Important Collection of Illustrated American Books on Exhibit in Texas

William Reese's collection: "one of the most important of its type in the country"

Multi-Million-Pound Audubon Bird Books on Display in Liverpool, England

The books were almost lost in the 1941 Blitz bombing.

Partying at Varney's Book Store in Aggieville

"Little Apple Ball Drop" on New Year's Eve

A Controversial Cuba Book Fair

"Since its founding, the group has published over 100 titles related to Marxist thinking, including classic works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Rosa Luxembourg."

An International Book Fair in Libya

Who knew?

Rare Torah Scrolls being Restored in Moscow

"Rabbi Ovadya Isaakov ...discovered many rare books and Torah scrolls stored in the Synagogue, part of which he took to Moscow for restoration."

North Carolina says Antiquarian Books are a Hot Trend

"This is a trend worth reading about: turn-of-the-century, leather-bound, dust-filled books. That's right, the obsession with classic books continues to grow among young people craving ways to disconnect from an overly connected world."

A British Collector's Photobook Fetish

'Oh, it's obsessive all right,' says Parr almost ruefully, 'just ask my wife, who has to live with all this stuff."

Staten Island Newspaper Gives Advice about Rare Book Values

Don't throw your $123,000 Edgar Allen Poe in the trash.

Bruce Lee: Antiquarian Book Collector

"We used to go and look for an old book on fighting it was one of his hobbies and he loved to collect and read. "

Burning the Gutenberg Bible in the New York Public Library

2 Thumbs Down for "The Day after Tomorrow" Movie.

See Sri Lankan Palm-Leaf Manuscripts at Stanford University

In the first major exhibition in the U.S. to present the entire history of Sri Lankan art.

A Texas Baptist Seminary Receives Donation of a 1653 Henry Hammond First Edition

Donated by E. Earl Ellis, research professor of theology emeritus

Arabic Literature Promoted at German Book Fair

200 Arab authors presented works at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's biggest annual publishing event.

The Decemberists: Radical Rock and Roll for Bibliophiles

Literate Rock and Roll created by 2 Bookstore Clerks.

Bill Gates Gives $749,000 to Iowa Public Libraries

...for computers and technology.

The House where Hemingway Committed Suicide: Will it Become a Research Library?

His widow wanted the property to become a library and nature preserve.

Susan Sontag's 25,000-Volume Personal Library to be Housed at UCLA

"...her 25,000-volume personal library were acquired by the UCLA Library in 2002 and will be housed in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections."

China is Creating the Third-Largest Library in the World

...they also started their National Digital Library on Tuesday.

Ashlie Atkinson plays a Fat "Funny, Smart, Sexy" Librarian off Broadway

Show title: "Fat Pig" ...as in: confront your misconceptions about Fat People.

Old Water Mill becomes a Bookshop in England's Highlands

The mill's water wheel will create the electricity for the lighting.

Bookstore Owner is Political Activist on Canadian Islands

"StarBooks, Rouleau’s bookstore, is known as a community gathering space where many issues around poverty, environmental degradation and social injustice are discussed and directly acted upon."

Ralph Nader's New Job: Cookbook Salesman

(Chefs are in. Politicians are out. Emeril Lagasse for President.)

Jefferey Kissoon plays "a Passionate Bibliophile" on London Stage

He "would rather spend money he doesn't have on 24 volumes of slave history than a meal."

Concerned Questions about Google's One-World Library

" 'This is the day the world changes,' said John Wilkin, a University of Michigan librarian working with Google. 'It will be disruptive because some people will worry that this is the beginning of the end of libraries.'"

NBA Basketball Players and Books

"Amazon runs e-commerce sites for Target, Toys 'R' Us, Bombay Company and the National Basketball Association, among others."

Searching for Books with Search Engines

"Ninety-five percent of searchers will likely click on the first two (Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com)"

Amazon is Selling More Electronics

"Amazon.com Inc. is making progress in becoming more than primarily a book seller."

Novelist Louis Auchincloss: Book Collector

"One wall in his living room is covered with old books, including all of his own in a long line on one shelf, gold-stamped and bound in green leather."

Return of the Rambam at The Jewish National and University Library at Givat Ram

"Moses Maimonides, known as the Rambam – for Rebbe Moshe Ben Maimon – died in December 1204, but he's never been more in vogue."

Michael Feinstein: In Search of Lost Music Manuscripts

"...a man on the prowl for original musical scores, recordings and sheet music at garage sales and auctions, in secondhand stores and the libraries of film and record studios."

'Krishna's Butter Bash' and other Books at India Book Fair

"What is heartening is that the age group of stall attendants is getting younger. Proof that not all is lost."

Peter Pan at Yale

"The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University will share its extensive collection of Barrie manuscripts, photographs and documents during a three-month exhibition beginning in February."

Itzhak Volansky Sells Books in San Francisco's Tenderloin District

"Junkies and alcoholics cluster on the sidewalk out front, shouting obscenities at one another and at passers-by."

Family and Friends try to Save Charleston Bookshop

"A lot of people kind of see the book shop as a community thing, and we pretty much feel the same," said their son Tony Wood of New York.

Librarians Worldwide Fight for Jailed Librarians in Cuba

"Hector Palacios, was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Most of the library's books were confiscated by the police."

Children's Librarian is President of Maine Senate

"I read almost exclusively fiction...In fiction you create a world that makes sense ... and solutions are gotten." (Beth Edmonds)

North Carolina Libraries Awarded Grant to Display Collections in Cyberspace

"This is really the push of the future," said Patricia Samford, director of Historic Bath."

The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies: A Treasury of Civil War History

This 5-year-old center "houses thousands of books on the war - reportedly second in number only to the Library of Congress."

Did Charles Dickens Change "Oliver Twist" to make it Less Anti-Semitic?

"It is believed that Dickens altered the final chapter of the book after receiving a letter in 1863 from Eliza Davies, wife of a Jewish banker, complaining of the 'vile prejudice against the despised Hebrew.'"

Ancient Arab Manuscripts on Display at Frankfurt Book Fair

But they had to compete with the "nearly-nude woman" who "burst into the Arab wing."

2005: International Celebration of Don Quixote

"A travelling exhibit titled 400 Years of Don Quixote Around the World will feature publicity paintings, drawings and engravings for the novel and is slated to tour Spanish cultural centers and international book fairs."

John Steinbeck Libraries are Dying

"Facing record deficits, the Salinas City Council voted Dec. 14 to shut all three libraries..."

Armenia Book Collection Donated to California Library

"This is, you could say, the Shakespeare of Armenia," said Vardanyan, referring to a biography of author Hovhannes Tumanian."

Aspen, Colorado: Read Books while Skiing

"This place is the poster child for independent bookstores. An old Victorian with room after room of treasures."

Martha Stewart Says Chatterjee is a Good Thing

Martha Stewart Living recommends BookFinder.com for book collectors.

Fred Rosselot sells Geology Books, but he'd rather be a Gold Prospector..

"He has a passion for books about gold prospecting, an interest that probably contributed to his career in geology. 'I'm a frustrated prospector. I was born 100 years or 200 years too late.'"

Get Married in a French Chateau Library...with the Brazilian Soccer Player

"The wedding will be held on Feb 14 in the 17th century chateau... which contains nearly 1,000 paintings and a library with old books and manuscripts, that are part of the cultural heritage of France."

Asiatic Society to Digitise Rare Manuscripts

"We have planned to digitise 48,000 valuable manuscripts in 26 languages and upload the contents on our website (www.Asiaticsocietyca.Com)"

2000 Rare India Manuscripts to be Restored

"More than 2000 rare manuscripts, many of them from 15 and 16 centuries, lay untouched and uncared for in the almirahs of the Tagore Library (Lucknow University."

I Didn't Know Hugh Grant was a Bibliophile.

"Grant, who studied English at Oxford University, cited Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory and The Blessing by Nancy Mitford as his favorite books.

Eliot Spitzer: He's Bookish, so does he Collect Rare Books?

"...there is a slightly bookish, not to say geeky, air about Mr Spitzer...which helped him make New York magazine's list of the "50 sexiest New Yorkers".

Alison Rood Reminisces about her Bibliophile Boyfriends

"It's easy to get lost in a daydream of ancient exploits with bibliophile boyfriends "

Karl Lagerfeld Collects Rare Books

"He is fabulously wealthy already, with three houses to his name at the last count and the kind of insatiable shopping habit - furniture, art, rare books - which makes auction houses very happy."

Martha Irvine Explains How to Google for Rare Books

"Michael Gorman, president-elect of the American Library Association, thinks the value of helping people from anywhere in the world view a library's special collections is "almost priceless."

Some Libraries Create Alternative to Google

Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive.

Mary Lewis Gives $80,000 to Pittsburg-Area Library

"She had stacks of books in every room in the house, including the kitchen, where there were more than 100 cookbooks."

John Rolfe Has Midlife Change and Opens Maine Bookstore

"I kind of realized, at age 50, that when I walked into a bookstore, my blood pressure went down. I felt at home. That was the kind of feeling I wanted."

John Updike Sells His Book Collection (He's Downsizing at Age 72.)

In some of the books' margins are handwritten questions and analogies from the novelist and essayist -- writings that Updike called his "scribblings."

Joseph Felcone is Mr. New Jersey Book Guy

"I know more about New Jersey books than anybody has ever known," said the 58-year-old collector. "That's a very dubious honor. It's like being the world's best comb-kazoo player.

A Hunter / Outdoorsman Confesses "I am a Bibliophile."

I became a book junkie, prowling dusty shelves for hardback highballs and soft-cover fixes.

Books by Picasso on Exhibit in Mexico City

The Museo Nacional de Historia - Castillo de Chapultepec presents Picasso: illustrated books 1944- 1969, BANCAJA collection, through February 28, 2005.

Roger Finds a $546,000 "Scarlet Letter"

The oldest known copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was auctioned Thursday for $545,100, a record price for an American 19th-century literary work, Christie's auction house said.

Johnny Depp Plays a Bookseller in a Roman Polanski Movie

The Ninth Gate, directed by Roman Polanski, is a supernatural thriller in which an unscrupulous rare-book dealer (Johnny Depp) is hired by a mysterious, wealthy book collector who is obsessed with the authenticity of his copy of the demonic text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows

Sarah Wyman Whitman, America's First Professional Book Designer ...on exhibit in Boston

Sometimes an artist is forgotten when her kind of art goes out of fashion. Such was the case with Boston's remarkable Sarah Wyman Whitman, America's first professional book designer.

Daniel and Janice Donate their Culinary Books to the University of Michigan

American culinary history has found a home at the University of Michigan’s William L. Clements Library, thanks to the donation of thousands of items from Daniel and Janice Longone of Ann Arbor.