"With a focus on antiquarian books covering such events as the tulip mania of the 1630s, the stock-jobbers of London, and the speculation of the 1920s, I agree with Financial Times assessment. This collection will almost certainly be scooped up a hedge fund manager. "
"HAY-ON-WYE, Wales — Most people come to this medieval town in search of rare, collectible or bargain books, or to attend its spring festival of author events, films and concerts. But I had come to Hay for more than the literature, music and brushes with celebrity. I sought an audience with the king. "
"Saanich council approved $430,000 in this year’s budget to move the archives from the building outside Saanich municipal hall to the new library under construction adjacent to Pearkes Arena."
"An exhibition featuring ancient scripts belonging to Islam, Judaism and Christianity opens at the British Library in London on Friday. "
"A valuable collection of the original religious texts, sources and documents relating to the special rituals and ceremonies of these three major world religions will be put on display for the public to visit. "
"The college will break ground April 27 for the structure, which will be Goucher's first green building, with high-efficiency mechanical systems, two green roofs and the restoration of natural habitats around it."
"Ungar, 58, is a former rabbi who runs a rare-book-and-manuscript business out of his home office. He has devoted much of his energy over the past 20 years to collecting and promoting the work of Szyk, who fell into relative obscurity after his death in 1951."
"ATLANTA --After two decades of waiting, Emory University is unsealing its collection of hundreds of letters between author Flannery O'Connor and one of her longtime friends."
"To mark the 300th anniversary of Carl Linnaeus' birth, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens are mounting a small exhibition of rare books drawn from its own remarkable history of science collections and from the Torbjörn Lindell collection of Sweden."
"Some of the most attended events at this year’s Literary Festival included talks by ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts and a talk by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, who co-wrote the book ‘Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War.
"Carnegie Library wing of Penrose Library: When built in 1905, this bright, airy book house was state of the art, sporting the city’s first sanitary drinking fountain. It was restored to original glory in 2000 and now holds the library’s rare books. "
"New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary trustees April 11 approved an $18.8 million budget, authorized the construction of a new apartment complex, heard reports of better-than-expected enrollment and authorized the administration to proceed with planning for a new campus library."
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"Joseph Blackburn loves going on safaris in the Book Gallery, a used and rare bookstore in El Paso since the 1950s and now looking at closing down."
"The store is so popular among literary circles in El Paso and the United States that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, a longtime customer, still drops in sometimes."
"A new £45 million library at Queen's University in Belfast is to be named after media mogul Sir Anthony O'Reilly."
"Gruber's story revolves around the search for the most sought-after document in the world: a new play by William Shakespeare. In his own handwriting. To get an idea of how precious such a treasure would be, consider that for 400 years the entire Shakespeare industry has managed to find only six tiny samples of the playwright's handwriting: signatures (all misspelled) on a few legal documents. What would a Shakespeare scholar do to find an entire play in the Bard's hand? Whom would a criminal mastermind kill to steal it?"
"First prize in each category is a $250 award and a trip to New York City for Bibliography Week (January 22-26, 2008), a Mecca of sorts for organizations devoted to book collecting and book history. Winners will also receive an invitation to a special reception at one of the country's largest book collecting organizations, The Grolier Club. "
"The Wordsworth Trust has acquired a rare manuscript by William Wordsworth showing how the celebrated Romantic poet made continuous amendments to his work. "
"The first edition copy of the poem The White Doe of Rylstone is covered in revisions in the handwriting of the poet’s wife Mary Wordsworth. "
"Medical services in the 19th century British Empire could not have functioned without the input of Irish-trained doctors, according to historians from the University of Ulster and UCD speaking at the launch of a new Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland."
"The written works of the Oblate missionaries who served among Aboriginal people in northwestern Canada have now become the subject of research. "
"A team of Aboriginal scholars at the University of Alberta has just begun a five-year research project that involves studying rare books and manuscripts written in Cree by Oblate missionaries who worked and lived among their ancestors. "
"A rare manuscript of one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final Sherlock Holmes stories is expected to fetch a £250,000 at auction. "
"The handwritten copy of The Adventure of the Three Gables goes under the hammer at Sotheby's New York in June."
"Heller said the Handel manuscripts, which are stored in the university's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, is the most important Handel collection in any library in the nation. "
"Hundreds of volumes from the library of the late American collector Frank Streeter were on the block Monday and Tuesday at Christie's in New York. Streeter's interest in vintage literature about the exploration and mapping of the world meant that much of his collection focused on voyages of discovery to Canada and its early history as a French and then a British colony."
"The musical, written by the graphic novelist Ben Katchor and composer Mark Mulcahy, is a "multi-media 'chamber rock opera' about the pleasures and perils of bibliomania," according to press notes. Katchor created the projections and wrote the text and will direct, while Mulcahy wrote the music and will play the role of Abe Rosenbach."
"At the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, people can see the reach of trees in print -- botanical prints, book illustrations, photographs, single-sheet broadsides -- in a wonderful exhibit titled "Trees in Fact and Fable," which will be on display through May 25."
"SOUTH BURLINGTON -- Whether they were there looking for a nautical map of Lake Champlain or an "exaggerated postcard," seekers of stories, notes, poems and announcements from years past had a day to dig through some of the state's biggest collections Sunday at the Vermont Antiquarian Spring Book Fair. "
"VERMILLION, S.D. -- The University of South Dakota announced Wednesday that it is the permanent home of a collection of rare books and unique materials which detail the history of the violin family of stringed instruments."
"Gifted to the Archives and Special Collections of the I.D. Weeks Library by John P. and Barbara Mahoney of Tallahassee, Fla., the Mahoney Music Collection is now open and available for research."
"Durham, NC -- Duke University Libraries is partnering with the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival to archive the festival’s award-winning films."
"The 2007 Full Frame Festival will screen more than 100 films, both curated and in competition, in multiple venues in downtown Durham April 12-15. Of the 82 films in competition, 12 prizes will be granted; these award-winning films will be slated for the new archive."
"Sherwood said the auction this year will include two first editions by Mark Twain, a copy of "Knock on Any Door" signed by Humphrey Bogart, and a copy of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" signed by author Maurice Sendak."
"A rare book of poetry published in 1895 by American Indian E. Pauline Johnson will be auctioned, too."
"The library of the late Frank Streeter, an American collector who focused on acquiring vintage books about the European exploration and mapping of the New World, includes more than $1 million worth of coveted first editions published by Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec, pioneering Pacific navigator George Vancouver, and Alexander Mackenzie, the first person to complete a coast-to-coast crossing of Canada."
"Asiatic Society of Mumbai has a rich collection of printed books apart from its equally rich collection of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Persian, Arabian, Marathi , Gujarati, Urdu, as well as Greek, Latin, Italian and English manuscripts which includes Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita, Aranayka Parvan, Kalpa Sutra, Shahnama, Quran, Specchio della Croce and Dante's Divine Comedy. The Society has a unique album of 47 miniatures painted around in 1860s depicting rulers, important places and craftsmen and acrobats from Punjab."
"The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., will have a related exhibition, which will include the 1640 Massachusetts Bay Colony Psalm Book, the first book ever published in America, as well as other historical hymnals–two with words to the line-singing service in the Creek language. At 3 p.m., Friday, the three congregations will sing at the Beinecke from texts on display there. "
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"The United States Postal Service will change the way it ships internationally, causing problems for smaller independent booksellers, the New York Times reported. As of mid-May, goods will no longer be transported via cargo ships for individual customers."
"Hamburg (kk) - Carrying an estimate of € 25 000, the important “Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei ...” by the brilliant landscape architect and garden designer Prince Hermann Pückler-Muskau is to go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst auction of Rare Books - Manuscripts - Autographs - Decorative Prints to be held at Meßberg 1, Hamburg, on May 21 & 22, 2007."
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"NORTH PLATTE -For book lovers, bargain seekers, antique collectors and auction buffs, the library will be the place to be this Thursday, Friday and Saturday as the Friends of the North Platte Public Library host a book sale and a rare books and antique auction."
"WHAT ONE needs to know about the Boston Athenaeum -- the stately, 200-year-old private library on Beacon Hill with a bulging collection of books, art, and artifacts: During a recent tour of its bicentennial exhibit, a little girl stomped past in blue jeans and flashing-light sneakers as if she owned the place. And, in a way, she does. Because the Athenaeum is eager to belong to children and adults in a meaningful but easy-going way."
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"The post office said last month that as of mid-May, it would no longer transport goods internationally via cargo ships for individual customers. These so-called surface deliveries have been the crucial method by which booksellers have sold books to foreign markets because the cost is about one-third that of air mail. "
"Readers will appreciate that for his new novel The Book of Air and Shadows, marine biologist and former Carter speechwriter (?!) Michael Gruber chose a doozy of a McGuffin: the discovery of some 16th century papers that could just point to the existence of a completely unknown play by one William Shakespeare, the exclusive publishing rights to which would be worth many millions of dollars. Not a bad choice, as this device allows the author both a perfect gambit for indulging in both the imparting of some generalized Shakespeare scholarship as well as shootouts with Russian mobsters. "
"There are many collections out there, but the OSU library under the direction of curator Lucy Shelton Caswell has, since 1977, amassed 2.5 million comic-strip clippings, about 250,000 original cartoons and 51,000 serial titles, including comic books. Its book titles number 34,000."
"The British Library is proud to announce that HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, are the royal patrons of its forthcoming exhibition, Sacred: Discover what we share, which presents some of the world’s earliest-surviving, most important and beautiful religious texts from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths."
"In London, the same auction house conducted the tenth auction from the extensive library of the Earls of Macclesfield, bringing the total so far from the one library to more than $48 million. That should have everyone pulling out their first-edition Enid Blytons. Among the extremely rare books sold was a copy of the first printed atlas of England and Wales, printed between 1579 and 1590 by Yorkshire surveyor Christopher Saxon. It fetched $1.63 million, the highest recorded price ever paid for this particular book. "
"Bodling, the state's rare books librarian, spends his days preserving riches like this in a corner room on the second floor of a state building near the Capitol. He is the latest in a line of caretakers stretching back to the Gazette's publisher in 1745. "
"The obvious contemporary precedent for the resurgence of the small magazine is Dave Eggers's McSweeney's which in the Nineties became a beacon for writers weary of the limited possibilities of the mainstream press."
"A letter by Goethe is just one of approximately 100 literary letters housed in a Mason City Public Library collection established during the 1950s by family of Gen. Hanford MacNider."
"The collection represents a Who’s Who of American and European authors, a mix of letters and autographs of the famous and not so famous."
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