Here’s the noir great, suggesting his publisher vary the standard protection clause that typically appears on a book’s copyright page, in this case his fifth Marlow novel The Little Sister:
The people and events in this book are not entirely fictional. Some of the events happened, although not in this precise time or place, and certain [...]
The Associated Press reports:
The legal sparring involving the cache — apparently discovered in a file cabinet decades after they were written — was settled in January but no one will say where the trove of documents is now.
[...]
Stephens Mitchell, who died in 1983, directed much of the archive to the University of Georgia’s rare books [...]
Glossary of bibliographic information by language.
[Via Patricia @ Marbury Books via Bookfinder Insider.]
Picking up on the news Friday that employees of the legendary Strand bookstore in NYC are suing for discrimination, Gawker has an interesting (if often juvenile) discussion going on (scroll down to the comments section). And colleague Michael Lieberman raises some important questions:
Is there a point when a bookstore becomes too big to remain [...]
I’m starting a new feature today, a kind of experiment. Regularly (maybe a couple of times a week), I’ll highlight a recent acquisition, one that is interesting or unusual in some respect. For awhile now, I’ve been meaning to shine a light on some of the more fascinating books that cross my desk, [...]
Hoaxes Hit Bookstores:
The call came from someone who said he was the Los Angeles blogger and first novelist Mark Sarvas, who was reading at the store in a few days and seemed to be in a pinch. His car had been impounded, he needed money to get it back and he needed it right away.
“I [...]
What is more touching
than a used-book store on Saturday night,
dowdy clientele haunting the aisles:
the girl with bad skin, the man with a tic,
some chronic ass at the counter giving his art speech?
That’s poet August Kleinzahler in his poem “San Francisco/New York” nailing a miniature portrait of the biz in just a few lines. The [...]
[T]he tensions of last year’s charges against the Strand by three African-American women still reverberate. It was only a year ago that the charges prompted the Strand’s union (United Auto Workers Local 2179) to post this notice: “It has come to the attention of the local that racial discrimination is occurring at Strand Bookstore. If [...]
The city tried to rebrand the area as a technology corridor, but not a single dot-com materialized. Instead, three nonprofit organizations formed a partnership in 1999, bought three adjacent warehouses and renovated them into Open Book, which says it is the largest — if not the only — literary and book arts center in the [...]
For those readers who are not themselves booksellers, the recent fee hikes at abebooks.com, one of the most widely-used online sites for the buying and selling of used and rare books, likely have passed unnoticed. In the relatively small world of book dealers, however, the additional costs have been the topic of conversation for [...]
ILAB has posted to YouTube bibliomania, the:
ABAA-produced documentary filmed entirely on location at the San Francisco Book Fair. Filled with interviews given by both booksellers and attendees, it gives a revealing look at the reason to collect antiquarian books.
Also: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (mislabeled “Part 6″), and (the actual) Part 6.
Erik Heywood of Books At Home: A Blog About Bookshelves (I site I long-ago should have added to the blogroll) has started a new blog (which immediately hits the blogroll), Books in New York:
Books In New York is an ongoing project, working to create a visual catalog of New York City’s bookstores, libraries and book [...]
Pre-owned bookmarks collected over the years from books purchased at flea markets, garage sales, used bookstores, etc.