Situation Vacant
Blackwell's
Rare Books has a vacancy for a full-time bookseller at its bookshop in Oxford.
Experience with modern first editions and private press books is particularly
desirable. More details available here.
Please send enquiries, or CV with covering letter, by April 29th to:
derek.walker@blackwell.co.uk
Derek Walker, Blackwell's Rare Books, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ
+44 (0)1865 333 555
Please send enquiries, or CV with covering letter, by April 29th to:
derek.walker@blackwell.co.uk
Derek Walker, Blackwell's Rare Books, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ
+44 (0)1865 333 555
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From the British Library
The
British Library opens this summer a new major exhibition 'Propaganda Power and Persuasion', accompanied
by a line-up of interesting speakers and events. as well as a performance from
exciting multi-media duo Public Service Broadcasting. From 17 May - 17
September.
'Propaganda: Power and Persuasion' is the first exhibition to explore international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. From the eye-opening to the mind-boggling, from the beautiful to the surprising, posters, films, cartoons, sounds and texts reveal the myriad ways that states try to influence and persuade their citizens.
Exploring a thought-provoking range of exhibits, you will find yourselves looking anew at the messages, methods, and media used by different states - discovering how they use propaganda through time and across cultures for both power and persuasion.
'Propaganda: Power and Persuasion' is the first exhibition to explore international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. From the eye-opening to the mind-boggling, from the beautiful to the surprising, posters, films, cartoons, sounds and texts reveal the myriad ways that states try to influence and persuade their citizens.
Exploring a thought-provoking range of exhibits, you will find yourselves looking anew at the messages, methods, and media used by different states - discovering how they use propaganda through time and across cultures for both power and persuasion.
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from the ABA
The
ABA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association) will be hosting what is thought to
be the first ever "Books NOT Books" exhibition at the London
International Antiquarian Book Fair which opens on Thursday June 13th and runs
until Saturday June 15th, in the National Exhibition Hall at Olympia, West
London.
"Books
NOT Books" will be an amusing, informative and deceptive exhibition
showing the book in a variety of different forms - Books as Art, Books as
Boxes, Books as Anything other than Books – whether it is a handbag, pin box or
biscuit tin! The majority of the objects on show have come from a single
collection, but the ABA is encouraging anyone who would like to lend an object
to let them know – the more offbeat the better!
Exhibition Curator and Bath-based bookseller Ed Bayntun-Coward commented: "I'm working on the old cliché, 'You can't judge a book by its cover'. Books are the most instantly recognisable of objects. I believe that if Richard III had happened to have risen after 528 years under a Leicester car park, he would have been most surprised by his surroundings (cars, cameras, mobiles, etc.), but the printed book has changed little. Over time some clever craftsmen, even artists, have had fun either disguising a book as something different, or making another object look like a book and my aim is that this exhibition reflects this!"
"Books
NOT Books" will be an amusing, informative and deceptive exhibition
showing the book in a variety of different forms - Books as Art, Books as
Boxes, Books as Anything other than Books – whether it is a handbag, pin box or
biscuit tin! The majority of the objects on show have come from a single
collection, but the ABA is encouraging anyone who would like to lend an object
to let them know Рthe more offbeat the better! Exhibition Curator and Bath-based bookseller Ed Bayntun-Coward commented: "I'm working on the old clich̩, 'You can't judge a book by its cover'. Books are the most instantly recognisable of objects. I believe that if Richard III had happened to have risen after 528 years under a Leicester car park, he would have been most surprised by his surroundings (cars, cameras, mobiles, etc.), but the printed book has changed little. Over time some clever craftsmen, even artists, have had fun either disguising a book as something different, or making another object look like a book and my aim is that this exhibition reflects this!"
Sotheby's New York
Sotheby’s
New York is pleased to offer The Library of a Distinguished
American Book Collector in a dedicated auction on 4 June 2013. Acquired
over the course of nearly three decades, this collection, expected to fetch
over $5 million, reflects the collector’s great intellectual curiosity and eclectic
interests, as well as a deeply held passion for American history.
Among the 250 lots on offer, the library has a particular emphasis on George Washington, highlighted by seven books from Washington’s Mount Vernon Library, all with his bold signature on their title pages and his bookplate (est. $1/1.5 million). This is the largest group of books from Washington’s library to appear in a single auction since the Bishop John Fletcher Hurst sale in 1904 and features novels such as Jonathan Swift’s The Beauties of Swift, Alain Rene Le Sage’s The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. Vol. 3. and Joseph Priestley’s Discourses Relating to the Evidences of Revealed Religion.
Highlights from the collection will be on view at their Boston, Chicago and London offices in May, and the full collection will be on exhibition at their New York galleries beginning 31 May 2013 in advance of the sale.
Among the 250 lots on offer, the library has a particular emphasis on George Washington, highlighted by seven books from Washington’s Mount Vernon Library, all with his bold signature on their title pages and his bookplate (est. $1/1.5 million). This is the largest group of books from Washington’s library to appear in a single auction since the Bishop John Fletcher Hurst sale in 1904 and features novels such as Jonathan Swift’s The Beauties of Swift, Alain Rene Le Sage’s The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. Vol. 3. and Joseph Priestley’s Discourses Relating to the Evidences of Revealed Religion.
Highlights from the collection will be on view at their Boston, Chicago and London offices in May, and the full collection will be on exhibition at their New York galleries beginning 31 May 2013 in advance of the sale.
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