Again, it seems that she might have merely “queued up”, literally or metaphorically, for this signature. The change in ink suggests to me that Schreyvogl had pre-written the dedication in blue ink in more than one copy of his little book, which though dated 1920 was actually rushed out in time for the Christmas market of 1919, then Illustration 3 Author’s 1919 dedication to Liesl Künzler in Fiedl Schreyvogl’s Friedliche Welt. Illustration 4 Dust wrapper of Clara Leiser’s Lunacy Becomes Us. as purchasers of it approached him for a signing he merely entered their name in the space he’d left for the purpose, only on this day he had a different inkwell in front of him.
Category: 2008-September Issue
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.