"Four have been so far: The Otto F. Ege Collection of Medieval manuscripts; The Ethelind Pope Brown Collection, watercolors of mostly birds and trees found in the Southeast; “Development of the Printed Page,” which covers the evolution of the printed page, with examples from the 15th through the 20th centuries; and The Joseph Cohen Collection of Isaac Rosenberg."
"Much of the life of Brooke Astor, now at the center of a bitter family squabble over her assets, is compiled in detailed records at the New York Public Library."
"A total of 362 boxes holding the history of the Vincent Astor Foundation sits in a storage room below Bryant Park. Donated by Astor herself, they can be accessed at the library in room 328 - fittingly, the Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room for Rare Books and Manuscripts."
"And a recent visit rewarded his curiosity: He said he discovered a 188-year-old King James Bible."
"Now he’s fending off offers approaching $1,000 for the find."
“'I go up there all the time to drop off my household trash, and there it was,'Hoskins told the Danville Register & Bee. “There were three or four boxes of books leaning up against the concrete wall behind the Dumpsters. I found the Bible in four pieces, put them together and took it home.'"
"With the launch of another creative industry base in Beijing, "Culture-Subject Plaza," Disanji Bookstore, Beijing's largest bookstore so far, finally opened its doors last Saturday (July 16). Beyond its massive scale, what makes this new bookstore special? Let's follow China Drive reporter Zhou Jing to find out more. "
"For the last eight decades, Martha Cutter Kelley Smith has tended to the books at the Coal Creek Library. But not because she’s an avid reader."
“'I don’t read ’em,' Smith says. 'I’m not any kind of speed reader.'”
"But just as she has for the past 80 years, the 100-year-old Smith toils away at the state’s oldest library, keeping herself busy and keeping a monument to the small community of Vinland up and running."
"I am obsessive about the organization of my book collection--I keep my bookshelves divided into alphabetized sections such as literature, travel, science, and art. I subdivide the literature into country of origin of the writer, which leads to some judgment calls--for example, I put Oscar Wilde in the Irish literature section instead of the British because the Brits threw him in jail, which led to his demise, so Ireland gets credit for him, in my view."
"Since it was founded in 1954, Ketterer Kunst has been firmly established in the front ranks of auction houses dealing in art and rare books. The Munich headquarters in the Prinz-Alfons Palais plays a leading role with two annual auctions of Modern Art. Two auctions a year are devoted at the Meßberghof in Hamburg to Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century /Marine Art as well as Modern Art. Hamburg is also the venue twice yearly for auctions of Rare Books - Autographs - Manuscripts - Decorative Prints. In addition, special auctions and benefit auctions for charity are regular events at Ketterer Kunst."
"After years of planning and massive fundraising, Ohio State University's (OSU) ambitious $105 million renovation and library construction project is about to begin. The university will use two firms to move the library collections and offices in preparation for the renovation of the William Oxley Thompson Library, which will close this fall. The project is set for completion in 2009. The main library's 1.5 million books, meanwhile, will be dispersed mainly to three sites. The bulk of the collection will be housed in a "swing space," equipped to handle the general stacks at a university facility about two miles off-campus. That space will also provide seating for about 200; bus service will connect it to the campus. About 100,000 volumes, including the rare books and manuscript collections already moved, will reside at a nearby depository, while the other materials and journal subscriptions will stay on campus in Sullivant Hall."
"Library and Archives Canada came embarrassingly close to buying a valuable historic map they already had in their collection. Shouldn't the information collectors get their information straight? VAL ROSS investigates."
"To the dismay of bibliophiles everywhere, most small bookstores have already been out-competed by corporate bookstore chains like Borders and Internet retailers like Amazon."
"Christian bookstores, with their specific and devoted clientele, enjoyed a bit more insulation from those threats."
"But now, independent store-owners like Steller say their biggest competition comes from department stores and general merchandisers like Wal-Mart, which have started carrying the hottest items on the Christian market at big-box bargain prices."
"TIRUPATI: Founder director of Universal Digital Library and head of Special projects at Carnegie Melon University, USA, Raj Reddy inaugurated the digital library at the Central Library of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, here on Tuesday."
"The buyer, Simon Finch Rare Books of London, paid £2,808,000 (about $5.1 million) for the copy, one of 219 known extant out of 719 printed. Only 19 copies are said to be in private hands worldwide. Nine copies are "missing," including two stolen from English universities."
"Blair Hedges, 49, an avid collector of Renaissance prints as well as animals, has devised a clever method for figuring out just how old some of these prints are. Historians have been unable to determine exact dates for hundreds of early prints and books, and Hedges thinks the answer lies in science."
"But not everyone in the world of rare books and prints has embraced this guidance from an outsider, published last month in a British scientific journal that they would ordinarily never read."
"The staff of a South Korean television program raised money to return a cultural artifact to Korea. The group, staff members of the MBC-TV show ¡°Exclamation Point!,¡± bought the letter from a rare book seller in Tokyo for 14 million yen (120,000 USD) after holding two fundraising ceremonies this month. "
Anirvan Chatterjee: "We've noticed significant changes in the pricing landscape in the used and rare book markets. On one hand, we're seeing a flood of very cheap titles, often less than $0.25, where the seller makes the profit from the shipping charges," says Chatterjee.
"On the other hand, we're also seeing increasingly price-competitive international bookselling, where it can be cheaper to buy a book from another country, in spite of the relatively larger shipping cost. Bundling shipping prices can make clear the real cost of a $0.01 book, while making it a little less scary for a Californian considering buying a title from London."
"The 408-page book, created by lexicographer and writer Noah Webster, does not look like a modern dictionary. The book is only about 6½ inches tall and four inches wide, the type is small, there are no illustrations, and most of the 37,000 definitions take up no more than a line of type. "
"Still, John M. Morse, the president and publisher of Merriam-Webster in Springfield, said Webster viewed the dictionary as a way to educate, unify and inspire Americans in the early years of the republic. "
Gene S. Albert, Jr..."But Mr. Albert, who's been collecting for 25 years, has other rarities for sale at www.christianheritagemuseum.com. They include a single page of a 1454 Gutenberg Bible priced at $20,000; a 1685 second edition of John Eliot's Algonquin Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in America, for $175,000; and two handwritten sermon notes by 19th-century English evangelist Charles H. Spurgeon, marked down from $595 to $275 each. "
"Collecting and displaying such pieces is a passion for Mr. Albert, 54, a home builder, religious printmaker and graduate of Liberty Theological Seminary at Liberty University, the Baptist school in Lynchburg, Va., founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. "
"Same goes for the Skirball Museum at Hebrew Union College."
"There are only three like it in the U.S. and it's just amazing," he says. "Especially the rare book room that's almost never open to the public. It's full of all these incredibly old books that made it through World War II because they were hidden or buried."
"Tuskegee University's Library Services recently received two grants to further preserve and make more accessible the historical African-American data housed in its special collections on campus. "
"Through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), Tuskegee University will receive $148,183 along with the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama for its "Bringing Alabama's African-American History to Light: a Model Partnership" project. "
"Maribel Castillo, 13, said she was amazed at the rare book collection of the house's original owner, Carl Weeks."
"'I was really interested in the books in the library,' she said."
"The Salisbury House, named for the King's House in an English town of the same name, is operated by the private Salisbury House Foundation and hosts public tours from March through December."
"Justin Schiller loves his original wild thing: a watercolor by Maurice Sendak, the children's book writer and illustrator behind 'Where The Wild Things Are.'"
"In fact, Justin has a number of Sendak items and he also collects rare books. But now he's looking to part with this painting in exchange for, of all things, a piece of New York City real estate."
"Just what kind of a house would suit a former printer’s devil, reporter, and riverboat pilot; a world traveler and recently married, widely published author? Well, Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain, once wrote, “Supposing is good, but finding out is better.” With that in mind, we set off to re-visit the Mark Twain House in Hartford, and to explore, for the first time, the new Mark Twain Museum located on-site. From the Monroe Public Library, where we stopped to pick up a Cultural Pass, the Twain complex is approximately an hour away.
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"As with many treasures, the 44-year-old Apollo Book Shop is buried in its background, overlooked by the masses and left behind by the times. It is believed to be Orange County's last used-only bookstore."
"Next year, there may be none."
"The Old and Contemporary Books Club has HCM city readers and collectors excited over the prospect of exchanging newly discovered titles. The both old and new books are often found in second-hand shops."
"The new book club, which located in HCM City's Tan Binh District, offers advice on book protection to members who want to set up family libraries."
"Celebrating 150 years, the University of Mumbai has organised an exhibition of ‘Rare Books And Artifacts.’ All the rare and ancient collections of books and photographs are placed at the Rajabhai Tower Library. This collection will be made available for public viewing from today to July 25 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The exhibition will exhibit ‘Peregrinatio Hierosolymitana Et Montis Sinai’ which is the oldest book in the University Library. It was published in the year 1490 and was written by Bernhard Von Breydenbach. Providing a description of a pilgrimage from Germany to Jerusalem this book is remarkable. Peregrinatio Hierosolymitana Et Montis Sinai is regarded as the first illustrated travel book. It contains the earliest known instance of the painter, Erhard Reuwich of Utrecht."
"Art collector Bartolomé Gil Santacruz of Badajoz, Spain, Mayor of Albuquerque Martín Chavez and Alcalde de Alburquerque, Spain Ángel Vadillo Espino participated in a formal presentation of a rare art book to the Center for Southwest Research at University Libraries recently."
"A history major as an undergraduate -- as were his children, Gail Lapidus Dubosh '84, Janet Lapidus Nova '88 and Roy Lapidus '93 -- Lapidus is president of the American Jewish Historical Society, a member of the advisory council of Princeton's Department of History, and he sits with the Judaic Studies advisory council. He is also a book collector, with a particular interest in books and pamphlets relating to the American Revolution, the slave trade and Judaica. His gifts to Princeton have included rare books pertaining to American Jews in the 18th and 19th centuries and endowment of the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professorship in the American Revolutionary Era. "
"A forklift will be required if someone wants to read Ohio State University's original edition of The Scarlet Letter."
"The classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of 225,000 rare books that the university is keeping temporarily in a climate-controlled, three-story warehouse in Columbus during a $105 million library renovation."
"An exceptionally rare book illustrated by Lakeland author Beatrix Potter has been sold for £18,000 at Sotheby’s – three times the expected price."
"Fewer than ten copies of the book, A Happy Pair by Frederic Weatherly are thought to still be in existence."
"We came up with the name over dinner. We'd been playing with lots of horrific pun-ridden names ("Fully Booked", for example, or - gulp - "What a Word's Worth") and just couldn't take any more. Instead, we started thinking of something far more over the top and came up with "Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights". We liked the idea of something unique, that sounded old-fashioned and ground-breaking at the same time."
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"With money tight on campuses, it is increasingly difficult for university libraries to persuade administrators to enlarge collections when a single volume can cost tens of thousands of dollars."
"That is where the Newberry, an independent research library, steps in. Under the partnership run by Saenger, when a desirable rare book comes up for sale, the library puts up two-thirds of the money and one of the schools one-third. The Newberry keeps the book eight months a year; the school can have it for four."
"The only person with the keys to this rare book collection, Endowments Director Sheikh Abdul-Rahman leaves the bookcase only very rarely and refuses to reveal all of the secrets of its contents for fear of burglary or acts of vandalism. His dutifulness has increased since a trader offered to buy the manuscripts, but the sheikh believes that to think merely of selling the manuscripts is a betrayal of their priceless heritage."
"In 1809 the controversial naval officer Sir Home Popham invited Peter Finnerty, a radical Irish journalist and supporter of the United Irishmen, to join him on the British expedition to the Scheldt: its object was to attack Antwerp, then held by the French. Although Flushing fell, a large number of troops succumbed to a form of malaria on the island of Walcheren and the expedition ended in disaster with the deaths of around 4,000 men."
"New York, NY – Newly formed Virgin Comics is collaborating with Tiger Hill Entertainment, film-maker John Woo and partner Terence Chang’s creative shingle, along with best-selling comic book writer, Garth Ennis to create Seven Brothers. The comic book series is set to debut in mid-October, it was announced today by Sharad Devarajan, Virgin Comics’ chief executive. "
"A MINT condition book of William Shakespeare’s plays was sold for £2.8million yesterday. "
"The First Folio, still in its 17th century calf leather binding, was printed in 1623, seven years after the Bard died, and contains 36 plays."
"The biggest challenge on her workbench is an original volume dated March 5, 1726, and printed in London, of the The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton, published a year before he died."
"Composed in Latin text, the book is a large-volume battered beauty, acquired by a collector at a Christie's auction."
"Paul Nelson was a serious book collector: a maven, a fetishist. His shelves were filled with endless editions of 1940s and 1950s hard-boiled detective fiction. First editions in perfect condition; battered paperbacks with lurid covers. Placed here and there were books on stands, as artworks. They were there to be stared at, to fall into, to reflect back, like mirrors. He handed me Five Sinister Characters, a 1945 paperback collection of Raymond Chandler stories: "Trouble Is My Business," "Red Wind," "I'll Be Waiting." On the cover were pictures of a rich woman in a heavy necklace, a mean-looking cad in a pencil moustache, an officer from the time of the first world war, a Chinese thug, and a woman in a veiled hat—a woman who was clearly a man. The crude portraits were like a scrim over the writing inside, teasing you that, as you read, you'd be able to tell who was who, when the whole point was that you wouldn't."
"Auburn resident James Patterson has been building his literature collection since he was 6 or 7 years old and gave up TV 10 years ago to work through the stacks of titles by his bed."
"The entire house is primarily a library," Patterson said. "They're in all rooms of the house, everywhere."
"Some of us just can't help ourselves. At every book shelf, we cock our heads and scan the titles. Now, with LibraryThing.com, we can peek at thousands of libraries."
"The site -- a MySpace for bibliophiles -- just might be the world's biggest book group. And LibraryThing can analyze your collection and recommend titles."
"Amanda Barker, 23, or “Manda” as friends call her, earned her bachelor’s degree in social welfare in 2005, but instead of becoming a social worker, she has opted to keep her job at the Dusty Bookshelf, 708 Mass., and hang around Lawrence for now."
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The Pakistan Muslim League "said that a Quran Museum was also being set up in Quran Complex to preserve old and rare manuscripts of the Quran. He said that a Quran library would also be established to preserve translations and interpretations of the Quran."
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"TCB CAFE Publishing & Media LLC is proud to announce that it is donating 15% of its Collectors Limited First Edition fine art photography book, "Incredible Eyes," to library, museum and gallery book collections upon request. The "Incredible Eyes" publication has received a number of outstanding critical reviews, and includes acclaimed photographers such as Patricia Reynolds, travel photojournalist Ilene Perlman, and Tabitha Soren, former reporter for MTV."
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"But since the Internet boom, they have been losing business and cannot afford to stay open. They are not alone. Many independent book stores are closing because of competition from the Internet and book-seller giants like Borders."
" IT has been described as the "most important book in English literature" and could fetch more than £3.5m when it is auctioned this week."
"The First Folio edition of Shakespeare 's plays dating from 1623 is being offered for sale at Sotheby's in London."
"John Dunning draws on his experiences as a worker on the California horse-racing circuit and as an expert on rare and collectible books to give the reader another fast-paced, informative and intriguing look at both fields."
"Former homicide detective Cliff Janeway left his bookshop in Denver to appraise a library of rare books, a crucial part of the will of Harold Ray Geiger, a wealthy industrialist and horseman who had died the previous month. Janeway seldom did appraisal work, but the lure of seeing a vast collection of rare first editions owned by a horseman enticed him to drive to the estate in Idaho. While he rarely left the shop in the care of his partner, Erin, he sometimes did leave to recover stolen books or to unravel a delicate book mystery. This time he finds himself drawn to the Idaho job to indulge his two loves – books and horses."
"The finest private collection of Samuel Beckett's work is to be sold by the family of an eccentric bibliophile who devoted much of his life to cultivating a friendship with the reclusive playwright."
"Beckett's fiercely guarded privacy means that signed copies of work by the author of Waiting for Godot are hard to come by."
" Saint Augustine's "De Vita Beata" (which, in Latin, means "On the blessed life") was not likely a bestseller even in its time, which was more than a half a millennium ago, but today it is a prized volume."
"And in the Connecticut River Valley, it may be the oldest printed book to be found. It resides in the rare book collection of Smith College. Scholars believe it was printed in 1467 in Cologne, Germany. "
"For Ogema area resident Elaine Vanderhoof, an interest in all types of school books began in her childhood and continues to this day. Recently, she shared some of the books in her collection for a display at the Ogema Public Library."
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"Michael Cook, the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, and Emmet Gowin, professor of the Council of the Humanities and visual arts, have received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities."
"Bestowed annually, the Behrman Award was established in 1975 by a gift from the late Howard Behrman, a physician and book collector."
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"The museum also aims to instill a sense of pride among Indians. “We will showcase India’s contribution to science, maths and culture in ancient times,” adds Bhatkar."
"Other plans include renovation and digitisation of the library, which houses more than 1,10,000 books and a huge manuscript collection."
“These books are being codified and classified. Soon we will also be connected to big libraries in the world,” says Gadgil. The institute is almost through with the Mahabharat project with an English translation for the layman to understand. "
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"Following its partnership with Peking University Library two months ago, Baidu.com (BIDU), the largest search engine in China, has now reached another strategic partnership with Chinese National Science Digital Library (CNSDL)."
"With this cooperation, Baidu is poised to offer the world's largest selection of Chinese book searches."
"A rare book signed by the Edinburgh man behind one of Scotland's great sporting triumphs has been discovered in a bag of books handed to a charity shop."
"Fifty years ago this summer, team manager David Murray led the relatively unknown Ecurie Ecosse team to victory in the famous Le Mans 24 hour race."
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" With money so tight on campuses, it is increasingly difficult for university libraries to persuade administrators to spend money to enlarge rare book collections when a single volume can cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars."
"That is where the Newberry, an independent research library at 60 W. Walton St., steps in. Under the partnership run by Saenger, when a desirable rare book comes up for sale, the library puts up two-thirds of the money and the school one-third. The Newberry keeps the book eight months a year; the school can have it for four."
"Seven universities hit by Hurricane Katrina are each getting free online access to more than 10,000 scientific, technical and medical books from the publisher."
"They'll also get free online access to and another 5,000 or so texts to be published next year."
"Scottsdale book dealers Charles Parkhurst, Richard Murian and Linda Moore are treasure hunters — but the fortune they seek is made of paper and ink. The trio specialize in collecting rare books. Their vast collection of tomes and documents at Alcuin Books in Old Town Scottsdale is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."
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"The book, “Peota En Neuva York,” by Federico Garcia Lorca, was donated by Santacruz as a part of the Sister City Project. It is a special edition with original artwork by several of Spain’s artists. It will be housed in the special collections of the Center for Southwest Research and made available to students, faculty, researchers and members of the community."
"You say you're a bookbinder, and you might as well have said, 'I just landed from Mars,'" said David John Lawrence, who teaches bookbinding at the Dallas guild and has won prizes for his work in American, English and Czech binding competitions.
"Located on the top floor of the Judah L. Magnes Museum since 1967, the Western Jewish History Center collects, preserves and provides scholarly access to archival and oral history collections from the Jewish com"
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""She's what we call a hoarder or amasser," Kasper said. "We have a couple other dealers with 20,000, 30,000 volumes. But most members are regular people who have libraries in their house, maybe 2,000 books. Some are librarians, some professors."
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