"For almost 70 years now, the family of Mercurio López Casillas has been selling used and rare books in Mexico City's Centro Historico, or Historic Center."
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"For almost 70 years now, the family of Mercurio López Casillas has been selling used and rare books in Mexico City's Centro Historico, or Historic Center."
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"Two pages ripped out of an old Ethiopian holy manuscript and looted during the British invasion in 1868 were returned to Ethiopia on Wednesday."
"Though the two pages made their way home 137 years after being plundered by British soldiers, the whereabouts of the original holy manuscripts is not yet known by those working for the return of Ethiopian treasures."
"They were discovered in a second-hand bookshop in Glasgow in 2001."
"The works, designed to illustrate The Grave by the Scottish poet, were thought to have been kept in one family after they were auctioned in 1836."
"The literary aspect of each story is no mere late addition. Each plot is sculpted around some interesting facts about book collecting, book selling and book publishing."
"Even if I was not a bookseller myself, I would find these novels riveting. Each of these four mysteries kept me spellbound, reading long into the night, unable to put it down until I've reached the end."
"Walsh said he didn't picture spending the rest of his life in bookselling, but he couldn't deny his passion for the arts and letters."
"'Realistically, if I wasn't selling books, I'd probably be writing them,' he said."
"Have you read the latest version of "S'mores and Peace" or perused the Ten Commandments in gingerbread form?"
"These are just some of the creations spawned around the world during the International Edible Book Festival, a fund-raising event created in 1999 for book centers and libraries. Participants make fantastic food creations in the form of their favorite books to be viewed, enjoyed and eaten during the April festival."
"Decades-old cookbooks may appear to be worn and ragged, but they certainly aren't irrele vant. In fact, many of today's ``new'' dishes and secret recipes are nothing more than tweaked, recycled recipes of days gone by -- though I doubt many pro chefs will admit to it."
"BRITAIN’S independent booksellers are fighting back against supermarkets and online retailers in the battle to win over the country’s growing legion of book fans."
"The Prairie Book Collaborative is presenting an "Edible Book Tea" that consists of cakes, pastries and other treats that resemble famous texts. Enjoy "Tortilla Flats," the John Steinbeck book, in a version that tastes like a Mexican pastry. Sample "S'more and Peace," a graham cracker/chocolate/marshmallow version of Tolstoy's classic novel."
"Volcanoes, Slugs and Comets: Rare Scientific Books at UCL"
"UCL has a proud tradition of scientific endeavour and this is ably supported by the Rare Book collections. Our collections are particularly rich in astronomy, mathematics, natural history and medicine, with smaller specialist collections covering malacology, vulcanology, palaeontology and orthopaedics."
"The Maui Friends of the Library is donating $1,000 to the University of Hawaii to assist in the repairs of the University of Hawaii’s Hamilton Library, which was damaged by a flood in October."
"This event will launch the *Philadelphia Center for the Book* as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving book artists, book collectors, and book enthusiasts in the Philadelphia area. Founded in 2004, the Philadelphia Center for the Book serves as a catalyst to advance the book as a vital contemporary art form."
"Now he's [Ron Kathren] in the process of breaking up the rest of his collection, donating books valued at $250,000 to Washington State University and other items to a nuclear-themed museum in Nevada and a nonprofit organization in Tennessee."
"Standing on the sidewalk outside the Cranbury Bookworm, the store looks like Mecca for, well, bookworms."
"Within four years, says Verdict analyst Nick Gladding, one in 10 books will be bought in a supermarket."
"The supermarkets are selling on price alone and because of their enormous buying power they can undercut everyone. But they are only interested in the best-selling titles where high volumes can make up for wafer-thin margins. Gladding adds: 'Every sale to a grocer denies footfall and additional revenues to a bookshop.'"
"'In business, you have to go with the flow,'he said. 'We've had to yield to the computer and realize that it's going to be part of the business.'"
"Huber said he enjoys the shows because it gives him a chance to enjoy the company of other booksellers and do a little horse trading.'"
"That’s why Hall wasn’t too worried about attracting business when he opened CNY Book Auctions, an auction house focusing specifically on books and other types of paper collectibles. The business, located at 1429 Danby Road, had its first auction Jan. 23 and is now drawing about 100 to 150 people per auction."
"Our nation's history comes alive within the stately walls of the American Antiquarian Society."
"Momentous events and forgotten incidents, from first reports of the Declaration of Independence to bawdy cartoons and old train schedules, are collected and preserved by the 193-year-old library and learned society in Worcester."
" According to Ritzau news bureau, Denmark plans to celebrate the life and works of one of its most prodigious sons from April 2 to Dec. 6 with events around the world. Most of them, however, will be centered around Copenhagen and the author's birth town of Odense."
"Amy Tan novel was a BookCrossing book, which means someone had deliberately set the book free into the world hoping someone else would find it and report where and when it was found."
"Leona Rostenberg, a rare-book scholar and dealer who with her partner of 50 years, Madeleine B. Stern, discovered a series of racy novels written by Louisa May Alcott under a pseudonym, died on March 17 at her apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She was 96."
"There's something sexy about the Milton S. Eisenhower library. Maybe it's the titles of books on the shelves like Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions and The Best American Erotica. Maybe it's the naughty silence on D-Level. Maybe it's the cool thrill of grasping a first-edition copy of La Constitution Francaise in your shaking hands in the Cage."
"The prestigious North London Collegiate School has welcomed new insights into its past provided by a bequest from a former pupil."
"International antiquarian book dealer and autograph collector Winifred Myers built up a fascinating collection of material on the Canons Drive school and the Chandos estate on which it was built."
"Lin Weiyi loves books. He just can't get enough of them. That is why he has been ecstatic about the mushrooming, in recent years, of bookstores in Beijing."
"The 40-year-old government official no longer has to rely on State-owned Xinhua Bookstore for his reading needs. Now, he has more choices than ever to buy books either in large bookstores, private bookshops, small stalls or online libraries."
"Sharing Book Haven's commitment to independent bookselling in the academic marketplace, Labyrinth Books will continue to provide course books for professors at Yale and will accommodate a greatly increased number of books, including new releases, back-list titles and remaindered books."
"Fans of rare books and birds had a unique chance to see one of the most treasured books in the world on Wednesday as Canada Post unveiled a new series of wildlife stamps."
"It is The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, a complete King James version illustrated with 232 black-and-white engravings by American artist Barry Moser, printed on custom paper, bound by hand in vellum with its title stamped in 24-karat gold on the cover."
"A 12th century manuscript owned by the British Library must be returned to Italy because it was looted during WWII, an independent panel has ruled."
"Amnon Tishler is one example of the former. Tishler is 56 and his love affair with reading started in his childhood in Israel. He came to the United States (Boston) in 1971 and to New York in 1980. For years he worked as a librarian, first in New York City and then on Long Island."
"The symposium, titled ;Hot Type in a Cold World II: Recasting Gutenberg,' presents a 21st-century look at the types used for the first printed book: the 42-line Bible produced by Johann Gutenberg in the mid-15th century. In 1999, the Sunday Times of London, and several similar publications and academic polls named Gutenberg the "Man of the Millennium."
"Research on Mahatma Gandhi will now be easy. No more leafing through thousands of pages of documents and manuscripts, researchers will have all data just a mouse click away. The Sabarmati Ashram Preservation Trust has initiated a project to make digital copies of all manuscripts available in its archives and also develop a system to look through them on computer. The archives have over 34,000 letters collected by the trust after 1951 when the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru decided to preserve the ashram as a monument."
"Cervantes’ 'Don Quixote' represents the soul of Spain perhaps in a way no other novel has achieved, says Rodriguez-Cepeda, 65. He first read it as a 12-year-old schoolboy in Madrid. He found in it a magic he has trouble expressing and a passion he has pursued ever since."
"The rare 1640 first collected edition of William Shakespeare's Poems, selling for $25,875, despite lacking the frontispiece and five other leaves, was a highlight of PBA Galleries' recent auction of rare books and manuscripts, featuring the autograph collection of Florence S. Walter, Part I."
"Do you remember the days when you could walk into a bookstore and not become overwhelmed by the overly-priced products of Starbucks and actually receive some helpful assistance from a knowledgeable employee rather than a completely clueless teenager? Remember the mere satisfaction of enjoying a book without Harry Potter pointing his wand down your throat?"
"Customers can't hide their amazement when they see the cats," says the owner of the bookstore, Nuri Bulut, adding that 11 street cats haven't left his bookstore in four years."
"He and his friends, the Woolfs and Bells, Keynes and Forster, believed they were inventing the modern world and, to a surprising degree, they did. Their idea of modernity - of free thought, free talk, technological advance and self-examination - is still very much our own."
"Wayne Dueck, of McNally Robinson Booksellers, reads five to six books at a time and often wakes at 3 a.m. to read."
"A couple of blocks away, the famous City Lights bookshop was opening its doors. It was founded in 1965 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, publisher, writer, godfather to the Beats, and its shelves are still packed with the outrageous and the obscure, the political and the avant-garde."
"Marie Kohler's Boswell's Dreams, performed at the Off-Broadway Theatre, encompasses two generations of James Boswell -- his here-and-there existence and the survival of his tell-all journals -- wrapped into one enlightening and comedic escapade."
"All literature may someday be published in cyberspace, but I prefer the psychological immediacy felt when holding a real book. And while there are many collectors of first editions, famous authors, etc., one particularly fascinating category is the miniature book."
"You can't beat a good mystery, and the Voynich Manuscript is just that. It's (probably) a medieval illuminated manuscript that's one of the most famous cryptographic puzzles ever. Going on 100 years after Wilfred Voynich found it at a Jesuit school in Italy, no one has cracked the cipher in which it was written."
"Leipzig Reads literary festival has since developed into Europe's largest festival for books, authors and readers."
"It's more than just a war of words on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. It's a war between entire bookstores."
"The issue came to a legislative committee on Monday in the form of a bill opposed by the university and supported by an independent bookstore located just to the south of the campus boundaries."
"Mr Sam Fogg, the well-known London book-seller and Orientalist, has presented the Institute of Ethiopian Studies Library with an important 19th century manuscript copy of the Ge'ez Fetha Nagast, or Laws of the Kings."
"Horror at Number 50 is set entirely in an antique bookshop in London. In the 19th century, a pair of sailors broke into the bookshop (then only an abandoned residential house) in search of a place to sleep. They were set upon by "The Horror", and one sailor was killed."
"Shopping his novels around to potential publishers and literary agents got old for Scott Malensek, a Cuyahoga Falls resident who writes military thrillers."
"So he turned to print-on-demand publishing -- technology that allows a complete book to be printed and bound in a matter of minutes, usually for a one-time fee of several hundred dollars. A single book is printed each time a copy is ordered, usually through online book retailers."
"The essay turns into a rhapsody on books crackling with life in the Baghdad street named after legendary 10th century poet Tayyeb Mutanabi, much like Old Delhi's Sunday book bazaar and the pavement bookstores of Kolkata's College Street."
"If one is lucky, one could find here priceless first editions of classics like TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom at throwaway prices."
"For nearly 40 years, Timothy Walch has been on a never-ending quest to locate and purchase books about Irish, Irish-American and American Catholic life."
"'It has been a lifelong passion, and each year it gets more passionate,' said Walch, the director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa."
"Seattle's East West Bookshop has in 14 years become the region's largest spiritual bookstore and has made a profit every year by focusing on one goal: supporting people on their spiritual paths, irrespective of what those paths may be."
"True crime has been around for some time, but only recently has it acquired the status of a fully fledged genre. The most eminent US crime-writing awards, the Edgars (named after the progenitive Edgar Allen Poe), have had since 1948 given an annual prize for what it calls “fact crime”.
"On the first and 15th of each month, Rowland, as did the other artists, boxed up and mailed a book to the next person on the list, kind of like a chain letter but without the annoying clause suggesting failure to participate would yield a fate worse than death."
"A rare 1943 document -- a psychological analysis of the personality of Adolph Hitler that predicted, among other things, his eventual suicide -- has just been made available to the world at large on the Cornell Law Library's Web site."
"Pamela Anderson, the former Baywatch actress whose enthusiasm for cosmetic surgery has given a whole new meaning to "silicon valley", is to star in an American sitcom set in a bookshop. She plays a woman who always falls for the wrong sort of guy. The title of the comedy? Stacked."
"Numerous programs scattered throughout Charlottesville embody the Festival's goal to honor book culture and promote reading and literacy. Event locations include popular hotspots such as Gravity Lounge and Jaberwoke, as well as local bookstores including Old Dominion Bookshop and Barnes & Noble. The University will host events in Culbreth Theatre, the University Bookstore and the Special Collections Library. The events are as diverse as the locations and include panel discussions, intimate chats, readings and artistic performances."
"Now, with 14 separate nominations, Wenlock Books has more recommendations than any other shop in the UK, despite its somewhat off-the-beaten-track location."
"President Jacques Chirac told France's national library on Wednesday to draw up a plan to put European literary works on the Internet, rivalling a similar project by U.S.-based Web search engine Google."
"The books came from Thomas Bray, a highly educated Englishman with a big job in the Old World. As the Church of England's commissary for Maryland, he started a trans-Atlantic book club of sorts, shipping heavy volumes in Latin and Greek to the newly settled colony and its seaport city, Annapolis."
"Tucked away in a room at 101 Callahan Drive is a treasure trove of information — information about George Washington, about the Masons and about early Virginia history. It is called the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Library and it is located on the sixth floor of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial."
"A grass roots campaign that grew out of discussions amongst small retailers facing larger chains such as WalMart yielded an advertising campaign to support local businesses. The campaign, developed by Boulder Colorado based Boulder Book Store owner David Bolduc and others, is funded by an alliance of local businesses who have an interest in co-existing with larger chain stores. The campaign has appeared in Boulder, Raleigh and now Louisville."
"Que Pasa Coffee & Books, 611 W. National Ave., is Wisconsin's first and only Spanish bilingual bookshop."
"Our goal is to make literacy more attractive by having a safe haven for learning," says manager Cynthia Zarazua."
"Mein Kampf is becoming the book of the month at the D&R bookshop at the Migros shopping center in downtown Ankara. Adolf Hitler's infamous work is selling so fast it has entered the bestseller lists. Rukan Binerbay, store manager, says he has sold at least 1,000 copies in the past few weeks."
"It's all here, part of the UO Knight Library's Special Collections archive. An estimated $50 million to $100 million worth of stuff donated and collected over the years, mostly used by undergraduates working on research projects."
"A lecturer of the University of Cambridge said on Monday that he is compiling a list of all the world’s handwritten and illustrated versions of the Shahnameh, the masterpiece of Iranian poet Ferdowsi."
"It's not just the thrill of the hunt for collectors Ed and Dianne Halpern."
"It's the illustrations, the touch and textures they love -- and they read the words too."
"Patrons accustomed to reading and sipping coffee at big bookstores will likewise be allowed to have food and drink inside the library area of the building and to bring books into the restaurant."
"This is because Waterstone’s Booksellers, the UK’s biggest bookshop chain with 197 branches, has just signed a deal with Motilal Banarsidass, one of India’s largest publishing houses, to bring English language books from India within easy reach of the British reader."
"Marut Lekpetch, MD, looks more like a laid-back musician than the respectable physician he is. Giving one of his rare little laughs, the 26-year-old concedes that, on first meeting, few people take him for a doctor. But then the thousands of people he's treated to date are in no doubt about his medical credentials."
"Experts from Britain, Germany, Russia, Egypt and the United States launched a four-year project to digitally reunite the fragile texts and make them available to anyone with the click of a mouse."
"The list covers three pages, with 25 to 30 names on each page, adding up to 92 members, who had borrowed 155 volumes between 1964 and 2004. Many of the defaulters had taken three books, which is the maximum number of books a member is allowed to borrow. Some defaulters have returned the books ever since the list was published."
"Increasingly, writers, readers and publishers are turning to literature as a bridge between the estranged cultures of Western and Arab societies."
"Texas booksellers still argue over what forces are bringing change to the industry, but they tend to agree on one thing: fewer people are taking time to shop for a book to read."
"Lock of Queen Victoria’s hair stuck in an album of keepsakes have triggered an extraordinary bidding war between would-be members of the Royal Family who want to conduct a DNA analysis of the monarch’s follicles."
"The small business alliances and "Weird" campaigns grew out of meetings by a group of independent booksellers, said David Bolduc, owner of the Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colo., and one of the founders of the movement."
"The award for the lightest moment during President Bush's visit to Louisville goes to Larry Dean, owner of Legacy Books and one of the onstage participants."
"Dean first offered to sell 'a few' antiquarian books to first lady Laura Bush, prompting Bush to quip: 'Well, a little short on money these days, you know?'"
"Since their acquisition of a KODAK NEXPRESS 2100 digital production color press, NexPrint has established itself as an expert in the production of high quality digital reproductions of rare art and history books."
"Mrs. Engelhard's life was full of glamour. Like her friend Babe Paley, she was a great beauty, part of a small circle of rich, chic, ultra-thin women, including C. Z. Guest, Jayne Wrightsman, Gloria Guinness and the Duchess of Windsor, who dominated international society."
"Sam Hessel had a life before books. So did Kevin Rowe and Ruth Cohen. Hessel worked as a radiologist, Rowe was a schoolteacher and Cohen ran a catering business."
"These three from disparate backgrounds share a love of books, so much that they now fill their days among hundreds and hundreds of books."
"After a floor-to-ceiling revamp, the two-story, 400-square-meter space which was once an old villa has become a chic nook on one of Shanghai's busiest streets."
"The EU Publications Office (OPOCE) has launched an online bookshop, providing a single access point to the various publications of the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies."
"Later in his career, Thompson wasn't shy about the public reading his correspondence. Two volumes of his letters have been published, with a third collection in the works. The issue of placing his archive is still being explored."
"The Czech national library will make a bid next week for a rare 14th-century book fragment to be sold at auction in Paris, a library official said Wednesday."
"Library staff want to acquire a valuable fragment of a Latin translation of the Czech Dalimil Chronicle, which is to be auctioned on March 17."
"A Letter written by Lawrence of Arabia is expected to attract special interest at an antiquarian book fair in Harrogate later this month."
"Five colleagues in Manila have opened a bookshop, and a share of the money raised by selling the books goes to the Defense and Welfare Fund. The National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) administers the defense fund, which supports journalists who are threatened, as well as families of journalists killed for their work."
"National lottery funding should be introduced to tackle the "scandal" of Britain's shabby and neglected public library services, according to a report yesterday which says that well-stocked, attractive shelves, rather than IT terminals, are the bedrock of its future."
"Established in 1948, the annual Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition, one of the oldest such competitions in the country, has been providing students interested in book collecting a way to display their work and also rewarding them for their collection."
"It is like visiting a vast museum of the mind, where everything is for sale. Opening a long-desired book is like opening a door to Elysium."
" On March 21, an evening sale followed by four day-sale sessions on March 22 and 23, will present the magnificent library of Bernard Breslauer, the legendary New York-based book dealer and collector. The sale will offer a spectacular collection of the fine books and historic and artistic book bindings."
"The exhibit, which contains dozens of Buddha images dating from the 5th to 6th centuries through the 19th century and examples of reliquaries spanning 10 centuries, was organized by the Phoenix Museum of Art. The exhibit also contains rare palm-leaf manuscripts and manuscript covers from a private collection and is the first major exhibition in the United States to present the entire history of Sri Lankan art."
"Borders is a publicly held Fortune 500 company with annual sales of $3.7 billion. It says it operates more than 460 Borders superstores in the United States and 41 Borders stores outside the United States, primarily in Britain and the Pacific Rim."
"In addition, it operates 36 Books etc. stores in Britain and about 700 Waldenbooks stores in malls across America."
Scholarly wisdom has it that book sales are poor because the novel is a Western form. But Vittachi claims that fiction in any Asian vernacular sells poorly."
"The Raleigh Book Fair will also offer autographs, maps, prints and other items. Authors Nicholas Basbanes (A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books) and David and Susan Siegel (Used Book Lover's Guides series) will be on hand as well."
"The 18th-century books were found in the back rooms among the boxes and bins. They sat untouched for more than 20 years before an employee discovered them and began to investigate."
"The curious case of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins remains unsolved, but there is at least one outcome of the revelation by Brandeis graduate student Holly Jackson that the Victorian novelist, long thought to be African-American, was in fact white: Kelley-Hawkins will be removed from the prestigious Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers."
"The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State, in cooperation with the William Saroyan Society of Fresno, is co-sponsoring a panel discussion, "William Saroyan and His World" at 7:00 PM on Friday, March 11 in the Industrial Technology Building, Room 101 (corner of Barstow and Campus Drive) on the Fresno State campus."
"His great interest was incunabula, books published from 1450 to 1500, just after the printing press was invented, said Roberta Engleman, assistant curator of rare books."
"This riveting new novel by John Dunning will hold the reader hostage until the very end. As with previous Dunning crime stories featuring Denver bookman Cliff Janeway, we learn a lot about the world of book collecting, and, in this one, some of book collecting's shocking secrets."
"Drawing mainly from the Huntington's own history of science collection, the exhibit features about 70 Newton manuscripts, sketches, personal belongings and other related items. Some items are on loan from the Cambridge University Library, UCLA's Clark Library and Caltech."
"A manuscript album from 1851 which belonged to Jane Shelley has been acquired by Horsham Museum."
"The album consists of 33 songs and music written by Percy Florence Shelley, his wife Jane Shelley and their adopted daughter, Bessie."
"PARIS - France handed over manuscripts of Ayse Sultan, the eldest daughter of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1876 and 1909, to officials of Istanbul's Topkapi Palace at a ceremony in Paris on Saturday."
"The University Libraries Archives and Rare Books Library holds a new treasure by the only person to single-handedly design and illustrate the Bible in the 20th century. It’s one of only 400 copies worldwide of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, created by artist, engraver and printmaker Barry Moser and completed in 1999."
"The city, which hosts the annual Virginia Festival of the Book, takes center stage when it comes to bookstores."
"Bookstores are reading success in Auburn. A new bookstore opened recently in downtown Auburn and two others are beginning new chapters with new owners."
" Phil and Brendan Boyle run a parallel universe where gamers, artists, writers and those who just like large statues of Wonder Woman can all commune."
"The love of books has been Denver writer John Dunning's stock-in-trade in the Cliff Janeway mysteries set in the world of book collecting, with its rare volumes and first editions."
"Most of UVA's newest library-- a nearly 73,000 square foot structure-- Harrison/Small they're calling it-- lies buried under the grass along McCormick Road."
"But there's good news for collectors! It seems some of the first edition error copies did slip through and are out there mixed with the second. Even just being a First makes it the desirable edition, but being a First and an error copy (and possibly recalled) makes it all that more desirable and, no doubt, more valuable over time."
"Library workers, particularly, were angry at the council's plans to relocate staff to different positions across the borough in an effort to deal with cuts in the service."
""It's a comfortable environment to nourish old collectors and cultivate new ones," Lieberman explains. "We also get to meet and greet our colleagues, our competitors, and we get to rub shoulders with a lot of good books."
"But for nearly 20 years, book-loving tourists have been drawn to this Texas town near the Oklahoma border by author Larry McMurtry's eclectic shop, filled with hard-to-find, out-of-print and used books."
"ST. PETERSBURG -- A great-grandson of Fyodor Dostoyevsky is suing a Russian lottery for using the famed writer's image on tickets without permission, calling it particularly appalling because of the author's long addiction to gambling."
"The New York Public Library is putting hundreds of thousands of its images online, allowing free personal downloads of material including maps, Civil War photos and illuminated medieval manuscripts."
"I am something of a bookworm. I do enjoy killing time in the bunk on the tour bus reading all kinds of material. I’ve got a pretty broad taste when it comes to reading – anything that can take my mind."
"TOKYO — A popular, long-selling children's picture book will again go on sale in early April in Japan after its printing was halted in 1988 due to protests that it fanned racism against black people, the book's new publisher said Thursday."
"A website containing more than 650 sound recordings of English accents and dialects, including from the South West, was today going online for the first time."
"The British Library website includes more than 55 hours of recordings. The site features pairs of recordings from more than 250 locations in rural England and multiple extracts from urban centres."
"When visitors walk into Twice Sold Tales, a quirky used bookstore on the corner of Northeast 45th Street and the Ave., many immediately notice the sign telling them to check your bag with the staff if it 'can fit a cat of any age.'"
"Applause Books—one of the primary sources of scripts and theatre books for New York playgoers and theatre professionals—will close up shop on June 30 after a quarter century in business, it was announced."
"For bank executive W. Guy Ormsby of West Springfield, talking about Shakespeare once a month with people who meet at the Odyssey Book Shop is a good break from what he does all day."
"With Taiwan's e-commerce continuing to boom, we believe there is still huge room for online book retailing to grow," Su Yun (Ĭªå), vice president of PC Home's e-commerce business division, said at an inauguration ceremony yesterday."
"An exhibition of miniature works dating back to the Timurid and Safavid eras is to open at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on March 5."
"Most of the works were collected from the Golestan Palace, the Reza Abbasi Museum, and the Shahid Motahhari School in Tehran and the Chehel Sotun Palace in Isfahan."
"The Russian composer’s annotated score for his Second Symphony was due to be sold at Sotheby’s in London last December with an estimated price of £300,000 to £500,000."
"But, the 300-page work was withdrawn just before the sale after Sergei Rachmaninov’s estate – his grandson and three of his great grandchildren – claimed to be the true owners and obtained an injunction."
"With an all volunteer crew and staff of 320 people from over 40 countries, the MV DOULOS offers a unique opportunity to cross cultural barriers, raise awareness and understanding of other cultures and promote friendships."
"A book on the father of Japan's modern day typography has been named "the world's most beautiful book" of the year by the German foundation Stiftung Buchkunst. The book featuring beautiful typography was voted the most outstanding work among 628 books from 31 countries screened by the foundation."
" The books exist online, since the goal of this unusual project is to make available in digital form some of world's best children's literature and have age-appropriate material in as many languages as possible organized under special categories for easy reference."
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