The literature of travel is charted by Michael Rosove in Antarctica 1772-1922, in Leonora Navari's Greek Civilization through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars, in the much enlarged edition of Bruce Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies, and (from Oslo) in Anka Ryall's Odysseve i Skjort. Michael Rosove - Leonora Navari - Rodney Shirley Paul Cassirer - Johann Friedrich Cotta - Cranach PressĪccounts of individual presses, commercial, academic and 'private', entered for the Prize include: Paul Cassirer Verlag, Berlin 1898-1933 (by R.Feilchenfeldt and M.Brandis), Johann Friedrich Cotta Verlag 1787-1832 (by B.Fischer), Edinburgh University Press (by Peter Bell), Leipziger Bibliophilen (by H.Kaestner), the Giunta (Junta) Printing Family in Spain 1526-1628 (by W.Pettas), Charles Ricketts's Vale Press (by M.Watry), and Die Cranach Presse des Grafen Harry Kessler (edited by J.D.Brinks). Sheila Markham's collection of interviews with members (mostly) of the British trade arrives from the author, and Robert Maumet's account of Paul Ruat, libraire 1862-1938, arrives from Marseilles. Anton Gerits of Amsterdam, a past president of the League, and Lev Abramovich Glazer, who traded in rare books in Moscow for sixty years, offer their reminiscences.

Anton Gerits - Lev Glazer - Sheila Markhamīooksellers' memoirs - and memoirs of booksellers - and conversations with booksellers - all qualify and often make the most lively reading.

Origins of Cyberspace by Diana H. Hook