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YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK SEMINAR (YABS) < Back to Terminology List YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK SEMINAR (YABS) Education York Antiquarian Book Seminar (YABS) is a 3 1/2-day intensive seminar modeled after Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminars (CABS). Held in York, England, the seminar is tailored primarily for booksellers, but has benefit for collectors, and librarians. Faculty and guest speakers of long experience deliver lectures, interactive sessions, and demonstrations for people of all levels of expertise. Annually, IOBA and others offer scholarships to those wishing to improve their knowledge and skills. https://www.yabseminar.com/ Previous Next

Making the Past Speak: The Speaking Picture Book (1890s) PRICE £ 766 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile The Speaking Picture Book: A new Picture Book with Characteristically Voices . London: H. Gravel & Co. Made in Germany. Ca. 1890s (300 x 230 x 60mm) 8 illustrations of animals with facing page poetry + title page + informative pastedown. Red cloth binding with stamped edge decoration; chromolithograph plate as cover image with title, text, and vignette of mother playing with children and pets. The 8 card boar pages sit on top of the speaking mechanism, housed in a gilt wooden box with ornate sound vents. 9 tabs with red wooden beads produce 9 voices. Scuffing to cover illustration. Smudges throughout. Historic tape-based repair to the Donkey has left the page stiff. An historic child has drawn lines in purple crayon to Mama and Papa. Bumping to corners. Rebacked. Strings and tabs not original, but an early intervention. The bellows are original, some of the strings are original with indication of historic (early 20th c.) replacements. All sounds function. The fact this toy, manufactured in Nuremberg, has survived— with the evidence of a real-life kid playing with it through the crayon doodles on the final page— is amazing. It has been repaired over the course of its 120 year lifespan, and you can almost see the diligent parent, unscrewing the back page to reveal the inner workings and bellows, trying to fix an over-loved sound that has been pulled too hard and too frequently. Each of the 8 pages with accompanying poetry has an arrow pointing to the tab to be pulled to produce the sound of the cock, donkey, lamb, birds, cow, cuckoo, goat, Mama, and Papa. The patent for this sound-producing book was registered in Germany in 1878 and a year later in England. The book was very popular, with translations from German into French, Spanish, and English, but few survive and even fewer with all the sounds working. The box housing the bellows mechanism is a delicate wood with the sound vents easily punched out. The bellows are made of paper and straws, pulled by strings. The book was intended for children— notorious destroyers of the fragile. None of the examples housed in the British Library and two Cambridge libraries are completely functional. The illustration on the cover shows an sweet scene of a Victorian, lace-frilled mama surrounded by her three children, cat and dog, all of whom have cast aside a copy of the Strewwelpeter (a nod at the German origin of the book’s technology) and a puppet; they are enraptured by the the Speaking Book, which is pictured on its own cover. Captivate your kids with German technology! PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Mobilis Books, LLC Parlour Room Divination: The Birthday Oracle (1883) See Item Fear and Worship in Paris: Leaf from miniature French Book of Hours (early 15th c.) See Item Extremely Early Witness to the Promulgation of Canon Law: Gregory IX - Decretales (ca. 1230-1240) See Item The Crucifixion & the Eclipse : Follower of Maître d'Étienne Poncher - Cutting from Pontifical (1546 See Item Emphemeral Look at the Seed of Europe's Crises: Benjamin Vaughn - The Concert of Princes (1793) See Item Post-Revolution: Arthur Young - The Example of France, A Warning to Britain (1793) See Item Making the Past Speak: The Speaking Picture Book (1890s) See Item American Arthuriana: Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) See Item Carrie's Farwell to Physicke (1586) & Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy (13th c.) See Item Poetry Bound in the Novelty of Mauchline Ware: Casquet of Gems (1874) See Item Cosmographia - Peter Apian, 1575 (second Spanish edition) See Item

BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA (BCC) < Back to Terminology List BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA (BCC) Trade Organization For over a century the San Francisco-based Book Club of California has promoted the history of the book and the book arts with a concentration in California and Western history. BCC promotes the book arts through lectures, exhibitions, and the publication of fine, limited edition, letterpress-printed books and ephemera. Previous Next

SERIAL, SERIALIZATION < Back to Terminology List SERIAL, SERIALIZATION General The publishing of a work of fiction in parts, periodically, the sum of which is a complete book. Some authors issued their books in parts, either as separate publications or as pieces within periodicals or magazines. The serial publication of the work usually represents its first publication. Serialized fiction is often collected as the first edition of a work and the collector is challenged by acquiring ephemeral, fragile periodicals individually. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Austin’s Antiquarian Books OWNER: Karen F. Austin Member since: 2012 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): mail@austinsbooks.com 802 464-8438 802 233-3076 PO Box 730 463 Route 9 West, Wilmington, VT, 05363, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

CASCADE BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION (CBA) < Back to Terminology List CASCADE BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION (CBA) Trade Organization The Cascade Booksellers Association (CBA) is a non-profit association providing services to professional retail book dealers in the Pacific Northwest. Each independent CBA dealer their own unique inventory which may include general stock or focus on specialties. CBA dealers may operate their businesses with diverse policies, but are required to conduct business fairly and honestly. https://cascadebooksellers.com/ Previous Next

GUTTER < Back to Terminology List GUTTER Feature Inner margins of two facing pages. Can also refer to the outer indentation created by joining of the boards and spine. Previous Next

MUSTY / MUSTINESS < Back to Terminology List MUSTY / MUSTINESS Defect A book's adhesives, inks, and paper may be made of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can decompose over time. A humid or damp environment can accelerate this process and rusted binding staples are often an indicator of such an environment. During decomposition, the VOCs are released into the air and create the distinctive odor we identify as musty. This odor is a complex composition and may reflect the ways the book was used or stored. A slight mustiness may be acceptable, but excessively musty books are usually unfit for commerce. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Oddfellow's Fine Books OWNER: Brandon Rison Member since: 2014 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): Reciprocal oddfellowbooks@gmail.com (785) 235-1181 PO Box 3821, Topeka, KS, 66604, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

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[Artist's Book] Goodale, Rebecca and Carrie Scanga. Penumbra PRICE $ 1500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile [Artist's Book] Goodale, Rebecca and Carrie Scanga. Penumbra . Freeport and Portland, ME: Rebecca Goodale and Carrie Scanga, 2025. Accordion. 8" x 5," closed. [16] pp., illus. Limited edition, numbered 5 of 9 variants. Signed by Goodale and Scanga at the colophon. An innovative structure, this accordion book made up of intaglio prints with hand-coloring in silver ink is sewn into the illustrated wrappers in two places. Variants numbered 1-5 comprise the deluxe edition in full cloth, lidded box with striking print recessed into the lid. Copies 6-9 are without box—inquire for pricing. Intaglio-printed prospectus with hand-coloring is laid in. A beautiful and moody collaboration between Goodale and Scanga; their fourth. This book is a product of their individual memories of and reflections upon the solar eclipse in April 2024, Goodale watching from the beach in Maine and Scanga from the woods. These sixteen interlocking pages expand from a paper cover bringing the reader into a surreal garden of dwindling light. Not attempting to be a strict representation of their experiences witnessing the totality, it is instead a wonderful blend of memory and fantasy relaying the remembered emotion. A striking scene in blues and shadows accented in silver ink applied by hand. While the edition was printed from the same plates, the hand-coloring and even the variation in color and saturation from copy to copy mean no two are exactly alike. The structure of the binding and the manner in which these leaves connect offer a more complicated experience than a typical accordion book, with some pages interlocking mid-leaf there is something always just out of view contributing to the mystery and wonder. $1500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Michael Pyron, Bookseller [Broadside] Courtney-Morgan Co. in "A Fair Rebel." Monday Evening, Sept 5, 1898 See Item [Mexico] [Catholic Church] Benedict XIII, Pope. [Broadside] Devotas Oraciones, que Rezaba.... See Item [Design Binding] [Starr-Baum, Katy] Grabhorn Press, First Part of Henry the Fourth See Item [Artist's Book] Goodale, Rebecca and Carrie Scanga. Penumbra See Item Angelo, Valenti. Of the Most Holy Miracle of Saint Francis in Taming the Fierce Wolf of Gubbio See Item [Artist's Book] Suzanne Moore. Rescuing Q: Quandaries and Queries See Item [Artist's Books] Don Glaister, Complete Instructions See Item