"Some people will pay a lot of money for a rare Stephen King book. To celebrate the darker days of the year, here are the 10 most expensive Stephen King books ever sold through AbeBooks. "
"Some people will pay a lot of money for a rare Stephen King book. To celebrate the darker days of the year, here are the 10 most expensive Stephen King books ever sold through AbeBooks. "
"The World’s Fastest Librarian is a twelve minute short film following Mary, a fictional public librarian at the Madison Public Library (as played by the UW SLIS Lab Library) as she prepares for the World’s Fastest Librarian Competition."
"The World’s Fastest Librarian is a humorous tongue in cheek film that shows a different image of librarians than that usually found in films."
"Grab a Bus ($2.50) to the University of Sydney Library. Wander through the rare book collection then re-educate yourself on French philosophers for a few hours, search for Derrida. If you need to, grab a quick nap on a couch somewhere, no one will notice."
"Where better to start than the first ever printed image of witches on a broomstick (pictured overleaf)? Held in the collections of both the National Library of Scotland and Glasgow University Library, this lively woodcut was made in 1489 to illustrate the Latin Book Of Witches And Pythonic Women. Writing in the form of a dialogue, German lawyer Ulrich Molitor debated the vexed question of whether or not witches really existed, and concluded that they did."
"The crowd was small but steady all Saturday afternoon in the Rare Books Room at the State Library of Louisiana. DeSalvo, owner of The Faulkner House bookstore in New Orleans, offered free book appraisals as part of the fourth annual Louisiana Book Festival."
"Richard Beards has found a formula that works for him. Since April of 1994, when not teaching in Philadelphia, he devotes his time to the Bookplace, close to his Kirkwood home. Beards started in the book business with a location in a co-op in Havre de Grace, Md."
"A rare letter from Catherine of Aragon, beseeching the Holy Roman Emperor to convince Pope Clement VII to uphold her marriage to Henry VIII is expected to bring up to $150,000 when it is sold at auction in America."
"The letter, dated February 8 1534, is part of 31 manuscripts from a private collection, which will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York, on December 11. "
"The family of Whitney Darrow Jr., a 1931 Princeton alumnus and longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, has donated a collection of more than 1,000 of Darrow’s original drawings to the Princeton University Library."
"A rare book on Canadian hockey will come to Concordia Archives, thanks to the generosity of Brian Malone, a resident of Champlain, a suburb of Quebec City. "
"Published in 1899, Hockey: Canada’s Royal Winter Games was written by another native of Quebec City, Arthur Farrell, who won two Stanley Cups with the Montreal Shamrocks and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. "
"The youngsters were amazed by articles, some 600 years old, in the State Library of Victoria Travelling Treasures roadshow which visited the city."
"Shakespeare's 1685 Fourth Folio, Sydney Parkinson's A journal of a voyage to the South Sea, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour, 1773 and Copernicus' 1566 second edition De Revolutionsibus mystified the onlookers."
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"Historians at the Linda Hall Library wanted to celebrate the library’s expansion in a big way."
"So, they are preparing a display of giant books that describe Napoleon’s 1798 military invasion of Egypt that became better known as a scientific and cultural expedition. Napoleon, the emperor of France, took scientists, engineers and artists along with his soldiers."
"The once-decaying library has been restored with money raised by the Jeffersonville Carnegie Library Foundation, including $1.5 million from the Ogle Foundation, to house the Remnant Trust collection of about 800 rare books and documents."
"The Timeline of Liberty, a bas-relief sculpture including 56 figures of thinkers and writers about liberty and human dignity, also was unveiled last night in Warder Park, near the library's entrance."
"The University of Wisconsin has agreed to take part in Google Inc.'s bid to scan book collections of the world's great libraries, joining a second wave of backers for the controversial project, the two organizations said late on Wednesday."
"The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google plan to provide access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library, they said."
"The Wyoming Library Association recently presented its 2006 Distinguished Service Award to Anne Marie Lane, curator of the Toppan Rare Books Library at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center. The award recognizes Lane’s service and significant contributions to Wyoming libraries and the library profession."
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"NEW DELHI: At a time when Indian art is raking in millions of dollars in the world market, the work of some of the most famous painters from the country will go under the hammer on Wednesday here, and organisers say records could be set."
"One hundred and thirtyone works of arts and 13 old and rare books will go under the hammer at the auction, Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, featuring artists like Jamini Roy, Nandlal Bose, SH Raza, Nicholai Roerich and MF Husain. "
"Germantown's latest step forward in its library system is actually a journey to the past."
"Workers and volunteers have been unpacking boxes of rare genealogy books as the suburb prepares for the opening of the Germantown Regional History and Genealogy Center in November. "
"The Western Wall heritage Foundation will receive tens of thousands of books that make up most of the collection in the library of slain government minister Rehavam (Ghandi) Ze'evi, his family said following the fifth anniversary of his death Sunday."
" Under Krain's gentle massage, they pull the top layer of dirt from this historic artwork in the Maryland State Law Library's collection of original Birds of America prints by wildlife illustrator John James Audubon."
"Over the past two years, the prints have been leaving Annapolis for the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, a nonprofit workshop housed in a former ice cream factory. Here, they undergo a treatment that blends art, science and TLC."
"A rare 19th century book worth several thousands of pounds has been donated to a charity bookshop in Devon.
The anonymous donation was made to an Exeter Oxfam shop in July, but has only just been valued at £4,500."
"Sixty thousand volumes delivered by three semi-tractor trailer trucks recently changed the face of the University of Cincinnati Law Library thanks to the generosity of former Indian Hill resident Alfred K. Nippert Jr."
"While Madden is a rare-book collector, she also realizes some books have a value that's more aesthetic than historic.
"'I think books are wonderful as treasures,' she says. 'You can use books in different ways.'"
"The Jackie Clarke Collection spans nearly 400 years of Irish history and contains over 22,000 items: rare books, manuscripts, legal papers, pamphlets, handbills, newspapers, autograph books, news sheets, circulars, reports, letters, periodicals, cartoons, maps, minute books, thesis, articles and proclamations. It was put together during the lifetime of Ballina man, Jackie Clarke, an ordinary man with an extraordinary passion for history."
" Established in 1945 by Vahan Topalian (1886-1983), a well-known Armenian bibliophile, and by a number of his friends and benefactors, the mission of the Armenian Cultural Foundation is to establish and maintain a library and to sponsor programs in the arts and humanities which disseminate knowledge and information for the advancement of culture in general, and the Armenian culture in particular. In pursuing this mission, the Foundation shall place emphasis on the history of Armenian music in the diaspora and on the role of Armenian women in the nation's history."
"Rather than making me grit my teeth, my noisy neighbour inspired me to go on an investigative journey, visiting the largest libraries on main campus to observe other breaches of etiquette. You see, there are three groupings for noise allowance on campus: the 'Common Areas,' which allow conversational noise, because the space is intended for group work; the 'Quiet Areas,' where oral communication is limited to whispering; and finally, a few 'Silent Areas,' which ask students not to talk at all. "
"It is a strange condition some call an intellectual obsession, some blame jokingly on a virus, others say is an extension of the old hunting-and-gathering instinct.
Call it what you like, Brian Tucker is gripped by it. And the book we're viewing is well worthy of it."
"'Just look at this,' says Tucker, in his head an accountant, in his heart a passionate book collector, carefully turning the pages of a copy of Palmetto published by Lyre Bird Press in Townsville. It combines stunning drawings of palms by north Queensland artists including Ray Cooke, with fascinating information about the plant."
"Few students venture into the bowels of the library - into the dark, ruddy peace of the Archives. The reading room is precisely framed with portraits, a glossy wooden conference table, and a perimeter of densely packed books. Some of the volumes are so old their original color is barely recognizable; others are tightly bound, yearning to be opened."
"Victoria Van Hyning, a 2006 graduate and Assistant to the Archivist/Special Collections Librarian Gail McCormick, has spent much of the past year working with some of the rarest books in the Julia Rogers Library. She shares McCormick's vision to make this remarkable collection an attractive destination for many students."
"These are among the 4,000 linear feet of company documents, test photos, film reels, and other memorabilia recently donated to Harvard Business School by the group that bought Polaroid last year. The collection was amassed over six decades by Land, the Cambridge scientist and inventor best known as the father of the instant camera."
"Land's collection is being catalogued by manuscript librarians in massive new research archives below the school's restored Baker Library. The boxes of papers, which would stretch three-quarters of a mile laid end to end, are the archives' largest single collection, occupying an eighth of its space. Harvard will open them to academic researchers and other scholars next year."
"Acquiring and cataloging the books in the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library at CHF has been the life's work for Roy Neville. A consulting chemist by profession, in 1973 he founded the corporation Engineering and Technical Consultants in Redwood City, California, of which he was president. He is also a passionate bibliophile by avocation. Neville began collecting books almost 60 years ago and amassed one of the largest private collections of rare books in the fields of science and technology, and chemistry in particular."
"Celebrated contemporary author, Salman Rushdie, will join the faculty of Emory University as Distinguished Writer in Residence and place his archive at Emory's Woodruff Library. "
"This is Rushdie's first extended relationship with a university. His position as Distinguished Writer in Residence is a five-year appointment in the English Department, beginning in the spring of 2007. During each of these five years he will be teaching for at least four weeks, lead a graduate seminar, participate in undergraduate classes, advise students, engage in symposia and deliver a public lecture. "
"Founded in 1919 as a private, nonprofit institution, today the Huntington Library holds about five million rare books and manuscripts in their private collection, and solidifies them as one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States. The preservation and proper storage of these rare textbooks will be assured as the library’s Munger Center will be utilizing several Spacesaver high-density systems."
"To raise money for the construction of a new seminar room inside SU's Special Collections Research Center, SU's Library Associates will host a Rare and Select Book Auction this week. The sale will include books donated by SU faculty and alumni, Library Associates board members, as well as duplicates from the SCRC's own inventory, which includes 100,000 rare books. "
"The damage from a fire Saturday morning at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill was contained to a third-floor, costume-storage area above the building's theater. "
"However, water- and smoke-related damage to the Folger Theatre and elsewhere in the east wing closed the building and will postpone by about a week the first performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which was scheduled for Thursday. "
"The used and rare book shop in Cleveland, Ohio, is an online resource for readers who want to track down titles and authors of books they remember -- but only vaguely -- from childhood."
"Ken Sanders is not merely a book lover. His devotion runs deeper than that. "
"No, Sanders has full-fledged bibliomania. The bookstore owner exhibits all the classic symptoms of the disorder listed by Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia: buying 'multiple copies of the same book and [the] accumulation of books beyond possible capacity of use.'"
"Books are a high priority for Wise -- Eliezer Wise -- who, as a rabbi's son, has spent his entire life immersed in them. Born in Plymouth, Mass., he moved around a lot as a child, though one memory, while he was living in Elizabeth, N.J., remains perfectly clear: 'The first time I went into a library was in 1955, in first grade, and I thought it was the coolest place -- all those cabinets and cards in it. All those books -- what a place!'"
"Hunsicker couldn't say exactly when Ferrini's antiquities will be put up for auction. While ownership of a couple of items, such as pieces of the famed Gospel of Judas, is still in dispute, he said he hopes the collection can be auctioned sometime next year."
"Ferrini also owns an extremely rare book featuring sketches by artist and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci."
"For John King, owner of John K. King Used & Rare Books, the plotline of the used bookstore business is too similar to the Agatha Christie whodunit 'And Then There Were None.'"
But the culprit is no mystery here. 'The Internet has turned the used book market upside down,' King says."
"Bookworm Michael West amassed thousands of volumes at his Broomhill home over the last five decades - ranging from James Bond novels to historical volumes from the 17th century.
But the retired solicitor to Sheffield Council is now aged 80 and being cared for in a nursing home and decided to put the publications up for auction."
"The first of three sales has now taken place, with several books - including a number of the Bond volumes - fetching UK record prices."
"Calligraphers are a genteel crowd, so the bidding war that developed over one of Sister Grace Taylor’s now-out-of-print and collectible calligraphy books was very polite last weekend. "
"Nonetheless, Sister Josephine Schultz and Patty Sackinger of Mount Angel were pleased to see their faith in Taylor’s work well supported years after her death. "
"Dr Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, said that artifacts include a mosaic of Virgin Marry while carrying baby Jesus Christ, a silver candlestick, a bronze cross in addition to rare manuscripts."
"Dubai: The Shaikh Mohammad IT Education Project and Al Azhar have jointly launched a new online service to enhance global access to Al Azhar library's rare manuscripts."
"The joint venture is part of Al Azhar's effort to communicate to a larger Muslim audience using the latest information and communication tools, said Grand Imam Dr Mohammad Sayed Tantawi, Shaikh of Al Azhar. "
"The genteel, slow-paced atmosphere of most second-hand bookshops seems to belong more to the 19th century than the 21st; few things are further from today's high-tech, high-speed connected world. The advent of the internet and the widespread take-up of broadband in recent years has intruded brutally on this cloistered world, changing the face of the second-hand book business forever."
"A forest of sites has sprung up selling second-hand books in vast quantities. These include the ubiquitous Amazon.com and others such as Alibris and Bookfinder.com, but the category killer is Abebooks."
"Many valuable items washed up in this quiet corner of the world and are now among the 200,000 rare books in its possession. Treasures of the library include Renaissance cartography, an illustrated Bestiary, and a priceless 15th-century Spanish Hebrew bible, dating from around the time that Christians expelled Muslims and Jews from southern Spain."
"Items from the Brotherton Collection, considered one of the finest collections of rare books and documents in the country, are to be opened up to public view in Leeds."
"Lord Brotherton of Wakefield amassed the collection before donating it and the magnificent building that houses it to the University of Leeds."
"Now the university is to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth by putting some of the finest items on show and inviting some of Lord Brotherton's relatives to a reception to celebrate his legacy."
"The Cosmographia is the latest rare book to be sold off from the Wardington Manor library, in Banbury, Oxon. "
"The manor was badly damaged in a blaze in 2004 and the family is selling off its massive collection to cover the costs of restoration. "
"As Haidara explained through e-mail, the manuscripts were buried by his grandparents and great-grandparents during the French colonial rule of Mali. During that time, he says, 'all African intellectuals hid their manuscripts.' The reason was simple: Colonialists were deporting thousands of the precious volumes to Europe. 'The ancient manuscripts of the El Hadj Oumar Tall Library are still in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris,' Haidara writes. "They are still there. And there are others in various European capitals.'"
"In 1934, the great surrealist photographer Man Ray published a book, Photographies 1920-1934, in Paris. But it didn't sell, and never went into a second printing."
"Over time, though, it was acclaimed as one of the great photography books of all time. It has been reprinted a couple of times, but the original French edition is exceptionally rare, and very, very expensive."
"Guess where one was just found? At the Hartland landfill in Saanich."
" The 'book hospital' is what staffers at the Boston Public Library call the room where its broken books are mended. Unfortunately, the waiting list of deteriorating books needing treatment there is far longer than the library has the money and staff to restore."
"Among the books needing attention: a 16th-century Hebrew scroll written on animal skin parchment, John James Audubon's famous 1841 miniature 'Birds of America,' and a book of New England algae specimens from 1857."
"The Science Museum is relocating its prestigious library to Wiltshire in the wake of a financial crisis that led to fears that it might lose the unique collection altogether."
"The 120-year-old library, which includes original works by Galileo, Newton and Einstein, has been housed for the past 14 years in Imperial College Library in central London."
"The city’s oldest bookseller is Dawson’s, an antiquarian bookshop where buyers can find Californiana ranging from Sierra Club bulletins from the early 1900s to a rare book of engravings by the woodblock printmaker Paul Landacre."
"DE PERE — A rare-book exhibit of "Collecting the Confessions: Editions of St. Augustine's Confessions" will celebrate the opening of the new Center for Norbertine Studies from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday in the Godschalx Gallery in the Carol and Robert Bush Art Center at St. Norbert College. The event is free and open to the public. "
"His book collection rivals that of a library. His house is a treasure-trove of postcards and stamps. 'My house is small but it has the world inside,' M.V. Sharma, this passionate book collectors tells J. Malarvizhi."
"His over-5,000 strong collection includes gems such as a lithographed first edition of the Indian Constitution, carefully bubble wrapped, with signatures of the first parliamentarians. Kamaraj signed with pencil, Mr. Sharma points out. "
" Monte Arlington Grover's descent from being a happy newlywed to her 1895 death by starvation is chronicled in what is possibly the only remaining personal scrapbook created by a Western prostitute during the Victorian era."
"Carol Bowers, an archivist at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center, contributed a chapter about Grover's scrapbook to “The Scrapbook in American Life,” a collection of essays that recently was honored with the Pioneer America Society's 2006 Alan B. Noble Award for excellence as the best-edited book on North American material culture. The editors are Susan Tucker, Patricia Buckler and Katherine Ott. "
"CODY - Nationally known book dealer and auctioneer Dorothy Sloan will conduct a rare-book auction at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center on Oct. 18. The auction of more than 250 items, which Sloan has assembled from collectors throughout the country, will benefit the McCracken Research Library and will be dominated by rarities on ranching, cowboys and borderlands as well as Wyoming and regional history. The event will take place in two sessions, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m."
"Map-making appears to predate written language. What may be the oldest map in the world, discovered in Ukraine in 1966, may date from about this time. Inscribed on a mammoth tusk, the map was found in Mezhirich, Ukraine. It has been interpreted to show dwellings along a river."
"Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century."
"In his private life, he was also a passionate collector of rare books and artefacts. In Amassing Treasures for all Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector, author Donald Jackson Kerr reveals the genius and magnanimity of an increasingly controversial figure. This first study on Grey as collector will be released 25 October."
"GULBARGA: Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph will inaugurate the Vijnaneshwara Research Library at the Vijnaneshwara Bhavan at Martur, about 16 km from here on October 5."
"The Vijnaneshwara Bhavan has been constructed by the Vijnaneshwara Souharda Sahakari, a Gulbarga based co-operative institution headed by the former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court and former governor of Bihar and Jarkhand Justice M Rama Jois, at Martur, where the legendary Vijnanaeshwara, author of ‘Mitakshara’, which was the basis for the development and growth of Indian jurisprudence in general and the Hindu jurisprudence in particular, had lived."
"Has Elvis been sighted in Utah County? And did that Book of Mormon archived on the second floor of the LDS Church Office Building once belong to the king of rock 'n' roll?"
"Book of Mormon reportedly owned by Elvis resides in the LDS Church Office Building. Report spawned a movie. A Book of Mormon — possibly Elvis Presley's personal copy, reputed to have been in his room when he died — is indeed in the archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
" I sell antiquarian and used books, I've been doing it 35 years. Bill Cronin started the store in the late 1960s; before that Southern Oregon Health Insurance was located here. Antiquarian is kind of a snobby term, I guess. There are some rare books worth several thousands bucks. Used books are run-of-the-mill stuff, but I try to have both. I sell maybe 30 to 40 books a month over the Internet. It's so heavily populated now with everybody and their dog doing it, it's tough. I've probably got about 12,000 books online."
"]I don't think it's been done,' Barringer says of the show, which combines works by such artists as J.M.W. Turner, James McNeill Whistler and William Hogarth, along with commercial art, lyric sheets, recorded music ranging from Handel to Gilbert and Sullivan, and period instruments - two pianos, a harp, a hurdy-gurdy and a serpent (a snake-shaped leather-covered wind instrument)."
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