ILAB News 5

15 November 2010

ILAB News

Create your ILAB account!

Get in contact with the ILAB Booksellers:

Send a message to all dealers who are specializing in the books, you are looking for.

Tell us of a book-related event you would like to see announced on our website.

Create a space where you can jot down notes for future use. Details ...

Collectors Corner

Tall Tales and Fictitious Voyages - Travel Books, Rare & Extraordinary

Travel lies are as old as literature itself, or perhaps even older. Sailors, the quintessential travellers, are well known for their sailor's yarns. And how better to impress the stay-at-homes than with stories of sea serpents, dwarfs, giants, headless or dog-faced people in faraway places? Frank Werner (Brockhaus/Antiquarium) tells the truth about spectacular voyages to cities of gold and unknown continents ...

ILAB Booksellers on Video

Peter Kraus, Bob Fleck, Ken Lopez, David Brass, Pat and Allen Ahearn, and many others tell us how they became involved in the rare book business. The ABAA booksellers Michael Ginsberg and Taylor Bowie interviewed about 50 rare book dealers. Five of these videos are presented on the ILAB site every month ...

Sheila Markham's Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade

"It is once a reference work, a book to dip into and a book to read from cover to cover." (Barry Shaw). Sheila Markham's conversations with Ian Marr, Elizabeth Strong, Edward Bayntun-Coward ...

Books about Books - Bob Fleck and Oak Knoll Press

Bob Fleck founded Oak Knoll Books in 1976 to fill a void in the booksellers world. Today Oak Knoll Books maintains an inventory of about 20,000 titles on books about books. Read the History of Oak Knoll Books / Oak Knoll Press every Friday in the Oak Knoll Biblio Blog and on ILAB.org ...