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Help Save Ken Sanders Rare Books!

Saturday July 25, 2020 12:00 PM - Wednesday September 30, 2020 12:00 AM

KSRB needs you!

To best support the shop at this time, contributions are being collected through our new GoFundMe page. (Click "website") ↑ ↑ ↑

KSRB is an integral part of the very fabric of Utah’s culture, and well known beyond our state borders. We are under very real threats, most immediately with the loss...

Remembering Vasilios Priskos (10/12/17)

A HOLE IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN

By Ken Sanders

I opened my current bookshop in downtown Salt Lake in 1997. Although I had seen numerous INTERNET PROPERTIES signs all over downtown, I didn’t yet know who or what Vasilios Priskos might be. I couldn’t even pronounce his name. Newly...

May Swenson: Poetry is Pleasure

May Swenson
Poetry is Pleasure
by Ken Sanders

"In 1913 Swedish emigrants Dan and Margaret Swenson gave birth to a daughter in Logan, Utah. The slender, pale, blue-eyed blond could memorize and recite long poems by the age of three, but spoke only Swedish until she entered first grade. Growing up with...

L-25: Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books

Attention Colleagues and Fellow Bibliophiles,

I would like to take a moment to endorse Joel Silver's course at Rare Book School, "L-25: Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books," being offered this June at the Lily Library in Bloomington, Indiana. If you are a cataloger, researcher, or collector, this is the...

A Note from Ken

KSRB appreciates the outpouring of support from the community regarding the recent article in The Salt Lake Tribune (link above) concerning our future.

“Through Cosmic Aeroplane Books and Records, Dream Garden Press, and Ken Sanders Rare Books, I have been operating a retail bookshop and publishing company in downtown Salt Lake...

WELCOME BACK TO KSRB!

Ken Sanders Rare Books has 15,000 titles listed on our website but 100,000 books—on 7ft shelves and in scattered stacks—between our brick-and-mortar walls. Our lives have become very digital lately, but today we’re announcing a safe & secure welcome back to the bookshop. Whether you want to compile a stack...