htm

The Digital Public Library of America:

https://dp.la

Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a

The Electronic British Library Journal:

http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2019articles/articles.html

The Library as Incubator Project:

http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?page_id=9

Index of Papers Online:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByG2cFj7-_LzS0NFOEkxQ2ZoY0U/view?resourcekey=0-4iUbAxvT3CzSiDXR-VbKgA

The UNZ Review of Archives Printed Periodicals and Books

https://www.unz.com/print/Articles/

RBM Journal:

https://rbm.acrl.org/index.php/rbm/issue/archive

Johnsonian News Letter:

http://www.yalejohnson.com/frontend/johnsonian-news-letter

Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page:

http://www.samueljohnson.com/popular.html

Guild of Bookworkers Journal:

http://www.unm.edu/~alshal/GBW_JOURNAL_Index.pdf

The Bonefolder:

https://www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/

Studies in Bibliography:

https://bsuva.org/studies-in-bibliography/

Previews of Fine Books & Collections Magazine:

https://www2.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/

The Underground Grammarian Newsletter:

https://sourcetext.com/grammarian/

A. S. W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography:

https://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/

Pepys' Diary:

https://www.pepysdiary.com

Bibliography of Literary Annuals:

http://www.orgs.miamioh.edu/anthologies/FMN/Bibliography.htm#Faxon

A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle:

https://booksongaming.com/hoyle/bibliography/index.xml

Orbis Typographicus:

https://www.orbistypographicus.com/1r-title-page.html

Beneath Thy Feet. Secrets From the Grave:

http://beneaththyfeet.blogspot.com/2013/03/muriel-mahala-lord-richard-painter-lord.html

Grolier Club Videos:

https://vimeo.com/user4535612/videos/page:1/sort:date

Authenticity of Print Materials:

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-6267?loclr=rssloc

 

I post this last entry in memory of my friend Lee J. Harrer who died on April 14, 2021.  Lee was a founding member of the Florida Bibliophile Society, and one of my mentors. 

Lee Harrer on Charles Hamilton, Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters

https://tampareview.org/lee-harrer-on-charles-hamilton-elbert-hubbard-and-the-roycrofters/






Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Sep 2021

Biblio-Connecting will return to its pre-COVID format next month!


I am so tired of dealing with this coronavirus pandemic. They call it COVID-19. I think they should call it COVID-19, 20, and 21. This fourth wave, the Delta variant, is still raging across the country, particularly in Florida. And it continues to affect how bibliophiles can connect with each other in this book world. Earlier this year, COVID caused the cancellation of the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair for the second year in a row.  And as I write this post, the New York Antiquarian Book Fair is virtual this year. I'm still holding out hope that the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair will become a reality again next April. 

As a member of the Florida Bibliophile Society (FBS), I will volunteer to help man the hospitality table at the  entrance to the book fair next April. Our primary purpose is to check books in that people bring with them in hopes that a bookseller will buy them. That bookseller has to come to the hospitality table with the patron in order to view the books. We do, however, have ulterior motives for volunteering to man the hospitality table. We get free access into the book fair. Some of the booksellers give us discounts on our purchases. Moreover, we get to promote the Florida Bibliophile Society!

Thousands of booklovers attend the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. They all have to walk past our hospitality table. Hundreds of booklovers stop at our table and sign up to receive our virtual newsletter, The Florida Bibliophile. While they are writing their names and email addresses on the sheet, we have about twenty seconds to entice them to join the Florida Bibliophile Society. But out of these hundreds of booklovers who stop by our table and sign up to receive our newwslater, only about fifteen of them decide to become FBS members.

That has frustrated some of the members of the Florida Bibliophile Society. They enjoy being FBS members and want other booklovers to share in the fun. But try as FBS members might, many a booklover decides to continue going it alone in this book world. Me? I just smile. When I hear these frustrations from other FBS members, I tell them about my own experience.

The first Florida Antiquarian Book Fair I ever attended was the March 1990 Book Fair. Even back then the Florida Bibliophile Society was manning the hospitality table. I stopped at the table, signed up to receive the FBS newsletter,  listened to their spiel, but decided not to join at that time. I did, however, plan on attending the April FBS meeting that year.  But then I completely forgot about the meeting. Their newsletter mentioned a season-ending banquet in May. But I didn't want to crash the party because I hadn't joined the club yet.  I'm an avid football fan, and when the Florida Bibliophile Society began a new season in September 1990, I was sitting in my recliner back home watching football.  I attended every Florida Antiquarian Book Fair from 1990 to 2003.  But it wasn't until 2003 that I finally joined the Florida Bibliophile Society.  My only regret is that I did not join sooner! 

 I have mentioned the  Florida Bibliophile Society no less than 120 times in prior posts to my Biblio-Connecting blog.  You can click on the link and read about what the Florida Bibliophile Society has done  for bibliophiles in the past. Or, you can continue reading, and I'll tell you what the Florida Bibliophile Society has planned for bibliophiles this season.

The Florida Bibliophile Society begins a new season with a Show and Tell on Sunday Sep 19th. The theme will be "The Treasures We Found During the Summer Break." But since the corona virus is still raging in Florida, we will begin the season with a virtual meeting on Zoom. Then at our October meeting, FBS member Ed Cifelli will give a presentation on the Jersey poet John Ciardi. This meeting will be held at Lighthouse Books in Dade City, and will be limited to those members who have been vaccinated. Masks will be required. Everyone will have the opportunity to browse and buy books after the presentation.

As of this writing, and provided that all Floridians can get a handle on this coronavirus, all our other monthly meetings are tentatively scheduled to be in-person meetings. We will meet at the Seminole Community Library during odd moths, and the Macdonald-Kelce Library, University of Tampa during even months.  These meetings will be hybrid meetings, meaning  it will be both in-person and broadcast virtually via Zoom. One benefit of virtual meetings is that our speakers don't have to be present at the meeting meeting to give their presentations.  We have taken advantage of that!  Last season Nigel Beale, Mark Samuels Lasner, and Rebecca Rego Barry gave presentations from miles and miles away! And we will take advantage of Zoom this season!

In November, Kurt Zimmerman, President and founding member of the Book Hunters Club of Houston, and author of Rare Book Hunting: Essays and Escapades, will give a hybrid presentation straight from Conroe, Texas. In January, local mystery writer Elaine Togneri, the author of over forty published stories will give an in-person presentation at the Seminole Community Library. In February, Reid Byers, Vice President of the Baxter Society, and author of The Private Library, will give a presentation from the great state of Maine. Zoom lets us go far far away for our next speaker.  In March, Boštjan Petrič, book collector and author of The Fate of Books blog, will give his presentation from Slovenia!  Also in March, the Florida Bibliophile Society will sponsor a special event on March 31st at the Largo Public Library.  Noted Walt Whitman collector Ed Centeno will give his presentation, "Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Still Relevant to Modern Times."  Our speaker for our April meeting, Ray Betzner, curator of the website Studies in Starrett, will give his presentation from his new home in Williamsburg, Virginia. Earlier that month, FBS members 'hope' to man the hospitality table at the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair.  

You can read about all our meetings in the official newsletter of the Florida Bibliophile Society, The Florida Bibliophile.  You don't, however, have to be a resident of Florida to join our society. We already have members from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia.  Take my advice! Join now, not later!






Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Oct 2021


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF UPCOMING EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


October Book and Paper Fairs



Cait Coker at the Caxton


Harrer Book Sale at the Belleair Garden Club Oct 9th

The Belleair Garden Club will have a book sale of the library of the late Lee J. Harrer on Saturday, October 9th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Lee J. Harrer was a founding member of the Florida Bibliophile Society, as well as a bookseller ("The Midnight Bookman.").

In addition to regular bookseller stock, the sale will include books from Lee Harrer's personal collection, including: Books About Books, books about Chicago, Brazil, and London, and books about the British Royalty.

Lee Harrer donated the majority of his "Books About Books" Collection to the University of Tampa before he died.  However, hundreds of "Books About Books" were duplicates of books the University of Tampa already had in their library and they are for sale.

The club is located at 903 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Belleair, Florida 33756.

The sale is cash only. Mask wearing is required.  Masks will be available at the Belleair Garden Club on the day of the sale.

Migrations of the Book: A Virtual Conference Texas A & M Universities



FOUND ON THE WEB
Either by me or by one of my friends


Michael Dirda on Books About Books
Two of the authors that Michael Dirda mentions in his article will be guest speakers at Florida Bibliophile Society meetings this season




The Wayforward Machine


RECENT BLOG POSTS


About the First R and Related Enjoyments of John T. Winterich


Nosediving Into the Interesting and Unusual Features of the Special Edition of The Flying Dutchman  


Lee J. Harrer: The Man and His Books



MOLDY OLDIES

Every now and then I like to read some of my old posts.   Since my wife calls my books moldy oldies I thought I would call my old posts moldy oldies as well.  Each month I will select a post that I have enjoyed reading more than once.  And I shall give you the opportunity to do the same.

June 2014: Some Auspicious Biblio-Sleuthing


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF UPCOMING EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


November Book and Paper Fairs




Florida Bibliophile Society 
Zoom Presentation: Sunday Nov 21st 1:30 pm
Kurt Zimmerman will be the guest speaker via Zoom at the Nov 21st meeting of the Florida Bibliophile Society.  The meeting will take place at the Seminole Community Library in St. Petersburg, Fl but it will be broadcast live on Zoom as well.  If you'd like to attend the meeting via Zoom, please contact me at the following email address (floridabibliophiles at gee male dot com).   I'll send you the Zoom meeting link a few days before the meeting.


UPCOMING  EVENTS OF OTHER BOOK CLUBS

Aldus Society: 

Baxter Society:

Book Club of California:  

Caxton Club:  


Ephemera Society:  

Movable Book Society:  

Ticknor Society:  

Willliam Morris Society:  


FOUND ON THE WEB


Stephanie Sandler's Table Talk at Harvard
The Table-Talk of Martin Luther

RECENT BLOG POSTS


My Sentimental Library: About Table Talk


Biblio-Connecting Oct 2021 

MOLDY OLDIES

Every now and then I like to read some of my old posts.   Since my wife calls my books 
moldy oldies I thought I would call my old posts moldy oldies as well.  Each month I will select a post or two that I have enjoyed reading more than once.  And I shall give you the opportunity to do the same.

Around the Dining Room Table: A View of My Shakespeare Collection

The Day the Dane Banished Shakespeare From the Dining Room









Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2011

Dec 23, 2011: 


Today is Friday, and that means toodling with the Harrises in the thrift stores, bookstores, and antique stores in the Tampa Bay area.  At a thrift store I see a name on the spine of a book grabs my attention: Hallie Flanagan: A Life in the Theatre.



 I already have her book Dynamo: An Adventure in the College Theatre, New York, 1943.  Hallie was the leader of the experimental theatre at Vassar.  Mary Hyde, then Mary Crapo, wrote and starred in some of the plays. Another book for my Mary Hyde Collection! 


Afterwards, we exchange Christmas gifts with the Harrisses. Tom's wife, Eve, gets trinket boxes from my wife. Tom gets a shelf full of biographies about movie stars from me, and chocolate and tea from my wife. My wife gets books about Hawaii and B&G plates. And I get books for three of my collections. from Tom & Eve.  

For my New York Collection, I get Fifth Avenue Old and New, 1824-1924. 

For my Baseball Collection, I get Baseball: An Illustrated History. 

And I get three more books for my Bathrooms and Outhouses Collection. 


Dec 25, 2011: 
My wife and I spend an enjoyable Christmas Day at my son Craig's house with his wife Tina and her father and brother


We really need to be with family on this day because our daughter and three of our grandchildren moved to Texas in October.  We share gifts after dinner.  Tina & Craig give me a Kindle!  Mind you, I will always prefer book in hand, but the Kindle will come in handy on trips. 




Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2012:






My blog this month is all about Christmas.  Even My Sentimental Library blog has a Christmas theme: Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas.

I brought in something like twelve boxes of Christmas decorations from the garage. And my wife decorated my bookshelves, our furniture, and the rest of our house:



















Merry Christmas to All!


And to All...




A Reindeer Cupcake 4U!



Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2013: 




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From tree to shining tree! 
I love Christmas! 
And to think it's only two weeks away! 

Just remember one thing: No matter how full the shelves are, a bibliophile can always find room for one more book!  

But if you want to get something different for the bibliophile, here are a few suggestions:


How about a unique library table?




Delight your bibliophile with a book lamp!




How about a finial to put the finishing touches on the book lamp?




Every bibliophile needs storage boxes. And mine blend in with my library table.




Bless you! Care for a tissue?




You can throw the tissue away in here:




Do you know what time it is!




How about a library chair for the bibliophile?




Chotskys anyone?




Maybe a pen holder and tray?




I know! A dictionary stand!




There are always bookends. . . .




How about a book press? When not in use, it serves as a bookend.




Finally, don't forget to leave a little something for Santa!






WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING DECEMBER 2014



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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF "CHRISTMAS"  EXHIBITS, UPCOMING SYMPOSIUMS, AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


A Christmas Carol At The Morgan Library



A Christmas Carol At The Cleveland Public Library


The Night Before Christmas At The John Hay Library, Brown University


A Shakespeare Christmas At The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library



A White Christmas At The Library of Congress



Children's Christmas Books At The Belk Library, Appalachian State University


The Huntington Holiday Train At The Columbus Metropolitan Library


Merry Christmas to all,
And to all a good night!


WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING DEC 2015








Writing about Don Brady and his miniature books has come full circle: from mention in this very blog, to its posting in another one of my blogs, to a series of articles in a periodical, to a chapter in a magnificent book, to mention in a book society's newsletter, and now back to this blog, where I have "biblio-connected" all the contributions to the various media outlets."






Biblio-Connecting Jul 5, 2011 to the Present



"Don Brady, Printer and Bookbinder" was the original title I had chosen for my blog post.  But as the words flowed onto the screen the next month, a better title came to mind: "From Whence They Came:  Don Brady And His Miniature Books."







James M. Brogan, editor of THE MICROBIBLIOPHILE, liked my blog post and persuaded me to write a three-part series of articles about Don Brady's books, "From Whence They Came, Mother Books and Their Miniatures."




"Little old me" was one of the people interviewed for Rebecca Rego Barry's first book,  Rare Books Uncovered:  True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places.  And I told Rebecca the story of my friend Don Brady's books, which Rebecca titled, "The Motherlode of Mini Books."


  Rebecca inscribed my copy of her book at the book signing dinner I had arranged for her with the Florida Bibliophile Society at Chili's in New Port Richey on November 23rd.


I had invited a special guest to the book signing dinner:  Don's wife Mary Brady. 

And I bought a copy of Rebecca's book for Mary, which Rebecca inscribed.

And Charles Brown, President of the Florida Bibliophile Society, wrote all about it in the Florida Bibliophile Society's December Newsletter.




And at the end of the night, Mary gave Rebecca a copy of one of her husband's books, Why the Chimes Rang, a lovely story by itself, but made even more sentimental by the occasion...


And by Don's dedication in the book:








Happy Holidays!





Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2016 



Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2017 



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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


CharlesDickens and the Spirit of Christmas at the Morgan


Norfolk Public Library Holiday Events


Christmas in Florida


Check Your Local Listings for Holiday Events In Your Area




CHRISTMAS BOOKS IN MY LIBRARY


























        Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2018 


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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF EXHIBITS, SYMPOSIUMS,
AND OTHER BOOK-RELATED EVENTS


Seton Hall University Know More Giving Tree Nov 19-Dec 7


Find a Chanukah Event Near You Dec 2-10


Tree Lighting at the Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco Dec 3


A Christmas Carol at Penn State Dec 3-6


The Legend of the Christmas Spider Puppet Show Dec 15





FOUND ON THE WEB


100 Christmas Stories from AmericanLiterature.com




Bob Dylan Reading Twas the Night Before Christmas




Christmas Books Published by the Late Don Brady


Pavoratti & Domingo Singing Cantique De Noel/O Holy Night





Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2019 




It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!














































Merry Christmas!

And Happy New Year!










Welcome to Biblio-Connecting Dec 2020


                                                                                'Twas

                                                            And all thru the house....


































    
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

AND TO ALL

A GOOD NIGHT!




WELCOME TO BIBLIO=CONNECTING JANUARY 2022

 


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ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  UPCOMING  VIRTUAL  OR  HYBRID  EXHIBITS,  SYMPOSIUMS, AND  OTHER  BOOK-RELATED  EVENTS


Webcast and Online Events at the Smithsonian



Tracy Thomas on Instagram at Shakespeare Lightning Round
Jan 12th 5:00 pm 














BLOG  PICK OF  THE  MONTH


Guest Poster: Oliver B. Pollak


RECENT  BLOG  POSTS


My Sentimental Library


Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac




A MOLDY  OLDIE



RECENT  ACQUISITIONS


On the Gathering of a Library by Hal. H. Smith, Privately printed, Mount Vernon, N.Y. 1943.

The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature, 1475-1700 edited by William A. Jackson, New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1997.

The Printed Catalogue of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1790 edited by W. H. Bond, Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1996.

The Museum: a Catalog Raisonne of Rare, Valuable and Curious Books Offered For Cash at the Affixed Low Prices by Bernard Quaritch, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1862.

Catalogue of the Library of J. Walter K. Eyton by Joseph Walter King, Provo: Repressing Publishing 2013 (facsimile of 1848 catalogue)

Notes on the Importance of Private Legal Documents For the Writing of Biography and Literary History by Frederick A. Pottle, Lancaster: Lancaster Press, 1962.

The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange edited by Ralph S. Walter,
 London, Heinemann, 1966.

Hester Lynch Piozzi's Adopted Son by Lillian D. Bloom,  [New Haven]; The Johnsonians, 1980.

The Steal:  The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 election and the People Who Stopped It by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague, Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 2022.










WELCOME TO BIBLIO-CONNECTING FEB 2022

 


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ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  UPCOMING   VIRTUAL  EXHIBITS,  SYMPOSIUMS, AND  OTHER  BOOK-RELATED  EVENTS, AND RECORDINGS  OF  PAST  EVENTS



SAN  FRANCISCO  ANTIQUARIAN  BOOK  PRINT  &  PAPER  FAIR


CALIFORNIA  ABAA  HYBRID  BOOK  FAIR






THE  FLORIDA  BIBLIOPHILE  SOCIETY

A Florida Bibliophile Society Event


FLORIDA  ANTIQUARIAN  BOOK  FAIR APR 1-3




FABS



THE  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  SOCIETY  (LONDON)

Upcoming Events

Recorded Events



THE  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  SOCIETY  OF  AMERICA

Recorded Events



THE  MARK  TWAIN  HOUSE

Upcoming Events

Recorded Events



FRIENDS  OF  THE  PRINCETON  UNIVERSITY LIBRARY


Upcoming Events

Recorded Events



THE   HARRY  RANSOM  CENTER

Upcoming and Recorded Events


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OTHER RECENT BLOG POSTS

MY SENTIMENTAL LIBRARY

Twenty Years of Collecting and Writing About William Strunk's Little Book, The Elements of Style



A MOLDY OLDIE

Researching a George Birkbeck Hill ALS (Oct 2007)




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Welcome to Biblio-Connecting March 2022

 


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ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  UPCOMING IN–PERSON AND VIRTUAL  BOOK-RELATED  EVENTS IN FLORIDA, AND RECORDINGS  OF  PAST  EVENTS



Palm Beach Book Festival March 12th


A Florida Bibliophile Society Presentation
March 20th
Macdonald-Kelce Library

 Recordings of Previous Florida Bibliophile Society Presentations This Season







Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival










The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair April 1-3, 2022


The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair is the third largest book fair in the nation.  I, myself, and other members of the Florida Bibliophile Society will be manning the hospitality table at the entrance to the book fair.  We will also have a booth in the book fair.  AND,  we will be doing the book appraisals on Sunday afternoon.  Come see us and say hello!