"There are countless hidden treasures and gems in the many libraries around Grounds, but Alderman Library houses one of the University's best-kept secrets. Since 1992, the library has been home to the Rare Book School, an independent non-profit educational establishment furthering the study of the history of books and other related topics. At various times throughout the year, this school attracts not only internationally recognized specialists in the field but also a group of competitive and dedicated scholars who make the pilgrimage to Charlottesville to study under their expertise. "

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"All hail the independent book seller. The only thing stopping you -- other than getting your boss to give you some time off -- might be where to begin. Every neighborhood boasts at least one independently owned bookshop."

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"Another insight, into a different culture, one still struggling to find its roots in a new world. "Sacred Legacy," an irreplaceable record of North American native culture has come to China. "Sacred Legacy" consists of work first published a century ago by renowned American photographer and ethnographer Edward Sherriff Curtis."

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" New Delhi - The scheduled auction of a letter written by Mahatma Gandhi, believed to be his last before his assassination, has ruffled feathers in the Indian government, media reports said Wednesday."

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"Before the Internet, before online retail discount giants like Amazon.com and before the rise of chain bookstores, independent booksellers could count on customers to spend hours browsing the shelves and walk out of the store with several tomes in hand."

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"The FBI has recovered the long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Good Earth," after the daughter of one of the author's former secretaries tried to put it up for auction."

"The 400-page manuscript turned up earlier this month at the Samuel T. Freeman & Co. auction house in Philadelphia..."

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"At the Frankfort Community Library, paintings, bronze sculptures and Asian art share space with thousands of books. But one of the library's rarest pieces — a 1776 newsprint copy of the Declaration of Independence — is tucked away in a vault."

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"Among the treasures of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia's Rare Book Department are twenty-five elaborately illustrated folios from a centuries-old Mughal manuscript known as the Razmnama ( literally, 'Book of War' ). The manuscript dates to around 1598?99, and was produced under the Muslim Mughal Dynasty, which founded a kingdom in India in or during the early 16th century. "

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"Leather books and handwritten letters by Rudyard Kipling filled the glass cases at Yale's rare books library. Richards, 61, a real estate lawyer in New York, had spent the last quarter of his life hunting down all things Kipling. Now, for his 40th reunion, he was giving it all to Yale: first-edition copies of "The Just So Stories" plus tea sets, posters and cigar boxes decorated with the British writer's face."

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"There are 207 acres remaining of the original estate, of which about 120 are open to the public. Huntington turned it into a research and educational center, and it was opened to the public in 1928. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants. There are three art galleries and a library. There are collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books and manuscripts. "

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"Today, the result of that mind-set is ensconced in a gleaming top-floor area in the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for the Book Arts in the Wimberly Library of the Florida Atlantic University Campus in Boca Raton. Partially, the Jaffe Center holds its founder's book collection - a very unusual book collection. There are around 10,000 volumes here, from a Peanuts pop-up book to one-of-a-kind books, but they are all distinguished by their status as aesthetic objects, irrespective of their actual literary content. "

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"It started with the Superman costume. In 2001, Fuller French was 35 years old and already a serious collector of rare books and a casual collector of TV scripts and memorabilia. The Midland native was living in Los Angeles, and he was on the hunt for a costume from the 1950s TV Superman series."

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"Eight Polish academic libraries are subscribing to WorldCat and FirstSearch following a successful pilot. The libraries all contribute to NUKAT (Narodowy Uniwersalny Katalog Centralny), Poland’s national union catalogue which serves around 60 academic and research libraries and 900 librarians. NUKAT records were added to WorldCat last year for the first time."

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"Thirty-eight items of documentary heritage of exceptional value have just been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, bringing the total number of inscriptions since 1997 to 158."

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"A rare piece of Canadian history was lost to the country yesterday after an auction in New York, where an elaborately hand-written, 385-year-old legal document - described as the contract for 'Canada's Mayflower' - was sold for $90,000 by a Canadian collector to an American antiquities dealer, who then flipped the relic to a second private buyer in the U.S."

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"Ben Weinstein will rent an office in the Pacific Design Center and serve as a "book broker," or middleman for some of his old clients, looking for books to serve specific needs and interests rather than accumulating an inventory. Lou Weinstein, who was in Jamaica for a wedding last week, will retire and live in Arizona. The 12,000 reference texts that helped the brothers to assess rare books will go to UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."

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"A student is expected to make up to £15,000 when he sells his rare first-edition copy of the first Harry Potter book to help pay his way through university. "

"Only 500 copies were made in first run."

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"In the early 1970s, Terry Belanger founded the Book Arts Press, an organization that would later produce the Rare Book School, at Columbia University's School of Library Service. When the School of Library Service closed in 1992, Belanger moved the program, its equipment and special collections to the University. "

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"SALT LAKE CITY -- It's a book collector's dream -- rifling through the shelves of a secondhand store with the hope of finding a valuable volume for a bargain basement price and stumbling onto a gold mine."

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"The display, titled "From Bacon to Bits: 400 Years of Science," includes a first edition book by Francis Bacon, second edition books by Charles Darwin and John Locke, and a book published in 1726 by Isaac Newton. Also displayed are the issue of "Nature" that announced the molecular structure of DNA and a Commodore 64 Computer. The Guinness Book of World Records called the computer the best-selling single personal computer model of all time, with 17 to 22 million sold world-wide."

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"Significant portions of the working manuscripts and notebooks of four well-known books, including "The Prophet," by Kahlil Gibran have been donated to the Princeton University Library."

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"Four items that were given as presents by literary giant Ernest Hemingway to George T. Northen – the grandson of former Georgia Governor William J. Northen, who served two terms, from 1890-1894 – will be sold at auction on Sunday, June 24..."

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"The scroll, yellowing and mounted on two Plexiglas spools, goes on display today for the first time in Lowell, Kerouac's hometown, as part of an exhibition at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum celebrating the 50th anniversary of the book's publication."

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"The title of the most mysterious book donated this year is Greek to him - literally and figuratively. 'The art book seems to be about the life of artist Spyros Vassilou,"'Mr Renjilian. What he finds intriguing are the numerous autographs in various languages that fill the inside cover of the book. 'Nobody knows anything about this book,' he said. 'We have no idea if these are the autographs of other famous artists, friends, or who it could be.'"

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"The seven miles of Antique Trail stores on Hwy 53 are celebrating summer with a Hwy. 53 Antique Trail Yard Sale."

"This is not your baby toy and used clothes yard sale."

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"We were waylaid, after about 20 yards, by Piccadilly Rare Books, where I hoped there might be a special section devoted to the local luminary. The kindly gentleman at the counter didn't know of him, but he soon dug out of the stockroom The Poet in the Landscape, a collection of Young's prose from 1962."

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"What struck me on this return -- I stayed on the Place de la Sorbonne -- was the intellectual vitality of Paris. There are bookstores everywhere, stores dedicated to every imaginable literary specialty, so many you wonder how any bookseller makes a living. The best ones are the rare books shops, where a bell tinkles and an old gent in a chair nods as you enter. In one old medical bookstore near the Faculté de Mèdecine I leafed through accounts of anesthesia through the ages, learning about the relative merits of chloroform v. ether. Before that, they just held you down and cut you open."

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"In the basement, there's a section full of items on Southern history and literature, with special emphasis on the Carolinas. That's where I turned up a copy of William Gilmore Simm's 'Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C.'"

"It's an account by one of South Carolina's foremost writers about the torching of the capital when Sherman's army came through in February 1865. "

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"According to Dr Eskander, the full extent of the INLA's losses is as follows: archival materials - 60% lost; rare books - 95% lost; manuscripts - 25% lost."

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"Ahmed Salim has developed his own archive over the last 35 years without any support from outside. It is a unique repository, containing information on Pakistan’s history, politics and socio-economic development. It caters to the needs of international and national research scholars, university students, research and professional organisations, politicians, investigative journalists and social workers."

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"Stewart was given a tour of the Elisabeth C. Miller Library and its rare-book collection by library manager Karen Preuss and Botanic Garden director David Mabberley."

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"Foodies now have a book-filled haven in Portland, Maine. Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and her husband, Don Lindgren -- she is an editor turned pastry chef and he a former rare-book dealer -- have opened Rabelais at 86 Middle St. The shop, in a neighborhood known for its restaurants, sells new, used, and rare books for the wine connoisseur, serious cook, and armchair epicure."

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"Michael Scott became a bookseller to support his mother and younger brother and sister -- 'I think I sold my first book when I was 21,' he said -- but he always found time to write."

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"The exhibits are categorized chronologically into different research spaces: black pottery pieces in Lung-shan Culture (2600-2000 B.C.); oracle inscriptions on bones and shells from the capital of the Shang dynasty at the Ruins of Yin (late 14th century-mid 11th century B.C.); a bronze kettle and pots of the Chou dynasty (1122-221 B.C.); wooden military documents of the Han dynasty from current Gansu frontier fortresses; journal, woodblock prints on rare books from the Sung dynasty (960-1279); and imperial tribute documents dating from the Ming (1368-1644) and Ching (1644-1911) dynasties. "

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"Cardiologist Aaron Feingold ’72 began amassing rare books and historical artifacts while in medical school. His collection grew to include hundreds of medical texts and records, World War II pharmacy coupons from the European ghettos, archeological artifacts from Egypt and 19th century Italian Hagaddahs, as well as the entire transcript, in English, of the Nuremberg trials. "

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"The collection of California-based money manager Annette Campbell-White of MedVenture Associates fetched 1.3 million pounds ($2.6 million) including commissions. It had been valued at as much as 1.8 million pounds pre-commission. About 26 percent of the lots didn't sell."

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"Christopher Cook, the rare-book cataloging project manager at the University of Illinois Library, will return to London this summer to examine and catalog the abbey library's 58 'incunabula' or books printed in the 15th century, in the infancy of printing."

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"The store was founded by Ben Bass on what was known as Book Row, which at the time housed 48 bookstores. Today it's run by Fred and Nancy Bass. When asked how the business changed over the past 80 years and if people are still as literary as they once were, Fred Bass answered:..."

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"EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University is one of 12 Midwest universities that are part of a new agreement with computer search engine giant Google to digitize the most distinctive collections of the universities’ libraries."

"As part of the Google Book Search project, the agreement could result in the digitization of as many as 10 million volumes."

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"For generations of book-lovers in Calcutta, foraging through books in that mecca of the bibliophile, College Street, carries memories. Once College Street used to be one of the few haunts in the city for books, with Gol Park and Free School Street as alternative venues. "

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"'It was eerie,' he said. 'My stomach kind of turned and I thought ‘this is my uncle’s.'"

"Steve, too, had heard from a friend who sold antique books in Sheridan that the Ricketts book would be sold at the auction."

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"By the next morning, Gekoski had sold it to a rich book collector (Bernie Taupin, Elton John’slong-time lyricist) for £9,000. The moment it had gone out of his hands he felt bad. He had wanted to keep it with him. In 1992, Gekoski traced the book and bought it back for £13,000. After owning itfor a short while, he sold it again to a book collector. In 2002, the book appeared at a Christie’ssale and sold for an astounding $264,000."

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"Entering his eighth decade, Larry McMurtry has under his belt 29 novels, five collections of essays, several screenplays, and, recently, a few short histories, not to mention his vast journalistic output. Raised up in a ranching family near Archer City, Texas, he has become one of his generation's more prolific men of letters."

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"For book collectors, "the thrill of the chase" is much of the fun, says Annette Campbell-White. The New Zealand-born, California-based biotech venture capitalist spent more than 30 years bidding at auction and browsing bookshops to build a collection of rare first editions and other key literary works."

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"Museum curators and IT managers in Taiwan are digitising the world's largest collection of ancient Chinese art and artifacts."

"The goal is to make the massive collection available online. Researchers will be able to find rare documents in an easy-to-use database, while teachers will be able to download information and images they can use in course work."

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