September's Sale: How-to Manuals
It's already time to head back to school! With classes back in session, Oak Knoll is offering manuals and how-to books on typography, bookbinding, engraving, printing, publishing, bibliography and other book-related topics at 20% off.
This is a back-to-school deal you don't want to miss!
Oak Knoll Fest XVI: Register for our Friday Symposium!
This year, we will be happy to continue a tradition started at the last fest: a special Friday Symposium. This is a unique opportunity to listen to six panelists share their opinions on artist and fine press books as well as provide each of you the chance to discuss the question, "Artists' Books - Press Books: Siblings or Distant Cousins?" The event, taking place on Friday, October 1, 1:30 to 5:00pm, is open to librarians, private press printers, collectors, and any other interested parties.
On Saturday and Sunday, our speakers will be exploring two perspectives on the book arts: artists' books, represented by The Center for Book Arts in New York (Oak Knoll Press's newest distribution partner), and more traditional fine press printing, represented by Martyn Ould of The Old School Press in Bath. The lectures will be held on the second floor of Oak Knoll Books, which is now The Bookshop in Old New Castle. The fine press exhibition and sale will also take place during these two days and will be held at the New Castle Senior Center.
If you are interested in exhibiting, be sure to register soon as we have less than ten spots left!
Bringing New Life to Books: The Bookshop in Old New Castle Officially Opens
New Castle, Delaware - May 1, 2010 marked the grand opening of The Bookshop in Old New Castle located at 308 Delaware Street. Formed through the combined efforts of Oak Knoll Books, Between the Covers Rare Books, The Kelmscott Bookshop, and the Old Bookshop of Bordentown, the new bookshop opened its doors at 9am, welcoming more than 150 customers throughout the day until its closing at 7pm.
To celebrate the official opening, many booklovers including booksellers, collectors, librarians, New Castle residents, and government officials were in attendance. Delaware Senator Dorinda A. Connor and New Castle County Council President William Barthel assisted in the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2pm, blessing the bookshop with words of good luck and congratulations. As the owners and employees of the four individual bookstores stood on the stage of the once opera house to officially cut the bright red ribbon reaching across the stage, Bob Fleck, owner of Oak Knoll Books, announced his excitement and intent for the new store to become a destination shop for book enthusiasts all over the east coast. Following the ribbon-cutting, champagne, wine, and other beverages were served as guests continued to enjoy the spread of food placed at the head of the shop.
The Bookshop in Old New Castle was once an opera house built by the Masons in 1879. After years of being a storage area for Oak Knoll Books, Fleck decided to renovate the historic space into a bookshop, housing books that would intrigue readers interested in all types of books and genres. The Bookshop in Old New Castle will not only be full of books, but also surrounded by the historical and charming ambiance of the city of Old New Castle.
For more information regarding The Bookshop in Old New Castle and the individual stores, visit www.booksinnewcastle.com
Click here to view pictures from the opening.
CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS DISTRIBUTION BOOKS
Oak Knoll Press is now the exclusive distributor for the Center for Book Arts, New York City. Founded in 1974, The Center has published dozens of books in the field of Book Arts including: artists' books, poetry chapbooks, poetry broadsides, exhibition catalogs, as well as other publications.
Click here to view the new titles
Click here to learn more about The Center for Book Arts
THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Dear friend of fine books,
Now would be a good time for you to join the Fine Press Book Association. I myself have been a member for many years.
They have a twice-a-year magazine called Parenthesis that's all about handmade books, as well as a new website that makes it easy to find out what new books small presses have been making (not to mention you can read the gossip in the bookmaking world on their blog).
It's not even very expensive: $48 for a personal membership, $60 for an institution.
Just go to http://fpba.com and click on Join!
ILAB POSTS FREE RESOURCES ON WEBSITE
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) is pleased to announce that the following titles—A Dictionary of Abbreviations Commonly Used by German and Italian Antiquarian Booksellers and Auctioneers by Bernard M. Rosenthal and Dictionary of Terms and Expressions Commonly Used in the Antiquarian Booktrade in French, English, German, and Italian by Edgar Franco—are posted in full for free on the ILAB website. Useful for buyers and sellers, these books serve as great references for individuals in the antiquarian book trade.
Click here to read the full press release
Click here to visit ILAB's website
NEW TITLES FROM YALE UNIVERSITY
Late in the summer, Oak Knoll landed eleven newly acquired books to distribute for the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Now, we want you to enjoy these titles that the library has treasured for so many years.
Here is where we keep the new titles!
Click Here
OAK KNOLL ON VIALIBRI.NET
We are proud to announce that Oak Knoll is now the exclusive sponsor of the viaLibri library search page. ViaLibri.net is the only book meta-search engine that caters specifically to collectors searching for bibliographical information about rare or antiquarian books, offering the following unique features:
- Includes important antiquarian bookselling sites that other meta-searches exclude, such as anikvariat.net, booksatpbfa and uniliber
- Search results are sorted starting with the most valuable books, guaranteeing that the search will not exclude rare or valuable books
- Users can specify dates as part of their search criteria
- Can search for a specific phrase, an option not offered by other meta-search sites
- A “Search Manager” function allows users to save search criteria for a later time
- Features a built-in translation function for book descriptions in the search results
- Users can continue searching until they have looked at all the matches available
ViaLibri is also the only meta-search site with a library search. The viaLibri library search page currently searches more than 70 library databases worldwide, and more databases are continually being added. This library search includes the following:
- Multi-national catalogues, including WorldCat, COPAC and Google books
- National union catalogues
- Libraries, including research and special collections libraries, national libraries and university libraries
The resources provided by viaLibri will help you find information about the title you are looking for, both in a library and for sale online.
www.vialibri.net
