"With Brant Point Books closing Sunday, and Mitchell’s Book Corner on the market, Nantucket Bookworks may soon be the only store open for the island’s bibliophiles. "
“'The bookstore cannot support the financing of the building,' said Mimi Beman, owner of Mitchell’s Book Corner. Beman’s parents founded Mitchell’s in 1968, and she took over the operation in 1978. 'During two months of the year, they are buying books,'she said."
"African American history taught and understood as part of American history, not a separate subject, is the focus of an in-depth exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia."
"On this warm September evening, Rosenbach museum members gathered to see an unusually diverse collection of rare books, letters, posters and artifacts, all from the Rosenbach’s private collection and all dealing with the experience of blacks in America. The Look Again exhibit’s message is laid out in its subtitle: ‘African American History IS American History,’ meaning there really is no way to learn or discuss American history without recognizing that African American history is involved at each step of the nation’s development."
"A University of Virginia graduate student, poking through a box of uncatalogued material at the school’s library, has found an unpublished poem by Robert Frost."
"The poem, 'War Thoughts at Home,' was handwritten by Frost in a copy of 'North of Boston,' his second collection of poetry. The poem is signed by Frost and dated January 1918."
"The tendency to assemble groups of first edition works meant that many 15th and early 16th century libraries later became the basis of important public collections. The Bodleian Library at Oxford and the Harleian Library at the British Museum were founded on the private collections of Sir Thomas Bodley and of the first earl of Oxford, Robert Harley. In terms of age alone, the world's oldest surviving mechanically printed full-length book is thought to be the Bible printed by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany around 1455. "
"There are various collectors, and Today let's hear the story of a "dialect" collector.The Beijing resident Wei Linhai said there are so many messeges carried in local dialect that we can't afford to lose them in the mist of time. "
"A bookworm since childhood, Wei Linhai used to be crowned " No.1 Book Collector" of Beijing. And in reading he found himself most allured to dialects which reflect people's habits, characters and migration process in a particular area. It gave rise to his idea of making a compilation of Beijing dialect, which he hears and says for dozens of years. "
"CHENNAI : A Bangalore-based Union Theological College received an award and grant from U.S. Ambassador David C. Mulford for preservation of ancient palm-leaf manuscripts on Wednesday at the US Consulate General in Chennai."
"The principal of the college, O. V. Jathanna, received $ 15,000 granted from the Ambassador's Cultural Preservation Fund for preservation of palm-leaf manuscripts and rare books in the college archives and converting the information into microforms."
"By reopening the museum, Brian McCartin, president of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, hopes to re-energize the society and national interest in Paine, the author of "Common Sense," an influential 1776 pamphlet that argued for the Colonies' independence from England."
"Some 10 rare, handwritten copies of the holy Qur'an have been put on display in this auspicious month of Ramadan and a press conference held Monday by the custodian of documents of Iran's National Library, Ali Akbar Ashari, who elucidated on these copies. "
"The manuscript section of the National Library houses more than 20,000 handwritten and rare books. It is one of the world's highly acclaimed libraries and research centers in the field, reported Mehr news agency."
"I have a large collection of rare books as I buy anything published in English that I can get my hands -- mostly at auctions. The majority of great material is in French, and often antiquated French, so I'm still working on improving my language skills enough to get to some of those. I have great friends who interpret for me, though! And the internet has made this so much easier. When I first started this research nearly 20 years ago, it was much harder and much slower. Now I can be in touch with anyone in the world in a matter of minutes."
"Besides, very old and rare manuscripts in Ladakh, which are 600 to 700 years old shall be digitized and archived by the Bank. "
"Says Dr. Drabu: 'We have initiated a process. Two things are essential for this project. One is finance which JK Bank shall take care of. Secondly, there is need of specialists/ experts in the field who can locate the things to be preserved and give technical guidance in preserving them.'"
"An Oct. 7 re-enactment of a public hanging that took place before a crowd of 5,000 spectators in Mineral Point in 1842 has been postponed, leaving only a ghost of a chance the idea will be resurrected in the spring."
"...Local writer Paula vW. Dail and Gayle Bull, owner of the antiquarian-rare-book Foundry Bookstore, hatched the idea more than a year ago, hoping to exploit the death-by-hanging sentence carried out on William Caffee, convicted of murder in 1842 by a territorial court jury."
"By the way, the Rare Book Department offers a rare treat: the William Elkins room installed as it was in 1947, with major collections of Oliver Goldsmith, Dickens and various American literary treasures. Like the Free Library itself on Logan Square, it's a wonderful place for people who love books. "
"A copy of a seventh century Quran and Persian translations of the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana done during the Mughal period are among the around 500 rare manuscripts that will be displayed at the National Museum here after a gap of five years. "
"The manuscripts would be put up at a permanent gallery that will be created especially for such rare documents in two months. "
"The University of Calcutta got richer on Wednesday after some rare books of Biman Behari Majumdar were donated to the varsity. The books are mostly on Vaishnava literature. 'The books were mostly locked in almirahs and it was difficult for us to take care of the rare and priceless collection. So we thought of donating it to the university,' said Soumitra Majumdar, grandson to Dr Majumdar, IRTS, chief public relations officer, Eastern Railway. "
"In the pantheon of Founding Fathers, John Adams is usually considered an also-ran. There is no memorial to him in Washington, no portrait of him on US currency, no singular achievement that is drilled into the heads of schoolchildren from Maine to California."
"But opening today at the Boston Public Library is the first public exhibition of the second president's vast personal library, a priceless collection of 3,802 works whose breadth helps show why this Braintree farmer is gaining recognition as one of the true American giants."
"University of Wyoming Libraries is a new member of a network that allows access to nearly 20 million sources. "
"UW has joined Prospector, a unified catalog of 23 academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming, says Lori Phillips, University Libraries associate dean. "
"Paradise Lost is a paradise found at the University of South Carolina."
"The purchase of a collection of works by and about poet John Milton places Thomas Cooper Library 'in the top 10 in the world among Milton collections,' says Patrick Scott, director of special collections."
"Currently in storage, Colgate's First Folio and 1663 Third Folio will go on display to the public in a rare show in fall 2007, when the Case Library, which closed in 2006 to undergo a $52.5 million expansion, reopens. "
"Colgate's First Folio has not been on public display since Carl Peterson became Colgate's Head of Special Collections in 1990. He told the Dispatch last week he couldn't even recall a time before that when the Folio had been on display at the university. "
'The bookshop is one of the great treasures of our city,'said the executive director of the Poetry Society of America and poetry editor at the New Yorker, Alice Quinn. Her book of new uncollected poems of Elizabeth Bishop was feted there this year, and the Knopf Poetry Series was launched there in 1980. "It's just a magical place, one that feels personally important to so many of us.'"
"Founded in 1920 by Frances Steloff, Gotham became a literary oasis for authors and publishing figures, some of whom got their start working there. According to a story in the New York Times by Herbert Mitgang, Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) worked there as clerks, but Tennessee Williams did not last a day. For one thing, 'He didn't know how to wrap packages.'"
"GRAND RAPIDS -- Think books are destined for the ash heap amid a society agog with DVDs, video games and MP3 downloads? "
"Grand Rapids Public Library proposes to shelve those digital desires during its second annual Celebration of the Book, said Marcie Lewis, president of the Ryerson Library Foundation, co-sponsor of the event. "
"George Ramsden collected the 2,600-volume personal library of Edith Wharton over a period of 20 years but agreed to sell it the author's estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, for £1.5m last January.
The rare book dealer, of Settrington – who was named honorary curator of the collection – spent a week arranging the books on the shelves of her former home before meeting Laura Bush, the First Lady of the United States of America, at a special ceremony."
"AMHERST, MA.- The UMass Amherst Libraries present “Renaissance at UMass Amherst” an exhibit of rare books, manuscript leaves, and illustrations from the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies on the Lower Level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library through October 14. Along with other, more contemporary items, the exhibit will display the breadth of material represented in the Center’s extensive library. "
"DAYTON DEANERY — It seems only fitting that the pastor of Dayton’s oldest church, Emmanuel, bless the opening of Kubik Fine Books Ltd. in Oakwood, which its co-owner/manager Owen D. Kubik believes provides 'one of the nation’s largest selections of used, older, rare and out-of-print Catholic books.'
"Marianist Father Lee Sciarrotta blessed the store in a Sept. 7 ceremony, which was positioned between an official ribbon cutting, a cocktail reception and a weekend open house at 24 Park Street on Dayton’s south side."
"The largest of Yale University's 28 libraries, Sterling Memorial Library, located on Wall Street in New Haven, houses more than four million volumes and serves as the hub of the school's library system."
"New York attorney and Yale alumnus John W. Sterling passed away in 1918, leaving Yale $17 million with the stipulation that Yale build 'at least one enduring, useful and architecturally beautiful edifice, which will constitute a fitting memorial of my gratitude to and affection for my Alma Mater.'"
"Under construction for 18 months, the Joseph Regenstein Jr. School, located on the garden grounds at 1000 Lake Cook Rd. in Glencoe, will open to the public Sept. 23, following a week of celebrations for members, donors and staff."
"A travel sketchbook of one of the greatest Japanese ukiyo-e print artists of the 19th century turns up at a Sotheby's auction after being missing for 110 years. An ukiyo-e museum curator flies to the United States to visit the new owner and verify the authenticity of the sketchbook. At the same time he convinces the owner to lend this rare book for an exhibition in Japan. "
"Sound like a great scenario for an exhibition? It is indeed, although the resulting exhibition--Hiroshige--Tokaido and Kisokaido: Ukiyo-e Master's Views of Scenic Beauty on Two Major Roads--now running until Oct. 9 at the Chiba City Museum of Art may not be quite the exhibition you expect. "
"Come Wednesday, two distinctly Maryland birds - the Baltimore oriole and the raven - will await admirers from their unusual perch in the Maryland State Law Library in Annapolis. The ruby-throated hummingbird and the summer red bird sit there now. "
"They are part of the library's rare collection of John James Audubon's 19th-century Birds of America prints, newly returned from desperately needed art conservation. "
"In that house, he had 128 boxes of books - most of them related to art and architecture, some of them rare and out of print. He had a nearly complete collection of a now-defunct New York-based arts magazine - the sort of thing that would take a lifetime of hunting and scouring to reconstitute - along with archival issues of Art in America and Artforum, all dating back to the historically noteworthy heyday of the New York art scene in the early 1980s. "
"THE contents of a stately home with links to two British naval heroes - and James Bond - are expected to fetch up to £3 million at auction."
"More than two centuries of history will go under the hammer when Sotheby's sells the contents of Shrubland Hall in Barham, near Ipswich, between September 19 and 21."
"Like many of her nostalgic historical spots, gone is the old magic of Mylapore; a magic that survives only in books and in the minds of those who read them. The side streets are lined with dilapidated buildings, many with crumbling British colonial facades, reminiscent of Madras and the British Raj. The temple’s tank, lying outside its present enclosures, was recently converted to a sewage disposal basin. Ah, but the commerce throngs in the midst of the heat and dust. The bookshops always abound with the latest instant-success publications and I was forever on the lookout for my rare books. "
"An extremely rare handwritten manuscript of the Jamea Kabira Supplication was donated to Mashhad’s Astan-e Qods Razavi Library by Naser Rezaii, the Astan-e Qods Public Relations Office announced on Wednesday.
"The 16-page manuscript, which was written on deerskin parchment, is a valuable artistic and religious work transcribed by Seyyed Hassan Tafreshi in 1867, said the library’s expert and appraiser of handwritten works, Mohammad Vafadar-Moradi."
"In 1986, Bill Gates bought Dynamical Systems, partly for its multi-tasking software, but more for the intellectual power of Nathan Myhrvold and his brainy brother Cameron. Nathan, who served as Gates' chief technology officer, set out to hunt dinosaur bones in Montana after leaving Redmond. When the business bug bit again Myhrvold co-founded Intellectual Ventures. Myhrvold also collects rare books (he spends $5,000 a month on Amazon) and old supercomputers."
"A batch of purported business correspondence belonging to "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell is now the prize in a legal battle."
"No one who has seen the documents is talking, and the Atlanta History Center, which is holding them until a judge decides who they belong to, won't say for certain if they are authentic, though the centre suggests in court papers it believes they are."
"Athenaeus by the Seventeenth Century English writer Ben Jonson, with his signature and writings in the margins, sold for $5,775 at a three-day estate sale conducted by Philip Weiss Auctions this summer."
"'This book would have been valuable without Jonson's signature, but the fact that it was signed and had notations in the margins made it extremely desirable to collectors,' said Philip Weiss, owner. 'It was a standout lot in a sale that saw more than 2,000 items change hands over the course of a long but happy weekend.'"
"Just like their new-book counterparts, used book sellers are facing challenges from online competition."
"But at Copperfield’s Used & Rare Books in Petaluma, manager and senior buyer Art Kusnetz is directing a business strategy that seeks to keeps pace with the ever-changing world of online commerce, while at the same time maintaining the business’ tried-and-true brick and mortar business."
"...Castro is unashamedly a literary author in the old-school, stylistically risky, challenging way of, say, Faulkner or Ondaatje."
"And The Garden Book has the tell-tale signs of literary writing, including shifting narrative voices, bold use of symbols, occasionally purple language and themes on the grand scale."
"The Department of Special Collections at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library — a standard-bearer among discriminating packrats — has acquired carpets, furniture, passports, board games and stuffed penguins, along with 330,000 rare books and 30 million manuscripts. "
"Meanwhile, the university's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections has amassed an astonishingly varied trove, including acupuncture charts, ads for patent medicines, Japanese medical prints used to educate shy patients, and AIDS posters made for public health campaigns worldwide."
"As a teenager, Thomas Christopher Greene lugged books up from the basement of the Worcester Public Library and sorted them.
“'I worked in circulation,” he said. “I wasn’t very good at it.'"
"The rare book collection of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School has grown by approximately 1,300 volumes with the addition of an "indefinite loan" of valuable books on Roman and canon law from the library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. "
"Millions of mobile users in India can now request to receive SMS alerts as new books and bestsellers become available at Oxford Bookstore. This SMS service provides readers with access to an in-depth database of books across 43 categories. The database is updated daily, keeping readers informed about authors, publications, and new releases. Customers can also use this service to send a query on any book or author, or to post comments or feedback to Oxford Bookstore."
"WHEN Eamonn de Burca stepped onto the boat for England in 1968, he carried with him his most prized possession: a copy of The History of Ireland by Thomas Moore, published in 1862."
He had bought it two years previously from a schoolmate in Castlebar, Co Mayo for IR£1 (€1.27). 'That was the start of my bibliomania. I have been collecting ever since.'"
"Within the festival round table discussions, book fairs, presentation of new issues, meetings between writers and literary men, as well as the evening of Russian Poetry, the concert of art masters, and meetings with students and teachers of the Baku Slavic University are to be held within the festival. About 600 rare book-copies are expected to be given as a present to Azerbaijan."
"(John B. Stevens Jr) said he began collecting rare books and papers documenting Texas history several years ago and hunts through bookstores and family collections on sale looking for finds. The Mirabeau Lamar papers, which Stevens discovered in an Austin bookstore, were a special addition because Lamar served as the university's namesake and because of their inspirational account of Texas' beginnings."
"'For collectors, there is magic in just holding very special manuscripts,' says Peter Petrej, a Swiss seller of antiquarian books whose shop Antiquariat Peter Petrej near the University of Zurich is a cozy place to explore for signed and limited editions."
"The library will have two Reading Rooms overlooking the wooded ravine to the east. A new Rare Book Room will display treasures such as Chief Justice John Marshall’s family Bible, and pleadings signed by George Wythe in 1745."
“'Since the law library serves as the intellectual center and the heart of the William & Mary Law School,” Heller said, “the new library will offer superior facilities for individual and group study, as well as state-of-the-art, technologically advanced and flexible facilities for instruction and research. It will have energizing space that encourages learning, interaction and the sense of community for which Marshall-Wythe is known.'"
"The book-scanning contract between Google and the University of California has made the Association of American Publishers (AAP) even more distressed over Google's project to digitize millions of volumes from libraries. "
"Last year, the AAP sued Google on behalf of five of its members -- The McGraw-Hill Companies, Pearson Education, Penguin Group USA, Simon & Schuster and John Wiley & Sons -- alleging massive copyright infringement in the Google Books Library Project. "
"Bob's interest in preserving and valuing historic artifacts is consistent with his other life-long passion—rare books. From this passion came one of his other volunteer roles, that of president of the 175-year-old Institute Library of New Haven at Chapel and Church streets, one of only 20 remaining private lending libraries in the country."
"Bob's connections to New Haven derive from his working life. From the time he moved to Old Saybrook in the 1960s and for many years after that, Bob, an architect, ran his own architectural practice in New Haven. His projects included designs for the Maritime Center on the New Haven Harbor, the conversion and renovation of the Shubert Theater in New Haven and of the Rich Forum in Stamford, as well as the design for various medical building projects, including Temple Medical Center and renovations and additions to Norwalk Hospital."
"The Cape Cod Museum of Art will host "Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature," prints from a rare book collection of MBLWHOI Library, from Sept. 16 to Nov. 16."
"Haeckel (1834-1919) was the German scientist who first coined the terms "Darwinism" and "ecology." After reading Darwin's "Origin of Species," Haeckel became one of the more prolific and vociferous supporters of evolution, but was less supportive of natural selection as the mechanism by which evolution occurred. He was first to postulate a "missing link" between ape and man and was proven correct when Java man was found in 1891."
" Sanders store is pure bliss for bibliophiles, who delight in its rare Utah and Mormon books, concert posters and antique maps. The owner also specializes in certain authors, including Wallace Stegner, B. Traven, and Edward Abbey. Sanders says a highlight of being in the book business over the years was interacting with such literary lions as Stegner, Wendell Barry, Chuck Bowden and especially Abbey, who became his close friend. "
"The Allen County Public Library has an estimated 10,000 books in its collection that fit this general description, said Associate Director Steve Fortriede. And a strange thing is starting to happen – demand for these relics appears to be on the increase, elevating them almost to collectors’ status. And that is forcing the library to rethink how it’s going to protect books it didn’t even realize had that much value."
"Educated at the Oratory School, Birmingham, and Christ Church, Oxford, he developed a taste for cultural pursuits and a wanderlust. "
"He visited China and the Amazon, collected rare books and old jade, and travelled Europe as a music lover. "
"James W. Craven started working in the University of Michigan's book conservation division more than half a century ago when he was just 14 as a summer job."
"In the years since, he's repaired hundreds of books - some quite valuable - taught a number of budding book conservators and been the go-to guy when it comes to books restoration."
"PRICELESS books and documents about William Shakespeare and Stratford's rich history will be on display when the Shakespeare Centre opens free to the public."
"The centre, in Henley Street, is one of thousands of historic buildings across England throwing its doors open as part of Heritage Open Days 2006."
"'People will take a hit,' said Michael Joseph, a rare-book librarian at the New Jersey Reading Room in the Alexander Library building on College Avenue. 'Reduced hours means reduced availability.'
The reading room will now close Mondays, restricting access to the state's most comprehensive collection of New Jersey primary-source materials, including rare journals, manuscripts and maps.
"'I used to go to old-book places, but you can't find them anymore,' he [Richard Rosenbloom] said, thumbing through an $8,000 copy of "Bate's Dispensatory," published in 1706 and filled with drawings that are botany's equivalent of the Physician's Desk Reference. 'I have rare book dealers who keep an eye out. They are very difficult to find.'"
"At the British Library, they are unburdened by the glove problem. Sarah Jane Jenner, preservation coordinator, says white gloves have never been worn at the library and is unsure where the idea came from. (In Silverman and Baker's paper, they suggest the practice spread to rare-book and archive reading rooms about 20 years ago and was probably born from curators being sucked in by archive-supply salespersons' putting on gloves as standard practice.)"
"VIENNA: A 16th-century book was stolen from an exhibition in a castle in Upper Austria, but the crime went unnoticed for days because the thieves left behind another book, the police said Monday."
"The 1532 book, "Astronomicum Caesareum" by Petrus Apianus, disappeared from Peuerbach Castle between Aug. 23 and Aug. 26, when a guide discovered it was missing, the police said."
"The MU journalism library in Neff Annex is closed for at least the next few weeks due to last week’s discovery of an undisclosed number of moldy books. Journalism professor Berkley Hudson described the mold as 'fuzzy white film on some of the spines.'"
"A rare facsimile edition by Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation fame, goes up for auction on the popular internet site eBay. The 1896 facsimile edition of the manuscript is one of approximately 100 surviving copies in the world; only 5 or so are thought to be in private hands, the rest are in museums and universities. The facsimile manuscript is expected to fetch $6,000 to $12,000...but don't be surprised if Pilgrim Nation outbids the predictions for this rare gem."
"Bookworms will also enjoy the 17th annual Antiquarian Book Fair, part of the summer antiques show. Sixty dealers will offer rare books, first editions, fine manuscripts, autographs and unusual bibliographical material."
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