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ARIZONA WORKSHOPS offers private book arts studies for beginners and advanced/experimental students. Miniature book structures our specialty!
Pat is also conducting an eight week workshop "ECCENTRIC CONTEMPORARY BOOKBINDING STRUCTURES" at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, from June 5 to July 24, 1999. The course explores the book making possibilities for the various ways we use books... to carry stories, journeys, poems, sketches, plans, messages and tidings. The workshop is appropriate for the beginning book maker to express individuality with practicality and the experienced binder to develop variations on traditionally structured book forms. For more information, please contact Kristine Kowalsky at The Naropa Institute, 3285 30th St, Boulder CO 80301, (303)402-1190 or Pat Baldwin, P.O. Box 1711, Bisbee AZ 85603, (520)432-5924,Please access Pat Baldwin's website , ARIZONA WORKSHOPS for more information,
or write us at patbooks@primenet.com for our brochures.

TWELFTH ANNUAL MINIATURE BOOK EXHIBITION
The Miniature Book Society, Inc. announces the twelfth annual Miniature Book Exhibition, open to all publishers, printers, designers, and binders of miniature books.
To be eligible, books and their slipcases must measure three inches or less, have been published in an edition (not one-of-a-kind) during the past two years.
A jury composed of professionals representing different interests in the book arts, chosen by the board of governors of the Miniature Book Society will select three books for the Miniature Book Society Distinguished Book Award.
These awards will be presented at the annual meeting of the society to be held this August in Koblenz, Germany. A catalogue of the exhibition will be produced and a show will tour for one year with the Miniature Book Society Traveling Exhibition.
The deadline for entry is May 1, 1999. For more information and an entry form send a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
Twyla Racz
1205 Roosevelt Blvd.
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(734) 484-3523 (home) or (734) 487-0020X2119 (work)

CONCLAVE XVII - Koblenz, Germany

Here are some comments on particular queries:
In regard to publishers selling their books at the Book Fair, Ralf (our host) thinks that at the moment the best way is to give out an exchange rate for the book fair and afterward every trader gets US$ for Marks from me.
Euro checks should be no problem, but most people in Germany (I think) pay cash.
Also, the Euro is not a currency for cash.
$1 US currently = 1.14 Euro dollars.

There is no import duty!
Visa, good question! I'll check this!
We have UPS in Koblenz.
The best way to get from the Frankfurt airport to Koblenz is by train. It takes about an hour and 20 minutes and costs about $40 US, and can be paid with credit Card. But every one needs about 20 DEM for the taxi to the hotel.

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LETTER FROM KOBLENZ 1999

by Ralf Quast

This is number three of six articles leading to Conclave XVII, which will be held in my home town of Koblenz, Germany from August 13th to the 16th, 1999. It was fun to see some of you at the conclave in Charleston. I wish to thank all of you who made this trip a journey of a lifetime (hope so!).                                                                                               Church of the Beloved Woman

Some plans for the Koblenz Conclave 1999 were changed as follows:

1. There will be no pre-convention sightseeing tour organized by the host. Instead there will be the Official MBS Tour organized by Father Joseph Curran, which leads from Frankfurt to Heidelberg, Freiburg, Neuschwanstein, Munich and finally to Koblenz. Contact Fr. Curran for more information.

Jesuit Square

2. The Conclave events (hopefully) are:
FRIDAY - Registration, welcome, public opening of the MBS European Travelling Exhibition.
SATURDAY - Day trip to Mainz to visit the Gutenberg Museum, banquet and "The Rhine in Flames."
SUNDAY - Book Fair and Auction
MONDAY - Business meeting and optional tour to Marksburg.

Birthplace of Beethoven's mother

3. After the Conclave, three day trips:
TUESDAY - Historical and architectural tour of Koblenz and wine tasting.
WEDNESDAY - Trip to Trier.
THURSDAY - Boat trip to the Loreley and the Doll House Museum in St. Goar.

The Auction will be prepared by Bob Massmann. Keepsakes (about 120 each) from US members should be sent to Maryline Poole Adams. Please contribute! Keepsakes from around the rest of the world should be sent to me.

Thanks again to all who made the last Conclave a remarkable one. Be sure to come to Koblenz next year to enjoy that one too! If you have any questions, email me at quaddel@uni-koblenz.de

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Heinz Mueller

Miniature Book Society member book dealers

Miriam Irwin's Mosaic Press

David Horner's Impressions Press

John Schori's page for The Press of Ward Schori

Jane Conneen's Little Farm Press

Tuttle Antiquarian Books