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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...
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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...