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My Bookstore, Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop

• Ronald E. Rice
My Bookstore
Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, november 2012

Hardcover, 288 pagina’s, 21 x 14 cm
ISBN 9781579129101, verkoopprijs € 23,99

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My Bookstore collects the stories, praise and words of thanks, for stores around the world, in 84 short essays written by our most beloved authors. Some of the pieces are sentimental, some are hilarious, all are unforgettable and inspiring.

Sidebars tell of the history of the store, it’s idiosyncracies and little-known secrets and legends.
Fifty black-and-white line drawings by Leif Parsons illustrate each shop’s front door or distinguishing features.

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Everyone who really loves books loves bookstores, and anyone who loves bookstores will appreciate this labor of love. (Kirkus)

 

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Taschen: Robert Crumb, Sketchbooks 1982-2011

• Robert Crumb, Dian Hanson (ed.)
Robert Crumb – Sketchbooks 1982-2011

Uitgeverij Taschen, oktober 2012

6 delen in cassette, 1344 pagina’s, 27 x 20,5 cm
ISBN 9783836524797, verkoopprijs € 699,00

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Regelmatig komt uitgeverij Taschen met bijzondere uitgaven, die pittig geprijsd zijn, maar door hun gelimiteerde oplage aantrekkelijk kunnen zijn voor mensen die uit zijn op waardestijging. Een voorwaarde is dan eigenlijk wel: in de originele verpakking laten en niet aankomen.

Maar deze nieuwe uitgave van het werk van Robert Crumb koop je als liefhebber toch vooral om van te genieten.

This six-book boxed set is the first collection of Robert Crumb sketches to be printed from the original art since the hard-bound, slipcased, seven volume series issued by the German publisher Zweitausendeins between 1981 and 1997. Unlike the Zweitausendeins edition, which included every doodle ever made by the preeminent underground artist, our best-of edition has been personally edited by the notoriously picky artist to include only what he considers his finest work, including hundreds of late period drawings not published in previous sketchbook collections.

De set, in cassette, bevat zes boeken met elk 220 pagina’s. Het zijn de delen 7-12 van een twaalfdelige collectie. Deze eerste zes delen beslaan de periode 1982-2011. Later zal nog een rweede set verschijnen over de periode 1964-1981.
De set wordt uitgebracht in een gelimiteerde editie van 1.000 exemplaren met elk een gesigneerde kleurenlitho van Crumb.

 

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Magna Commoditas – de geschiedenis van 425 jaar Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek

• Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck
Magna Commoditas – Leiden University’s ‘Great Asset’
425 Years Library Collections and Services

Leiden University Press, oktober 2012

hardcover, 304 pagina’s, 28 x 23 cm
ISBN 9789087281656, verkoopprijs € 69,95

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In 2001 verscheen ‘Magna Commoditas. Geschiedenis van de Leidse universiteitsbibliotheek 1575-2000’ van professor Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck, een standaardwerk waarin voor het eerst een volledig overzicht werd gegeven van de geschiedenis van de oudste universiteit van Nederland. Het boek was voorzien van een ruime hoeveelheid fraaie illustraties.

Het boek was al geruime tijd uitverkocht, maar recent verscheen een nieuwe editie. Deze Engelstalige versie is volledig geactualiseerd en opnieuw vormgegeven.

Leiden University Library has a long history of services around versatile collections and unique sources, dating back to the sixteenth century. The library has always been considered a great asset to the university, not only since the first library room was constructed in 1587, but even before, when founding father William of Orange, in 1575, donated the very first book.

Magna Commoditas is a fully illustrated and thoroughly researched story of the interaction between dozens of librarians and thousands of library visitors in past and present: from readers of chained books to current users of webservices.

 

Christiane M.G. Berkvens-Stevelinck (1946) is bijzonder hoogleraar Europese cultuur aan de Radboud Universiteit. Van 1970 tot 2000 was ze verbonden aan de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek.

Meer over dit boek…

  • in universitair weekblad Mare beschreef Vincent Bongers de eerste jaren van de universiteitsbibliotheek, artikel 8 nov. 2012

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eerdere versies…

2001 | Magna Commoditas. Geschiedenis van de Leidse universiteitsbibliotheek 1575-2000
gebonden, 264 pag. | Primavera Pers, 2001
ISBN 9789074310710

2004 | Magna Commoditas. A History of Leiden University Library 1575-2003
softcover, 112 pag. | Primavera Pers, 2004
ISBN 9789059970052

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Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers – nieuw boek van David Jury

• David Jury
Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers
The Printer as Designer and Craftsman: 1700-1914

Thames & Hudson, Londen, september 2012

hardcover, 800 illustr., 312 pagina’s, 29,5 x 19,5 cm
ISBN 9780500516461, verkoopprijs € 42,99

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A rich, visual retelling of history, international in scope, this book charts the evolution of print into graphic design between 1700 and 1914. It is organized into six chapters, each beginning with a short introductory text before immersing the reader in a wealth of delightful and fully captioned examples of printed ephemera handbills, posters, advertisements, catalogues and labels that served the demands of the emerging consumer classes of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and reveal the extraordinary skill, craft, design sense and intelligence of those who created them. A book of great appeal, based on comprehensive, original research, it keys into the new appreciation of craft and hand-rendered graphic design. With around 850 illustrations, many specially photographed from private collections, it will be of immense and lasting interest to graphic designers, design and social historians, as well as collectors of print and printed emphemera alike. (uitgever)

 

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Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

• Jen Campbell
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

Constable and Robinson, Londen, april 2012

hardcover, 192 pagina’s, 20 x 14 cm
ISBN 9781780334837, verkoopprijs € 10,99 (bol)

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Jen Campbell schreef op haar weblog ‘this is not the six word novel’ met enige regelmaat over haar soms bizarre ervaringen met klanten in de Londense boekhandel waar ze werkte.
Van deze hilarische collectie is nu een boekje gemaakt.

Did Anne Frank write a sequel?

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller’s collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor.

Person: Hi, I’m looking for a Mr. Patrick.
Me: No one of that name works here, sorry.
Person: But does he live here?
Me:… no one lives here; we’re a bookshop.
Person: Are you sure?

From ‘Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?’ to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year’s weather; and from ‘I’ve forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter’ to ‘Excuse me…is this book edible?’

This full-length collection illustrated by the Brothers McLeod also includes top ‘Weird Things’ from bookshops around the world.

Jen Campbell grew up in the northeast of England, and graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA in English Literature. She is a published poet and short-story writer. She lives in north London where she works at Ripping Yarns bookshop.

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Miss Dorothy And Her Bookmobile

• Gloria Houston, Susan Condie Lamb (illustr.)
Miss Dorothy And Her Bookmobile

HarperCollins Publishers, januari 2011

hardcover, 32 pagina’s, 22 x 25 cm
ISBN 9780060291556, verkoopprijs € 15,99 (bol)

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In de Verenigde Staten is de ‘bibliobus’ nog altijd een veelgebruikt middel om het lenen en lezen van boeken toegankelijker te maken. Sinds 2010 wordt er jaarlijks de National Bookmobile Day gevierd. Dit jaar op 11 april (meer). Daarom vandaag aandacht voor dit aardige prentenboek.

When Dorothy was a young girl, she loved books, and she loved people, so she decided that she would become a librarian.

Dorothy’s dearest wish is to be a librarian in a fine brick library just like the one she visited when she was small. But her new home in North Carolina has valleys and streams but no libraries, so Miss Dorothy and her neighbors decide to start a bookmobile. Instead of people coming to a fine brick library, Miss Dorothy can now bring the books to them—at school, on the farm, even once in the middle of a river!

Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile is an inspiring story about the love of books, the power of perseverance, and how a librarian can change people’s lives.

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‘The Library Book’ – 24 famous UK writers tell us why libraries are important

• Rebecca Gray (ed.)
The Library Book

Profile Books, Londen, februari 2012

hardcover, 224 pagina’s, 18 x 11 cm
ISBN 9781781250051, verkoopprijs € 12,99 (bol)

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From Alan Bennett’s Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan’s Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they’re important.

Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson remembers how her career began beside the shelves. Using memoir, history, polemic and some short stories too, The Library Book celebrates ‘that place where they lend you books for free’ and the people who work there.

Contributors: Alan Bennett, Anita Anand, Ann Cleeves, Bali Rai, Bella Bathurst, Caitlin Moran, China Miéville, Hardeep Singh Kohli, James Brown, Julian Barnes, Julie Myerson, Karin Slaughter, Kate Mosse, Lionel Shriver, Lucy Mangan, Michael Brooks, Nicky Wire, Robin Turner, Seth Godin

This book is published in support of libraries, with all royalties going to The Reading Agency, to help their work supporting libraries.
Published for National Libraries Day on 4 February 2012.

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‘Bookshelf’ van Alex Johnson – verrassende bergplaatsen voor uw boeken

• Alex Johnson
Bookshelf

Thames & Hudson, Londen, februari 2012

hardcover, 272 pagina’s, 18 x 18 cm
ISBN 9780500516140, verkoopprijs € 17,99

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Alex Johnson zet op zijn veelbekeken weblog ‘Bookshelf – The home of interesting bookshelves, bookcases and things that look like them since 2007’ bijna dagelijks een foto van een – meestal modern – object waarin of waarop boeken bewaard kunnen worden.

Er is nu een boek verschenen, waarin Alex Johnson een selectie uit zijn inmiddels omvangrijke collectie design boekenkasten en boekenplanken presenteert.

Bookshelf presents over 200 inventive and experimental shelving designs in more than 400 colour illustrations that are sure to covet and inspire. Individual specification details are provided for each bookcase, including materials and documentation, and the accompanying texts by Alex Johnson, author and editor of ‘The Blog on the Bookshelf’, provide a fun and informative look at the history of the bookcase, as well as reflecting on how a new generation of designers have re-imagined a classic.

Contents
Introduction: In Praise of the Bookshelf • I. Bookcases • II. Single Shelves • III. Bookshelf Furniture • IV. Unusual Bookcases • V. Bookcases as Art • VI. Outside the Box • VII. Restricted-size Bookshelves

Een aanbeveling op video van timmerman Steve Ramsey geeft een beeld van de vormgeving van dit boek.

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‘Love Letters’ – 25 liefdesbrieven in origineel handschrift uit de collectie van de British Library

• Andrea Clarke
Love Letters
2000 Years of Romance

British Library Publishing, november 2011

hardback, 60 colour illustrations, 112 pagina’s, 21 x 15 cm
ISBN 9780712358255, verkoopprijs € 13,99

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Dit mooie kadoboek wordt door de uitgever, de British Library Publishing, aangeprezen met:

  • While many anthologies of love letters exist, a book reproducing letters in the writer’s own hand has not previously been published
  • 25 love letters drawn from the British Library’s unique collections from 168 BC to the 20th century, by famous individuals as Elizabeth I, Nelson, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde
  • A wonderful gift

Over the ages handwritten letters have facilitated some of the most intimate exchanges between people. The words of love letters allow us insights into the private relationships of people across centuries, cultures and continents. While many anthologies of love letters exist, a book reproducing actual love letters in the author’s own hand has not previously been published and this book features letters from ancient Egypt to the present day. The original manuscripts of such letters grant the reader a direct connection with the person who actually wrote those personal words, sometimes many centuries ago.

This charming book reproduces and transcribes in full 25 love letters with engaging commentaries about the correspondents and their circumstances, as well as portraits of the writers and recipients. It includes letters by figures such as Henry VIII, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Horatio Lord Nelson, Oscar Wilde and Mervyn Peake.

Andrea Clarke is Curator of Early Modern Historical and Classical Manuscripts at the British Library.

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‘Forgotten Bookmarks’ – A Bookseller’s Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages

• Michael Popek
Forgotten Bookmarks
A Bookseller’s Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages

Perigee Books, november 2011

Hardcover, 182 pagina’s, 21 x 16 cm
ISBN 9780399537011, verkoopprijs € 16,99

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Michael Popek, een Amerikaanse antiquaar, bladert elk boek dat hij in handen krijgt even door om te zien of er vergeten ‘bladwijzers’ zijn achtergebleven. Regelmatig komt hij zo objecten tegen, variërend van foto’s en brieven tot oude toegangsbewijzen, lijstjes, recepten en ook wel gewone boekenleggers.

Al geruime tijd heeft Popek een website waar hij zijn vondsten toont, tezamen met het boek waarin ze gevonden zijn. Zie www.forgottenbookmarks.com.

In november is er een boek van hem verschenen met een keuze uit zijn vondsten.

Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek’s most interesting finds. Sure, there are actual bookmarks, but there are also pictures and ticket stubs, old recipes and notes, valentines, unsent letters, four-leaf clovers, and various sordid, heartbreaking, and bizarre keepsakes. Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers’ lives that they never intended for us to see.

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