"Yesterday, at an auction at Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries, Butler forked over $119,500 for the collection of Che Guevara goodies that once belonged to former CIA agent Gustavo Villoldo. Among the items Butler picked up: "fingerprints, maps, letters, newspaper clippings, and dozens of death photographs of Che and his fellow guerrillas" -- and, yes, that infamous 3-inch lock of Guevara's hair, only slightly better than a Che T-shirt or shooter glass."

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"Chris handles all the buying of used books, and his father plays detective with rare books and making transactions in many states and several foreign countries. Rare books represent about 60 percent of the business — one that focuses unashamedly on LDS-related books and periodicals."

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" Open the door, and you are instantly struck by the elegant wooden exterior of the Fine & Rare Book Room, Mark Rothko’s abstract painting “Green, Red, on Orange” on the wall, and the cushioned chairs of warm and bright colors. The layout is spacious yet cozy, in a style different from all the other floors."

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"A first edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, number 349 of 1,000 published, was discovered by volunteers Jennifer Jones and Noelle Williamson at the small Pepper Street charity shop amongst a bag of second-hand books."

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"The leather-bound album contains the signatures of hundreds of football players, painstakingly collected by avid fan Alec White in 1936."

"Mr White visited more than 45 clubs across the UK to collect the treasured signatures."

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"Loome's Antiquarian Booksellers in Stillwater, Minnesota is closing at the end of the year. Stillwater sits on the fabulous St. Croix, just Northeast of St. Paul, and it has been known as America's Booktown. Loome's provides books for the discerning reader, and it can no longer compete with Amazon and the used book market on the Internet..."

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"Tran Van Luu, a farmer in Thang Loc hamlet, Ngu Loc commune, Hau Loc district in Thanh Hoa province, has over 400 ancient books of all kinds, which are the assets of many generations of his family."

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"Indiana University's Lilly Library has acquired an extremely rare copy of a book detailing the origins of the well known Bavarian tradition of Oktoberfest. One of only a few copies worldwide, the book was published in 1811 and describes the harvest festival first held to celebrate the 1810 wedding of the crown prince Ludwig to princess Theresa von Sachsen-Hildurghausen."

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"The Ostrih Bible, sometimes known as the “Slavonic Gutenberg,” is the first complete printed Bible in Church Slavonic, the common liturgical language of Slavic Christianity. Printed in the Ukraine in 1581, this was in its day by far the largest Cyrillic printing project ever undertaken. Edited and printed under Orthodox auspices, the Ostrih Bible (sometimes called Ostrog after the Russian form of the place name) seems to have been deliberately designed for both Orthodox and Catholic readers, as its arrangements of the biblical books has features of both traditions."

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"Gerald Cloud has only been working in Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library for three weeks, but he’s already settled into a comfortable office on the sixth floor of Butler. Formerly a reference librarian at the University of California, San Diego, Cloud was hired by Columbia to create programs to study and raise awareness of the sizeable collection—one which few Columbia students know about. "

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"A treasure trove of East Asian scholarship will be moving from storage to center stage with the opening of a new library at the University of California, Berkeley. "
"The collection includes more than 900,000 volumes – from woodblock editions and Buddhist scriptures to Cultural Revolution-era political posters. "

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"What's in that warehouse? Beside Copperfield's Lingerie collection how about one of the largest and most important collections of rare books and related material on conjuring and the allied arts! The warehouse is actually named the International Museum & Library of the Conjuring Arts."

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"Instead of meandering through Widener’s labyrinthine stacks, Harvard students are now beginning to use a digital alternative: scanned books, courtesy of the Harvard-Google Project. "

"More than 3,000 users accessed Google Book Search through the online HOLLIS catalog in September, Suzanne Kriegsman, the project’s manager, announced to a library staff e-mail list last week. "

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"'The first time I did it, it was so great,' she said. 'I was like, ‘Am I doing drugs? This can’t be natural.’ ”

"Saldano’s passion is bookbinding, the craft of making new books and restoring or preserving old ones. She owns Against the Grain in Albuquerque, N.M."

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"CASSOPOLIS - Cass County Historical Society received information Tuesday night from new member Taras Lyssenko about a home he owns at 26351 Hospital St. built during the Depression to house The Order of Book Fellows library."

"'I was told it was haunted,' the Chicagoan said. 'Cool. Ghosts don't eat much.'"

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"There is some corner of Connecticut that is forever England. Opposite the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven is the tastefully unobtrusive steel façade of the Yale Centre for British Art. Now celebrating its 30th birthday, it houses the largest collection of British art outside the UK – 2,000 paintings, 50,000 prints and drawings and 35,000 rare books and manuscripts, all amassed by one man – the philanthropist Paul Mellon."

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"The curators, S. A. Mansbach and Wojciech Jan Siemaszkiewicz, have pulled rare books, journals and ephemera from the library’s Slavic and Baltic division. Tattered, date-stamped and marked with the names of immigrant readers, these materials show new and reconstituted countries embracing the aesthetics of Modern art and design (though not always the radical politics.)"

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"The PSAs direct young readers to visit www.Literacy.gov, where they can connect to "The Storybook Adventure," a dynamic new online activity that takes them on a series of expeditions through fantasy realms, each inspired by a classic work of children's fiction. In each realm players answer questions about the story and get the chance to collect treasures from the stories as the game unfolds."

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"Since the 1997 release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (the book was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone when it was released in the US), the series has proven to be one of the most popular in history. It's reported that as of April 2007, the series had sold more than 325 million copies and had been translated into more than 60 different languages. The first five books have been made into blockbuster films, with the sixth set to begin filming later this year."

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"The exhibit, which will feature authors such as William Blake, Lord Byron and John Keats, will make its debut at the library at 6 p.m. today and remain showcased until the end of the December."

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"The library project, he said, was an initiative of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who wanted the life and works of M.R. Kukrit to be studied and understood by new generations. "

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"A 400-year-old handwritten copy of the Holy Quran is fetching offers of up to $4.3 million for its sale."

"The centuries-old copy of the central religious text of Islam belonged to a Yemeni Islamic scholar who gave the book to a Qatari national in Makkah during last year’s holy month of Ramadan..."

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"Talks have been organised on the history of the book, Robert Louis Stevenson, the John Murray Archive and rare books in Scotland and there's demonstrations of bookbinding. "

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"Mr. Baron made hundreds of recordings of the readings and donated them to the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. He also donated hundreds of poetry books, many signed, to Penn's rare-books collection."

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"It stands as one of a few first-hand accounts of the Battle of Stones River published during the war. The Friends of Stones River National Battlefield purchased this rare book and are donating it to the National
Park Service. This copy is even more valuable to the park because a Civil War soldier, Corporal Dewitt C. Markle, of the 57th Indiana Infantry owned it, and wrote extensive notes inside the covers of the book.
Markle’s regiment helped secure the Federal left against several Confederate attacks on Dec. 31, 1862."

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"Lafayette College purchased a rare abolitionist book at the Bethlehem Area Public Library's book sale last week."

"The college purchased the book for its upcoming exhibit about the end of the slave trade in the United States and England, said Diane Shaw, special collections librarian at Lafayette."

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" On October 25 in the Vatican's Old Synod Hall, the presentation will take place of the "Processus contra Templarios," a book published by the Vatican Secret Archives on the subject of the Knights Templar, the medieval military-religious order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 and suppressed by Pope Clement V (1305-1314)."

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"The Hanoi Publishing House has announced a campaign to collect rare books and documents about Thang Long – Hanoi as a part of a project to build a bookcase on the thousand years of the Thang Long culture. "

"Works, including books, draft documents, maps, pictures and photos about Thang Long – Hanoi, have never been widely made public or thoroughly researched."

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"Linderman Library premiered its first special collections exhibition, “Home to Roost: Ornithological Collections at Lehigh University” on Wednesday."

"Lois Fisher Black, curator of Special Collections, spoke about John James Audubon’s life, how Audubon acquired and posed his birds and the publication process. "

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"Four years ago, former Mayor Fred Kalisz — in the wake of the cataclysmic 2003 loss of state aid to New Bedford — targeted the city library for more than a quarter of a $2.3 budget shortfall, way out of proportion to its share of the budget. That didn't sit well with Mayor Scott Lang, who is now set to restore the two special collections librarians."

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"From 1928 to 1943, Paul S. Powers churned out 12,000-word novelettes and short stories — at a penny-and-a-half per word — for Wild West Weekly, which specialized in the genre known as pulp Westerns."

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"The Asiatic Society of Mumbai is located in this building. It was established in the year 1804 by James Mackintosh, who was the the Recorder (chief judge) of Bombay . Mackintosh was fascinated with India and soon after arriving in Bombay he and other like-minded Britishers established the Literary Society of Bombay. The purpose was the ‘promotion of literary and scientific investigations connected with India and the study of literature, antiquities, arts and sciences of the East, generally’. The Literary Society of Bombay is considered the second oldest institution of its kind in existence anywhere in the world, only preceded by the Bengal Asiatic Society. "

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"2008 will mark 500 years since the first book was printed in Scotland and celebrations are being co-ordinated by the National Library of Scotland, the Scottish Printing Archival Trust and the Scottish Print Employers’ Federation, endorsed by the Scottish Government. Napier is hosting its exhibition as part of a range of events and initiatives to mark this important anniversary"

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