ILAB Webinar Invitation: Wrapping up 2020 - We did it! But how?
- by Announcement, Rare Book Hub staff
A Complex Year explained from the bookseller's perspective
ILAB Booksellers meet again and look back at a year of challenges, innovation and newly found skills
In April earlier this year, ILAB invited to a webinar with booksellers from across the globe to look at the immediate effect of the COVID pandemic on the rare book trade.
Since April, staff was furloughed, came back and was sent home again as some countries are now experiencing a new wave of infections and restrictions.
Bookshops were boarded off and later reopened under strict hygienic measures. Some are closed again.
Institutions shifted their budgets to 2021, some demanded much longer admin time than usual, others only recently moved their staff out of home office.
Nearly all book fairs were cancelled and the concept of virtual fairs gained momentum. Online platforms saw a major increase in traffic and customers.
How has the rare book trade adapted to this new landscape eight months on?
How did booksellers handle this extreme situation and what have we learned we can share with our colleagues?
Can we take some positives from 2020 and apply to a post-COVID world?
Sally Burdon, ILAB President and moderator of the event, will speak again to:
Mario Giupponi, Italy Brad Johnson, US Pom Harrington, UK Ryu Sato, Japan Hervé Valentin, France and Sibylle Wieduwilt, Germany
DATE: 7th December 2020 at 1pm London time
Further sample times: Los Angeles: 5am New York: 8am London: 1pm Berlin, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Stockholm: 2pm Moscow: 4pm Tokyo: 10pm Canberra: 00:00 midnight
Sotheby's Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR
Sotheby's Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
Gros & Delettrez Livres & Manuscrits Arméniens Jeudi 12 juin 2025 Paris, Francis
Gros & Delettrez, June 12: BIBLE, Venise 1733, reliure arménienne
Gros & Delettrez, June 12: CHARAKNOTS, manuscrit XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle
