"Aiming at inculcating and encouraging the reading habit, especially among children and youth, the fair simultaneously offers an enormous scope for transacting business with publishers from India and abroad, building new contacts and entering co-publishing arrangements. It will also offer opportunities for translation and copyright arrangements and reprinting of old and rare books as well as major international works."

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"Paradise, purgatory, and hell (frozen over) make a dramatic appearance in a major new exhibition, ‘Dante Rediscovered: From Blake To Rodin’, at the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere."

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"Now, Kerouac's original 120-foot-long typescript scroll for the book is on tour, having sold at auction in 2001 for $2.4 million. Lately, rare-book dealers have been offering first-edition copies of "On the Road" for as much as $8,000. You sometimes can buy an Edsel for less."

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"Southeast Missouri State University's manuscript by prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams is no longer unpublished. "
"This summer the respected international literary journal The Paris Review included a copy of the poem, 'About a Little Girl,' in its summer edition. "

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"Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture during the Spanish Civil War, on view at the International Center of Photography (ICP), from September 26, 2007 through January 6, 2008, places a selection of these publications in relation to the posters and other forms of ephemera in which photography was used to record the war’s main events and to create dynamic propaganda."

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"Festival of Maps Chicago, which starts November 2, is organized by a board of high-powered map connoisseurs (former Rand McNally chairman Andrew McNally IV and Field prez John McCarter are two of 10 members). Because Chicago is the first city to host a major maps exhibition in 50 years, the offerings reach far and wide: More than 25 participating museums and institutions will host cartography-related exhibitions, lectures and events."

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"At the urging of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), a scholarly book pulped by its British publisher is maintaining a safe haven in U.S. libraries. Alms for Jihad was the target of a potential libel suit in England by Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, whose charitable activities have reportedly been linked to terrorist activities, as conveyed in the book."

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"New Haven, Conn. — Yale University will host an international conference on October 20 and 21 celebrating the life and work of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. "

"The conference, “Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai’s World,” is free and open to the public."

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"The Frame estate sale also includes first editions of The Right Thing, by C.K. Stead, signed by him; Ambulando, by Charles Brasch, signed by Frame; Enter Without Knocking, by Denis Glover, signed "J Clutha Dunedin 1965" - Clutha being a name Frame used while living in London in the 1950s."

"The sale of 600 items also features rare books from the collection of the late bibliophile Dr Corrie McLachlan."

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"Madeleine Stern, who died Saturday at 95, was a leading Manhattan rare-book dealer and one-half of a team of literary sleuths that discovered the secret "blood-and-thunder" writings of Louisa May Alcott."

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"His breakthrough came in 1987 in his favorite haunt, the rare-book room of the New York Public Library. He found a book published in 1719 in London that told of a pirate’s trial in Charleston, S.C., in November 1718."

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"'How high the culture of Prague Jewry must have been then at the beginning of the 16th century if it could already produce such unrivalled printed creations.' The writer Sholem Asch arrived at this conclusion in 1936, upon a visit to the Library of the Jewish Religious Community in Prague. "

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"Just when it seemed art books couldn't get any bigger or more expensive, coffee-table books priced at $1,000 and up are on the rise."

"Art-book publisher Taschen says it has five of these books on its fall list, up from one last year."

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"The almost 600 yearbooks that are housed on compact shelving in the rare book collection are essential for reunion planners and those who are searching their memories for that special teacher or classmate. But Local History Librarian Michael Glenn says they are a 'wonderful resource for a variety of other reasons.'"

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"After breaking ground more than a year ago, the UA is ready to open a new building to house one of the largest poetry collections in the nation, university officials said."

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"Amongst the other sites opening is the Caird maritime reference library at the National Maritime Museum. This has a Grade I listed interior rotunda entrance designed by Lutyens and contains around 15,000 rare books and manuscripts in its 1937 oak-lined, Lutyens inspired reading room."

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"Pennsylvania Libraries chose Olive to digitize rare and special collections into a fully indexed and searchable online archive. This effort will allow scholars worldwide access to this material which has only been available via mail or fax, or in digital images as opposed to direct content."

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"A unique building at 1508 E. Helen St. will be the permanent home of the University of Arizona Poetry Center, which began moving in Wednesday. It will take some time to relocate the more than 60,000 items in the collection, one of the largest in the country, Executive Director Gail Browne said."

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"If you haven't been to Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, you are missing out on one of this city's most beautiful places. This world-renowned science, engineering and technology library sits on the University of Missouri-Kansas City campus..."

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"An exhibition of books authored by Charles Darwin will be on display in the Lenhardt Library located in the Regenstein Center at the Chicago Botanic Garden through Sunday, October 28, 2007. This exhibit presents the background for his book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection—one of the most influential books in the field of natural sciences."

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"A longtime employee of the University of Southern Maine library has bequeathed nearly 2,000 books, some of them five centuries years old, to the library's special collections department. "

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"I did get a welcoming, casual vibe from the equally beautiful Boston Public Library, another of Fodor's recommended visits, which boasts some of its own exciting collections (and a cafe and a courtyard). I particularly enjoyed their miniature books exhibit..."

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"The couple operate Quill & Brush, a book and art store specializing in first editions and rare titles, out of their Dickerson home located just across the border in Frederick County. Their two-story library boasts about 20,000 texts."

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"Valerie Gillispie, assistant university archivist, holds a rare book, which was featured on PBS's History Detectives in July. The book is stamped with the name and address of a 19th century female anarchist and possibly belonged to a deceased Wesleyan alumnus. "

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"Imagine this: You need a copy of 'The Great Gatsby' for a class. You've gone to three book stores and you've found 'The Beautiful and Damned' and 'The Last Tycoon,' but no 'Gatsby.' Thats when you notice an Espresso Book Machine. You wander over, scroll through a list of available titles, and "Ah Ha!" ... 'Gatsby.' Fifteen minutes later you have a perfect copy of 'The Great Gatsby' printed up and in your hands."

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"In the late 19th century, when Saratoga Springs was a playground for wealthy industrialists, a raggedy little girl named Frances Steloff peddled flowers at the city’s fancy hotels. Once, she spied Lillian Russell, the famous actress and companion of “Diamond Jim” Brady. Russell turned away angrily when she caught the girl staring."

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"GREAT BARRINGTON — Stepping across the threshold of Yellow House Books is like walking into a different era.
Shelves are jammed ceiling to floor with books of all description. The owners' cat makes itself at home near a can of pencils and more books. Pictures and posters are plentiful on walls."

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"Janet Frame's niece fears that more original manuscripts, as well as private letters, by the award-winning author could be put on the open market after a rare script was sold for $13,000. "

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"A Dutch foundation received a 17th century Dutch translation of 'Antiquities of the Jews' by first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus."

"'Antiquities of the Jews' covers Jewish history through the Roman conquest of ancient Judea, when the Diaspora began."

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"'Paradise in Print' showcases 500 years of Caribbean history and culture through beautifully printed folio editions, rare books, and original watercolors from the library's own archival treasury. The sheer wealth of information conveyed, together with the splendor of the roughly 65 individual plates, maps, and frontispieces, testifies to the crucial function of art in the history of medicine, agriculture, and exploration."

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"For those late night persons who would like to sample a little different Roma di Notte (Roma by night), there is the Arion bookstore at 42 Via Veneto which is open all night. It offers the night wanderer a cafe where one can sit and enjoy browsing through a good book while sipping a cappuccino."

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"Don and Samantha Hoyt Lindgren's storefront shop, which opened in April, specializes in new, out-of-print, and rare books on food, wine, and the arts. With its modern track lighting, white walls, and jazz humming in the background, the open, spacious spot feels more art gallery than used bookshop."

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"There are fears an original Janet Frame manuscript could end up in private hands, out of public view, when it is auctioned in Wellington this week."

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