Author: Peter Masi
Dear Friends, we’ll be in our usual booth at Boxboro Paper Town, this Saturday, October 14, 9 am – 3 pm, Boxboro Regency Hotel, 242 Adams Place, Boxboro, MA, 01709 selling all manner of printed ephemera, books, pamphlets, broadsides, in our usual interests, Americana, Architecture, Art, Books about Books, Cooking, Early American Children’s Books, Medicine, Social Issues, Textiles, Travel, Women and several shelves and boxes of historical Massachusetts material.
Dear friends, we’ll be in our usual Booth 215 at the Allentown Paper Show, this Saturday, October 7, 9 am – 5 pm and Sunday, October 8, 9 am – 3 pm, Agricultural Hall, Allentown Fairgrounds, 1929 Chew St, Allentown, PA, along with about 150 dealers selling all manner of printed ephemera, books, advertising, posters, postcards, maps and prints. We’ll bring boxes of pamphlets, from Adventist to Zoos, with many stops along the way, as well as books and broadsides, in our usual interests, Americana, Architecture, Art, Books about Books, Cooking, Early American Children’s Books, Medicine, Social Issues, Textiles, Travel and Women.
Click here to read a list of a few of the items we’ll bring.
We hope you’ll consider shopping the show and especially Booth 215.
Best regards, Peter
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Robert Vogel machine tool library.
Click here to view Excel file.
We have been asked by Robert Vogel, longtime technology curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, to broker his library devoted to the history of machine shop practice.
He created the Excel file of the collection. There are 432 entries, many for multiple volumes, over 200 technical and historical books and reports, about 100 trade catalogs, 50 or so magazine issues, a few directories, about 70 reprints by Lindsay, Astragal, about 40 19th century items, rest 20th century, including few high spots (Rose, Modern Machine Shop Practice; Sellers, Treatise on Machine Tools, 1873 with mounted albumen photos).
$7500. Transport to be arranged.
Click here to read Catalog 259. well, file last updated late May – it’s october – garden winding down – spring as droughty as last was wet – bunny population explosion – food chain issue – ignored my 2 x 4” wire grid fence which has kept out deer, raccoons, groundhogs – ate through plastic mesh added at ground level – most distressing – eliminated greens, beans – got tomato, pepper, eggplants, squash, cucumbers established – shunned basil, mustard – few other strategies also futile – planted some lettuce in raised bed by house – tomato blight slow to show – record tomato crop – bunnies ate low-hanging tomato, pepper eggplant, but spared higher fruit – summer squash produced before succumbing – small cucumber crop – got some pea plants past bunnies – got enough basil for some pesto – enjoyed usual tomato-based fare: sandwiches, gazpacho, salsa, tomato-basil pasta sauce – canned close to 30 quarts so far, more on way – Zach married Lauren Branchini in at Osmica, Spring Spring Trail Farm, Lansing, NY, July 1 – Jewish ceremony for 120 or so mostly heathens proud father of groom there with longtime friend Edie Brown – many Masis in house – didn’t lose a doctor, gained a lawyer – she works for Cornell in HR – honeymoon in Azores – already sharing lovely house in Newfield, NY – quick visit Labor Day weekend – met new puppy Milo – in training – turned 69 on August 5 – got COVID and had email hacked on birthday – latter remedied with some sibling handholding – former lingers via brain fog and fatigue – avoid if possible – 3.5 cords firewood now stacked for looming heating season – no threat of frost so far – burned rest of firewood, then ran furnace – fall show season kicked off over weekend with Boxboro – schedule bit crowded with shows at UMass, Allentown, Boston, Northampton – herein usual masi mix – hoping to achieve 260 prior to Boston show – meanwhile, yes off to Eagle for hard copies – last of breed to have printed there – with hopes you’ll be sufficiently amused to acquire – at your service – peter