🔴 Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK No. 70: A visit to the Mark Twain museum in Connecticut and more

 

Co-host Ed Markiewicz takes us on a visit to the site of The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. Photography isn’t allowed in the house but Ed manages a look inside the museum, which contains manuscripts and published volumes of Twain’s books. 

Co-host Lee Linn also has visited the house, and in this episode she offers some commentary about the experience. 

Ed and Lee also mention their favorite Mark Twain books, which include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). 

They discuss a new, related volume, James (2024), by Percival Everett, which is on the short list to be considered for Pulitzer Prize. Everett’s book reimagines the Huckleberry Finn story from the point of view of Jim, the enslaved man who sets on the Mississippi River adventure with Huck. 

As it happened, on the evening of the day Ed visited, Mr. Everett was to be a guest of The Mark Twain House & Museum for a live streamed program. You can watch a recording of that program in the comments section. 

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Co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn are veteran antiquarian booksellers. Ed owns Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscript and Lee owns The Ridge Books in Calhoun, Georgia. 

 Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK is made possible by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, the oldest and largest rare, used, and collectible book fair in the southeastern United States. 

The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair will be presented March 1-2, 2025 at The Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. More information at floridaantiquarianbookfair.com 

The program also is made possible by Biblio.com, a website featuring used, rare, and out-of-print books from independent booksellers. Biblio is celebrating 20 years of serving book lovers. It’s better than ever. Biblio spotlights “the core of our business model: the independent booksellers who bring their expertise, enthusiasm, and professionalism to soon the used and rare book trade.” 

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Music by Kevin MacLeod Hyperfun Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 

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Rare Book Cafe is based in Florida. 

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🔴 Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK No. 55: Rebecca Rego Barry on writing The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells

 

Writer and editor Rebecca Rego Barry joins us to share the intriguing inside story on how she came to pursue the backstory on Carolyn Wells, a once prominent and prolific author in the early 20th century who all but vanished from the public consciousness in the intervening decades.

It’s a fascinating story spurred by a journalist’s natural curiosity and a book lover’s discovery. Rebecca Rego Barry was the longtime editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine and is now director of communications for The Raab Collection, a company that buys and sells historical autographs and documents.

Please SHARE this program with your book loving friends.

Co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn are veteran antiquarian booksellers. Ed owns Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscripts, and Lee owns The Ridge Books in Calhoun, Georgia.

Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK is made possible by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, the oldest and largest rare, used, and collectible book fair in the southeastern United States. The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair will be presented March 1-2, 2025 at The Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. More information at floridaantiquarianbookfair.com

The program also is made possible by Biblio.com.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod Hyperfun Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Join us on our Facebook group Book Lovers’ Rendezvous.

Rare Book Cafe is based in Florida.

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Frankly, we're excited! We hope you are, too.

 

Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, March 1-3, 2024. The Coliseum, St. Petersburg. Tickets available at Eventbrite.com (link in the column at right) or cash at the box office. It's the book lovers' paradise. 

It's not too early to order tickets -- and they make such wonderful gifts for the deserving book lovers in your life

IT’S GIFT-GIVING SEASON. And the absolutely perfect gift for any book lover is the opportunity to browse thousands of books at the largest antiquarian book fair in the Southeast — the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. You can order tickets right now at Eventbrite.com. It’s quick. It’s easy. And your book lover will be so pleased, and thankful.

See you at the book fair.

🔴 Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK No. 36: Richard in Syracuse, Ed in Verona, and Lee on the mend

It’s the 36th episode of Rare Book Cafe — Coffee Break, and the good news is that co-host Lee Linn is on the mend from the fractured arm and leg she received after a bad fall at the end of the Books in Boston Shadow Show. 

Co-host Ed Markiewicz and Rare Book Cafe regular contributor Richard Mori have been keeping in touch with her, and report good progress in her rehabilitation efforts.

 

Meanwhile, both have been on the move. Ed, who is based in Verona, Italy, for another month or so in a book binding apprenticeship, took the opportunity to visit some other places in Europe, including the Turin Chocolate Festival. He shares video.

 

Both Ed and Richard have acquired some fascinating items they share in the episode. We catch up with Richard at an antiques show in Syracuse, New York. 

 

We send good wishes for a speedy recovery to Lee and look forward to seeing her soon in an upcoming episode of Rare Book Cafe. 

 

A SPECIAL REQUEST: Please SHARE this program with your book loving friends. If this is the first time you've watched Rare Book Cafe, let us know what you think in the comments. If you're a regular watcher, tell us in the comments how often and what you envjoy about the show. 

 

Our Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK series offers short programs, usually on a single topic. Watch for more in the series. 

 

Co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn are veteran antiquarian booksellers. Ed owns Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscripts in Portland, Oregon, and Lee owns The Ridge Books in Calhoun, Georgia.

 

Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK is made possible by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, the oldest and largest rare, used, and collectible book fair in the southeastern United States. The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair will be presented March 1-3, 2024 at The Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. More information at floridaantiquarianbookfair.com

 

The program also is made possible by Biblio.com, a website featuring used, rare, and out-of-print books from independent booksellers. Biblio is celebrating 20 years of serving book lovers. It’s better than ever. Biblio spotlights “the core of our business model: the independent booksellers who bring their expertise, enthusiasm, and professionalism to soon the used and rare book trade.”

 

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Music by Kevin MacLeod Hyperfun and Electrodoodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Rare Book Cafe is a gathering of collectors and lovers of old, rare, and collectible books. It is a virtual cafe, accessible anywhere in the world, where the subjects are priceless and the conversation is free. It is truly the book lovers' rendezvous. Join us on our Facebook group Book Lovers’ Rendezvous.

Rare Book Cafe is based in Florida. 

 

Rare Book Cafe 

 

The Book Lovers' Rendezvous™

 

YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.

 

Also as a podcast on YouTube Music

 

#rarebooks #collectiblebooks #ephemera #ephemeraforsale #leatherboundbooks #leatherbound #antiquemapsandprints #bostonbooklovers #booksinboston #floridabookfair #floridaantiquarianbookfair #rarebookcafe #bookloversrendezvous