“Alphabet of Sorts” is Underway

Alphabet of Sorts is a collaboration between Starshaped press in Chicago and Wells College Press here in Aurora-On-Cayuga NY. The Alphabet of Sorts book is now printed and binding has begun! If you have been following along on Instagram or Facebook, you may have seen various stages of the design and printing by Starshaped Press. The Sharshaped blog has been keeping the public up-to-date on progress, and you can see much more there. We have been taking pre-orders and still are until March 1st, at which time the price will be regular list price of $150. The book is a limited numbered and signed edition of 100 and is already more than half sold out! This is an exciting project and we will bring you images of the binding in progress and news of a special visit by Jennifer Farrell of Starshaped Press later this month.

Issue-Mongers

Iron Monger

Iron Monger

“The issue-monger is one of the worst pests of the collecting world, and the more dangerous because many humble and well-intentioned collectors think him a hero to whom they should be grateful…Show him a misprint or a dropped numeral, and he will whip you up an ‘issue point’ in no time.”

-from John Carter and Nicolas Barker’s ABC for Book Collectors.

This term should not be confused with “iron monger” which refers to supervillans in Marvel comic books.

Barker will be here at Wells this Thursday!