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Discoveries, news, and entertainment chosen weekly by rare book dealer Rebecca Romney
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Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair: 8-9 September, Greenpoint
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Visit me at the Honey & Wax Booksellers booth in Greenpoint, September 8-9. The Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair is always an interesting fair.
If you've never attended a book fair before, I highly recommend this one as your first: the atmosphere is sunny and relaxed, and there's a wide variety of price ranges. Watch this year's video.
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The First Series of Black Orpheus, 1957-1967
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It's been months since I sold this set, but I still can't stop thinking about it.
Last week I posted on my website about Black Orpheus, anglophone Africa's first literary magazine and review, based in Nigeria. Click through to see every cover of the first series.
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The Library of Congress is a LIBRARY!
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The Library of Congress rolled out a new logo this week that was received with great perplexity. It's always tricky to upend a brand's logo, as we learned in 2010: "New Gap Logo, Despised Symbol of Corporate Banality, Dead at One Week" (Vanity Fair).
While choosing a sans serif font for an institution like the LoC is particularly risky, I rather liked that idea. But I agree with the critics who can't quite countenance the redundancy of the word "library," which the LOC has said was intentional.
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Adventures in Subversive Publishing
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I recently read this fantastic anecote about the French publisher Marc Barbezat and Jean Genet:
"Among the great names published by [Barbezat] was that of Jean Genet, a petty crook imprisoned at Fresnes, where a forger of rationing tickets printed his first poem ... Barbezat's fiancee Olga, later to become his wife, managed to get hold of a copy of this passionately subversive erotic poem and sent it to Barbezat, who wrote to Genet asking permission to publish it. Genet replied with a request for 100 francs to buy tobacco in jail."
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