Friday, April 26, 2013

Antiquarian News from Ibookcollector


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
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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. 

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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.

ABA"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!" 

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. 



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