Monthly Archives: May 2011

A cartoonist in wartime – WWII editorial cartoons

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Alice

On a beautiful Midwest autumn morning, with sparse cotton candy clouds dotting a deep blue sky, I was walking across the parking lot toward my ten-story office building when a co-worker got out of her car and said there was … Continue reading →

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St. Thomas Aquinas church history – I wasn’t even looking

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Alice

I have always loved the word serendipity. For one thing, it’s fun to pronounce, being a kind of combination of serene and zip-a-dee (as in do dah!); it combines a happy sense of well being with a frisson of excitement. But more … Continue reading →

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Spine perished, a summer project

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Alice

One of the most popular pages on my website is the one that describes remainder marks, although almost all the pages in my Illustrated Collecting Terms section get a lot of hits. Book buyers do care. They understand, at least after their first … Continue reading →

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Judging Saddle Horses and Roadsters

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Alice

I purchased my first copy of James Barly’s only book, Judging Saddle Horses and Roadsters (privately printed, 1945),  in the Renaissance Book Shop, a fantastic four story warehouse full of books in downtown Milwaukee. Unlike so many of its ilk, Renaissance … Continue reading →

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On naming things

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Alice

An interesting question appeared on one of the newsgroups I frequent. The poster wanted to know the name for the symbols publishers sometimes put between sections of a text. These symbols take a variety of forms. Someone working on a modern … Continue reading →

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