"Lucien Carr, who brought together, befriended and served as muse for novelists Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs and poet Allen Ginsberg, the core of literature's Beat Generation, died Friday of cancer in Washington, D.C. He was 79."
"Lucien Carr, who brought together, befriended and served as muse for novelists Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs and poet Allen Ginsberg, the core of literature's Beat Generation, died Friday of cancer in Washington, D.C. He was 79."
"What makes things even more complicated is that no one really knows what are the exact factors that deteriorate paper. Some have claimed that lignin is the main factor with regards to the deterioration of paper whilst others have claimed the contrary."
"“Iran is among the top ten countries in publishing and is also exporting books to neighboring countries,” he noted."
"Price, a longtime bookseller in the neighborhood, should have been in terrible spirits watching her livelihood disappear. But she managed to smile, gratefully thanking customers who have been streaming in since Monday when a story about her ran in The Sun. She estimates she sold as many as 10,000 books."
"The rare book department on the third floor is probably the largest in New York, and has the musty smell that is catnip to bibliophiles. A vault holds the rarest of the rare. The store's inventory includes incunabula (early printed books, dating back to 1500 or before), with the oldest a leather-bound volume with bronze clasps that is an intricately decorated commentary on the Psalms printed in 1480 in Cologne, Germany."
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"A first edition of Mutiny on the Bounty will be sold at auction in the Capital next week."
"The rare manuscript was written two years before Captain William Bligh’s full account of the voyage and is expected to fetch more than £5000 when sold on Tuesday."
"The exhibition features an exquisite facsimile of one of the most visually stunning illuminated manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages, known as the Morgan Picture Bible."
"Accompanying this Bible will be other objects from the Gothic period, psalters and reliquaries, arms and armor, other religious artifacts, and everyday domestic items, many similar to those seen in the pages of the manuscript itself."
"Parsippany-based Skanska USA Building Inc. has been awarded the construction-management contract to build Princeton University's futuristic science library, which was designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry."
"The Vincent van Gogh Foundation recently acquired a significant early drawing by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) for the Van Gogh Museum: Portrait of Jozef Blok."
"The subject was a well-known street vendor of books in The Hague. He traded in literature and magazines, and was known as the 'open-air library of the Binnenhof"
"A collection of his poems has been seized by Russian police as part of a crack-down on "obscene" literature. The move has horrified the nation’s literati in a country where serious literature is a serious business and popular with the masses."
"Literary historians, gossips, critics and would-be biographers will just have to be patient: one of the last outsiders to have seen the legendary second volume of the letters of TS Eliot today predicts that it will never be published while his widow is still alive. "
"India has the largest collection of manuscripts in the world composed in different languages and on materials such as birch bark, palm leaf, cloth, wood, stone and paper."
"The critic and book collector John Baxter, whose book A Pound of Paper (Doubleday) is a must for novice book collectors, says: “The primary appeal of Gollancz thrillers is the weirdness and eccentricity of the editorial choices."
(New "Wild at Heart" Book is taking Christianity by Storm)
"...the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and violent men take it by force”, it advocates the 'deep and holy goodness of masculine aggression'"
"In Seattle, the $165 million Rem Koolhaas-designed central library — with a four-level spiral ramp and a unique glass box structure — has drawn raves from architecture critics and become an instant landmark. The $92 million Salt Lake City library, designed by Moshe Safdie with a rooftop garden and a five-story atrium called the "urban room," is a popular gathering spot."
"Oxfam has become the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, with sales estimated at £15 million in the current financial year. It is expanding its network of specialist bookshops from 70 to an estimated 100 by the end of the next financial year."
"Rowena Morrill, a book illustrator from New York, has been painting images portraying the world of science fiction and mystical fantasy for nearly 30 years."
"Edward Hoyenski, Rare Books and Texana Collection assistant curator, learned that Morrill happened to be in town this week and managed to arrange a last minute appearance for her."
"The seductive, jewel-like quality of their shimmering pages stands in sharp contrast to the often gruesome subject matter being depicted, whether it be scenes of the Passion or vivid and precise images of torture, execution or war."
"Welcome to the Daryaganj bazaar. It is here that a serpentine 1.5 km queue of rare second-hand books and magazines overnight springs up at scores of makeshift stalls on crowded pavements."
"A Harvard librarian allegedly dubbed too sexy for a promotion has subpoenaed Harvard President Lawrence Summers to testify in federal court about a university culture her lawsuit claims rendered her invisible because she is a black woman."
"...this set of nearly 2,500 children’s books has been sitting dormant on the shelves for years, only recently seeing daylight after the group volunteered to help catalog them."
"And it's her bookshop, filled with books in a genre she knows well. Mattes remembers getting turned on to mysteries as a kid when a bookmobile would visit her Des Moines neighborhood and she got hooked on stories by British author Enid Blyton."
"Collecting odd, old items is something Bernie, Mo., resident Bob Keathley has done for a long time. In 1983, that interest in antiques led him to purchase a more than 200-year-old history text called "1700s in America," originally authored by German historian Christian Sprengel in 1783 for distribution at the 1784 World's Fair in Germany."
"Fragments of 12 Dead Sea Scrolls, part of the historic cache found in 1947 by a goat herder and now on exhibit at the Gulf Coast Exploreum, have lured a record-breaking first-week crowd of 9,200 to the Mobile museum."
"The book, with an estimated value of EUR 50,000 (USD 65,000), was recently uncovered in a private library in western France by rare books expert Pierre Poulain, who described the edition as a rare find."
(So she collects Gore Vidal ...and Tipper Gore.)
"I own over a thousand signed mystery books," he said. He reads more than mysteries, however, and estimates he buys about 500 books a year."
"And I read about 100 books a year," he said, "so I run a 400-book deficit."
"A UMass Amherst computer science professor has developed an automated keyword-retrieval program that could make searching handwritten documents easier for researchers and students."
This story is all over cyberspace today, on the mainstream newspaper sites: Kansas City Star, Grand Forks Herald, Bradenton Florida Herald, Myrtle Beach Sun News, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Columbus Ledger-Inquirer, Biloxi Sun Herald, Centre Daily Times, Minnesota Pioneer Press, Duluth News Tribune, Macon Telegraph, Monterey County Herald, Charlotte Observer, San Bernardino Sun, etc.
"One of the book's chief delights is the wry humanity of Mole's employer, the wise old antiquarian book-seller Mr Carlton-Hayes."
(They usually call us "musty" instead of "wise.")
"Michael van Rooyen, founder of Loot.co.za, says his company's sales were double the normal level in October and November, outstripping the industry growth of around 30% during the festive season."
"When the Feminist Bookstore Network closed in 1999, its roster listed 120 member bookstores in the U.S. Roughly 30 feminist bookstores remain."
"While the Wisconsin Historical Society contains one of the largest American history archives anywhere, fewer people have visited in recent years -- 40 percent fewer than in 1987 -- as more of them, including students at the nearby University of Wisconsin, turn to the Internet as their basic research tool."
CBS is reporting this news story also, here.
...same story also reported online by: Janesville Gazette, Boston Herald, Hampton Roads Daily Press, New York Newsday, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Baltimore Sun, Connecticut The Day, Porterville Recorder etc.
"Govindaraju is 70. But even at this age, he is literally 'hunting' for rare books by stepping into every wastepaper mart in the city. 'I used to wander through the streets and wherever I sight a wastepaper mart, my search begins in the bundles of books kept there', he recounts. As of now, he has over 8,000 books in his collection."
"A lot of work goes into repairing and maintaining the 225,000 rare and old documents housed at the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, according to the library's Web site. The special collections library, located on the third floor of Deering Library, includes a 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian tablets and 19th century paintings in addition to old books."
Read this news story.
"Asked if he felt insulted by critics who argue it is dumbing down to choose celebrity judges for big literary awards, he told Reuters at Tuesday's awards ceremony: 'It is not insulting to me. I am very dumb as everyone knows.'"
"...he reminisces about the abundance of bookstores -- where now scores of Starbucks and martini bars exist -- that flourished 30 years ago when he arrived in this city."
"...the new main library collection includes unique volumes, such as a 9th century manuscript of the Book of Epistles in Greek, 15th century parchment scrolls, Cicero’s letters in Latin and a copy of Griboyedov’s Woe from Wit."
“We shall scan these rarities to make them available to mass readers in an electronic form,” Ms Pantsa said"
"So the historical society and many other institutions with large collections are doing something they see as means of survival: They're going digital creating and uploading images of many items in their collections for all the World Wide Web to see."
"The version of O Saw Ye My Maggie was found in the former library of Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford, near Melrose, bound into a printed copy of The Fornicators' Court, a risque work by Burns, of which only 10 copies were printed."
"The European Fine Arts Fair (TEFAF) is now regarded as one of the most, if not the most influential art and antiques event in the world."
"...Book of Hours, Visitation, Illuminated manuscript on vellum, Bruges, circa 1450. ...Heribert Tenschert Antiquariat Bibermuhle AG."
"The archive contains more than 150,000 letters and manuscripts by Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone and other literary and scientific figures."
"It was amassed over successive generations of the John Murray publishing house, and is described as a unique literary treasure trove with close links to leading Scottish writers and thinkers of the 19th century."
"Hans Peter Kraus, one of the foremost booksellers of the second half of the 20th century, and his wife, Hanni, assembled the collection."
"Hans and Hanni Kraus generously donated their collection of Drake materials to the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress in 1980."
"The Macclesfield Psalter, a compendium of medieval piety and outrageously bawdy jokes, will stay in East Anglia, where it was made in about 1320, thanks to a national appeal which has raised the £1.7m to match the auction price offered by the Getty Museum in California."
"On Sept. 3, 1786, a slim volume entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published by Burns's friend, John Wilson of Kilmarnock. 612 copies printed, cross-stitched, three pence each; today -- on the very rare occasions when a copy surfaces -- it is one of the most valuable first editions in the world."
"These days, when he looks for a cookbook, he's looking for old cookbooks. 'That's what we do on vacations is look in book stores and search around,' he said."
"She owns more than 600 hardbacks and 200 paperbacks, including many foreign editions. She has Nancy dolls and games, a lunch box and a diary, and the tapes of past Nancy movies and TV series."
Do the Grolier Club, Columbia University, The Armory Book Fair, Brooklyn Art Alliance, New York Public Library, Center for Book Arts, etc.
"Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay bought it three years ago for $2.43 million, a record for any manuscript. He wanted to share it with the world by putting it on the road in a 13-stop, four-year tour. Iowa's museum is the first to unroll it all the way."
"Twenty years ago, a woman bought a stack of papers for $10 at a yard sale in Texas. The papers included part of Andrew Jackson's journal--and the 64-word missive written and signed by Edgar A. Poe."
The Minnesota Historical Society acquired the document through a local rare book seller, who received it from an individual in Vancouver, B.C. The $40,000 cost was raised through donations.
"The Upper West Side used to be chockablock with independent bookshops," Cushman says from atop the ladder he is using to shelve books. "They're all gone."
"Despite the healthy Christmas sales, the walk-in, walk-round bookstore is doomed. "Cyberglobalism" is about to happen."
"With the opening of the book market in China, Amazon.com recently bid for two small Chinese online book retailers. Dangdang.com, an online book distributor with annual revenues of $9.6 million, reportedly rejected a buyout from Amazon for $150 million. Joyo.com, the second largest online book distributor in China, was acquired by Amazon for $75 million."
(How to be a Literary Tourist in Tam o’ Shanter Land)
"The Irish are known for their storytelling," Conroy said. "So we wanted to put in a prestigious library that captured the best of what Irish literature has to offer."
"'I admire anybody that wants to open a bookstore. It's a risky business,' says Merchantville rare books dealer Tom Congalton, president of Between the Covers Inc., who, like Almon, has a special interest in African-American literature and mysteries."
(Was a $600,000 German book stolen in Germany in World War II by an American GI?)
"A 900-year old book on astronomy in Sanskirit Kiran Tilak translated into Arabic by Al-Biruni, a distinguished astronomer, historian and Indologist of the 11th century, has been preserved in the library."
"...the Sears, Roebuck heir who in his late 30's came down with what one writer diagnosed as "a most virulent case of bibliomania."
(It's a news story about the Grolier Club's Exhibit of Early Printed Books)
(You have to register (only once) to read the New York Times, but it's free and worthwhile.)
"Drive down to New York, to the Lower East Side. That's where Yiddish-readers used to live, that's where you'll find Yiddish books!"
(He was the Duke of Wellington’s lieutenant general in the Peninsular War.)
She ripped one of the pages. (Previously...Harry Truman kissed it.)
"He regularly browses through the Fishing Collectibles section at the Cherry Hills Book Store."
(With jpg of requisite resident Bookstore Cat.)
"I picked up a 40-year-old notebook and found original letters saved in it from Jefferson and Madison dealing with the War of 1812."
Michigan State University's Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop is holding an online book auction.
Slashdot: "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
"For the complicated questions, Keneller did research at the library, using microfiche in the pre-Google days."
(...the private library of golf professional and past captain of the PGA, Alan Walker.)
"The North Plains man decided to sell cords of firewood for $200, each measuring 4 feet high, 4 feet wide and 8 feet long, to benefit the future library."
(Hamburgers taste good with French Fries. Books do not.)
"There's an unclaimed $1 million out there — somewhere."
"The jackpot is actually 12 jewels hidden in very public places around the United States. Think diamonds, think rubies, think the rarest, most perfect Kashmir sapphire."
(Its library system is world-class.)
"We're the largest public genealogical collection in the nation," says Krull, a Williams College grad. Last year, he adds, 2 million people used the library, borrowing 5 million books. And that was with two of the 13 branches closed."
"Her selection of mint condition first editions and complete dated series is reason why Rebecca York, author of the 43rd Light Street part of the Harlequin Intrigues series, dubbed her service “The Candy Store."
"A medium-sized book with 160 pages required the skins from about 20 calves."
"Whether your tastes run to cracked leather sofas and piles of first editions or wall-to-wall Peruvian poetry, nothing beats a browse in a truly fine emporium."
"The book's lead author is Terry Jones, best known as a member of Monty Python, but also a keen medievalist whose books include Crusades and Chaucer's Knight."
"Many have heard people moving and talking in the basement were the bathroom is located."
"If your lucky you will see the librarian who was thought to have been killed down there on a late shift."
(The library should promote the hauntings. Ghosts are good for business.)
Charles Blockson is "best known for his book collection, housed at the Temple University Library."
See Blockson's important Afro-American book collection here.
"the Library of Congress' decision to post 2,240 maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks on the Internet is the most exciting news Civil War students have received in years."
You can see what all the buzz is about here.
"The Saint John's Bible, the only handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned since the advent of the printing press, is going on national tour."
"Inscribed on vellum and ornamented with medieval-style illustrations and 24-karat gold leaf, the rare volume was commissioned by Saint John's Abbey and Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota."
You can see the St. John's Bible here.
"Thanks to the indifference of the officials, the library with thousands of rare books and manuscripts has turned into a heap of rags."
Serbia's most infamous "war criminals" become best-selling novelists.
"Both books were written while their authors were on the run."
"With only one yuan, or 12 U.S. cents people can read for a whole day."
...because trying to make money selling regular books would have been "like slicing one wrist slowly."
Mysterious program to debut soon. "It's a book addict thing."
The "coming soon" website is here.
"There was almost a knightly feel to the [Milan fashion] show, with its setting of stag heads among antique books, the clothes studded like the leather library chairs and the colors dark and rich as the animal-print chocolates for the guests."
(Bookstores should sell stag heads?)
"According to him, there are volumes of as-yet unexplored, non-professional literary criticism at this popular website, in the form of customer reviews, which are ripe for academic scrutiny."
(The American Scientist Online reviews both books.)
Read this review here.
"The novel was first printed in Italy because Lawrence realised its erotic nature would cause outrage in the UK."
Or, if you are a Scottish Nationalist, you can read it in the Scotsman here.
"Nobody cares much for 19th century English literature in Rumbek, judging by a copy of "David Copperfield" gathering dust in south Sudan's only bookshop for hundreds of miles."
"This is the best manuscript collection in North America, possibly the world," said Deborah Schoenfeld, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley."
Browse this extraordinary manuscript collection online here.
" 'It appears that slaves had been trying to carry crates of books to safety when they were overwhelmed by the eruption,' he says."
"There may be lost plays by Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus, or even the lost dialogues of Aristotle."
A Philadelphia book editor today compares political bloggers to Gutenberg / Reformation.
He says: "...comparison between the rise of the blogosphere and the
Protestant Reformation."
"That may sound odd at first, but thanks to Gutenberg's printing press, Luther's opposition to papal authority could be widely and persuasively publicized (between 1517 and 1534, according to Mark Edwards' Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther, more that 6.6 million pamphlets were printed, mostly by Protestants)."
"Thanks to the blogosphere, people no longer have to "persuade someone to be allowed to attempt to persuade someone."
That Philadelphia article is here.
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The most influential Gutenberg-ish bloggers are:
LEFT-OF-CENTER:
Daily Kos.
Talking Points Memo.
Atrios.
Wonkette.
RIGHT-OF-CENTER:
Instapundit.
Andrew Sullivan.
Hugh Hewitt.
Powerline.
Drudge Report.
Little Green Footballs.
Tai Kawabata is "a cheapskate let loose in Tokyo paradise of print."
"[Google's] impact is even more critical for the already financially strapped academic publishers, who rely on research institutions and scholars for monograph revenues."
"Another colleague suggests it may be time to buy stock in used book seller Alibris."
"Announced by Publishers & Booksellers Guild secretary Tridib Chatterjee"
(Is Tridib Chatterjee related to Anirvan Chatterjee, who runs Bookfinder.com?)
Anirvan is here:
"Many contain astonishingly detailed scenes and are surprisingly large..."
New Book argues against the The Da Vinci Code
"The Da Vinci Code refers to the Dead Sea Scrolls as one of Christianity's earliest writings.
..."There's nothing Christian about the Dead Sea Scrolls," he said.
"J.K. Rowling published the very first Harry Potter story in England.
A signed copy today is worth over $35,000 dollars."
"His stories were full of dog teams, dog sleds, the beauty of the country..."
"The directors of the four Indiana libraries believe the donations are the largest ever given to them by an individual."
"How long can India ink applied with a goose quill pen actually remain legible?"
Susan says: "Now, I can’t wait to go on-line book-shopping again!"
"...old Torah scrolls from defunct synagogues; scrolls that stand unused and forlorn in their lonely arks of velvet and wood, in buildings now silent of the laughter of children, or even the drone of elderly worshippers."
"There are parts of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a Coptic fragment of the New Testament from the third century, a medieval Torah scroll and a page from the Gutenberg Bible."
"There is a first edition of the King James Bible in 1611, early Spanish and Latin Bibles, and the first Bible printed in America, which was produced in the native Algonquin language in 1663."
"America's book club tries to recapture glory days" (They discovered JD Salinger.)
(A five-year project will digitise 10,000 ancient manuscripts.)
(John Zubal says look for the early diaries and the personal histories.)
"They say William Faulkner read it every year and former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez peruses it daily."
"The driver hit the gas, pushing the Ram to better than 100 m.p.h. with police still on his tail."
"...which he unearthed in an antique book store in Tokyo."
"In the 8th century, empress Shotoku had a short text printed onto a million paper scrolls and had each of them inserted in a wooden pagoda. Only a few of them have survived.
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns one of these pagodas; it will be on show in the exhibition."
(Take plenty of water and a good map.)
"The museum – if such a word can accurately describe the leaking building – is home to an impressive collection of manuscripts, including a rare copy of the Kilmarnock edition of poems."
"...to buy computers and software..."
"The bookfair is a child-friendly event. Bring your kids!
Free childcare on-site." (Soccer Moms can be part-time Anarchists.)
"The new translation, De Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling (NBV), is in fact the first official translation to be published since 1951."
"Gloss reminisced about a visit he made to a Belmont estate a few years ago, in which 10 letters of correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were found in a trunk."
"When firefighters finally arrived on site, the building had been completely engulfed in flames."
"According to Jewish law, the Torah must be written by hand, a process that can take as long as a year."
"Dazzling gold and silver leaf and vividly colored paint superbly emphasize the beauty of patterns on these scrolls, dubbed masterworks of decorated sutra."
"Most of the display cases held Civil War books. Apparently, the library has a vast collection of materials — old and new..."
(It's shared by guys at the British Museum and L.A.'s Getty Museum.)
"...the instructional book was written in 938 C.E. in Isfahan."
...it's not really Earth-shattering news, but it's a great picture of Stephen and John. (It's a slow news day.)
(So does this mean libraries are going to become extinct? Or will this just be a minor thing, like libraries now lending videos?)
(...because the old lady's will said it was supposed to be a school, not a Barnes & Noble.)
Read this news story.
(Scroll down to "Crystal Lake - Barnes & Noble bookstore.")
but they "later discarded the method."
"They represent some of the great ideas in intellectual history"
"...bibliophiles will flip their dust covers for an extraordinary collection of classic volumes"
"Items from Jack Kerouac's original book collection and personal wardrobe are currently up for bid online."
"WATERSTONE’S, the bookseller, has made enemies of a large chunk of the internet community." (TimesonLine)
Joe's infamous blog is here.
"The scrolls contains, to this date, the oldest surviving copy of the book of Genesis, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah, and Jeremiah."
The collection, not at MIT, contains 50,000 rare books, 30,000 secondary titles and other materials related to Newton.
"FAU owes most of its Judaica books to the late Mark Swiatlo, a volunteer-turned-staffer who acquired most of FAU's Judaica collection. He traveled to Argentina, Israel and Poland to obtain religious texts to Yiddish translations of Shakespeare."
"The fairy tales of Andersen have been translated into more than 80 languages."
"The first one I read was a trilogy. It was 1500 pages and I didn't think I'd ever get through it."
"I have been to libraries, bookstores, museums and artifact showings all over Texas."
(Reading on beach: Fun. / Reading on glacier: Not-so-Fun.)
"The cool head of Amazon.com talks about the rise of the obscure..."
Scholars are paying more attention to the academic aspect of the use of innovative digital means to theoretically eternally conserve, especially in an undisturbed way, the country's magnificent cultural heritage, including Buddhist manuscripts, painted scrolls and other historic documents.
"...he found a small bundle of papers in a dusty drawer."
"He collects prints of movies, first editions of novels, he has an impressive back catalogue of ex-wives and girlfriends; when he was taking drugs, he seems to have tried to take all the drugs."
"The library board has received estimates from auction houses, including Sotheby's, which valued the letters at nearly $160,000."
"Jeremy studied Native American religious traditions and I have a Master’s degree in Irish folklore, so you could say we were both fascinated with older cultures," she said.
"Vigía prints and illuminates books by hand."
"I wrote quite a bit of it on the shop computer while sitting there in quiet moments between customers.
Now The French have taken it, the Australians, the Germans and the Japanese. It is coming out in America."
Elbert's print shop is currently owned by Cornell Cooperative Extension.
As described by a Connecticut newspaper.
But the newspaper guy listed a wrong link to the Australian wine site, unless he changed it by now. (The wine must have gone to his head.) He meant to link to CLICK HERE.
"Other items in the exhibit include clay tablets that are 5,000 years old."
(...it's actually Manila Online. So you're not really in Manila. You're somewhere Lost in Cyberspace.)
"...rifling through a bin of scruffy looking used paperbacks outside a bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road."
"When they take a break, it might be to browse in a bookstore..." (Evidence: Buying tons of books brings tons of bliss.)
"There are some hundred-odd stall owners who will be allowed to sit on this stretch." (Anyone want to scout this place for me?)
"Charlie liked books. In a really big way..."
It's "one of the most remarkable literary manuscripts in existence, On the Road is a key work of American literature and marked a turning point in 20th-century culture."
Islamic heritage on display at Dubai Shopping Festival.
A controversial John Singer Sargent mural "depicts Christianity as ascendant over Judaism."
"This is a major gift, the most significant in my 20 years here...It's the kind of material librarians kill for."
A Pakistan newspaper reports on a Lahore Library Society book fair.
It's a book. It's an art object. It's both.
“You can get better deals online compared to the Bookstore, sometimes even at less than half the price for used books.”
They checked out 2,700 books and made a book fort. "Who needs snow forts when you have library books?"
Hmmmmm. Irish lottery is being used for book & library stuff also. (See article I posted below.) There's a Lottery / Library trend here.
The late Ted Hughes lived here until he was seven. (Americans also remembered him as the husband of American poet Sylvia Plath.)
"The first-ever public exhibition of selections from the internationally-noted George Bernard Shaw Collection of Boston College's Burns Library is on view."
"It happens periodically," Seaton says. "Somebody donates a coat that still has money in the pocket or a box of junk jewelry that has Grandma’s broach in it."
"Jewish community leaders said they are ecstatic. Gary Krupp, a Jewish man from Long Island who was knighted by the Pope in 2000, made the loan happen."
"Every four years the inauguration gives the capital’s archival institutions a chance to dust off some favorite pieces." (They probably aren't that dusty.)
"Ms. Wye picked a total of 71 prints and illustrated books for the opening installation from the more than 53,000 the Modern owns. It is the largest collection in the museum."
"The collection of over 7,000 books is typical of a learned clerical library of the 18th century"
It's the 90th birthday of John Hope Franklin, a leading historian in the field of African-American history, American race relations and Southern regional history.
"Fair organizers insist they only displayed the Arab literature as a function of their commitment to global literary diversity."
"...three top mystery writers are slated for a book-signing appearance at Samantha's shop. But one of the writers seems marked for death.
"I have this weird fear of bookstores. Well, not the stores exactly, but those who work in them."
"Visitors who cannot tell a goshawk from a falcon or Tom Cruise's Last Samurai from Toshiro Mifune's Yojimbo will find art that strikes the eye and stirs the soul."
(Genealogy TV show will be coming to U.S. soon also. Get ready for U.S. library genealogy frenzy.)
"It increases my knowledge and interest to read more. I can’t stay home at evening.” said a booklover visiting the market yesterday."
"He once spent months ransacking old issues of Delicatessen,, to disprove the validity of a rare spelling of “pastrami” in Webster’s."
"Once the site of a famous literary cafe..."
"Amazon has placed the donation feature on all of its international websites as well, including in Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Japan."
So Libraries aren't really important, he suggests.
(Doesn't matter. Collectors value books as historical objects and as objects of art.)
"Sometimes boxes were carried by lorry, ox cart and raft, or on foot, but always a few steps ahead of potential robbers."
Is the Declaration of Independence a secret code to buried treasure?
"The elegant, graying man in the tweed jacket and lime-green V-neck sweater looked as if he had lost his way while window-shopping on Madison Avenue..."
"Jo Ann Smith, a volunteer with the Friends of the Batavia Public Library, discovered quite a gem in a box of donations: a first-edition, first printing, signed copy of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."
The scrolls include the earliest surviving texts of the books of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament.
"Faces seen peering out windows, figures seen moving about, books moving by themselves."
"An online operation is planned to stave off growing competition." (Seems a little late to go online.)
"If I have two people come in, it's a big crowd," says Helen Myers, 77.
“A large number of school libraries, community libraries, children libraries, public libraries, libraries belonging to religious institutions… have either been completely destroyed or severely affected”
"His quest for the rare, the forgotten and the unsung-but-beautiful leads him on overseas book-hunting trips several times a year."
...but why are so many of Pakistan's books mould-damaged?
$3,057,004 medieval Psalter Sets Auction Record for 2004
"The many illustrations are often too bizarre to describe on a family website..."
Iran Library and Library of Congress to Collaborate
Literary detente is good. Literary jingoism is evil.
Canada's BookTelevision does "Naughty Librarian Month" for January
...to "heat up those cold winter nights."
Library Closes Last Vertical File in America
"Nowadays, you've got the Internet...We put a soda machine in its place."
Michigan County: Jails are In. Libraries are Out.
Maybe they can open a library in the jail.
Arkansas Arabian Horse Breeder Collects Western Americana
"...the shelves of Seddon's library and the walls of his ranchhouse stir up sentiments of awe and wonder..."
Travel to Britain for Literary Anniversaries in 2005
"Britain will be celebrating the achievements of several of its literary ‘greats’ in 2005."
Charlotte
California man has "the world's largest collection of original documents and manuscripts
Is it really "the world's largest?"
Bookish Bookworm Family Rescues Car in Cleveland
"Some of us even have the annoying habit of correcting others' grammar..."
The World's Largest Book is in Mandalay
It's inscribed on "729 slabs of gleaming white marble."
Best-Selling Author has Bookstore in Texas
"Archer City, Texas: It's OK to be a book nerd here. In fact, it's cool."
New Mexico Libraries are Alive and Well
"Which cultural destination is the most popular in New Mexico? If you guessed libraries, you're right."
Welsh Library Buys Dylan Thomas Archive
"'The National Library of Wales is delighted to have acquired for the nation this important and little-known group of papers from the Dylan Thomas Estate', said Dr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, head of the Library's Manuscripts Unit."
Hemingway's Son Had a Sex-Change Operation
Greg Hemingway became Gloria Hemingway.
German Book Company buys American Book Company
ZVAB buys Choosebooks.com
Albert Small: Collector of Rare Declaration of Independence Items
A Collection of Important Americana (including a Declaration-of-Independence floorboard)
Rare Books and a Grapefruit-Sized Cow Hairball
"the air heavy with history, the hush broken only by the whisper of turning pages"...and a cow's huge hairball
Good News & Bad News for Boston Book Scene
Some bookstores thrive. Some bookstores flounder.
Knife-Wielding Woman Robs Totem Book Shop in Washington State
She demanded cash. (Maybe she should have demanded signed first editions.)
Rare Comic Book Collection Donted to French Museum
"A mint-condition, first-edition Spider-Man from 1963, for example, would be valued today at $32,500 US"
Montana Libraries on Cutting Edge of Technology
"...fears that technology could render libraries obsolete may be farfetched."
Rare "Touchable" Manuscripts on Exhibit in Indianapolis
Part of the intent of the Remnant Trust is that they allow people to actually see them and touch them under supervision."
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