Discoveries, news, and entertainment chosen weekly by rare book dealer Rebecca Romney
Rare Books
Booksellers in the News (In a Good Way)
Over the past few weeks, some excellent profiles of rare book dealers have appeared:
Bolerium Books in San Francisco (New Yorker)
The Second Shelf in London (Vanity Fair)
"The Best Rare Book Shops in London" (Tatler)
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Join Me at Oak Knoll Fest Tomorrow
Oak Knoll Fest XX, the book fair of fine press and books on books, begins today.
Tomorrow at 9:30am, I will be speaking there about the Doves Press, based on the chapter in my book Printer's Error. Afterwards I'll have signed copies of my book available for purchase.
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Bookish Links
The Man Who Recreated 221B in his Basement
For CrimeReads this week I wrote about my visit to Denny Dobry's recreation of Sherlock Holmes's famous London flat... in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Where else would one see a gasogene, tantalus, and Victorian-era tins of all four types of tobacco mentioned in Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories?
Among those included is the Facebook Group "We Love Endpapers," started by rare book dealer Simon Beattie. You'll find regular postings there by collectors, dealers, and librarians alike.
Bonus Round
Once upon a time, two science fiction/fantasy authors started a Twitter conversation ... that became an improvisational horror story.
The thread of authors Sam Sykes and Chuck Wendig went viral (you should really read it if you haven't) -- and now SyFy has made a movie out of it. As one does.
