András Kiséry

@andrask

early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.

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András Kiséry@andrask· Mar 27

Scissors on 13 March 1911, a day not unlike 16 June. @adamwithbooks.bsky.social made a fun book.

András Kiséry@andrask· Mar 22

I just bought this, not knowing it is Panofsky’s copy.

22nd March 1963
To Professor Erwin Panofsky
In great admiration and devotion
Erna Mandowsky

András Kiséry@andrask· Mar 22

If you are in New York on Thursday, March 26th, come uptown to hear @lbmcgrath.bsky.social speak about her book Middlemen, about literary agents and how they shape literature: at City College, at the Rifkind Center for Humanities and Arts, at 5 pm.

Poster of Laura McGrath's book talk about Middlemen.
Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction (forthcoming in April from Princeton UP) takes readers behind the scenes to show how agents influence what we read. Weaving together archival research, data analysis, and interviews with scores of publishing professionals, it shows the work of agents—eighty percent of whom are in fact women— as advocates, matchmakers, negotiators, and tastemakers, who balance artistic values with the commercial imperatives of publishing conglomerates. Laura McGrath is an Assistant Professor of English at
Temple University. Prior to that, she worked as the Associate Director of the Literary Lab at Stanford. She has written on books, publishing history, and data for academic venues as well as for The Atlantic, The
Nation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

András Kiséry@andrask· Feb 3

Paper size differences that create “sections”

András Kiséry@andrask· Feb 3

András Kiséry@andrask· Feb 3

Not just short—sometimes too long and folded back.

binding and endpapers (no watermark on flyleaf, just chainlinks etc.

András Kiséry@andrask· Jan 27

Taratantara, Murmur.

András Kiséry@andrask· Jan 27

Ok, it seems to be whipstitch, the yarn going at right angles to the leaves, very close to the gutter. Only the occasional stub used when the sheet was cropped too close to the text margin.

stitch going at right angles to the leaf

no gatherings apparently, instead, sheets seemingly glued along the binding edge

András Kiséry@andrask· Jan 19

@wynkenhimself.bsky.social

Pages from a book-sculpture where the lines of Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés were cut out, leaving only the pattern of holes.

András Kiséry@andrask· Jan 19

The text if Mallarmé’s poem printed continuously. The stuff that was cut.

András Kiséry@andrask· Jun 4

Photo to indicate question comes from legit source!

András Kiséry@andrask· Jun 4

Are you guys considering the longer ones, Siebenkäs or Titan? (I know, we should be happy with what you are already doing—still, curious.)

András Kiséry@andrask· May 12

There is hope—even for us. Not sure what Kafka would have thought about it, but I am at least pleased:

András Kiséry@andrask· Dec 5