Jeffrey Makala

Boston Book Fair, CA Book Fair, NY Antiquarian Book Fair

Illustration of a bug-eyed owl, slightly dazed and staring at you.

Mood. Owl from the 16th century Aztec Codex Bourbonicus

Illustrated title page of The National Police Gazette.

Four page imposition of the half sheet.

Full eight page sheet with ruler marking the size as over 30” x 36”

Reverse of full sheet with eight page imposition.

#newacquisition an uncut 1873 issue of The National Police Gazette, showing the absolute huge size of the paper stock. #bookhistory #flashpress

Got to watch Thursday Murder Club at movie night at my mom’s retirement apartment complex and boy was it a blast.

Gray schnoodle with matching color sample chips

Matching the new house trim color to the #schnoodle

1803 engraving of a balloon aflame with people falling out and onlookers pointing.

Going into the fall semester like….

#bookhistory

THIS

Very cute black cat staring at the camera.

#blackcatappreciationday Simone

Finished up my biennial faculty report and had to stop myself from stating that my most prominent accomplishment of the past two years was being reskeeted by @flavorflav.bsky.social #publicenemy #fightthepower P.S. it was!

Black cat on a gray cat-themed fleece with a tiny felt mouse.

#InternationalCatDay Simone

Yep. Or other side of the room from the reception w plenty of help/hall monitors in place. Usually in a separate room adjacent if we can fix it.

I’ve taken select things to show to donors in their homes when warranted, and also for the occasional popup event if the conditions were right.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

unspeakable horror

There is no God, start a literary magazine

A great example of an improvement in telling book history:

De Hamel: "Early Christian books...are usually..on parchment (papyrus gradually died out, except in Egypt)."

Reynhout: "[parchment] did not supplant [papyrus] until the supply network for papyrus stopped functioning after the 7th cntry"

You bet!

We made a hecto class zine!

Mauve pans of hectograph gelatin.

Pulling a print on the portable spirit duplicator

Cover of The Clash fanzine London is Burning, #1, 1976.

Having a blast making hectographs and pulling prints on the portable spirit duplicator with @briancassidy.bsky.social and his class at @rarebookschool.bsky.social this week!

knaves, fools, and murderers there may be

😍😍😍

Hot Bookworm Summer 🔥

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Fukuyama alert!🚨

a herd of remorseless wild pirates and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their curses

#biscuithistory is #bookhistory

Ok, so my last post about the new #PublicEnemy track that dropped was just reposted by the great @flavorflav.bsky.social This GenX academic’s life and CV is now complete. 🔥 #fightthepower 🔥

New Public Enemy track just dropped

My favorite Twain zinger.