My Ungrateful Friends and Colleagues

Not content to know what the largest book in the world is, they now want to know the smallest ! Next they're going to want the median book, and the mode book. Anyway, here 'tis: Small Fry

Las Vegas Bookmans Guild November Meeting

Will be held at:
Strings Italian Cafe
2222 East Tropicana Avenue  Las Vegas, NV 89119-6573

(702) 739-6400

 Wednesday, 9 November, 6:30 meet-&-greet, order 7:00

TOPIC:  What I Bought For Stock This Month That is REALLY COOL  !

We've Recovered From Sunday !

Every year, our colleague, Myrna Donato - Amber Unicorn Books - and I do a show and sale at the Vegas Valley Book Festival's Feasting on Words day, the first Sunday in November. This year, our friend and local author Steve Grogan, author of Vegas Die, Captain Cooked, and a new I-book, was a featured author at the FoW show, and caught Myrna and me at our best ! Thanks, Steve.

By The Pound !

Our colleague and friend, Ann DeVere - Plaza Books - and her henchwench, Maryann, mentioned at the dinner table last night that a customer came in to her store with a collection of Elvis-iana, which all of us would cheerfully buy. Ann bought most of the books, but passed on the Elephant Folio - 24 x 32 x 3 inches - piece. The book was quite pricey, but the problems inherent in preserving the quality of the book in a store are almost insurmountable. Selling the book on-line, as Ann does, poses truly  insurmountable problems - the damn thing is so big and heavy, and consequently fragile, that it would almost have to be shipped by truck. Ah yes, the problems of bookstore ownership. Believe it or not, there is a bigger book - the largest in the world:

UNLV Registration for 2012 Now Open

The first of the Bookstore Series for 2012 is Bookstore 104 -It's A Mystery. This is a course similar to Bookstore 103, but it is a specialty class in collectible mystery authors and books, and requires, as usual, considerable outside work. Registration and details: It's A Mystery
Feel free to call me if you have any questions.

A Tip of the Hat to Carl Sagan

The next 2012 offering is:
BOOKSTORE 105 BILLIONS & TRILLIONS: THE YEARS OF SCIENCE FICTION

An advanced Bookman seminar on Speculative Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror - stock for a credible bookstore, either brick and mortar, or click and order. Prerequisite: Bookstore 101 and Bookstore 102, or instructor's permission. Considerable out-of-class work is required. Enrollment is limited.
Registration: Bookstore 105

Aggies, Miggies, & Bunny-in-the-Hole

Our friend and colleague, Pat McCarty, the premier book restorer, binder, and repairer in the Valley, did a class on making marbled paper for her apprentices yesterday. Thence the title of this article, all blasts from my past as a marble-shooting child in Boston. I was treated to seeing the variety of patterns Pat's students created, and regaled with the tales of the effort involved. Too much work for me, but a grand experience for them.