"For the first time since 1940, the Arthur Szyk Haggadah will be produced in an edition based upon the artist's original drawings. Szyk's beloved Haggadah, a triumphant and enduring work of hope and courage, drawn and first published during the rise of Hitler, is admired the world over."

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"Mosher is known for combining discriminating taste in literature (many of his offerings were pirated from England, whose copyrights couldn't be enforced here) with fine aesthetic sensibility. His books, with their fine bindings and illuminations, were relatively low-priced and accessible to the public, thanks to his avoidance of copyright expenses, Bishop explained."

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"TAMPA - You can buy a Hummer and a Prius for the price of some rare books."

"But price doesn't seem to faze the truly driven bibliophile, the collector who values a book above any kind of car."

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"The Waldseemueller map, purchased by the library for $10 million in 2003, is believed to be the only one in existence. It had languished for four centuries in a German castle but now is on view in a hermetically sealed custom-made case that took nearly a year to design. And for the first time, it is paired with Waldseemueller's 1516 Carta Marina, or Navigators' Chart, thought by some to be the first printed nautical map of the entire world. "

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"Locked away in rooms accessible only by swipe key card in the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor are irreplaceable and invaluable rare documents and books that tell the social history of Windsor and Southwestern Ontario."

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"Belau National Museum on Tuesday opened its new research library at the newly refurbished building used by the Japanese government when it still administered Palau."

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"'This is known as the first Christmas card,' said Eric White, a curator for the collection. "

"Sir Henry Cole, a British narrative painter, printed the first Christmas card in 1843. Before that, people simply wrote letters. "

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"Ms. Catchpole recently combed through a number of the archives' special collections to prepare a history of the Christmas card in Canada."

"Her research reveals that commercial Christmas cards became established as an institution in Canada in the 1860s -- two decades after the first commercial card was printed in London, England."

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"The final touches are being made to the new City of Fairfax Regional Library for its Jan. 26, 2008 official opening, and perhaps one word that best describes the interior of the red-brick building at the corner of North Street and Old Lee Highway is 'cavernous.'"

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"NEWARK — It is difficult to say which is more surprising: that the Newark Public Library owns prints by Picasso and Rauschenberg, a page of the Gutenberg Bible and a 1493 handwritten tome known as the Nuremberg Chronicles, or that William J. Dane, a dapper, refreshingly irreverent art scholar from New Hampshire, has been tending to this astounding collection for six decades."

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"The $21.3 million price reached at auction Tuesday night was toward the bottom of the range predicted by Sotheby's. Texas tycoon Ross Perot bought the historical document 23 years ago, for just $1.5 million. That still marks a pretty impressive return for the Perot Foundation"

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"Chicago rare books librarian Terry Adams reserves the last room at the Drake Hotel for herself and her long-distance boyfriend, who is flying in from Boston to propose. Thanks to a reservation mix-up, however, the room is already occupied, and the ensuing events gradually compel a workaholic, straight-arrow radiologist to take a long overdue hard look at himself, and his own wedding plans."

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"There's an art to giving a book as a present. You can't just stumble into a bookstore and wander around aimlessly. (Well, that actually sounds quite pleasant, but who has time for that sort of activity this time of year?) The lazy way to handle the situation is simply to pick up a gift card, and have done with it."

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"The vast collection actually dates to the ninth century, when the abbey established a scriptorium, a large room in the monastery where scribes or copyists of the community created ornate manuscripts. St. Gallen became the reading room of Europe."

"Texts are preserved today in its fascinating library, the Stiftsbibliothek, constructed between 1758-67, and viewed by more than 100,000 visitors every year."

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"They came from miles around for the mother of all book sales Saturday. They arrived with boxes, baskets and shopping carts to haul away used volumes by the thousands."

"For book lovers of all stripes, it was a momentous occasion: After 27 years as a Southern California institution, the Book Baron of Anaheim was calling it quits."

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"A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for £1.95 million at auction on Thursday."

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"Kislak celebrated Wednesday on the eve of Thursday's exhibit opening, "Exploring the Early Americas." Kislak donated thousands of items to the Library of Congress that will be part of a high-tech interactive display in the Thomas Jefferson Building."

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"A new online collection at the University of Louisville Libraries’ makes it easy for Louisvillians to see what their neighborhoods looked like 100 years ago and compare them to present day."

"Kentucky Maps, which has atlases from 1876, 1884 and 1913, is one of two collections recently added to University Libraries’ digital collections."

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"GENEVA, N.Y - A rare first edition of the Book of Mormon once owned by a Utah newspaper music critic fetched $97,900 at auction. "

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"The Caleb T. Winchester University Librarian has put forth extensive work on behalf of intellectual freedom, both in the United States and abroad. For her efforts, she received the 2007 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award, given by the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"

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"SALT LAKE CITY - A first-edition Book of Mormon - the foundation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - is set for auction this week and could fetch nearly $100,000. "

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"Near the impressive buildings of the Romanian Academy Library, considered to be the best in the country, you can also find the beautiful Romanian Literature Museum, on 12 Dacia Boulevard, one of the main streets of Bucharest."

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"If you're interested in gifting books this season, an easy shortcut is to head to one of your local bookstores and ask the employees for their educated guesses. Bookstore employees have their attentions so carefully trained on the book industry that they are able to find many soon-to-be bestsellers. To start off my holiday shopping, I queried sellers at several of Uptown’s local independent bookstores to see what they would recommend for the upcoming season."

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"In the 18th century world of religious literature, there was a special place reserved for a collection of engravings and treatises called "Ceremonies and Religious Customs of All the Peoples of the World": It was on the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum"-- the Vatican's list of prohibited books."

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"To keep pace with modern times, it sometimes helps to have an old soul."

"The Complete Traveller antiquarian bookstore has survived close to 30 years unscathed, despite the shark-like presence of big-box booksellers and giant online retailers."

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"Daniel Woodward, a former director of the library at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino who was instrumental in acquiring the papers of several prominent authors, along with rare books and manuscripts in the fields of history and science, has died. He was 76."

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"'Exploring the Early Americas,' which features items from the Jay I. Kislak Collection and Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map–the first document of any kind of use the word 'America'–focuses on the history and legacies of the Americas and the impact of European contact, culture and conquest."

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"There’s even a rotating 3D image of several ‘high spots’ (very collectible true modern firsts, signed or association copies, scarce and rare editions) that allows the browser a virtual examination of a book’s dust jacket, spine, front, back and even fore-edge! This is the booksite for the serious book collector in India."

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"The Jewish Theological Seminary received a $500,000 gift from the estate of Tres Levinsohn of New York."

"The bequest includes $200,000 for the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts..."

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"It is feared a selection of local books were among those damaged by a water leak at Lincoln Central Library. "

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"This is the home of one of the world’s best libraries. It is called the Free Library of Philadelphia — a 120-year-old institution. You can find almost anything about everything that has been written or recorded ever. "

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