YOU SHOULD BE QUEUING UP TO GET INTO THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR NOW but it runs the whole weekend. Here's what they say about themselves. Leading Australian and international antiquarian booksellers … [Read more...]
Book destruction/reconstruction
ARTISTS' BOOKS, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Here is a link to an exhibition catalogue with numerous examples of the art. The exhibition is running until 19 January 2016 at the Brooklyn Public … [Read more...]
Bidding against friends – record sale
HERE IS ANOTHER EXTRACT ABOUT COLLECTING FROM A NOVEL. The scene about a record sale in Northern Ireland, comes from a police procedural by Adrian McKinty. McKinty is a St Kilda, Melbourne based … [Read more...]
Symbols of Australia– still available
Buy the book - 'Symbols of Australia' by Mimmo Cozzolino & Fysh Rutherford The first and only book on the visual history of Australian trademarks from the 1880s to the 1950s showing the marks and … [Read more...]
Extreme collectors (another TV show on collecting)
Thanks to member Robert for alerting us as follows: EXTREME COLLECTORS 2 episodes, tonight 8.30 on Ch ONE 1 . Good Collectors show their collections in detail in a friendly environment, and have it … [Read more...]
New ways of storing badges and buttons
COLLECTING IS FUN BUT STORING IS HELL. Thanks to Annette Shiell for bringing this new method to our attention. Here is the link. We have extracted some highlights here. Might be a bit challenging … [Read more...]
Half price sci fi, comics, war pulp fiction, Dr Who
WE CAN ALERT MEMBERS AND WEBSITE USERS TO A GENUINE 50% OFF SALE OF EVERYTHING AT MICK & IRENE STONE'S CAMBERWELL BOOKS. SALE STARTS SATURDAY 30 AUGUST, 10.00 AM. The shop is being sold, and … [Read more...]
Half price sale – Australian books – fiction + more
WE LIKE THIS PLAY COVER. IT'S PART OF THE 50% OFF SALE. Camberwell Books (the shop) is being sold, and Mick & Irene are "retiring". You must come to the shop to get the … [Read more...]
New book about war time advertising
THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY HAS PUBLISHED A BOOK OF INTEREST TO EPHEMERISTS. The Huns have got my gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War, the authors, Amanda Jane Doran and Andrew McCarthy, advise … [Read more...]