"Sir Pelham Warner’s book of cricket was the best among the 600 rare books that Ramamurthy had collected, it was a book that contained interesting snippets from the many cricket players the author had met over a period of time."
"Sir Pelham Warner’s book of cricket was the best among the 600 rare books that Ramamurthy had collected, it was a book that contained interesting snippets from the many cricket players the author had met over a period of time."
"The museum displays rich collections of paintings, antiques and rare books as well as occasional modern art exhibits, and also hosts various cultural events. Restitution of church property remains a disputed issue in Romania, where the former communist regime took over lands, schools and hospitals owned by religious groups."
"The finished volume reclaims a time before art and craft had been severed. The precision and splendour of the book-making honours co-workers in the printery, David Pidgeon and Bernie Rackham, and the binder, Nick Doslov."
"The pages that blew out of the Baghdad Library have now been made into a volume that finds its place in the rare-book shelves at the State Library of Victoria. Last year, Lyssiotis received one of its first Creative Fellowships."
"For 300 years it has been a book without a beginning, middle or end."
"But thanks to scholarly detective work, a 15th century Book of Hours, written for King Louis XII of France, has been pieced back together and will go on display for the first time at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in February."
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"After days of controversy, the Logos II floating book fair officially dropped its gangplank and opened doors to the public yesterday in a colourful ceremony involving crew representing 45 different nations.
Premier Alex Scott, MP Walter Lister, Police Commissioner George Jackson, Hamilton Mayor Lawson Mapp, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce Diane Gordon and other dignitaries attended the opening at Number Six Shed which was followed by a tour of the ship and the book fair.
The Logos II project promotes international understanding and world-wide education."
"2005 has been the year of the bibliophile. With a sudden revival of interest in books and bookstores, booksellers have never had it so good. Be it the tale of a ‘teenage wizard’ or an ‘argumentative economic’, book lovers have had a field day when it came to choosing a tome of their choice."
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"Researchers hope to discover insights into the mind of the 19th-century prime minister William Gladstone by studying more than 32,000 books from his private collection."
"He served four terms as prime minister under Queen Victoria and left his personal library to the nation on his death in 1898. Many books have his handwritten comments in the margins."
"Even though the bookstore focuses on Islamic books, it is interesting to note that over 40 per cent of their customers are non-Muslims. It was learnt that most of their customers are women, where sales are three times more than male customers."
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"Steven E. Gromatzky has joined the staff of Benedictine College as its Library Director, taking over one of the largest private undergraduate college libraries in the nation."
"A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Gromatzky graduated from St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH in 1985 with a B.A. in History. He received his Masters Degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston in 1989."
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"So don't discount the old school too soon. As Book City says on its bookmark: "Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device BOOK, a revolutionary breakthrough in technology; no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries. Even a child can operate it."
"I mean, it ain’t Shakespeare; it’s a book about sports. But it’s worth 200 bucks! How psyched am I?"
" The Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) cannot find space in its new building for its library of 40,000 rare books."
"For the new building is just 4,000 sq ft instead of the previous one—three-storeyed Butler Palace— which was 15,000 sq ft."
"Expatriate Scots living in the United States are to be asked to help raise the £6.5m-plus shortfall in funding to buy the John Murray Archive for the National Library of Scotland. But those behind the scheme also hope literature-loving Americans of all ancestral backgrounds will contribute to the fund."
"The Murray Archive, valued at around £45m, contains more than 150,000 original manuscripts, private letters and other papers from writers including Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Sir Walter Scott and Benjamin Disraeli."
"Besides ancient books or rubbings of ancient bronze and stone carvings of China, 330,000 rare books bought from Western countries including academic works from 1473 to 1926 will also be available to the public, the paper said."
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"With Margaret Brentano—his wife and this book's editor and caption writer—Baker formed a nonprofit organization which bought more than six thousand bound volumes of various newspapers and another thousand wrapped bundles in excellent condition. The cost was approximately $150,000. The entire collection has since been given to the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University. Transporting it to Duke from Baker's New Hampshire storage facility required five tractor-trailers."
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"The College Street book market, once a repository of rare books of all times and a favourite haunt of Kolkata-based novelists, travel writers and historians, is on the verge of extinction, thanks to the deteriorating reading habits of this so-called intellectual city."
"A division of the Ayala Foundation, the Filipinas Heritage Library is a place of escape—away from the noise and the busyness of the rest of the world, and into the generous, colorful pages of history. It has over 15,000 contemporary books on Philippine history, art, language, religion and the social sciences, a collection of over 2,000 rare books with beautiful goatskin covers and brittle pages, a microfilm archive, and an extensive library of slides and photographs."
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"One of the top five museums in the world, the National Palace Museum is renovating and expanding in celebration of its 80th birthday. All the better to show off its 650,000 art works, the largest collection of Chinese art in the world. Renovation is on schedule, to be completed in June 2006. Three special exhibitions of Ju ware ceramics, painting and calligraphy and rare books from the Northern Sung Dynasty (960-1279) will go on display from July through September."
"Scholars have discovered an old Bible in the University of Manitoba's archives is a rare first edition, first printing of the King James Bible."
"We had hoped that it was going to be a first editing, first printing, but we couldn't confirm it until now," said Dr. Shelley Sweeney, head of archives at the University of Manitoba Libraries."
"The Chief Minister also said that the departed musicologist had a large collection of rare books and documents on various aspects of music. There is an urgent need to preserve this musical wealth for posterity so that it would benefit the scholars of the subject, he added."
"Also resonating across the quad, beginning at 5 o'clock every evening, are the 50 bells in the carillon of the grand neo-Gothic Duke Chapel. Just before vespers, my college-shopping son and I, accompanied Mr. Sam Hammond, a true Southern gentleman and the Duke carillonneur, were uplifted to the top of the Chapel tower by its small, tubular elevator. There, I got a bird's-eye view of the beautiful Duke campus, and a bottom-up look at the bell bottoms."
"There are certainly plenty of great Scottish books to choose from, but the organisers decided to help things along by producing their own initial list of one hundred titles."
"Eyebrows were raised by the inclusion of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, George Orwell's 1984, and even the Bible. The excuses were that Woolf's book was set in Scotland, Conrad's was published by a Scot, Orwell's was written in Scotland, and the Bible was translated by order of James VI."
" A Hurricane Katrina survivor is putting her librarian skills to good use at Northern Illinois University."
"Daisy Porter is temporarily working at NIU’s Founders Memorial Library as part of the Visiting Katrina Fellows program."
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"The British Library is to extend a ban on pens to all its reading rooms to protect its precious collections."
"From January, the home of the Magna Carta and Lindisfarne Gospels will only allow pencils."
"Pens have already been banned from the library's Rare Books and Music, Manuscripts, Maps, Oriental and India Office and Philatelic reading rooms."
"Nicholas Basbanes is the Pied Piper of bibliophiles. After A Splendor of Letters, A Gentle Madness, Patience & Fortitude and Among the Gently Mad, there is perhaps no other modern American writer who has as thoroughly explored the world of the book."
"Now, with Every Book its Reader, he rounds out his quintet with a work that rummages about for the most dedicated of the "gently disturbed," burrows into their underground caverns, and pictures them live, up close and personal, rooting for words in the wormholes of history."
Lindsay Holland: "He started collecting books during his early days as a mountaineer. His forays into the backcountry took him into rarely travelled areas and he sought out books by early explorers to expand his knowledge of those parts of New Zealand."
" When Jip Jip, a bookstore in Fukui, held a pop-up book fair in the spring of 2004, young couples and 30-somethings flocked to the store. Today, Jip Jip stocks about 60 examples of pop-up books. President Shozo Shimizu says he finds it interesting that although society has become very digitalized, these "utterly analog mechanical books" are catching on."
"Ism, a store in Kita Ward, Osaka, specializing in picture books, held a fair featuring pop-up and other mechanical books this summer. "We saw sales comparable to those at Christmas season," says owner Reiko Tsujinaka. Although mechanical books are rather expensive, customers don't mind paying for books that give them pleasure, she said."
"Students can now browse online hundreds of thousands of rare research materials from Cardiff University’s Special Collections and Archives."
"Launched by the University’s Information Services Directorate, the dedicated Special Collections and Archives website called ‘Scolar’ allows researchers quicker access to key materials for their work."
Philip R. Bishop is co-author of "Thomas Bird Mosher & the Art of the Book", and his articles have appeared in "Biblio" magazine and elsewhere. This independent scholar has made Mosher both his collecting and research passions.
Philip Bishop authored the Mosher bibliography, "Thomas Bird Mosher-Pirate Prince of Publishers" co-published by The British Library and Oak Knoll Press.
"NEW BEDFORD -- A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy
of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book."
"Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program."
"The student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for Professor Pontbriand's class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled out a form for the request, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security number. He was later visited at his parents' home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors said."
"Internet giants like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are making headlines with their rival plans to create online libraries of books. Long before those companies even existed, though, there was Project Gutenberg: an ambitious, offbeat effort to digitize classic books by typing them out by hand."
"The approach made a lot of sense back in 1971, when Project Gutenberg's founder Michael Hart was a student at the University of Illinois. He enlisted an army of volunteers to help in the effort, by pulling their own dusty volumes from attic shelves and transcribing them..."
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"More than 1000 librarians, publishers, and vendors jammed into the 25th annual Charleston Conference in South Carolina, November 2–5. Created by College of Charleston librarian Katina Strauch, the meeting brings together everyone in serials and acquisitions."
"This year several speakers focused on book collections—print-on-paper books housed in bricks and mortar. Add in the discussions on ebooks and you could feel the back-to-book backlash."
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"When the Mount, Edith Wharton 's Lenox mansion, opens to the public in May, the shelves in the restored library will be filled with the 2,600 volumes of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's personal library."
"Stephanie Copeland, president and executive director of the Mount, announced yesterday that the books were purchased on Monday from rare book dealer George Ramsden, owner of Stone Trough Books in Settrington, England."
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"Iran has the largest collection of handwritten books in the world, declared the Director General of Handwritten Books Department of Iran National Library Habibollah Azimi."
"He told that several years ago, Turkey ranked first with 300,000 volumes of handwritten books and was followed by Iran, India and Pakistan respectively. However currently, Iran has 400,000 volumes of handwritten books at Iran National Library, Ayatollah Marashi Library and a number of other private libraries, he noted."
"First printed in the 1930s, “The Swimmer Manuscript” is both a valuable research source and a small window into traditional Cherokee cultural societies."
"Noksi Press, in cooperation with the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, reissued “The Swimmer Manuscript.”"
"At the conclusion of Christie's sale of fine printed books and manuscripts this afternoon, a single volume will be offered for $5 million to $7 million.It is a double-elephant folio of John James Audubon's "Birds of America," the grail of American rare books. Approximately 120 complete copies of the original edition are known to exist. One of them, known as the Fox-Bute copy, was sold at Christie's in 2000 to a private buyer for $8.8 million, setting the record for any printed book at auction."
"It also stems from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, from which single-sheet and three-dimensional printed children’s games have been taken."
"John de Monins Johnson, printer to the University of Oxford (1925-1946), began collecting printed ephemera in the late 1920s and continued up to his death in 1956."
"While experts have already declared this book as “irreversibly damaged”, the 17th Century original manuscript of ‘Kadambari Katha in Gurmukhi’ is a pile of faded, torn and brittle pages. This is just the tip of the iceberg, as the university’s envious rich collection of around 20,000 old and rare books, dating back to 17th century and 1,492 original manuscripts (many of which are donated by the alumni), is deteriorating."
"It is the job of the 32 conservators and technicians at Etherington Conservation Services to halt or reverse the decomposition of paper documents, photographs, books and other items. If an item arrives irretrievably damaged, it is digitally documented to salvage the information. The business is one of the largest and most prominent private conservation practices in the world."
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"The last thing Larson would ever do is dabble; when he gets into something, he’s smack in the middle. Whole sections of the world like East Africa and France know him. When he talks about cars he means a fleet of antique Rolls Royces. His book collection numbers more than 20,000. He flies airplanes; he has visited more than 600 Templar religious sites. Yet, those interests pale in comparison to his first love: food and wine, including the production, preparation, presentation and gustation thereof."
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" "He took one look and said, 'Oh, my, gawd,' " she says, doing a fair gentrified Southern accent. " 'Oh, my, gawd.' I thought he was impressed, you know, because there were so many of them and they were all different colors. But he said, 'You must shut these doors and not let anyone see. This is like a great art collector decorating her wall with posters. No one must see this. Oh, my, gawd.' " She laughs ruefully and sits down. "So now I keep them in the bathroom."
"MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - When night fell after the Oct. 8 quake, many survivors burned broken furniture to stay warm. Some, however, stormed the shattered state-run Khursheed National Library, pulling out books and newspapers to make bonfires."
"An estimated 10,000 books went up in smoke that night. Three days later, half the library's books - including Qurans - had been turned into ashes, when the army stepped in and stopped it."
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"Time was Soft There is Mercer's account of how Shakespeare & Company, the magnificently chaotic bookstore on the rue de la Bucherie, a mere brioche toss from Notre Dame, became his equivalent of the French Foreign Legion: a place of uncertain sanitation in which to dally until the dust settled. He was one of many such sanctuary seekers. It's well known that George Whitman, the legendarily cantankerous, now nonagenarian proprietor of the store, made in-store beds available to young (mostly) drifters who needed a short-term place to crash and who could lend a hand for a daily hour or two with the business of keeping wholesale entropy at bibliographic bay. By Whitman's count, as reported by Mercer, some 40,000 transients have so far laid claim to one of the Shakespeare & Company cots. (The widely circulated stories of bedbugs -- a not unlikely plague, considering the circumstances -- are apparently untrue.)"
"About 1,200 book retailers went out of business in the mid-1990s, according to the American Booksellers Association. Rochester-based Village Green Bookstores Inc., which once operated four Buffalo-area stores, followed in January 1999, when its flagship closed. The owner blamed disappointing holiday revenues that saw sales shift to the national chains and Internet retailers."
"He described the time a homeowner in Los Angeles called Sotheby's to say she had opened an old footlocker in her attic and discovered a pile of manuscripts."We had her photocopy a few pages and fax them to us." The papers were confirmed to be the first half of the manuscript for Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn." They had Brink's bring the papers at once to New York, and they were later reunited with the second half of the book in the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library."
"Mondazzi and his wife, Sonja, are among the growing ranks of independent booksellers who are shifting all or much of their business to the Internet even as their beloved, cramped storefronts continue to disappear."
"Book dealers say the lower overhead of warehouse operations - mainly cheaper rents and lower utility costs - makes it possible to survive against the dominance of national retailers such as Borders and Barnes & Noble, not to mention the major online retailers, such as Amazon.com."
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"'Some nights I even slept there," Wayne said. "It became a higher calling.'"
"Last month, Katz deeded the store over to Wayne. The shop is now called Bob's I Love Books."
"Something "weird" caught the eye of Yolo County employee Mel Russell as she was cleaning the stacks of the county historical archive this June. A dark-red leather binding, shrink-wrapped as a protection against dust, looked oddly "mottled" through the plastic. Upon closer inspection, so did other volumes on adjoining shelves. "I got nervous," Russell recalls. "'What is that?'"
"This year, Walt Whitman devotees and scholars are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the original 1855 edition, the concise masterpiece of just 12 poems that pushed the boundaries of social decency and of poetry itself. By rejecting the rigid structures of British meter, Whitman offered readers free-spirited bursts of consciousness that forever changed American poetry."
"'The final ‘Leaves of Grass’ is an enormous book, with which Whitman did not do himself a favor because a lot of the poetry is pure padding, purely hot air,” said biographer Justin Kaplan. “But if you go back to the original, it’s a wonderfully sparse little book, something like 96 pages of absolutely remarkable, stunning poetry.'"
"In Christie's annual rock and pop auction on November 21st, poems handwritten by Bob Dylan in 1960 sold for $78,000, setting a record for a Dylan manuscript. Among other recent high-end sales: John Lennon's scrawled lyrics for "All You Need Is Love" fetched $1 million at an auction in July"
"Rice runs Moving Parts Press, a publishing company that has created high-end limited edition books since 1977. COSMOGONIE INTIME An Intimate Cosmogony combines the poetry of contemporary French poet Yves Peyré with the art of Felicia's late father, Ray Rice, also using translations by Elizabeth R. Jackson and Rice's own talent as a book artist, editor and publisher. This book, like Rice's others, belongs to the exquisite, expensive world of high art and rare book collections."
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"Larry Portzline, the founder of the grassroots "bookstore tourism" effort, announced today that he is creating a nonprofit organization to promote the concept: the National Council on Bookstore Tourism (NCBT)."
"Bookstores are sanctuaries. Places to lose yourself, escape the harsh demands of daily life, find new ways to dream and new sources of inspiration. I love all booksellers; anybody who helps spread the word is doing noble work. But my favourite bookstores are the small eccentric independents run by passionate and usually slightly mad book lovers. These are some of the best."
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"Google's recent foray into massive library storage has led the publishing industry to cry foul on the grounds of copyright infringement. If users can procure just the lines of text they need, why lay out good money to buy a whole book? In response, online advocates argue that access to these extracts will fuel print sales. Moreover, short written segments (a chapter, a recipe) can be sold like songs from the iTunes store."
"Majaz: Rare manuscripts of his works, including an unpublished ghazal, and photographs and other material relating to his early life in his home town of Rudauli, and then his student days in Aligarh, his progress as a poet and frustrations of his later life and resulting mental breakdowns are on display in the two-day exhibition inaugurated here today."
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"A Newport library is trying to salvage rare books and historic artifacts that fell victim this weekend to bad luck. The Redwood Library and Athenaeum had previously moved some of its antique furniture, colonial military maps and rare books to a specialized art storage facility in Dedham, Massachusetts."
"NEW YORK—Millions of rare artifacts in museums and libraries across the United States are slowly disintegrating because of improper storage, according to a survey said to be the largest ever look at the condition of such collections."
"Damage is occurring at institutions of all sizes but is worse at small-town museums and historical societies, said the report, to be made public today at the New York Public Library."
"Bucharest - Romania decided on Friday to return the country's oldest museum including a priceless art collection, the Brukenthal Palace in the Transylvanian town Sibiu, to the protestant parish from which it had been expropriated in the Communist era."
"The museum also houses a library with about 280 000 rare books and about 600 pieces of antique furniture."
"Former owner Baron Samuel of Brukenthal had opened the palace to the public in 1790, when he governed the Transylvania under the Habsburg empire from 1777 to 1787."
The Australia State Library is putting on display many of the treasures of its rare book collection. Ray Cassin reports on an offering that provides countless insights into human culture.
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"The Victorian classic "Jane Eyre" was a comic book written in modern Greek."
"Most bibliophiles would disagree. But the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia can prove it."
"Through April, visitors to the Rotunda's Dome Room can explore "Eyre Apparent: An Exhibition Celebrating Charlotte Bronte's Classic Novel," which displays many of the items inspired by "Jane Eyre," one of the most popular novels ever written. The exhibit is timely: 2005 marks the 150th anniversary of Bronte's death."
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"Roughly $13 million went into the library renovations, which included such talks as the ceiling work, a new addition, foundation repairs, the replacement of the slate roof and a new climate control system to help preserve the books and artwork for years to come. Looking back, Ms. Helms and Director of Library Services Lynda Bronaugh can calmly talk and even joke about the project, but in the months after the ceiling collapse, it seemed like one calamity mounted after another."
"Unfortunately, it didn't work out like that. Yesterday, the ill-fated collaboration was on display at Christie's. But a 22-page manuscript containing a song with music by Beethoven and words by Burns - "Highland Harry" - was withdrawn from auction when it failed to receive the expected £450,000 bid. For the duo who might have been an early Lennon and McCartney, and for Thomson, their would-be impresario, it was a final, posthumous setback."
"In addition to the thousands of digitized rare books which it makes available from its partner companies, Archive CD Books USA has already accumulated nearly a thousand rare books of its own through purchases, gifts, and promised loans to the project. One of the company's debut products is a digital version of "A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England" by James Savage, which was originally published in 1860 and is now offered for just $9.95 on CD-ROM. "Even a hundred and forty years after publication," said Anderson, "Savage's four-volume set remains the starting point for most research problems in seventeenth-century New England. No other single source covers the first century of New England settlement so broadly." Even experienced researchers would benefit from the full-text search that is supported by the digitized version of this important work. It reveals thousands of embedded references to people and places that are lost to those who rely on the book's simple alphabetical list of surname headings."
" One of Oxford's most critical funding needs is for its libraries, which the university has earmarked for a 100 million- pound facelift. The Bodleian Library, which, as the world's first copyright library, gets one copy of every book published in the U.K., opened in 1602. Next door are the Radcliffe Camera, an 18th-century library and Oxford landmark, and the Sir Gilbert Scott-designed New Bodleian, which opened in 1940."
"Underneath the three buildings and reaching up into the New Bodleian are the stacks housing 130 miles (209 kilometers) of shelves with 4.5 million books. Among the titles are 10,000 medieval, Western illuminated manuscripts that are adorned with colorful illustrations, an original copy of Franz Kafka's ``The Trial'' and the maps used to plan D-day."
"More than 100 books in the Somali language - which has only had a written form since 1972 - have been collected by Cardiff Library."
"Librarians have gathered the books in order to serve the 8,000-strong Somali community in Cardiff."
"I like to collect books. I have collected many books related to fiction as well as non-fiction. Most of them are old books and I have bought them from the footpaths at Sundhara and second-hand shops at Thamel, Bhrikuti Mandap, Pradarsani Margh etc."
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