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András Kiséry

@andrask.bsky.social

570 followers 156 following 319 posts

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.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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

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András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

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András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

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

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András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

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.

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András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Paper size differences that create “sections”

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András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Not just short—sometimes too long and folded back.

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

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András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Taratantara, Murmur.

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András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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.