Old and Rare Books. From ILAB: the one stop FREE App for all lovers of rare booksThe International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) has launched an ILAB Mobile App which is now available in the Apple Store and the Android Market. Search for “ILAB rare books” or “International League of Antiquarian Booksellers” to find the free App ready to install on your phone. 
Switzerland 2012 - 40th ILAB Congress & 24th International Antiquarian Book FairThe Swiss Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (VEBUKU) and its president Alain Moirandat are proud to host the 40th ILAB Congress in Lucerne and the 24th International Antiquarian Book Fair in Zurich from September 22nd to 30th, 2012. Check out the amazing programme and register for the Congress and the Fair! 
Send this newsletter to a friend!This special issue of the ILAB Newsletter is made up of the most successful articles on our website. We want to use it as a way to attract as many customers as possible. Please, send this Newsletter to your friends, colleagues, and customers! 
Sid Lapidus and Jay and Jean Kislak - ABAA and ILAB Patrons of HonourThe ABAA and ILAB are delighted to announce that Sid Lapidus and Jay and Jean Kislak have been awarded the ABAA and ILAB Patron of Honor. Read more ... 
"If you love rare books and want to own a lot of them there has never been a better time to be alive."1,165 ILAB dealers use commercial databases to sell rare and fine books, prints, manuscripts and autographs. The ILAB Metasearch now searches 1,158 of them! An interview with Jim Hinck about the advantages of the ILAB Metasearch and the future of the online book trade. 
"Out of the classroom and into the world" - ILAB InternshipsILAB has launched an internship program for young antiquarian book dealers. Alena Lavrenova and Anastasya Zhikhareva, two young antiquarian booksellers from Russia, spent four weeks in Austria, Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands. Read their exciting reports and join our new Facebook Group! 
ILAB Booksellers on Video"A wonderful snapshot of the rich history of both the ABAA and the rare book trade" - ILAB is proud to present the video archive project by Michael Ginsberg and Taylor Bowie. Recently added: interviews with ABAA President Sarah Baldwin, John Thompson and Roger Gozdecki. 
ILAB keeps you informed about new cataloguesOn the ILAB site you can browse a thousand catalogues of rare and fine books, autographs, first editions and manuscripts offered by ILAB dealers. More catalogues are uploaded every day. Once you have logged into your account (link on top right hand corner of the page), just click on "Catalogs in my fields of interest" and follow the procedure! GlossaryGlossary terms |
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Price: 60.00 SEK
Swingshift; vol. 1, no. 2, Autumn 1951.
Kolb, Sylvia, editor, Anthony J. Cascone, Ben Turner, M. Riarte, John Kolb, Rae Texi, Isaiah Williams, David Fleming, Lyndoors Grey et al
Bookseller: Bolerium Books
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Der Landprediger von Wakefield. Eine Erz
Richter, Ludwig - GOLDSMITH, Oliver
Bookseller: DAS BÜCHERHAUS
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Price: 22.00 EUR
MADAME BOVARY
FLAUBERT, Gustave
Bookseller: Charles Agvent
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Price: 200.00 USD
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Preserving Your Rare Books: Setting up and Maintaining Your Home Library
As a collector of rare books, your goal is to keep your collection in optimum shape. You’re careful with dust jackets and protect fragile books with clamshell cases. Even the way you shelve your rare books can impact their condition. It’s important that your home library provides the support and protection that rare books need.
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Under the Auspices
A safari to the remote corners of my own house this week – and from there to the attics of my mind. In fact just having a clear-out to make way for all the fresh purchases (really must do a catalogue). Then I came across a printed guide for the Antiquarian Book Fair to be held at the Europa Hotel, Grosvenor Square, on the 13th-15th June 1972 – “under the auspices” of the ABA.
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Rock in the USSR
This is an underground Russian samizdat translation of Nik Cohn’s classic history of pop music - first published in 1969 as Pop from the Beginning (in America as Rock from the Beginning), and then under the title Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom - produced on a typewriter with manuscript additions for any English words and names and then mimeographed. Although the title here reads ‘London 1969’, the source text must have been the American edition given the title and as the sequence of chapters and their headings also follow that version.
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Albert Einstein's complete archives to be posted online
Great news: The Guardian and Associated Press report that the Hebrew University of Jerusalem puts online 2,000 documents from the Albert Einstein archives including unseen letters, postcards and research notes.
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Nigel Beale and Tim Bowling in Conversation on Book Collecting, and Bowling’s new Book “In the Suicide’s Library”
Twice shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, Tim Bowling has won the Canadian Authors’ Association Award for Poetry and two Alberta Book Awards. Nigel Beale met the author in Ottawa to talk about his new book In the Suicide’s Library. Topics covered include book collecting, coincidence, suicide, the spirit, passion and harmony of books, the use of hands, the line between bibliophiles and maniacs and the importance of physical books to the culture.
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New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2012 - Field Day for the 1 %
A colleague approached me on the floor of the New York Book Fair and asked if I’d composed this week’s blog yet. I told him I had not. He kindly offered to write it for me himself. It’d be a snap, he said – first the obligatory picture of booksellers slouched around the bar at Donohue’s, then a photo of an unhappy dealer at set-up, surrounded by more books than he had room for, a shot of the eager line at opening, and two or three more showing people in the act of purchasing things. Add a funny story about something that happened to one of our colleagues, and a picture, with price and description, of a really neat item that I bought at the show, and it’d be done.