The CBA Benevolent Fund helps members who need financial assistance for professional development or disaster/accident relief. The following items have been generously donated by the members of CBA. Online bidding opens November 27. Online bidding ends Saturday, December 2 at 5:00 PM. Silent auction bids may be placed in-person at the CBA Holiday Party on […]
2022 CBA Benevolent Fund Auction
The CBA Benevolent Fund helps members who need financial assistance for professional development or disaster/accident relief. The following items have been generously donated by the members of CBA. Online bidding opens November 28. Online bidding ends Saturday, December 3 at 5:00 PM. Silent auction bids may be placed in-person at the CBA Holiday Party on […]
2021 CBA Benevolent Fund Auction Catalog
The CBA Benevolent Fund helps members who need financial assistance for professional development or disaster/accident relief. The following items have been generously donated by the members of CBA. Online bidding opens November 28. Online bidding ends Tuesday, December 7 at 5:00 PM. Silent auction bids may be placed at the VIP Preview of the Rose […]
2020 CBA Benevolent Fund Auction Catalog
The CBA Benevolent Fund helps members who have needs for professional development or disaster/accident relief. The following items have been generously donated by the members of CBA. Auction bidding is limited to CBA members [or other dealers by invitation.] Three sections: Nonfiction, Ephemera, and Fiction (including Children’s.) Online bidding is CLOSED. Please check your email […]
Benevolent Fund Auction
The first annual CBA Benevolent Fund auction was a great success. We had 33 lots for sale, and filled the Rose City Book Pub with bidding booksellers. Total auction sales were $2,000! This is a great start for a fund that will help CBA members with professional development or in times of need. In addition […]
Tour of Reed College Library Special Collections
Maria Cunningham hosted CBA for a tour of the Reed College Library’s Special Collections. They are in the process of moving to larger facilities–it’s always exciting to watch a library expand! The first part of the tour was a walk through their various collections. We were able to poke around their extensive collections of Artists’ […]
![IMG_9879[1]](https://cascadebooksellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_98791-100x100.jpg "A typical CBA meeting")
A typical CBA meeting
CBA tries to get together a few times a year for membership meetings to talk about various things–in October, the main topic of conversation was upcoming holiday marketing opportunities. However, since meetings are almost always held in a member’s bookstore, and since we’re all booksellers, there tends to be a little browsing before, during and […]
Whirlwind tour of Seattle
As our final big outing of 2018, the CBA went on a booksellers’ tour of Seattle. In brief, the itinerary was: Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum Michael Maslan Vintage Posters & Photographs Arundel Books Fairlook Antiques Collins Books We were joined at our first stop by the friendly members of the Book Club of Washington, and our […]
2018 Book Fair Catalogs
A few of the exhibitors at the Rose City Book & Paper Fair send out catalogs before the fair. Here’s a handful: Anthology Booksellers. “Rose City Book Fair 2018 Selected Titles” — A short catalog of books we will be featuring at this year’s book fair. Browsers’ Bookstore. “Catalog for 2018 Rose City Book & […]
How to Thrive in the Book Biz
Thank you to the over two dozen booksellers who participated in our bookselling seminar! We covered seven topics, in moderated discussions: Your Own Website Catalogs: Print & Electronic Social Media and Marketing Care & Repair of Your Books Ephemera Book Fairs: Rose City & Beyond Online Marketplaces One of the greatest benefits of CBA is […]