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Aldus Society Note Ss AAlldduuss SSoocciieettyy NNootteess Summer/Autumn 2007 Volume 7, No. 4 – Volume 8, No.1 To the Ends of the Earth: Aldus Calendar Voyaging with Rockwell Kent September 27 (Regular Program) — Robert H. Jackson returns to the It’s that time again – time to gather with your fellow bibliophiles for Aldus Society to take us to Greenland in search of author another season of Aldus Society programs. We begin our program year and illustrator, Rockwell Kent. with a return visit from a long-time Aldus Society supporter and member, October Bob Jackson. Bob will be taking us on a journey to Greenland and other 6 (First Saturday) — Topic to be announced. remote places on the heels of the subject of one of his several collecting 11 (Regular Meeting) — In October the Aldus Society will areas, author and illustrator Rockwell Kent. Bob has combined his welcome back Ann Woods for a presentation on the collecting pleasures with travel, and has followed Kent from one end of history of paper marbling. Ann is an award-winning the earth to the other, having traced Kent’s footsteps from Terra del calligrapher and book artist, and her presentations and workshops are always extremely popular with Aldus Society Fuego to Greenland. September’s meeting promises to be a delight. members. Bob is a noted collector of rare books and November tribal art. His broad interests are reflected 8 (Regular Meeting) — The November program will in his affiliations with such organizations continue our “Aldus Collects” tradition, with several Aldus members bringing samples from their collections or as The Grolier Club, The Rowfant Club, interesting book-related items to share with attendees of Association Internationale De Bibliophile, the meeting. The meeting will be great fun, as speakers are Paris, France, our own Aldus Society, and limited to under 15 minutes for their presentations. Enthusiasm always abounds as each speaker tries to the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic describe his or her collecting passion in such a short time. Associations (FABS), of which he is one of the founders and now chairman. He has December served on the editorial advisory board of 3 (Holiday Dinner) — December will once again find members of the Aldus Society gathered together at La Scala Biblio magazine, on Brown University’s for the annual Holiday Dinner and Book Auction to Rare Book Committee and on the Visiting celebrate the wrap-up of another year. Committee at Oberlin College. Recently, Y he was appointed as an advisor to the Baker-Nord Center of Case Western Reserve University. Bob’s rare book collecting interests range widely and include Victorian literature, Charles Dickens, English and American Nineteenth and Twentieth century authors, including Rockwell Kent, Eugene O’Neill, and, previously William Burroughs, as well as early color plate collections and books first issued in parts. Sharing widespread interests including world-wide travel with his wife, Donna, they actively collect Southeast Asian manuscripts and Oceanic and African Tribal Arts. Y Aldus Society Meetings Regular meetings of the Aldus Society are held at 7:30 PM on the second Thursday of the month at The Thurber Center 91 Jefferson Avenue Visit the Aldus Society web site for up-to-date information about Columbus, Ohio our programs and activities, in-depth articles about many of our speakers, and links to other book related organizations. \ Socializing Begins One-Half Hour Before [ www.AldusSociety.com 1 The Aldus Society “No reading for a week!” Bill Evans TRUSTEES, 2006-2007 My eye surgeon insisted as he left the room following my 24 hour post-op check-up. Floaters had suddenly filled my right eye one day last month. I went to my ophthalmologist, he found a retinal PRESIDENT tear and I was in surgery before the day was out. Bill Evans Following the actual laser repair session, Dr. Klisovic had been a bit more vague. “No heavy read- MEMBERSHIP ing” he cautioned. (P.G. Wodehouse but not Neitzsche? Maybe that wouldn’t be too bad!) Ron Ravneberg SECRETARY Now, the next day, he sounded more firm. NO READING. Have you ever tried to not read? Try it Christine Hayes for even a day. No books and newspapers, of course. But no Internet either. Do billboards count? Cereal boxes? I really find it hard to watch TV and seldom do, so I just wandered aimlessly around TREASURER Dave Reiff the house driving Marcia crazy. Of course, next to every chair was a stack of books and magazines. The bedside table, the back seat of the car, the emergency books stashed in the trunk of the car, my PROGRAMS Helen Liebman desk at work. Everywhere I looked, unfinished articles beckoned. Books that were too dry to plow Bill Rich through two days before, now looked like the fertile crescent. Even the Columbus Dispatch “flip side” section began to entice. Whew! ARCHIVES Geoff Smith As the days crawled by, I needed to do something so I went to the Grandview Library – a danger- ous place to not read! – and found James Joyce’s The Dubliners on CD. I’ve always had trouble with MEMBERS AT LARGE Joyce, so I figured this would give me something to concentrate on during the week. I tried to listen as I drove around town and it helped a bit, but some of the voices tended to put me to sleep – not George Bauman a good thing when driving. So I tried to lie on the couch and listen. I guess I’m just not cut out for Willkie Cirker books on tape. I remember putting our daughter Gwen to bed with a tape of Claire Bloom reading “The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.” I could get about as far as “When Benjamin Bunny grew up, he Genie Hoster married his cousin Flopsy…” ZZZZZ. I’m not sure if Gwen ever fell asleep, but I was well rested. Jay Hoster Joyce had the same effect! Ken Marantz I did as well as I could not reading. Oh, I cheated now and again, but just a bit. The week finally Jim Patterson passed, my check-up was “perfect” and I asked Dr. Klisovic if I could read again. “Yes,” he said on Joe Perko his way out. “You’re normal.” Kassie Rose I turned to his assistant and said, “Did you hear that? I’m normal.” Laralyn Sasaki “Don’t forget,” he answered. “He’s only the eye doctor!” Read, Eat, Sleep Aldus Society Notes is published quarterly by the Communications Bill Committee of The Aldus Society. If you have submissions or ideas for A Postscript: Aldus Society Books Arts Workshop articles, please contact Ron Ravneberg at Remember the old caution “Do not fold, spindle or mutilate?” Saturday, August 25th, saw plenty of (614) 457-1153 or the first two while the third was kept to a minimum under the patient training of Debra Fink [email protected]. Bachelder at this summer’s Aldus Society Book Arts workshop. Arriving with fine arts experience ranging from none to tons, nine of us learned step by step how to make a wide variety of creative The Aldus Society book forms – and boxes to hold them. Many thanks to Deb for sharing her enthusiasm and talent, Mailing Address to Bob Tauber for providing the space at the OSU Library Center for the Book and, of course, to P.O. Box 1150 Helen Liebman for coordinating this event. Worthington, Ohio 43085-1150 Now if I can just remember how to make those artsy little boxes and cards until the holidays … Web Site www.AldusSociety.com Ron Ravneberg can be contacted at: (614) 457-1153 or [email protected]. 2 Barry Moser Supports OSU Library Renovation with Don Quixote Print Artist and author, Barry Moser has generously donated his time and talent to create a special printed edition of his image of Don Quixote in support of the Thompson Li- brary Renovation. Moser, whom Nicholas Basbanes calls “the most important book illustrator working in America today,” was hosted by the Aldus Soci- ety and the Friends of the OSU Libraries when he was a featured speaker at our 2004 Celebration of the Book in Columbus. It was during his visit that Barry offered to authorize an edition to help with the renovation project. The image, which has never before been the subject of a printed edition, was released at the end of 2005 to coincide with the 400th anniver- sary of the publication of the first part of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The Talfourd P. Lynn Cervantes col- lection in OSU’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library is one of the world’s most significant collections of publications by Cervantes, and includes a copy of the extremely rare first 1605 Madrid printing of Don Quixote. Moser’s Don Quixote is printed on Mohawk Let- terpress Superfine, off-white, eggshell finish 80# stock. The print size is approximately 12.5” x 19” and the centered image is approximately 8” x 12.5”. The print is be available in a signed and num- bered edition of 100 prints at $250 each. An additional 125 unsigned prints are available for $150 each. Both versions are available exclu- sively through the Aldus Society and the Friends of the OSU Libraries. Proceeds from the prints will benefit the Thompson Library Renovation Campaign. Several Aldus Society members have already added the print to their collections. If you are Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful horse Rocinante, interested in acquiring one or more print(s), a limited edition print by Barry Moser, available exclusively through the please contact the Aldus Society at (614) 457- Aldus Society and the Friends of the Ohio State University Libraries.
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