Member: J_ipsen

Thanks so much for the information! BetterWorld looks pretty amazing.

I'll have DD check out the other website you mention. It also sounds very interesting. Although DD will be returning to the Statesa to finish up her undergraduate work at the end of this year, her University adviser was in Shanghai last week and talked to her about possible internships and/or master's level projects. I think I'll be sending packages to China for quite a while to come.

posted by streamsong at 9:48 am (EST) on Oct 20, 2011

Hi Julian,

I suggest that you try the following:

- Lok Man Rare Books http://www.lokmanbooks.com/ Address: 6 Chancery Lane, Central, Hong Kong

- Picture This http://www.picturethiscollection.com/home/main/page1/ Address: 212, 2nd Floor, Prince's Building, Central, Hong Kong & Suite 1308, 13th Floor, Office Tower, 9 Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong

- Wattis Fine Art http://www.wattis.com.hk Address: 2/F 20 Hollywood Road Central Hong Kong (mainly maps, photographs and pictures with a few books)

The above are all upper end dealers who cater mostly for the expat market. However, the owners are all friendly, knowledgeable and welcome browsers.

Best regards,

Lorne

posted by hkcds at 9:23 pm (EST) on Jul 6, 2011

Thanks Julian, for the intelligent review of "Jumble Tales". Much appreciated.

Steve

posted by thelonelyhunter at 4:35 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2011

Oh dear! At least you have practice at this then. That makes our family tradition of getting lost in the car every time we go anywhere new and driving over every bridge in the city at least three times each seem much less annoying that I thought it was.

I'm glad you will have somewhere to escape, but I hope you won't need to.

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 5:38 am (EST) on Mar 14, 2011

I'm glad to know you are okay but I can't imagine how worried you must be. I really don't know what to say other than that I hope you all stay safe.

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 8:55 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2011

I know it's a different country but I hope you are okay.

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 3:16 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2011

Thanks for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your interesting libraries. Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 9:00 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2011

P.S. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
~Christa

posted by Macophile at 8:47 am (EST) on Nov 22, 2010

Hi Julian,
Thank you ever so much! It is greatly appreciated!

posted by Macophile at 8:46 am (EST) on Nov 22, 2010

Hi-
I was wondering if you were still available to be a Santa Thing Sponsor? I am sadly lacking in money this year and was hoping to participate.
Thanks ever so much!
~Christa

posted by Macophile at 7:32 am (EST) on Nov 20, 2010

Dear Julian,
Many thanks for entering the LibraryThing draw to win a copy of "Jumble Tales". Your copy will be in the post tomorrow morning (Thursday).
Please allow a few weeks this time of year to get to China and let me know when it arrives safely.
If you like any of the the stories, please feel free to leave a few words of review on Librarything and elsewhere.

Once again, many thanks for your support!

posted by thelonelyhunter at 4:17 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2010

I don't know anything about these kinds of books, so those terms don't mean anything to me. But if they'd been massive (as opposed to encyclopedia sized) I would have probably said something :) Yes, they're all in one piece.

posted by bluesalamanders at 10:07 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2009

Merry Christmas!! Hope you and your wifey-person have a lovely one.

Cheers for the small chats we've had

K

posted by Severn at 5:17 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2008

Julian,
I LOVE the image you posted in the latest teen angst thread!!!
:o)
Clare

posted by clamairy at 10:27 am (EST) on Nov 27, 2008

You are very sweet, thank you. See you in chat or in the threads.

posted by maggie1944 at 9:25 pm (EST) on Oct 20, 2008

Yes, isn't that a funny?!
:oD
I was wondering where you had been lately! Hope all is well.

Clare

posted by clamairy at 9:18 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2008

Thank you! That gives me a great visual. Have you read The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco? It's a lot to do with monks making books on vellum, as well as a mystery. I'm not finding it grabbing, but more relaxing.

posted by MrsLee at 10:43 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2008

Hi, just read your comment in the Green Dragon, but when I tried to respond there, it was very strange and I didn't want to interfere with the photos of your book. Thank you for those, lovely book.

I have a question. I just finished reading The Heretic's Apprentice by Ellis Peters. It is a mystery set in the 1100s and one of the characters in it makes vellum. Now I am burning with curiosity of what vellum looks like and feels like. Do you have any books made of it? Not easy to find pictures of it, on google anyway. Don't know if I'll ever get the chance to feel it myself, but if you have felt it, would you describe it for me? Of course if you are too busy, I understand. :)

posted by MrsLee at 11:59 pm (EST) on May 23, 2008

Hi Julian, hearing about the earthquake I couldn't help but think of you and your wife and hope you're both okay. I see you've posted on other groups so I'm thinking you are, but I wanted you to know that we've been thinking about you in the Green Dragon.

You haven't mentioned anything about your book. Were you dreadfully disappointed? Did it not turn out as you had hoped? I didn't see the finished product but Father Brandt had seemed so pleased, I had really hoped it had worked out well.

all the best,

Katherine

posted by katylit at 6:08 pm (EST) on May 14, 2008

Hi Julian,

I just got back from Father Brandt's. Your book is looking good, should be done pretty soon and then zipping it's way back to you pdq! :-) I had a wonderful visit, so good I think I'm going to tell all about it in a thread at the GD. I'm just grinning from ear to ear from the whole experience. Very neat book by the way. I was surprised it was in English - I thought it would be in Latin for some odd reason.

all the best,

Katherine

posted by katylit at 11:27 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2008

Hi Julian, wow that was fast! Thanks, I'll get in touch today :-)

Katherine

posted by katylit at 10:11 am (EST) on Apr 14, 2008

Hi Julian, regarding your book repair from our chat this morning, I found a link to the monk I was telling you about http://www.cbbag.ca/OL_Gallery/BC_Alberta/brandt.htm

Father Brandt sounds like an amazing man, and as I mentioned, I've heard very good things about him from our local booksellers and librarians. I think the easiest thing might be for you to email him directly and send the pictures. If you'd rather I phoned I'm more than happy to do that, but we'd have to email anyways to send the pictures - what do you think? He's just about 1/2 an hour away from me. Whatever is easiest, I'm happy to help.

posted by katylit at 1:16 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2008

Hello Julian

Many thanks for the details of the gramophone-needle man. I'll be sure and look him up soon.

All best
Hugh

posted by hfglen at 6:39 am (EST) on Mar 5, 2008

I haven't found that Banned Books poster yet, but I'm still looking... small world, eh? I used to live in Germany (Kaiserslautern) and my Uncle works in China (but I won't ask if you know him)...

posted by TeacherDad at 4:17 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2008

Wow - that is a gorgeous book that you posted to the Green Dragon group! So jealous!

posted by fannyprice at 4:44 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2008

Thank you so much for your SantaThing choices for me! They are absolutely perfect; I think I will dive into the Boilerplate Rhino first. Froehliche Weinachten und ein gutes Neu Jahr, mit Buche, Buche, und mehr Buche! Viele danke noch ein Mal.

posted by boltgirl at 9:41 am (EST) on Dec 31, 2007

On THE PARASITE by Arthur Conan Doyle: I read it about a year ago and, to be honest, thought it a rather slight book, with some interesting passages of pyschological suspense but lacking the energy and substance of some of Doyle's other quasi-supernatural books, such as THE MARACOT DEEP or THE MYSTERY OF CLOOMBER, or even the adventure books like the Challenger novels or the Sherlock Holmes novels. Still, I'll read anything by Doyle and am glad to have THE PARASITE in my collection. Have you read it?

posted by jfclark at 8:35 pm (EST) on Dec 5, 2007

Thank you for the pointer to tushucheng.com! What a great resource!

I've been using data entry in LT as a way to practice Chinese, looking up words because I frequently know what a word means but not how it's pronounced and trying to type it in. My typing is self taught, way too slow, and I clearly don't know a huge pile of fundamentals. Without the project of entering data into LT, I'm sure I'd never find time to practice!

posted by mvrdrk at 1:49 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2007

Hi! I just saw in the Green Dragon that we share a birthday! Just wanted to stop and say Happy Birthday (ok, two weeks late, but it's still cool!)

Cara

posted by hearts3134 at 9:32 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2007

Dear Julian and ?,
Thank you for your comment.
I hope my catalog will be useful to you both. I only ask you to have much patience. Because of the huge quantities of books to be catalogued (more dan 10,000 still to go while most of them can only be entered manually), because of the way I do my cataloguing (i.e. with many tags &c. so as to have many ways to find a book) and because I have several "lives" besides my LT life (family, work,...), it will take quite some time to really finish the job, maybe even several years. I have decided to do the work in two "rounds": first the essential information forming the structure of the catalog (authors, titles, tags, and only when possible dates, editors, etc.), and only when this will be done the rest - the second "round" : covers, editions, dates &c.. After finishing the catalog I hope to be able to write reviews. This also because I am growing conscious my library is also a mirror of my life, a kind of (intellectual)autobiography - and writing reviews could be a way to concretize this consciousness. But my first work now is finishing the catalog.
For the time being - as most of the books still wait to be included - my catalog will not be as informative as it will be in diture. If in the meantime you have some questions, please don't hesitate.
Kind regards und herzliche Grüsse,
Jan Willem Noldus

posted by JanWillemNoldus at 12:06 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2007

Here's a pint of my local Beartown brewery's best Bearskinfull bitter, what's all the fuss about Morphidae's book?

how long have you been in China? Which part? Are you going to get see any of the Olymic Games next year?

My brother spent three years teaching out there before bringing his chinese wife back over here. I think she's had the bigger culture shock! I only spent a couple of weeks there when the fmaily all went over for the wedding. A lovely country, I hadn't appreciated just how massively huge it is.

posted by reading_fox at 8:59 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2007

Hi,

So you are another book lover separated from a cherished book collection back home, right? The first year I came to China I sent myself about 40 kg of books in 7 boxes simply through the mail. Everything arrived (there were some really expensive books in there), except for a cheap (Aufbau Verlag (ost)) 1980s paperback of a book by Friedrich Engels in German. It looks as if they didn't want me to have that.

As far as I can see the Bundespost working with DHL offers an affordable and quite safe service. Eventually, I will send more through the Dutch Post, but am already very worried about early 19th C editions and 19th & 20th C first editions.

I just want to draw your attention to this event:

http://www.hongkongantiquarianbookfair.com/

It's going to be the first international antiquarian book fair in Hong Kong. I have a strong mind to go there. There will be quite a number of Dutch and German book sellers.

Guilin is a beautiful place! My bf is from Guangxi.

Edwin

posted by edwinbcn at 8:29 am (EST) on Sep 8, 2007

Thanks for the Lulu visit, I didn't write anything too controversial in my book, so it should get past China's borders...

- TeenAuthor

posted by Jakeofalltrades at 9:50 am (EST) on Aug 17, 2007

Here you go! That's my little red dot waving at you from the middle of the US - Nebraska. Cool profile page. Mary Lou

posted by MerryMary at 3:29 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2007

J, thank you! I'm definitely going to have to buy both bookshelves and other furniture. Which I can only hope (spray bottle in hand ;) that Asimov won't destroy.

posted by bluesalamanders at 9:43 am (EST) on Jul 25, 2007

dot

posted by LolaWalser at 5:43 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2007

Hi, thanks for your reply and sorry for my slow one. Sure, I'm happy to chat. It's always interesting to meet other people in the same industry & also other expats in China who read books. Do you use msn or yahoo? My handle on both is the same - baixiwei@yahoo.com.

posted by baixiwei at 10:03 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2007