Welcome to the Fine Books Blog, from Ian Kahn
As you may have noticed, great things are afoot at Fine Books and
Collections. I am very pleased to introduce the cadre of bloggers who
will now be posting here. The intent is that all FB& C bloggers
will post one or two times each week, which should result in a steady
flow of interesting bits from many different areas of the book world.
Those helping launch this newly transitioned group blog will be:
- Exile Bibliophile, the ever mysterious Special Collections librarian
- Scott Brown, the original voice of this blog and owner of Eureka Books
- Brian Cassidy of Brian Cassidy, Bookseller fame.
- Jeremy Dibbell of Philobiblos
- Stephen Gertz of David Brass Rare Books
- Ian Kahn of Lux Mentis, Booksellers (that would be me...)
- Michael Leiberman who runs one of Seattle's great shops, Wessel and Lieberman
- Ann Loftin, editor of Fine Books and Collections
- Chris Lowenstein of the wonderfully named, Book Hunter's Holiday
- Forrest Proper, proprietor of Joslin Hall Rare Books
This great collection of bloggers is very excited to be involved in this project. Several of us are in San Francisco for the ABAA Book Fair
this weekend...so I can safely predict some postings from the front
lines of the first major fair of this economically complex season. This
sort of group blog is a new thing for most of us, and we appreciate
your support and feedback while the project evolves. Change makes for
interesting times. Personally, I side with G.B. Shaw, "The reasonable
man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on
the unreasonable man." I think we have a great cadre of unreasonable
men and women here...this should be great fun.
