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Book collecting

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:

Biblio. No.7/Jul / Basbanes N., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29410-30775
Scope and Contents

Sidney Berger contributes an essay, "Book Format. Part One: Broadsides, Folios, and Quartos." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Biblio. No.8/Aug / Basbanes N ; Beckett S., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30593-32031
Scope and Contents

Daniel Lindlley writes in his essay, "The Unnamable Samuel Beckett," that Beckett wrote his play "Breath" in 1970 as a contribution to Kenneth Tynan's show "Oh! Calcutta." It consisted of a few lighting effects, cries, and the sound of breathing. The Sackner Archive holds a hand-knit sweater by Astrid Furnival that depicts the full text of this play. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Biblio. No.9/Sep / Basbanes N ; Hoyem A., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29427-30792
Scope and Contents

Contains an essay by Carol Grossman, "Arion Press: A Legacy of Literary Artistry" describing the founding of the press by publisher Andrew Hoyem. The Sackner Archive holds the AP's " Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" and "Flatland" both described in the essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Bibliophilia: Still No Cure In Sight / Basbanes, Nicholas A.; Rosenbach ASW., 1991

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Identifier: CC-23349-23791
Scope and Contents

This essay deals with book collecting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade / Mondlin, Marvin ; Meador, Roy ; DuPriest MD., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42816-44856
Scope and Contents Review from Publishers Weekly: Between 1890 and the 1960s, a bustling trade in used and rare books flourished in New York City along Fourth Avenue, between Union Square and Astor Place. Although the stores that once prospered on this little stretch of street have long since closed, the memories of the halcyon days of the bookselling trade in the city still live in the minds of former customers and store employees. Drawing on interviews and on seminal articles published in the early- and mid-20th century, Mondlin (estate buyer at the Strand) and book collector Meador vividly re-create the passion, wonder and adventure of the book trade as it developed along Book Row. The authors paint portraits of the booksellers who established the Row and who secured its reputation among book lovers. There is George D. Smith, the shrewd but gentlemanly book collector who helped Henry E. Huntington build his own library. Called by many "the greatest American bookdealer," Smith provided an example...
Dates: 2003

Books from the Old Style Press / Old Style Press ; d'Arbeloff N., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32624-34208
Scope and Contents

Natalie d'Arbeloff's book "The Revelation of Saint John the Divine," is described in the catalogue and depicted on the enclosed card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Books in the Blood / Rota, Anthony., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39338-41288
Scope and Contents

An insightful memoire of a fourth generation bookseller in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Chandler Robbins' Remarks on the Disorders of Literary Men / Ruffner, Frederick, Jr.., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41195-43178
Scope and Contents

The author makes some good points about the lack of exercise among book collectors. Chandler Robbins was a preacher living in the mid-19th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Chandler Robbins' Remarks on the Disorders of Literary Men / Ruffner, Frederick, Jr.., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41235-43218
Scope and Contents

The author makes some good points about the lack of exercise among book collectors. Chandler Robbins was a preacher living in the mid-19th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Charlotte M. Smith Papers, Including the Records of the Tamazunchale Press

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0457
Abstract

Publisher of miniature books in Newton, Iowa, founded by Charlotte and Thomas Smith. Correspondence, typescripts, proofs, advertising, contracts, etc., have been combined with Charlotte M. Smith's personal papers.

Dates: 1970-2001

Collectors & Special Collections: Three Talks / Cole, John Y, editor ; Reese W ; Jackson Ro ; Schreyer A., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39409-41361
Scope and Contents

Robert Jackson participated in the Avant Garde: Second Wave symposium at Ohio State University Rare Library, July 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Die Scwarze Lade / The Black Kit / Lessenrich, Jean, editor ; Neslony B ; Klassen N., 2009 - 2011

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Identifier: CC-54299-643188
Scope and Contents

Boris Neslony contributed essays that describe and explain this Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009 - 2011

Editions & Impressions; Twenty Years on the Book Beat / Basbanes, Nicholas A. ; Jaffe A ; Kaplan M., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47817-68837
Scope and Contents L.A. Times: "If anyone in the United States is truly a book person, surely it is Nicholas A. Basbanes. For two decades, the literary critic and columnist has cast a fond, even loving eye, on the culture of books, their substance, their wider meaning in society and the people who -- in ways similar and markedly different -- share his passion. His intense engagement with all things bookish shines from every page of his new collection of journalistic pieces, each one sparkling with insights born of total immersion in his beloved subject. Basbanes already has written a handful of indispensable books on this topic, but, as he makes clear in his introduction to "Editions & Impressions," he selected these particular essays "precisely because they are not replicated in any substantial way" in his other published work. The essays are radiant with his joy in discovering and exploring the byways of the book world. And what a world it is, full of fascinating characters and interesting...
Dates: 2007

Editions & Impressions; Twenty Years on the Book Beat / Basbanes, Nicholas A. ; Jaffe A ; Kaplan M., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47818-68838
Scope and Contents L.A. Times: "If anyone in the United States is truly a book person, surely it is Nicholas A. Basbanes. For two decades, the literary critic and columnist has cast a fond, even loving eye, on the culture of books, their substance, their wider meaning in society and the people who -- in ways similar and markedly different -- share his passion. His intense engagement with all things bookish shines from every page of his new collection of journalistic pieces, each one sparkling with insights born of total immersion in his beloved subject. Basbanes already has written a handful of indispensable books on this topic, but, as he makes clear in his introduction to "Editions & Impressions," he selected these particular essays "precisely because they are not replicated in any substantial way" in his other published work. The essays are radiant with his joy in discovering and exploring the byways of the book world. And what a world it is, full of fascinating characters and interesting...
Dates: 2007