Yabs was set up when anthony smithson, of keel row books, attended the colorado seminar in 2011 and was so impressed with the intentions, execution and results of the colorado seminar that he decided to. The 2021 seminar will run from july 1116 on the campus of st. The colorado antiquarian book seminar is an invaluable weeklong educational event in august for booksellers, librarians and collectors attendees learn about buying and selling books on the internet, the auction market for antiquarian books, care and preservation of antiquarian books, pricing and appraisals, and compiling catalogues and online descriptions and these are just a few of the. Please inquire about items you are seeking as current online listings represent only a small portion of available inventory. Our accidental antiquarian, chris lowenstein interviews kevin johnson of royal books today. Aug 26, 2014 i am a long time bookseller, having owned a used bookstore since 1996 in upstate new york. Both megan and josh have attended the colorado antiquarian book seminar, josh on a scholarship sponsored by abebooks in 2011. Barbara bieck special collections librarian new york. Now in its 40th year, the colorado antiquarian book seminar is the oldest, continuously operated educational institution in the world for the antiquarian book trade, predating rare book school in virginia, which was partially modeled on the colorado seminar, by nearly five years.
Adjunct faculty member, school of library and information science, university of north texas, denton, 20032011. Marelibri launches an android application bibliology. The colorado antiquarian book seminar is the perfect opportunity to learn the basics of the trade. Offers training for the profession of antiquarian bookselling. Steven steve escar smith dean and professor, university. The colorado seminar, which gives a great overview of the trade, is like undergraduate school, said another bookseller who was in colorado with me. North american trackless trolleybus bulletin no 105 data. I have placed all my online book listings on hold with the all of the listing services, balanced my accounts for july, emptied the water from the dehumidifiers, paid the. He is also a 2011 graduate of the colorado antiquarian book seminar cabs. In late 20 the physical shop, which was finally breaking even but still not paying its owner, closed. Jonathan smalter has been a fulltime bookseller since graduating college with a degree in philosophy.
I am now also a 2014 colorado antiquarian book seminar cabs alumnus and grateful recipient of an antiquarian booksellers association of america abaa scholarship to attend cabs during the first week of august. The york antiquarian book seminar second edition 2015. For more information, contact mike widener at 203 4324494, email. He is a member of the board of governors of the antiquarian booksellers association of america and is codirector of the colorado antiquarian book seminar, where he has been on the faculty since 2010. After three years in the princeton society of fellows, she joined the trade as a bookseller with bauman rare books. Faculty member, colorado antiquarian book seminar, colorado springs, 20092016. Recipient of arts council of greater new haven 2011 arts award. In honor of longtime member florence shay 19222012, the midwest chapter of the abaa offers an educational scholarship to booksellers from the midwest chapter region to attend the 2019 colorado antiquarian book seminar. Aug 29, 2014 bookselling blogs and listservs mentioned the colorado antiquarian book seminar cabs. Specialists share their expertise and experience with booksellers, librarians, and collectors in this comprehensive survey of the outofprint, antiquarian, rare and used book markets. The seminar became an annual event held in august at the university of denver under the co directorship of goggin and chernofsky, its title settling down as a workshop seminar on the outofprint and antiquarian book market for booksellers and librarians, designed to meet the needs of acquisitions librarians, those responsible for developing. View barbara biecks profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. The colorado antiquarian book seminar home facebook.
Cabs 2017 the colorado antiquarian book seminar abaa ilab. Colorado antiquarian book seminar faculty member, colorado antiquarian book seminar, colorado springs, 20092016 selected service university of tennessee. Jun 01, 2011 the colorado seminar, which gives a great overview of the trade, is like undergraduate school, said another bookseller who was in colorado with me. The colorado antiquarian book seminar is held annually at colorado college, colorado springs. Its a weeklong seminar held in colorado springs each summer where the foundations of buying, researching, cataloging, and selling antiquarian books are taught.
Greenwich village antiquarian book fair, new york, new york. View dennis rays profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. The colorado antiquarian book seminar rebecca romney. Professor and dean of libraries, 2011 overall responsibility and leadership for the university of tennessee libraries, the largest public research library in the state of tennessee and. This week we have a brief and lovely essay from zhenya dzhavgov. Founder will baker holds degrees in religion, museum studies, and library science and is an alumnus of rare book school and the colorado antiquarian book seminar. Mar 17, 2016 heather odonnell got her start in rare books in the stacks of the beinecke library, where she worked as a curatorial assistant during her grad school years at yale, and learned the trade in the. Underground books is a charmingly eccentric bookshop located below streetlevel in carrollton, georgias historic downtown. Ioba standard the journal of the independent online booksellers. With an emphasis on scholarly used, rare, and antiquarian titles, book lovers will find delightful browsing opportunities in many genres. The next seminar will be held from august 712, 2011, subscriptions are welcome until may 1, 2011. Thanks to the generosity of the northern california chapter of the antiquarian booksellers association of america nccabaa, rare book school rbs is pleased to announce an additional. Laurence worms has owned and run ash rare books since 1971. Harropian books is an online bookseller offering a diverse selection of antiquarian, collectible, rare and out of print items.
Bowker company, publisher of books in print and other book trade and library periodicals. A significant turning point in my book selling occurred when i attended the colorado antiquarian book seminar in august 2010. Learn about the antiquarian book trade from the best booksellers and librarians in the country. We are a member of the ioba independent online booksellers association and graduates of the colorado antiquarian book seminar 2011 and rare book school in virginia. Scholarship to attend the colorado antiquarian book seminar. Due to the covid19 emergency, cabs 2020 has been postponed until 2021. Northern california chapter of the antiquarian booksellers of america. We are a member of the ioba independent online booksellers association and graduates of the colorado antiquarian book seminar 2011 and rare book.
Bookselling blogs and listservs mentioned the colorado antiquarian book seminar cabs. Greenwich village antiquarian book fair home facebook. Celebrating women book collectors smithsonian libraries. She serves on the abaa board of governors, the faculty of the colorado antiquarian book seminar, and the vetting committee of the new york winter antiques show.
Apr 21, 2015 jonathan smalter has been a fulltime bookseller since graduating college with a degree in philosophy. I am a long time bookseller, having owned a used bookstore since 1996 in upstate new york. He represented the antiquarian book trade on the british national book committee from 1993 to 2002 and has been six times an elected member of the council of the antiquarian booksellers association. Ab bookmans weekly was a weekly trade publication begun in 1948 by sol.
Colorado antiquarian book seminar contest official rules. Below are the different classifications of condition we use when cataloging books. Cabs 2018 the colorado antiquarian book seminar ilab. Keynote address for the 2011 colorado antiquarian book seminar leab, katharine kyes, h. Jun 01, 2011 2008 colorado antiquarian book seminar cabs journal, or teaching an old dog some new tricks by joe perlman june 1, 2011 1 comment summer 2011 vol.
I was wiped but wired, and since i was spending the night and flying out on friday, i decided on a bit of modest scouting at a nearby salvation army. Hes also, of course, a fulltime bookseller, and because he specializes in modern literature, is in a position to speak to. The workshopseminar in the outofprint and antiquarian book market the eventual title of the seminar became an annual event in 1979. Thanks to the generosity of the northern california chapter of the antiquarian booksellers association of america nccabaa, rare book school rbs is pleased to announce an additional scholarship opportunity for its summer and fall courses in 2011. The colorado antiquarian book seminar, colorado springs, co.
August 26 th, 2011 cabs from an attendees perspective by janine moodhe. Id plunged into the book world in 2011, opening a bricksandmortar. The colorado antiquarian book seminar, founded in the late 1970s, provides training for dealers in outofprint, used, and antiquarian books. We are a member of the ioba independent online booksellers association and graduates of the colorado antiquarian book seminar 2011 and rare book school. He began working in the rare book business in 2004 as a cataloger in americana at the william reese company in new haven, connecticut. One might think i had enough bookselling experience so that the cabs sessions. Yabs was set up when anthony smithson, of keel row books, attended the colorado seminar in 2011 and was so impressed with the intentions, execution and. I culled inventory, moved books into my house and focused on the online business.
Attending the colorado antiquarian book seminar in 2011 was a game changer for jonathan and. Certificate of completion colorado antiquarian book seminar. He has over fifteen years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books. A seminar for booksellers, librarians, and collectors. I applied for a scholarship in 2012, but didnt get it. Some of you may recognize kevin as a regular faculty member of the annual colorado antiquarian book seminar. She is a graduate of the colorado antiquarian book seminar and rare book school, a member of the grolier club, and the founder of the annual brooklyn holiday book fair.
Attending the colorado antiquarian book seminar in. Collectors and their astonished families, delivered as the john seltzer and mark seltzer memorial lecture at the thomas fisher rare book library, university of toronto, in october 2011. Bair abaa member lorne bair has just returned from the colorado antiquarian book seminar, where he is on faculty. Jul 25, 2016 the colorado antiquarian book seminar cabs is often called boot camp for booksellers. He is on the faculty of the colorado antiquarian book seminar, and is currently developing a course to debut summer 2020 for rare book school entitled understanding and identifying 20th century duplicating technologies a subject on which he has lectured at the university of virginia, new york university, yale, columbia, princeton, the. I remembered that description and i wondered how i would know i was ready to attend graduate school for antiquarian booksellers. Two grand prize winners will receive a scholarship to attend the colorado antiquarian book seminar taking place from august 7 to august 12, 2011 in colorado springs, colorado. Heather is a member of the grolier club, the antiquarian booksellers association of america abaa, the international league of antiquarian booksellers ilab, and a graduate of the colorado antiquarian book seminar and rare book school. The seminar is an excellent opportunity to learn an overview of the rare book trade and encouraged me to branch out into book fair exhibiting, more broadly based marketing efforts, and membership in the book seller trade. Exhibitors from across north america will bring their. Heather odonnell got her start in rare books in the stacks of the beinecke library, where she worked as a curatorial assistant during her grad school years at yale, and learned the trade in the. Yabs is the sister seminar of the long established colorado antiquarian book seminar and was created with the support of the colorado faculty. She is a member of the grolier club, the philobiblon club, the society for the history of authorship, reading, and publishing sharp, a graduate of the colorado antiquarian book seminar and rare book school, and serves on the rare book school scholarship committee.
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