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Sheila Markham A Book of Booksellers
Booksellers Booksellers Anecdotes
Sheila Markham - A Book of Booksellers
13 Dec 2009
It's hard to know where to start with a book like this. Perhaps this way. I saw it listed in a catalogue and bought a single copy to see if I liked…
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Children's Literature
The Curse of St Clements - or, A Tale of Peril and Redemption
13 Dec 2009
When Leslie asked me to talk to you about books, and my bookselling career if bookselling can be called a career I decided that, this being the…
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Booksellers Travel
Collecting Early French Voyages to Australia
09 Dec 2009
Although the importance of French voyages to Australian and Pacific waters has always been well understood, recent years have seen a real reappraisal…
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John Carter ABC for Book Collectors
Education Collecting
John Carter's "ABC for Book Collectors": A Key Reference Book for the Rare Book Trade
06 Dec 2009
John Carter: "ABC for Book Collectors"
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Understanding Book Descriptions
Edgar Franco, Dictionary of Terms
06 Dec 2009
En francais, anglais, allemand et italien. "Ce dictionnaire, contrairement à l'usage courant, contient le minimum de termes possible. J'ai limité les…
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Booksellers Obituaries
Alan Shelley (1941 - 2009)
06 Dec 2009
The death of Alan Shelley from cancer at the age of 68 on November 18th at Chailey Hospice, near Lewes, is an occasion of great sadness to his family…
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Jury Report by Arnoud Gerits, Prize Secretary, November 2009
20 Nov 2009
The Jury of the Prize met on Thursday and Friday 1st and 2nd of October 2009 in the city of Amsterdam, just before the Vienna Presidents' Meeting.
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Donor List
09 Mar 2008
In 2008, a very important step for the future of the Prize was taken with the help of ILAB President of Honour Robert D. Fleck. The name of the Prize…
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Bernard Breslauer
A Generous Gift Will Allow ILAB's Breslauer Prize for Bibliography to Exist in Perpetuity
05 Jan 2007
Years of work by the ILAB Committee and the generous support of many booksellers has now resulted in sufficient funding to allow this special prize…
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Two Winners for the 14th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography 2006
23 Oct 2006
"Is anything ever definitive?" she said - ever so sweetly. Well I guess not. But these two books come pretty close. They will still be standing when…
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2006 Breslauer Prize Jury Report: 14th ILAB Prize for Bibliography with an endowment of $ 10.000
30 Oct 2005
Next year will be the fourteenth time it has been given and contestants from all around the world are stepping forward.
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2002 - 13th Prize
20 Apr 2002
Largest Prize in the Bibliographical World is Awarded in Helsinki to Anna Perälä: The 13th ILAB Bibliographical Prize of $10,000 has been awarded to…
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