For more information, contact:  
Linda Lebsack  
(303) 832-7190  
 linlebbks@aol.com  
 www.rmaba.org

The 24^th Annual Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair assembles at the Denver Merchandise Mart Expo Building, Friday, August 1 from 5-9 pm and Saturday, August 2 from 10 am-5 pm.  More than 65 booksellers from around the United States and
Canada will be offering an outstanding collection of books, maps, photographs and vintage ephemera.  Admission is $6 on Friday and $4 Saturday and includes exhibits and interesting panels.  Free Parking.

The Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA) has been joined by the Book Arts League and the Guild of Book Workers for this year’s event, The Art of the Book.  The fair will feature a Book Arts Row where members of these groups will be presenting displays and demonstrations on the processes and art of bookmaking.

In addition, a selection of ephemera - those bits of throwaway paper of every day life such as advertising, ticket stubs, programs, postcards,  booklets and pamphlets -  will be on hand for the paper enthusiasts. 

The fair provides an opportunity for people to see, feel, and perhaps buy special books and historical items that are seldom seen outside of libraries and museums.  Collectors will find a wide selection of affordable books of interest. 

Special events this year include a display of Political Ephemera spanning 100 years, a presentation on Collecting Art Prints and Books, and a discussion and book signing with Michael and Kathleen Hague.

On Friday, August 1, from 5 pm – 9 pm., an exhibit of Political Ephemera from 1908 to 2008, courtesy of Casa Maya Heritage Center of Auraria and others, is scheduled.  Items in the collection include buttons, posters, ticket, gavel and an original cartoon from the 1908 Democratic Convention in Denver. Special Guest Docents will be present to answer questions.

Also on Friday, from 7 pm – 8 pm, Denver Post Cartoonist Mike Keefe will sign his recent books, Race for the 2008 Democratic Nomination, a Book of Editorial Cartoons and Race for the 2008 Republican Nomination, a Book of Editorial Cartoons.

On Saturday, August 2, at 11:00 am, a panel discussion on Collecting Limited Edition Art Prints and Books will be presented by Leon Loughridge, artist and owner of Dry Creek Art Press, 1456 S. Broadway, Denver; Tam O’Neill, owner of Tam O’Neill Fine Arts, 311 Detroit Street, Denver; and Arthur Gilbert, a University of Denver professor and longtime print collector.

Saturday afternoon at 1:00 pm, Michael and Kathleen Hague will answer questions and sign books at a presentation on Illustrated Books and the Graphic Novel. Residents of Colorado and internationally recognized, Michael and Kathleen have partnered on the publication of numerous books, including Alphabears, An ABC Book, Ten Little Bears, The Book of Wizards, Goodnight Fairies. Michael ‘s newly released movie bound graphic novel, In the Small is a collaboration with son Devon.  Mr. Hague is well known  for his illustrations for classics such as The Velveteen Rabbit, The Hobbit, The Night Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland and many others.

The Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association is an organization of used and rare bookdealers in the Rocky Mountain West, dedicated to stimulating book collecting, promoting ethical trade in all facets of the antiquarian book business, and educating the public in the field of antiquarian books.

Gallagher Books, at 1428 S. Broadway on Denver’s Famous Antique Row, is celebrating 14 years in the rare, out of print book business Memorial Day weekend. 10% off all inventory on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. We specialize in rare, out of print, unusual books with significant selections in Western, Americana, Art, Children’s, Illustrated, Leather and Decorative Binding, Railroad, Photography, Military, History, Literature. Original World War I & II posters and library related antiques are also available. 303-756-5821, US Toll Free 1-866-425-5225 or gallabks@gcbooks.com.

Open M-S 10:30 am - 5:30 pm; Sun Noon - 5:00 pm.

You can search our inventory by category at www.gcbooks.com. When you’re in Denver stop by our open shop, just minutes from downtown and 6 blocks south of I-25, and you will enjoy perusing the wonderful antique cast iron bookshelves for that special book in a friendly comfortable setting. As members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), we adhere to the highest standards of the book trade.

Don & Sue Gallagher

Featuring  Poets            

   Alice Goble

   Renee Ruderman

   Joy Sawyer

   Cate Wiley

Begins at 7:30 pm
West Side Books                 

Stories for All Seasons

Saturday April 12^th

Featuring Authors Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem

**Steve’s books include: “City Fishing”, “The Book of Days”, “Daughters”

*Melanie’s books include: “The Deceiver”, “The Tides”, “Witch-light”

The Man on the Ceiling
“Reminds you what fiction is capable of being, doing, and making for the reader and the author.”

                                      -Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods

intros by Ed Bryant, all starting at 7:30 pm

West Side Books                 

A Conspiracy of Fools

Eichenwald, Kurt

New York, Broadway Books, 2005

ISBN: 0767911784

An in-depth investigation of the who and what of the Enron melt-down … the players, the insiders, the accountants.  The sheer lunacy of some of the decisions that were made.  Not only did the company ‘managers’ take on projects that were outside their expertise, they did so with almost no research into the other business lines … going blindly where no one had gone before! 

Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are portrayed as uninformed corporate officers, that they would have done better if others had kept them ‘in the loop’.  Andy Fastow (CFO) is portrayed as sort of a high-paid bumbling idiot … but, I’m not convinced.  I think he was one sharp con-man.  He was able to convince the BOD to allow him to personally invest in side-deals for Enron, each one a clear conflict of interest.  Some of the deals were structured such that the more money that Enron lost, the more money that Fastow (and his cronies) made off of each deal.  Fastow was able to pocket millions, personally, while Enron lost billions on the ‘investments’.

Much is made, also, of the manipulation of the utilities, especially the electricity market that caused the severe crisis in California.

A really good read … a book hard to put down … reads like a fast-paced mystery novel, but it’s all true.  Will leave you shaking your head at almost every fast-paced turn of the page.

G’Jim c):{-

The One-Hour Orgasm : How to Learn the Amazing ‘Venus Butterfly’ Technique,

Schwartz, Bob and Leah

Houston, Breakthru Publishing, 1999

ISBN: 0-942540-14-X    [how apropos!]

Wow!!

G’Jim c):{-

Mention that you saw this notice and receive 15% off any purchase. 

Gallagher Books at 1428 S. Broadway will host a Holiday Open House on Saturday and Sunday, December 1-2 as part of the Antique Row Holiday Celebration.  Coffee, soft drinks, and snacks will be ready for you, so stop by and see us.  Hours: Saturday 10:30 - 5:30 and Sunday noon - 5:00.

We have filled our shelves with new inventory.  We offer an outstanding selection of old, rare, and unusual books in many fields.  You’ll find significant selections in Western, Americana, Railroad, Art, Children’s, Illustrated, Leather and Decorative Bindings, Archaeology, Geology, Military, History, Literature, Modern Firsts.  Original World War I and II posters and library related antiques are also available.

Call us at 303-756-5821 or toll free at 1-866-425-5225, if you have any questions or want us to help with a special present.

‘American Creation : Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic`
Joseph J. Ellis; New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007; ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26369-8

Six chapters, six turning points where the founding fathers got things right, and wrong - and setting us along a path that we still travel, fraught with rocks, pot-holes, and widely divergent side-roads.

1) The Year - the fifteen months between the shots fired at Lexington and Concord and the Declaration of Independence; culminating in the statement, ‘We hold these truths to be self evident …’

2) The Winter - Those dreadful months at Valley Forge, when/where George Washington would finally come to the realization that he didn’t need to win the war, what he really had to do was to prevent the British from winning.

3) The Argument - The important, but certainly not inevitable, movement from the Articles of Confederation to The Constitution.

4) The Treaty - The Jay Treaty, siding with Britain against the French who had helped in the Revolutionary War - going against the feelings of the majority of the citizenry.

5) The Conspiracy - The creation of the two-party system - against the original opinions that parties would be the ruination of the country.

6) The Purchase - The Louisiana Purchase - doubling the size of the country, and Jefferson almost single-handedly approving the entire deal in spite of the fact that he deeply felt that it was way beyond his powers to do so.

Throughout the book, two ‘tragedies’ are frequently mentioned against the events; the failure to address slavery (the ’silent’ issue that no one would mention), and the failure to properly address the ‘Indian issue’ - both issues eventually leading to great blood-shed and the one almost to the complete dissolution of the republic.

~~~

Jim Arner

Just finished reading ‘The Book Thief : The true crimes of
Daniel Spiegelman’ by Travis McDade, Praeger Publishers,
Westport, 2006; ISBN: 0-275-9931-0.

This non-fictional account of DS’ crime, his capture,
his trial, his sentencing, escape, re-capture, re-sentencing
makes for some very interesting reading.

The author seems to wander far afield, at times, leaving the
reader initially wondering what possible link the
information has with the primary subject … but, in every
case, the relevance is revealed … and the whole makes for
a very good story.

Recommended reading … some of the testimony by Jean Ashton
(of Columbia’s RBML), regarding the value of stolen items
(and the damage caused), is extremely interesting to those
involved in the rare book/manuscript world.

My local library didn’t have a copy of this book, in fact no
library in the state of Wyomin’ had a copy.  But, the
library was able to obtain the book, through inter-library
loan, from the Public Library in Avon, Colorado.

Jim Arner

We are excited to announce the following event at the Denver Book Mall, 32 Broadway (between 1st Avenue and Ellsworth), Denver, 303-733-3808.  Please feel free to pass along the information to everyone you know. 

Sunday, November 11, 3:00 p.m. – “How Denver won World War II”:  Local historian and raconteur Phil Goodstein will discuss and sign his latest book, From Soup Lines to the Front Lines: Denver during the Depression and World War II 1927-1947. The book will be discounted to $25 from its cover price of $29.95, and refreshments will be served.  There was a great review of Phil’s book by Sandra Dallas in last Sunday’s Denver Post.  Read it at http://tinyurl.com/3ccnfo

MAIL ORDERS and ADVANCE ORDERS WELCOME.  If you have any questions about the book signing, please call Nina Else or Pat Grego at 303-733-3808. 

ALSO, there’s a wonderful art show of mixed media and watercolor at the Denver Book Mall running November 7 through January 8.  You have plenty of time to get in to see and buy, BUT there’s an opening reception TONIGHT, Friday November 9,  6 – 10, with lots of refreshments and merriment.