Please accept our cordial invitation to join fellow SLAIS old book enthusiasts for an afternoon of dusty shelves in downtown Vancouver.

We’ll drop by some of the best book shops in the city and hear a few words from two knowledgeable Alcuin-ists: Dr. Shelley Gruendler (mega awesome typographer, designer and founding director of TypeCamp) and Dr. Richard Hopkins (esteemed SLAIS Professor Emeritus and bookseller with Hourglass Books).

They’ll give informal notes on the underworld of books, bookselling and design, you’ll have a chance to scoop up some trusty tomes, and we’ll all retire to either the Irish Heather or Shebeen for a pint or a glass of whisky and compare our finds. Sound good?

We’ll make three stops in the following order:
MacLeod’s Books (455 W Pender St)
Criterion Books (434 W Pender St)
The Paper Hound (344 W Pender St)

When: Sunday November 17, 2014, 3:00-6:00pm(ish)

We’ll meet first at 3:00 outside of MacLeod’s.

Please give a quick email to Grant at gehurley@mta.ca to RSVP so we can let the booksellers know how many are coming! If you want some more e-mails regarding the Alcuin Society and book and book design-related events in the city, let Grant know.