"A 17th century book believed to be bound in the skin of a priest executed for treason appears to bear a "spooky" image of his face on the cover, according to the auctioneers who are selling the book."

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"Chan, founder and chief executive of the private investment company Chartwell Capital, says:"

"'The growing interest in rare books has finally hit Asia, with alternative investors seeing them as an undervalued asset class... As many factors determine the value of rare books, it is challenging to calculate its overall return as an asset class. But if we only look into the titles of auction quality, their investment returns beat other asset classes.'"

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"An antiquated photo of a nineteenth-century American soldier clad in gray has the power to breathe new life into a long-gone era by personalizing the past, Civil War photography scholar Alan Trachtenberg said in a workshop at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Tuesday. "

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"The library recently acquired two books for its collection of rare books and manuscripts: one of the most significant Bibles of all time and the first edition of a major Benedictine text. "

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"SALT LAKE CITY – It’s a book collector’s dream: rifling through the shelves of a secondhand store and finding a valuable text for a bargain price. "

"It happened Jan. 31 to a man who plunked down $40 and took home eight books of sermons and writings from elders of a secretive and polygamous Mormon breakaway group..."

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The Rosenbach Museum & Library is celebrating the work of Maurice Sendak with an expansion of its gallery space and 'Really Rosie,' a new show exploring the children's book author's collaboration with singer-songwriter Carole King."

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"The illuminated manuscript is the literary equivalent of stained glass. The inclusion of gold or silver in the intricate decorations was designed to make each page leap out at the viewer - much as the sun shining through a church window."

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"The structure was built expressly to accommodate the institute's main functions, including a museum that displays both fine art and objects from its world-class collection of Jewish-related artifacts. It provides an expanded, state-of-the-art Asher Library, one of North America's largest Jewish libraries with 120,000 volumes, 250,000 periodicals, films, videocassettes, DVDs and documents. A climate-controlled room will house 4,000 rare books and maps."

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"A piece of American history that had been locked in a Shrewsbury Historical Society safe for years sold Sunday at auction for $693,500, the second highest price ever paid for such a document."

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"Sealed behind thick panes of glass in a temperature- and humidity-controlled room where no direct sunlight gets in, this second floor wing holds the Central Art Rarities Collection -- containing some of Milwaukee's most fascinating and precious items that citizens rarely see. "

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"Beyond the many independent bookstores and author events, the Pioneer Valley’s literary largess is enhanced by several other book-centered communities whose fascinating wares may be more challenging to find — and considerably more expensive to purchase."

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"The University of Arizona Mineral Museum has obtained an extensive mineral and rare book collection valued at $7 million from a somewhat mysterious donor. "

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"With 36 million manuscript pages, more than one million rare books, five million photographs and an extensive film collection, it is no surprise that some UT students bypass the center's entrance, never to take advantage of the experience that goes with handling an original movie script or reading authors' letters."

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"The recent heavy rains caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to the University of Hawaii's Hamilton library, officials said."

"Librarians are scrambling to deal with water damage and the threat of mold after a weekend of torrential rain."

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"With his soft voice and scholarly manner, Saad Eskander doesn't seem like a person fresh from the front lines of a war. But as director of the Iraq National Library and Archive in Baghdad, he has carried on his own four-year battle to preserve his country's cultural heritage. While most of his peers fled the country, and five members of his staff were murdered, he has stayed on."

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"I got hooked in junior high school,' Stoutamyer remembered. 'It was 'The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,' that did it, and from that point on, I read a lot and bought a lot of books. But I never thought of books as a [possible] business.'
Yet now they are. Stoutamyer recently opened Stoutamyer Fine Books in Middleburg..."

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"Randy Ericson, the Couper Librarian, accepted the Outstanding Project for 2007 award from the Communal Societies Association on behalf of Hamilton College. The award was presented at the CSA annual meeting on Sept. 29. "

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"Among the collection is what the library staff refer to as the famous "four treasures", namely the Dunhuang Manuscripts, Siku Quanshu (Emperor's Four Treasures), Yongle Canon and Zhaocheng Tripitaka."

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"The Marge and Charles J. Schott Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Archives and Rare Books Library at the University of Cincinnati. "

"The library, which houses early manuscripts, modern first editions and fine press books, plans to use the allotted money to fund projects in the user areas of the Archives and Rare Books Library."

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"I found the Lame Duck Bookstore when I wasn’t looking for it. Searching for Raven, a popular used bookstore in Harvard Square, Cambridge, I found myself before the Lame Duck. The sign said, “Rare, Out of Print and Antiquarian Books”. I had never been inside a proper antiquarian bookstore before — had not dared to because I was certain I could never afford a really rare book."

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"In just 20 years, Sharpe has amassed works of science, philosophy, medicine, exploration, religion, literature and mathematics, all classified as being in superb condition and worth about $25 million."

Together, they record the growth of Western civilization through everything from a Dead Sea Scroll fragment to Gone With the Wind."

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"This ravishing exhibit, which includes the first book printed in color (the 1579 marriage of the second duke of Tuscany to his Venetian mistress) is as much an engrossing history lesson as it is an examination of the human impulse to be remembered."

"It's tempting to think of these 60 exhibited volumes from across Italy as Renaissance scrapbooks, but they were much more. They were political documents, lavish self-promotional billboards aimed at asserting the wealth and stature of the host."

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"Franzheim later donated his late father's collection of rare architecture books to the University of Houston, beginning a longtime philanthropic relationship with the school."

"He also purchased a rare book in 1976 to be the university's millionth volume and established endowments for the preservation of the collection, a professorship and a fund to purchase texts in languages, literature, the arts and general humanities."

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"Svetlana Aronov, a 44-year-old rare-book dealer, disappeared on March 3, 2003, after stepping out of her York Avenue co-op to walk the family's cocker spaniel. "

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"Readers around the world will soon have online access to thousands of rare books in Yale’s Library thanks to an agreement between the University and Microsoft Corp to digitize many volumes found only in the Yale collections."

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"In August, while sorting through boxes of books for an upcoming sale, volunteers at the Bethlehem Area Public Library came across a rare find. It is a find that has now made its way into the Rare Book Collection at Lafayette and will be on display as part of the For Captive Africa exhibit opening Oct. 11."

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"the thick tome was printed on the very press that is featured in Yoder's novel, "Margaret's Print Shop," published in 2005 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa."

"His book tells the story of Margaret and Balthaser Beck, who ran a 16th century printing business in Strasbourg and both joined the early Anabaptist movement."

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