We buy, sell, and trade used and rare books. Come visit us at 2499 Telegraph Ave Berkeley, CA.94704 510-841-8916Tumblr (3.0; @shakespeareandcobooks)http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/summer-must-read-for-kids-any-book/">Summer Must-Read for Kids</a>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/24636956438http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/24636956438Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:27:06 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4hmtxbIiB1qcokc4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/23618182901/swagger-and-other-everyday-words-invented-by">theatlantic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/05/swagger-and-other-everyday-words-invented-by-famous-authors/257474">‘Swagger’ and Other Everyday Words Invented by Famous Authors</a></strong></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Swagger, bump, obscene, luggage: </strong>Though the attributions <a href="http://twentytwowords.com/2010/09/08/how-the-chronology-of-shakespeares-plays-changes-what-words-he-coined/">change</a> from time to time based on dating and research, the common wisdom is that William Shakespeare invented more than <a href="http://shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html">1,700</a> words, many of which we still use today. Some of our favorites: <em>bump</em>, first used in <em>Romeo and Juliet</em>, <em>swagger</em>, first used in <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</em>, <em>obscene</em>, first used in <em>Love’s Labor’s Lost</em>, and <em>luggage</em>, first used in <em>King Henry IV, Part I</em>.</p> <p><strong>Nerd: </strong>If you were ever teased in high school for being a <em>nerd</em>, you probably have Dr. Seuss to blame — him and those pocket protectors you insisted on wearing. Seuss’s 1950 children’s book <em>If I Ran the Zoo</em> contains the first <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/opinion/23brooks.html?_r=2&ref=opinion">printed usage</a> of the word, as a strange little animal one might like to keep locked up: “And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo/And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo/A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!”</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/05/swagger-and-other-everyday-words-invented-by-famous-authors/257474">Read more.</a></strong> <em>[Image: Wikimedia Commons]</em></p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/23619688508http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/23619688508Wed, 23 May 2012 15:03:21 -0400<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-1/">The Stone: Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1</a>: <p>He was one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 20th century, but few people consider him a thinker. That would be a mistake.</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/23619652460http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/23619652460Wed, 23 May 2012 15:02:41 -0400<a href="http://www.graemebase.com/publish/app_1.html">Graeme Base's classic children's book Animalia has its own App?</a>: <p>I have never before considered buying an iPad.</p> <p>Not even once.</p> <p>Until now. </p> <p>Animalia is (in my opinion) one of the best children’s books of past decades, and I can only imagine that it’d be a great interactive app. Very cool!</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22324904941http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22324904941Thu, 03 May 2012 12:31:19 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m37068yyhU1r37nw2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://moonpedia.tumblr.com/post/22192742396/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-jules-verne">moonpedia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><span>From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne</span></h1> </blockquote>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22259991272http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22259991272Wed, 02 May 2012 12:17:03 -0400<a href="http://ilovetypography.com/2012/04/28/make-the-margins-bigger/">"Marginalised Marginalia" by ilovetypography.com</a>: <p><img alt="margins" height="288" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kv1OF6V1N7E/TWD4nsk9BMI/AAAAAAAABbk/9HKzHBnY0H4/s1600/BookMarks.jpg" width="400"/></p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22215051183http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22215051183Tue, 01 May 2012 17:30:22 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1pgits1VB1r61tiqo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1pgits1VB1r61tiqo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1pgits1VB1r61tiqo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1pgits1VB1r61tiqo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1pgits1VB1r61tiqo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1pgits1VB1r61tiqo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1pgits1VB1r61tiqo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Washington Ballet’s upcoming Alice (in wonderland) by Septime Weber. How fantastic! </p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22214097049http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22214097049Tue, 01 May 2012 17:17:02 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3d3h8oOf81qepjdeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Check out these amazing Ex Libris bookplates in the <a href="http://www.library.illinois.edu/contentdm/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fexlibris" target="_blank">John Starr Stewart Ex Libris Collection</a> at the University of Illinois Library. Beautiful!</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22212591544http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22212591544Tue, 01 May 2012 16:55:56 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3czcdjcEX1rn31h8o7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3czcdjcEX1rn31h8o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3czcdjcEX1rn31h8o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3czcdjcEX1rn31h8o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3czcdjcEX1rn31h8o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3czcdjcEX1rn31h8o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3czcdjcEX1rn31h8o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thericericerice.tumblr.com/post/22206632775/miniature-books-gasp-worlds-smallest-library">thericericerice</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Miniature books! *gasp*</p> <p>World’s smallest library by Jozsef Tari  </p> </blockquote>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22212189425http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/22212189425Tue, 01 May 2012 16:50:17 -0400<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/nyregion/at-brooklyns-is-318-the-cool-kids-are-the-chess-champs.html?_r=1&hp">At Brooklyn’s I.S. 318, the Cool Kids Are the Chess Champs - NYTimes.com</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://teachingliteracy.tumblr.com/post/21319740547/at-brooklyns-i-s-318-the-cool-kids-are-the-chess">teachingliteracy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The school’s conquering heroes — its chess players — were blowing off steam. On Sunday, in Minneapolis, they became the first middle school team to win the United States Chess Federation’s national <a href="http://nyti.ms/HM5fwz">high school championship</a>. The team, mostly eighth graders, beat out top high schools like Stuyvesant in Manhattan and Thomas Jefferson in Alexandria, Va.</p> <p>The victory burnishes what is already a legend in the chess world. At I.S. 318, more than 60 percent of the students come from families with incomes below the federal poverty level. Yet each stairwell landing bristles with four-foot chess trophies, and the school celebrities are people like <a href="http://nyti.ms/mmH3wz">James A. Black Jr.</a> A 13-year-old with twinkly eyes and curly eyelashes, James is not a football hero or a valedictorian, but a certified chess master who gently corrects his teachers on the fine points of strategy.</p> </blockquote> <p>What an amazing kid!!!</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/21331262653http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/21331262653Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:43:24 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8kmtoruZ1qzhokmo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://teachingliteracy.tumblr.com/post/19899095844/an-older-bookseller-in-baghdad-by-samer-m">teachingliteracy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>An older bookseller in Baghdad (by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sultan/6856406953/">Samer M</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19905373992http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19905373992Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:38:35 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1cieae21u1qepjdeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Come join us on Saturday at the Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair! It’s our first year attending and we’re very excited (and nervous!) We’re bringing more than a hundred beautiful books, as well as signed broadsides and ephemera. </p> <p>It will be held at:</p> <h3>Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 “H” Street, Sacramento 95819</h3> <p>The fair will be open from 9:45 am to 5 pm. Entrance is $5 and there is free parking on site. </p> <p>Visit sacbookfair.com for more information.</p> <p>Please come visit our booth and say Hi!</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19785314819http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19785314819Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:13:22 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m19ulpgewp1qepjdeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Abandoned Gulliver’s Travels Amusement park Kawaguchi-machi, Japan</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19722123382http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19722123382Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:44:13 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m15qn5CEPD1qepjdeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken inside City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, CA. This sweet kid kindly allowed me to photograph his sneakers. Love that he’s reading the Book of the Dead.</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19629862288http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19629862288Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:30:06 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m15qdpHxXr1qepjdeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games will be released in theatre this week. One of my favorite webcomic illustrators, Faith Erin Hicks, posted this on Tor.com. Her comic, Friends With Boys, is now available as a graphic novel from First Second.<span></span></p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19600214641http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19600214641Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:22:37 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m15o4mHRlE1qepjdeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>every book lover’s nightmare. </p> <p>(found this on reddit: r/abandonedporn) </p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19597114224http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19597114224Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:33:00 -0400abandoned libraryrussia<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ugqiVlmv1qepjdeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I have SUCH an artistic crush on Monique Lallier!</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19347925754http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19347925754Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:43:00 -0400monique lallier<a href="http://losttype.com/browse/">Lost Type Co-Op: Awesome "pay-what-you-want" Type Foundry</a>: <p>Lord knows, we love our funky fonts here at Shakespeare and Co. I feel like I’m constantly searching for a cool new font to use in our next display. A friend sent this to me - and I can’t help but pass the word along!</p>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19293612190http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19293612190Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:30:05 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ne1lkOTz1qd9a66o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://vintageanchor.tumblr.com/post/19237986270/books-seem-so-much-more-much-more-sacred-to-me">vintageanchor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=156702774355749">“Books seem so much more, much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young…great books are organic works. They don’t die. They’re not frozen in any way. They’re absolutely alive, and more so as we get older.”<br/> ―Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth</p> </blockquote>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19274696675http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19274696675Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:34:47 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0u9lwwcQD1qcokc4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/19246795132/with-this-machine-you-can-print-your-own-books-at">theatlantic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/with-this-machine-you-can-print-your-own-books-at-the-local-bookstore/254431/">With This Machine, You Can Print Your Own Books at the Local Bookstore</a></strong></p> <blockquote> <p><span>I’ve been intrigued by the Espresso Book Machine since I first saw it in an oversized beta version in 2007 on display at the New York Public Library’s Science Industry and Business branch and was impressed with the notion that so many printed works could be brought to life instantly, complete with cover, spine, and a choice of interiors. But the greatest allure of the device, as explained in interviews with a handful of the booksellers who have taken the plunge and installed the machine, is that it enables self-publishing by authors who have written fiction and specialized nonfiction (recipes and family genealogy, for example) and are satisfied with a small number of copies, at least initially.</span></p> <p><span><strong><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/with-this-machine-you-can-print-your-own-books-at-the-local-bookstore/254431/">Read more.</a></strong> <em>[Image: Politics and Prose/Flickr]</em></span></p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19255935429http://shakespeareandcobooks.tumblr.com/post/19255935429Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:32:47 -0400