"For nearly four months last spring, Chicago-based rare books expert Ellen Middlebrook Herron combed through the rare books collection at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's John T. Christian Library."

"Herron discovered and cataloged a number of important early books and Bibles in the NOBTS library, including several 15th-century works from the earliest days of the printing press."

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"An undisclosed phone bidder paid a New York auction house $180,000 Wednesday for an 1896 volume of Geoffrey Chaucer's work."

'The Kelmscott Chaucer,' a pigskin-bound collection of works by the "Canterbury Tales" author is rare, with only 48 copies known to exist."

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"Internet book marketplace Biblio.com announced today that it is continuing its commitment to literacy and education through a $15,000 donation and a pledge to provide material support to BiblioWorks, a non-profit organization which provides opportunities in literacy and education to some of the world's poorest regions. "

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"THE first Festival of Libraries to be held in the Capital is set to see the Assembly Rooms transformed into a massive library for a day. "

"The event is being organised by the Edinburgh Libraries and Information Services Agency (Elisa), and representatives of more than 40 Edinburgh-based library and information services are expected to take part."

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"The leading bookshops in the city — Capital Book Depot in Sector 17, The English Bookshop, Sector 17 and Browser in Sector 8 — say that their business has gone up, and they expect it to grow further in the future. Pankaj Singh, owner of Browser in Sector 8, says, “Our memberships have really gone up, at present, we have 3,000 members. Besides lending, sales of the books are also high.”

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"A number of pets graced the Dickens household over the years, including all manner of dogs, cats and ponies. But Charles' favorite pets were his two ravens, both known as Grip."

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"Where did the idea for your business come from? If you're old enough to remember Andy Hardy movies, and the "let's put on a play off the cuff" attitude, then you know how we started. "

"It was "let's open a bookstore." We both sold books at a swap meet. It was a short step to combining our businesses under a roof."

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"BETHLEHEM, Pa. --Volunteers sorting through donated books for a book sale found an abolitionist text and a slave's memoir, both dating back to the 1800s."

"The books were discovered together last month in a single leather-bound volume that was clearly an unusual find, said Liza Holzinger, coordinator of the Bethlehem Area Public Library's book sale."

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"I took the book home and when I opened it, there on the inside cover was my mother's name and the address of our home in the Bronx, N.Y. We lived there from 1923 until the latter part of World War II."

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"PRAGUE (AFP) — Czechs got the chance to examine the world's biggest medieval manuscript, the "Codex Gigas" or "Devil's Bible," for the first time in almost 359 years on Thursday when the precious work went on show as part of a four-month-long exhibition."

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"Although originally distributors of remainder books, Aardvark has evolved to become a retailer of new titles, out of print books and rare books purchased at auction, from collectors or at estate sales."

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"George Muoria, a Senior Archivist at the Kenya National Archives explains that Murumbi had left behind over 50,000 books and sheafs of official correspondence from which, the Kenya National Archives department has set up a library containing some of the 8,000 "rare books" (published before 1900 or which are not reprinted) entrusted to them upon the death of Murumbi. His passion for art and culture is traced from his Goan father who was a trader married to a Maasai woman."

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"Holzman specializes in rare books and historical ephemera, but since he buys mostly from local homes, his shop also has a random cross section of whatever walks through the door. At any given time, in addition to the books, prints, autographs, photos, posters, pamphlets, and political buttons that compose his primary stock, you may also find a Windsor chair, a pewter coffeepot, a bust of Shakespeare, a Shaker box, a Fulper pot, an odd scientific device, Victorian jewelry, some portrait miniatures, or Chester A. Arthur's copy of Picturesque Europe."

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"The unusual collaboration of so many cultural organizations around a single topic was the brainchild of the Field Museum, the Newberry Library and private collectors who for years had dreamed of launching an exhibition of history's "100 most important maps," said Chicago industrialist Barry MacLean, a map collector."

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"This month, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library features a captivating display on piracy, the "villains of all nations," whose greatest sins may have been the transgression of behavioral norms."

"The best part of being a pirate, after all, is the freedom it engenders."

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"SYRACUSE, New York (AP) — A 177-year-old first edition of the Book of Mormon found in a home near Palmyra - the birthplace of the Mormon religion - will be put up for bid next week at an upstate New York estate auction."

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"'This is the one website where customers will know that all their purchases will directly support Oxfam working with people in poverty across the world. They can reach out to others by choosing from a fantastic range of re-used, recycled and Fairtrade goods.'"

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" It's possible, at the Wonder Room, to buy a copy of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (an edition written under the pen name Victoria Lucas and stored, fittingly, under a bell jar) or a first edition of Mae West's autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It, for £600 ($1,300)."

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"The book was “The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass” by Mark Twain, edited by Charles Honce, with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a note on “A Celebrated Village Idiot” by James O'Donnell Bennett."

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"Brooks McCormick, chief executive officer of the International Harvester Co. and a longtime Crane Foundation supporter, willed his entire collection of ornithology, or the study of birds, to the nonprofit when he died last year."

"On Oct. 5, Sotheby's in New York City will auction off the collection, whose estimated value is between $1.5 million and $2 million, with all proceeds going to ICF."

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"CANBERRA, Australia -- It's the oldest object of its kind in Australia's history, but up until this past summer it was buried in the bowels of the Canada's national archives collection."

"On Tuesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will bring it home, handing it to his Australian counterpart over lunch in the country's capital as he wraps up a week-long trip."

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"Following the auction of the Archimedes Palimpsest, the anonymous buyer entrusted the manuscript to the care of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore for conservation and study. RIT’s second chance to work on the document came in 2000, when Johnston, Easton and Knox, then at Xerox Corp., became part of an international team of scholars, conservators and scientists invested in the recovery of the overwritten document."

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" The auction will feature the Pamela and Richard M. Estes Collection
comprised of fine bindings and illustrated books dating from the 15th to
20th centuries. Most notable in the collection is The Kelmscott Chaucer,
one of only 48 surviving copies. With type and decorative borders designed
by William Morris, one of the greatest English designers of the 19th
century, the book is expected to fetch upward of $100,000."

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"Based entirely on community donations, Special Collections oozes history. It houses materials dating back to 1732 – the year its oldest book, written in Italian, was published – including a rare book collection, maps, photographs, letters and other “materials worth saving,” said Andy Poore, curator of Special Collections."

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"The Premier attended an exhibition of rare and priceless books of the library and its facilities. Construction of the library started in 1991; however, it was suspended in 1997 due to the lack of funds."

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"Sam Martz, 82, had his share of both in collecting books about golf."

"For 50 years, he gathered volumes the way Jack Nicklaus bagged birdies - eagerly, cleverly and, at times, greedily."

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"NEW YORK – Question: If a bibliophile were to book a vacation and not care to stray but a few feet after arrival, where would he go? "

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