Book Reviews The Editor has asked me to take over responsibility for book reviews in Biblionews. So we need books and reviewers. The books are not a great problem because Oak Knoll Press in USA sends me information on their publications and will make any of them available for review on request. Oak Knoll Press, … Continue reading Notes & Queries
Category: 2001-12
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. xv, 216pp. ISBN 1-884718-9-5. $US39.95 hardcover. Ruari McLean is one of Britain’s or rather Scotland's most eminent typographers. True To Type is his autobiographical account of his life and career. He ends the preface as follows: “This is a typographical autobiography and there are no women in it” (not … Continue reading 'True To Type. A Typographical Autobiography.' by Ruari McLean.
Hartwell, Victoria: Sid Harta Publishers, 2001. viii, 80 pp. ISBN 0-9578709-8-1. Nancye Perry needs no introduction to Victorian members of the Book Collectors. Society of Australia, since she and her husband Warren have been for many years regular attenders at Melbourne meetings. Our colleague.s lively interest in collecting, with a special emphasis on shipwrecks, is … Continue reading 'Child of the ‘Twenties, Girl of the ‘Thirties.' by Nancye Kent Perry.
I was brought up with books. My parents loved reading and as children we were encouraged to read. A book for birthdays and Christmas was the norm. Every Saturday morning my father would take one of his four children into Brisbane city and visit either Barkers Bookstore or The Queensland Book Depot where at least an … Continue reading 'The Grisly Wife's Tale'