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In Conversation with the Rosenbach

I spoke at the Rosenbach Museum in Center City, Philadelphia: a book signing and Q&A about my book Printer’s Error.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library

The Rosenbach houses the collections of the Rosenbach brothers, two of the most prominent antiquarians and successful rare book dealers of the 20th century. Among its treasures are major collections of rare books and manuscripts, especially Americana and 19th-century authors (Dickens, Conrad, Wilde); and the original manuscript of James Joyce’s Uly...

In Conversation with the Rosenbach: Q&A Event on 27 April

On Thursday, April 27th, 6pm-7pm, I’ll be at the Rosenbach Museum in Center City, Philadelphia, for a book signing and Q&A about my book Printer’s Error. The Rosenbach Museum & Library The Rosenbach houses the collections of the Rosenbach brothers, two of the most prominent antiquarians and successful rare book dealers of the 20th century. Among... Read More

Printer’s Errors in PRINTER’S ERROR

As is right and true with the workings of the world, our book about human error in the history of print contains a number of errors that we caught too late to change for the first printing.   Food for Bibliographers Now they’re fated to become the bibliographic points – the details we check to... Read More

Thirty Years of Cover Designs for The Handmaid’s Tale

In the 30+ years since Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was published, this dystopian classic has been through more cover re-designs than you might think. What comes to mind for most of us is the image of a woman in red, wearing that unsettlingly sharp white cap, dwarfed by an enormous wall. As a rare... Read More

Lizzie Borden’s Basement & The Cover Design of Printer’s Error

JP Romney and I were thrilled when we learned that HarperCollins had gone out of its way to bring on a highly-sought letterpress printer, Ross MacDonald, to design the cover of our book Printer’s Error. If you look at the lettering on the front cover, you’ll notice a depth to it that was created through... Read More

PRINTER’S ERROR: Irreverent Stories from Book History

I am delighted to announce that my book on books, PRINTER’S ERROR, will be published by HarperCollins on March 14, 2017. Iconoclastic Bibliophilia My co-author is J.P. Romney (author of THE MONSTER ON THE ROAD IS ME), and for those of you who listen to our podcast (Biblioclast), you ought to have a sense of... Read More

Book Collecting Road Map: Pirates

A Bibliographic Treasure Map When working with book collectors, we often fall into discussions of road maps: the basic signposts and landmarks used to orient ourselves in a specific category. In this post I outline some of the major books sought on pirate material. Call it a short (arg, so short!) annotated bibliography for book... Read More