Biblio-Connecting

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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

AAUW 20th Annual Literary Luncheon

Interlachen Country Club, Winter Park

Saturday, March 5th, 10:15 am to 2:00 pm

Southwest Florida Reading Festival

March 5th

Palm Beach Book Festival March 12th

Boštjan Petrič: Book Collecting in Slovenia

A Florida Bibliophile Society Presentation

March 20th

Macdonald-Kelce Library

Recordings of Previous Florida Bibliophile Society Presentations This Season

Oct. 17, 2021: Ed Cifelli: Presentation on the Jersey Poet John Ciardi.

Nov. 21, 2021: Kurt Zimmerman: the Texas Bookseller Dorothy Sloan

Jan. 16, 2022: Elaine Togneri: What If? Writing Short Stories for Fun and Profit

Feb. 20, 2022 Reid Byers: The Private Library

Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival

Ed Centeno on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. March 31st

A Largo Library Event Sponsored by the Florida Bibliophile Society

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!

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Welcome to Biblio-Connecting February 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

Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS)

The FABS website was recently updated!

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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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

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

Traci Thomas on Instagram at Shakespeare Lightning RoundJan 12th 5:00 pm

At the Mark Twain House: Thomas Crowl on Queen of the Con Jan 18th 7:00 pm

Elaine Togneri at the Florida Bibliophile Society Via Zoom Jan16th 1:30 pm

Upcoming Presentations at the Caxton Club

BLOG PICK OF THE MONTH

Oak Knoll Biblio-Blog

Guest Poster: Oliver B. Pollak

RECENT BLOG POSTS

My Sentimental Library

C.W. Sherborn: Number Ten of the Twelve Blog Posts For Christmas

Contemplations of MoiBibliomaniac

Some Auld Acquaintances I Will Never Forget

A MOLDY OLDIE

A Shelf In My Bookcase June 2007

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.

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Ten Years of Christmas-Related Biblio-Connecting Posts

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.

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 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:

image credit: Viriditas lighting credit: Google+ Auto Awesome

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."

"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."

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

~~Shared to me on Facebook by my neighbor Andrew~~

~~Mele Kalikimaka!~~

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~~