Shop the global, independent bookstore marketplace this holiday season rather than the big box retail online stores like Amazon!

Booksale ImageIf you are buying books or collectibles this holiday season, the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), founded in 1999, is a good place to start. With over 350 members from 18 countries, this trade association offers high-quality stock and maintains professional bookselling standards. Each store is unique, and their inventories range from more recent used books to hard-to-find out-of-print books,  antiquarian books, maps, and collectibles. Since the items are sourced from throughout the world, it is the perfect place to find a special gift.

Because IOBA  sellers are also both online and independent, these small businesses are an ideal first stop on both Indie Day—Saturday, November 27th
and Cyber-Monday–November 29th.

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The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry Turkle (Reviewed by Amy Ione)

The Empathy Diaries: A MemoirSherry Turkle’s exemplary research on technology as it relates to humans, personal relationships, and children has provided key insights as the computer has ingrained itself in our world. While her early chronicles on innovative technologies were impressive, I felt that the more important contributions were her insights challenging the unbridled enthusiasm of innovative technologists and how technology often compromised privacy. This memoir—primarily devoted to her childhood. through tenure appointment years (1948-1985) — presents more details related to the person behind early works like The Second Self than the researcher who later pennedLife on the Screen,and Alone Together[1]. That said, the book does cogently capture how Turkle came to the interdisciplinary framework that has often set her apart. Or, as she puts it, “I found my life’s work by navigating as a bricoleur, trying one thing and stepping back, making new connections, and most of all, by listening” (p. 241).

 

The volume is divided into three parts. The first part introduces her from childhood to her early college experience (1948-1968). We discover that while she felt a part of her family as she grew up, she simultaneously developed the sense (and the clarity) of an outsider. Some of this came about because her mother believed that any “reality” could be claimed as real. Turkle therefore had to decipher how her mother was interpreting reality because her mother’s “facts” didn’t always conform with the world Turkle experienced.

By contrast, her biological father’s love of science made it easy for him to lose touch with the human needs of his family. Then, once her parents divorced, her mother’s second marriage created identity problems because her mother wanted Turkle to use her second husband’s last name even before she was legally adopted. The upshot of this was that Turkle grew up with two deep convictions: On the one hand, she felt something was wrong with her because of her name. In addition, she understood that four loving adults— her grandparents, her mother, and her Aunt Mildred— had made her the center of their lives. We also learn she was an exceptional student and intent on going to Radcliffe.

“I was focused on finally leaving home. But I had tried to take what I most admired: my aunt’s intelligence and integrity; my grandmother’s empathy and resourcefulness; my grandfather’s tenacity. As for my mother, I wanted her capacity for joy in small things, the energy she brought to every moment.” (p. 77)

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Christopher Tyler discusses three books published by Diatrope Press

Complete Illustrated Edition of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci, from Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari.. Edited with complete illustrations and annotations by Christopher W. Tyler. Color illustrations throughout. This is the only edition of Vasari’s Life of da Vinci that illustrates every single painting and sculpture mentioned by Vasari. Translated by Gaston du C. De Vere (The Medici Society/Macmillan: London, 1912-1915).

Portraits of his Daughters by Thomas Gainsborough commemorates two delightful sisters painted by their father, the famous 18th century English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). The daughters are buried together at St Mary’s Church, Hanwell. In 1809, the rector of the Church, George Henry Glass, built the Hanwell cottage where a fountain inscribed in memory of two sisters makes an interesting link with the Gainsborough daughters. Illustrations on every page.

Parallel Alices: Alice through the Looking Glass of Eleanor of Aquitaine. New insights into historical roots of Alice in Wonderland. Examines the historical lines of the Alice books by Lewis Carroll through the historical sources at the time of Eleanor of Aquitaine. 170p. 6×9″ inches. Includes timelines, glossary, bibliography.

IOBA: Virtual Book Fair, May 15-17, 2020

The Independent Online Booksellers Association LogoIOBA Virtual Rare Book Fair
May 15–17, 2020
Virtual doors open 1:00pm EST
http://www.iobabookfair.com

The Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) is proud to announce its first virtual international rare and antiquarian book fair, to be held Friday, May 15 to Sunday, May 17, 2020 at http://www.iobabookfair.com.

The virtual book fair will enable attendees to browse hundreds, if not thousands, of books and items of ephemera from the safety of their homes. Over four dozen exhibiting booksellers will be available for questions at their “booths” so customers may shop at their leisure during the 3-day fair.

When asked what attendees can expect from the book fair, Doug Nelson, President of IOBA, responded, “We took the best elements from physical book fairs – fresh material, exhibitors from around the globe, and the ability for attendees to easily interact with the exhibitors – and put it online. We anticipate this fair will be a success for our members and the book-buying public, and it will hopefully be the first of many.”

The Independent Online Booksellers Association is a trade organization representing more than 300 online rare and antiquarian booksellers worldwide. IOBA has promoted professionalism, ethics, and trust in online bookselling since 1999. To learn more about IOBA, its members, or to join, visit www.ioba.org.

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Book cover. Artful AnimalsTerry, Colleen M. Artful Animals. 2013. ISBN: 9780884011385. Unmarked text. Very Good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. (#30476) $14.00

Beautiful color plates. Artists include John James Audubon, Chokha (attributed to), Durer, Rupert Garcia, Heinrich Kley and Wes Wilson, Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Takeuchi Seiho, Wayne Thiebaud, Beth Van Hoesen, Walt Disney Studios, Andrew Wyeth, and others. 79p.

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SCHILLER, G: Iconography of Christian Art (Volumes I and II)

Gertrud Schiller. Iconography of Christian Art (Volumes I and II). Lund Humphries, 1972. A few pages have highlighting. Also pencil checks, asterisks, and brackets in some margins. One volume has a marked out name on front end page. Both volumes in dust jackets. Good in good dust jacket. Hardcover. (#29884)

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Now Available: Parallel Alices by Christopher Tyler

Parallel Alices, book coverParallel Alices: Alice through the Looking-Glass of Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Christopher Tyler

Cloth (with dust jacket): 170 pages. Over 100 colour illustrations. Glossary, timelines, annotated bibliography, index. ISBN: 10: 0972533044; 13: 978-0-9725330-4-1

Paperback (colour): 144 pages. Over 100 colour illustrations. Bibliography, index. ISBN: 10: 0972533087; 13: 978-0-9725330-8-9

Paperback (monochrome): 170 pages. Over 100 monochrome illustrations. Glossary, timelines, annotated bibliography, index. ISBN: 10: 0972533095; 13: 978-0-9725330-9-6

Prices: Cloth: US$54.00; Paperback: US$24 (colour): US$12 (monochrome)

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Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons (Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Autumn 1976)

Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons (Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Autumn 1976). Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. Unmarked. Bumped on cover. Good. Paperback. (#30496)

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Illustrated throughout. 126p. Catalog sent to museum members as a special issue of the Bulletin. An introduction to Wyeth’s artistic process.

Thomas Mann: The World as Will and Representation

Kaufmann, Fritz. Thomas Mann: The World as Will and Representation. Beacon Press, 1957. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket with some rubbing, bends, and tanning. Very Good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. (#30495)

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Authoritative study of Mann’s works and philosophy. Thomas Mann’s (1875-1955) highly symbolic and ironic works are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.

Four appendices. Index. 259p.

Early Sixteenth Century Glass Beads in the Spanish Colonial Trade

Book Cover: Early Sixteenth Century Glass Beads in the Spanish Colonial Trade (30489)Smith, Marvin T.; Good, Mary Elizabeth. Early Sixteenth Century Glass Beads in the Spanish Colonial Trade. Cottonlandia Museum Publications, 1982. Unmarked text. Bumped corner. Very Good. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). (#30489)

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9 maps and illustrations. 5 tables. Bibliography. 64p.

Topics include the provenance of the beads, manufacture, classifications, and more.

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