Welcome to the Jolly Olde Bookstore Newsletter. As always, lots of exciting things are happening, so lets get to it!.
Brian, Terry, Shafagh & Azi
Jolly Olde Bookstore
WEDDING!
It’s been a very busy summer, highlighted by Brian’s marriage to Tracy! It was a wonderful day and Desmond did a excellent job as Ring Bearer.
EXTENDED HOURS!
We’re happy to announce that we’re extending our store hours! After numerous requests, we have decided to stay open till 7:00 pm on fridays. Hopefully that will make it easier for those whose work schedule made it hard to make it in by 5:30. Also, on Sundays we are now open from 11 – 5 (instead of 12-4). Sundays are becoming increasingly popular days, so we decided to add a few more hours.
RENOVATION
The old kitchen is now fully open, and full of books. This has been a drastic improvement to our non-fiction sections, and will continue to improve as we add more and more shelves.
TERRY’S BOOK BLOG
As always here is an excerpt of our own Terry Stillman’s Book Blog:
Whatever your age, whatever your financial means, you can begin to build a book collection.
Nearly all readers-except those people who rely wholly on the library for their reading-buy books that they want to actually read, mostly for pleasure, sometimes for knowledge. If you keep these books in a visable, accessible place in your home, you may be inclined to say that you are a book collector, but what you probably have is a personal "reading library". Building a book collection takes a little more thought and planning.
Firstly, most book collections are composed of books that reflect the collector’s main interest(s). Perhaps you’re extremely interested in World War II. Does your interest focus on aviation, land battles, or the navies of the Allies and Axis countries, or all three of the armed services? Perhaps World War I, medieval warfare, the American Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, or even modern warfare is more your preference.
You may have a keen interest in a hobby such as gardening, painting, or music. Your profession may be in science, medicine, law, architecture, even farming and bookselling. You can collect books on all of these subjects.
Are you enthralled by the many amazing children’s book illustrators over the past one-hundred-and- fifty years? Are you familiar enough yet to favour any particular era of illustration, be it Victorian, early 20th century, between the two Great Wars, post-WWII and 1950’s, the ’60’s and ’70’s, or the modern period of 1980’s to present?
If you are of modest means, you may have missed the boat in terms of buying original editions of books illustrated by the top children’s book artists in the late 19th and early 20th century. If you enjoy the work of Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, W. Heath Robinson, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen and their many talented contemporaries, you may still seek out much of their output in later printings, some published as late as the 1980’s.
If you have considerable disposable income for collecting illustrated books, or first-edition literature, then your possibilities are endless.
Once you decide to collect-be it children’s authors or artists, military books, gardening books, sports books, art books, books on games, whatever-the first rule should be to focus. Choose your genre, then choose your sub-genre. It may be first edition books by American authors of the 1920’s and 1930’s. It may be English gardening books from the 1880’s to the first World War; or English true crime books from 1880 to the second World War; or American gangsterism; or all the first editions of Edward Gorey (that might be a sub-sub-sub-genre). Start somewhere, but use some sensible parameters. Secondly, think about a budget. Can you afford a hundred dollars a month, two hundred a month, ten thousand a month? Set some sensible financial parameters as well.
Read more at Terry On Books Blog
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