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Let me tell you about why 1 love books. I’ve
already told you why I love art, in general, but my
love for books, in particular, is a particular thing
with me. Like a lot of folk, books are many things
to me, escape, information, inspiration, but that’s
just the story part, the text of the book, the
illustrations, all those things that you can get on the
internet in beautiful color and large type. The books
themselves, the bindings, the weight, the size, the
condition, and, as an amateur bookman, how they
managed to reach my hands. These things interest
me. In five years of working with books daily I
found that they could teach me about myself. I
learned that I had a weakness for broken books. I’ve
been accused, falsely, of taking all the “good books”
home. Truly most of my personal library is stuff that
wouldn’t impress someone wanting to ‘invest in a
library’, but I think someone who loves books ‘as
things’ would understand. Copies of books are each
individuals, like people, we all have a similar
chemical makeup or text, our printings or DNAs
vary, but our life experiences result in our
‘condition’. Broken books are like broken people,
children hurt by other children or adults, old tired
people, old damaged books, they have stories to tell.
I take a lot of them home. I even buy them. I
recently bought, for a dollar, Edmund Dulac’s
Picture Book for the French Red Cross. For the
information of those of you not salivating, this is a
volume with over twenty color illustrations of classic
fairy tales by an early nineteenth century artist of
some talent. It was printed to help the Red Cross
during the Great War, copyright 1915. The
illustrations had, of course, been ripped out. They
probably sold for $20 to $100 each, framed. The
book was left behind. Intact, the book would sell
for, maybe, $100; the math is pretty easy. The
reality isn’t that pretty, or easy, but I bought it
anyway. I also have a copy of Twain’s The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a cheap edition. I took
it home because someone had cut out a hole in the
pages, so they could ‘cleverly’ hide something. I
keep it to remind myself that I too did that as a boy.
One of many things I try to remember, and forgive
myself for doing
I delight in books that were first printed in
paperback. It makes me giggle to think of someone
who wants to ‘invest’ in books calls his dealer and
wants everything that Hemingway ever published,
and he wants only first editions, to impress his
friends with his ‘library’. There will be a paperback
in the box, and a hefty bill. Hemingway’s The
Wilderness Years, published by Dell Paperbacks,
alone will cost $50, the rest in the neighborhood of
five figures each. I have a Fahrenheit 451 first
edition, it’s a paperback, a lot of the early Sci-Fi
Classics were first published in paperback, but it’s
not ‘perfect’, just real. Like real people the flaws &
weaknesses in books arouse my feelings of wanting
to help and protect them. I have this fantasy of
finding copies of all the Dulac illustrations and
putting the Red Cross book back together.
Protecting broken books is obviously easier than
helping broken people, but both seem important.
Some books and some people will always remain
broken, but ‘if they are loved they can teach love’. I
read that in an old book. A book can tell you quite a
lot... even if it doesn’t have a cover.
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Duvall. W A Duvall Books
Bainbridge Island. WA Eagle Harbor Book Co.
Seattle. WA Elliot Bay Book Co.. Honey Bear Bakery. New
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The Last Exit Coffee House. A Bulldog News
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New York. NY The Strand Book Company
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The Cannon Beach Arts Association is now
offering Artists Grants for original work. The $3000
grant in part or total will be awarded to “professional
artists in any media”... “showing senous intent”...
(who are) “a part of the Cannon Beach community,
actively exhibiting or performing within the city”, or
(can) “document of short-term residence for the
duration of the project proposed.” The grant is
intended to promote professional excellence of our
local artists and provide support necessary to expand
their creative process. Artists may pick up
applications at the Cannon Beach Gallery, and
proposals are due July 31st. For more information
call Jay Raskin at 503 436-2162. Cool, huh?
Publishing news; Sally Lackaffs “Wildlife on the
Edge” will be at the printers by the time you read
this. Those who have pre-paid for your copies, we
will be sending them as soon as we get them back,
expect them by not later than somewhere in August,
and if you don’t get yours by then contact us, we do
make mistakes.
We have received two new publications recently;
the first, String Town, edited by Polly Buckingham,
is an annual magazine of short prose and poetry.
Drawing its writers from Astoria, Portland and
Seattle and as far away as Florida, it is a fine
selection, presented simply and honestly. At 56
pages for $4.50 it’s a good buy. There are short
bios in the back pages, listing some impressive
credentials of the 24 writers included. You can get a
copy at several independent bookstores, or by
writing to String Town, Route 6, Box 74, Ivy
Station Rd., Astoria, Oregon 97103, or for the cyber
abled, stringtown@aol.com.
The other is Romance of Waterfalls by Barbara
Bloom and Garry Cohen. It’s a user friendly guide
book to one hundred waterfalls in Northwest Oregon
and. Southwest Washington. It includes maps,
accessibility information, good places to kiss, a
poem for every waterfall and Bloom’s drawings of
each fall, as well as wildlife that might be
encountered there. This 252 page slick paperback is
published by Outdoor Romance Publishing and sells
for $16.95. It is available at bookstores in the area or
by writing to Outdoor Romance Publishing, 817 SE
139th, Portland, Oregon 97233 or again, for those
‘on-line’, at wwaterfalls@aol.com.
Andrea & Cheth Rowe will be joined by Heather
Lively Tuesday July 28th around 8pm to play some
original folk, rock & blues at The River 230 W.
Marine Dr. in Astoria. It’s a benfit for this
wonderful preformance space.
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