The following catalogues have been received:G A & J A Burkhardt, Old and Fine Books, September 2008 Catalogue, Australiana, Miscellaneous. Contact details: 11 Larakia Street, Waramanga ACT 2611. Tel.: (02) 6288 1939Oak Knoll Press, 30th Anniversary Sale through September 30th, 2008. Oak Knoll Press, Fall 2008. Contact details: 310 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720, … Continue reading Catalogues- September 2008
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2008-09
The Good Living supplement of The Sydney Morning Herald of July 15, 2008, pp.8f., has a most informative article on cookery books (as older generations used to say) or cookbooks (as more recent generations now say) by Jenny Tabakoff with the title and subtitle, containing the sort of pun unavoidable in headlines these days, “Cook’s endeavour. Rare recipe books entice collectors to embark on voyages of disovery”.
The newspaper The Weekend Australian of 6-7 September 2008 cites, in the Editorial Comment column of its Weekend Editor section on p.32, the following translation of part of an item about the “success of devices for reading books” in the German newpaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
I have just read the latest issue of Biblionews I received (June 2008, 358th Issue) and would like to comment on the article by Frank Carleton, specifically his references to searching one of his books on Abebooks. His experience is, I am sure, common and annoys genuine booksellers as much as it does genuine collectors. Although booksellers who use Abe or, as in my case, www.bookfinder.com for searching, take the results with a large “pinch of salt”, I do, as a bookseller, have serious misgivings over the effect which such searches must have on potential new book collectors.