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MAIL ORDER SOURCES FOR SCRIBES
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Mistress Rayah Blackstar has compiled a list of mailorder sources for
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scribes. These catalogs featurebooks, supplies, etc. I have added a
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few catalogs to the list and updated George Braziller's address. When
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you get the catalogs, check the prices carefully. I have seen books
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go for $45 in one catalog, andthen $24 in another. Another good
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source for books can be your local library's weekend book sale
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(getthere early) or the end of year inventory clearance sale at the
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mall B. Dalton or Waldenbooks. Often they special order books for
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people that don't ever pick the books up. These books get dumped
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(after a while)onto the cheap table.
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Center for the Calligraphic Arts
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PO Box 8005
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Wichita, KS 67208
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Journal-bimonthly magazine. Research article on Calligraphy or
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related arts in each issue.Subscriptions $15 a year US and Canada (US
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currency). Back issues available.
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Barnes & Noble
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126 Fifth Ave
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New York, NY 10011
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Receive color catalogs of current books published. Just send in
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name and address and request forcatalog. Will find occasional books
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that you can use in it. Updates always sent.
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The Scholar's Bookshelf
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51 Everett Dr
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Princeton Jct. NJ 08550
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Oh, these catalogs are a dream find. They have the books of hours
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and illumination you want. It's aheavy duty source for scribal art
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books and other related arts. Sales and updates sent forever once
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youorder (and you will). Prices range from $5 to $5000, we're talking
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really heavy sources here. Everyone I have ever told and given a
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catalog of this place to has said terrible things to me and then
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gleefully thrust their latest purchase under my nose to see.
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John Neal, Bookseller
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1833 Spring Garden St.
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Greensboro, NC 27403
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Another dream staple of every scribe. Catalog is $2.50 on
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newsprint and worth every penny. Books onevery scribal topic WITH
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commentaries. HONEST commentaries, not just to sell you the book.
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Supplies,paper. Also has a lettering arts club that sends you the
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catalog and you receive reduced membership priceson certain items
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($7.50 US, Canada and others $8.50 for membership. "Canadian and
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English customers maysend checks in their currency--please figure
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exchange at current rate.") Super on delivery on items, even send you
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quick notice if out of stock.
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Edward R. Hamilton Bookseller
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Falls Village, CT 06031-5000
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Sigh. They deliver in record time. They have a newspaper catalog
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WITH THOUSANDS OF BOOKS.Want something to read for the next 8 days?
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And make yourself a list that goes on and on and on to buy.Write them
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and ask for a catalog. Cash or check only. Which is why the prices ARE
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LOW. Not a lot ofthe illumination books of hours, but you want
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research in all categories? They've got it. EXCELLENT PRICES. I keep
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trying to cross off all the items on my list and they keep sending me
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catalogs with new items.
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Pendragon
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PO Box 25036
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Woodbury, MN 55125 Gold Leaf? Vellum? Quills? Penknives? Pendragon
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has it all. They will also give you help if you havequestions about
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what to use! Excellent and one of the only sources by mailorder that
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I've uncovered forthose hard to find "period" materials. Catalog.
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Again, excellent response by mail if out of stock.
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New York Central Supply
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62 Third Ave.
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New York, NY 10003
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Ask for papers, they have them. Vellum, sheepskin etc. Higher
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prices than other catalogs that I've listed.
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Thames and Hudson
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500 Fifth Ave
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New York, NY 10110
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Send a name and a postcard to this address said the note on the
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side of the bookcover and we willsend you news and forthcoming
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publications. DO IT. Beautiful books. Three of them are the most
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lovely ofsources I constantly use for illumination & calligraphy.
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Hardcover. Expensive. But send for it anyway, theyare not all
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expensive...just the perfect ones.
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George Braziller Inc.
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60 Madison Ave
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New York, NY 10010
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This is the publisher. You can get the books from any of the
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other sources that I have listed, andsometimes cheaper there, as you
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pay full publisher price ordering direct. BOOKS ARE FOR THE
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BUDGET MINDED SCRIBE. These have full color paperbacks at reasonable
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prices-average $12 for a full paperback ofcolor photographed
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manuscripts. Excellent. Get a list from them.
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Strand Book Store
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828 Broadway
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New York, NY 10003
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They bill themselves as the Largest Used Book Store in the World,
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and having been there, I believeit. The catalog lists new acquisitions
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and specials, but if you write and ask for something special,
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they'llcheck for you. Catalog has many types of books as well as art
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books, but check it out. All major creditcards.
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Norman Levine's Editions
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Boiceville, NY 12412
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Another big used book store. They list many types of books with
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brief descriptions in teeny print. 64pages of books. All are hard
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cover, all are original editions or the better reprints. They also
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have booksnot listed in their catalog, so if you know what you want
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you might be able to write and ask for it. They won't however, reserve
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a book pending receipt of your check.
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Dover Publications
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31 East 2nd St.
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Mineola, NY 11501
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They are the ones who are putting out Marc Drogin's book
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_Medieval Calligraphy, its design andtechnique_ the bible of scribes
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in the SCA. It is due in their bookstore at 180 Varick St, New York,
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NYafter November 17, 1989, so it will probably be available by mail
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now too. Ask for their catalogs ofPictorial Archive books (art which
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can be reproduced freely in your local newsletters too!), Art
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Instructionbooks, Art books in general, and I think they even have a
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catalog of the 50 or so catalogs they put out! Cheap books, these are
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usually reprints of sources that went out of print a while ago.
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These sources are all mailorder. I have a hobby of finding out
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mailorder catalogs in mundane life.These that I have listed for
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scribes I have been using for about 5 years, and passing them onto
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your pocketbook. Mine is empty, but the art flourishes. Write to them
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all, and be oh so sorry... they have such lovely things you've been
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looking for.
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Originally compiled by
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Mistress Rayah Blackstar
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reprinted and added to by
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Lady Fionnghuala Siobhan nic an Chlerich
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