Rare Book Monthly

Articles - March - 2022 Issue

CABS-Minnesota Announces Awards for Five Diverse Voices Fellowships

Left to right, Jaime Harker, Warren Lee, and Katie Mitchell (ABS photos).

Left to right, Jaime Harker, Warren Lee, and Katie Mitchell (ABS photos).

CABS-Minnesota and the Antiquarian Book School Foundation (ABSF) recently announced the five awardees of their inaugural cohort of the Diverse Voice Fellowships. The bookselling profession traditionally has not been a particularly diverse field, leading CABS-Minnesota to offer the fellowships to those who may find themselves isolated from the field on account of race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, and/or income. The fellowships provide a week-long seminar at CABS-Minnesota focused on selling antiquarian and rare books, a two-day field trip to New York City, and various virtual events. Nearly 3,000 people have attended the CABs seminars since they were founded in 1978.

 

The five new fellows are:

 

Jaime Harker, the founder of Violet Valley Bookstore. Violet Valley is a “queer, feminist, transinclusive nonprofit bookstore” in the unlikely location of Water Valley, Mississippi. It is the only queer feminist bookstore in the state of Mississippi. Ms. Harker is author of The Lesbian South, and was inspired to open a bookstore while researching for her book. She is also a professor of English and director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi. She looks to continue supporting queer youth in Mississippi.

 

Nahid Khan was born to South Asian Urdu-speaking Muslin parents. She collects American Muslim books, publications, and print ephemera. She also has gathered material on American news reporting of Muslims, Islamic faith, and other topics and media in relation to the Muslim world, as well as representations of other minority groups. A graduate student, Ms. Khan is looking at ways to make her collections available to others.

 

Warren Lee is a member of the New York bar and a financial planner. His interest in the field arose when dating his wife who wrote her MBA on independent bookselling. He is a co-founder and owner of 44th & 3rd Bookseller in Atlanta and intends to offer a book service and research tools for rare and collectible Black titles.

 

Katie Mitchell is the co-owner (along with her mother) of Good Books, an online and pop-up Black bookstore in Atlanta. Ms. Mitchell's mother raised her on Black books and authors, a background that formed her attachment to her books.

 

Michelle Walton is co-owner of The Collective-Oakland (California), where she was born and raised. She says travel is her therapy and she cannot imagine life without coffee and books.

 

The fellows were selected from a pool of 30 highly qualified applicants. Director of CABS-Minnesota Lorne Bair said, “We are delighted to welcome this group of talented Fellows to the antiquarian book trade and the CABS-Minnesota community. The selection committee was impressed with the Fellows’ deep knowledge in specialty areas and their passion for learning about antiquarian bookselling.”

 

This years edition of the CABS-Minnesota seminar will take place from July 10-15 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Registration is now open. CABS-Minnesota is operated by the Antiquarian Book School Foundation, a non-profit educational institution. It offers a week-long intensive seminar for booksellers, prospective booksellers, and others with an interest in the antiquarian and second-hand book market. You can register by following this link: www.bookseminars.com/registration.php.

Rare Book Monthly

  • One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions
    Rare Autograph and Book Auction
    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion Stationary To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Extremely Rare Ben Franklin Printed: Considerations on Keeping Negroes...Part Second. 1762.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: An impressively extra-illustrated copy; Including an Original leaf from Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio!
    One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions
    Rare Autograph and Book Auction
    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence “Don’t give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg.
    One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions
    Rare Autograph and Book Auction
    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Autograph Album with James Garfield as President, Chester A. Aurthur as VP, William T. Sherman, Burnside, P.T. Barnum and many more!
    One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions
    Rare Autograph and Book Auction
    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
  • RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    ABAA Dealer
    RareBookBuyer.com
    Specialized in Purchasing
    Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
    RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    ABAA Dealer
    RareBookBuyer.com
    Specialized in Purchasing
    Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
    RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    ABAA Dealer
    RareBookBuyer.com
    Specialized in Purchasing
    Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
    RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    ABAA Dealer
    RareBookBuyer.com
    Specialized in Purchasing
    Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
    RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    ABAA Dealer
  • Sotheby’s
    Bibliotheca Brookeriana:
    A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M
    18 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding

Article Search

Archived Articles

Ask Questions