PS 3, Hudson Street, New York City Since the decline of neighborhood used book shops, antiquarian book fairs have become a vital resource for book lovers who need more than Amazon can offer. Yes, the book is an outmoded analog information delivery system, but it also exists in the physical realm and hence is a […] More >>
Archives for February 2011
And Now for Our Commercial Message
Cook’s Method Taken for Preserving the Health of the Crew of His Majesty’s Ship the Resolution During her late Voyage round the World. (with) Extract of a letter from Captain Cook to Sir John Pringle (and) Of the Tides in the South Seas. Published in PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Vol LXVI. […] More >>
Nocturnal Pigeons
Journal of a 49er, Boston to San Francisco. Details below. The Long March down Market Street from dinner to hotel, under the incurious eyes of urban mutant nocturnal pigeons, homeless freaks, orchestras of ranting crazies, exploding beards, tenor saxophone geniuses born on the wrong planet. Jesus is coming. Sleeping bags in fetid windrows on the […] More >>
Brave New World
Lane, F(itz ) H(enry). VIEW OF GLOUCESTER, MASS. Colored lithograph, 35 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches. There is nothing more to be said about the composition and artistry of this work than John Wilmerding said in his 1971 work on Lane. “Without question Lane’s finest lithographs were the two he executed in 1855, of Gloucester, […] More >>