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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 ...
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Catalogues of the Month
Between the Covers (USA)
The Cat: A Log
Over 90 feline-friendly folios, etc., examples of fiction and non-fiction about cats, ranging in price from $10 to several thousand dollars
Eberhard Köstler (Germany)
Nobel, Nobel ... 100 Autographs of Nobel Prize Winners
Original letters and handwritten documents from the collection of Alexander Baron Dées de Sterio (1908-1992)
SOPHIA ∑ RARE BOOKS (Denmark)
Catalogue 1
Milestones from the history of science: Ampère, Condorcet, Descartes, Einstein ...
Jeff Hirsch Books (USA)
New York 2010
The best of photography: Brodovitch, Kertesz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Steinert

Ken Spelman Booksellers (UK)
Manuscripts, Drawings & Ephemera
Over 150 recent acquisitions, fine manuscripts and early documents from European history
More catalogues ...
Upcoming ILAB Book Fairs
39th ILAB Congress and 23rd International Antiquarian Book Fair
Bologna (Italy), September 20-26, 2010
Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair
Toronto (Canada), October 29-31, 2010
Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map and Print Fair
Amsterdam (Netherlands), October 29-30, 2010
Chelsea Book Fair 2010
London (UK), November 5-6, 2010
Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Boston (USA), November 12-14, 2010
37th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair
Melbourne (Australia), November 23-25, 2010
Events Calendar ...

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