"Here's what you won't find in Tom Macaluso's bookshop in Kennett Square:
Paperbacks, textbooks, self-help books, abridged books, Hollywood biographies. "
"Here's what you won't find in Tom Macaluso's bookshop in Kennett Square:
Paperbacks, textbooks, self-help books, abridged books, Hollywood biographies. "
"The Lincoln Book Bindery has been crafting hard cover books for over 50 years. Its small operation is something rare and special. And it's right here in Urbana."
"Chris Hohn has been sewing pages and binding books for 35 years. And now is a skilled craftsman. "
"Paper and paint: One way to depart from the traditional men's-club vibe of a paneled wood bookcase is to line the back and side walls with fabric, grass cloth or wallpaper, designer Jay Jeffers says. Designer Judson Rothschild silver-leafed a client's illuminated bookcase, which 'looks like a million dollars at night,' he says."
"Christian Valleriaux, a specialist in rare books, was the first Parisian bookseller to settle in La Charite-sur-Loire just two hours from the French capital. "
"The Ho Chi Minh Book Association and its partners will organise a competition called Golden Books to showcase ancient and rare books in different languages, themes and styles. "
"During his mid-30s, French poet Paul Éluard underwent a personal crisis when his wife left him for a young, up-and-coming painter by the name of Salvador Dali. "
"What happened then is a mix ture of myth and legend."
"Anthony Taussig stopped practicing law because he said it was nothing like the lawyer dramas he saw on television. However, his former job led him to collecting law books, and he now has the largest private collection of rare English law texts in the world."
"ATLANTA, Georgia -- A legal battle over prized documents purportedly belonging to 'Gone With the Wind' author Margaret Mitchell has blown over, but the final resting place of the disputed papers is still a secret."
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"The most haunting of all images for Colin St John Wilson, architect of many libraries, was that of Saint Jerome, the patron saint of scholars. In the well-known painting by Antonello da Messina, now in the National Gallery, the scholar-saint sits reading in the ideal conditions of a purpose-designed, self-contained, small study room..."
"Today, 100 of Chason's books -- valued at $45,000 -- have a new home at UNC Charlotte in the Mary & Harry L. Dalton Rare Book & Manuscript Reading Room. Along with works by Walt Whitman, Phillis Wheatley and Mark Twain, they'll be available to readers in a controlled setting.Robin Brabham, UNCC rare books librarian and archivist, says the school's collection has featured American literature since 1971, when Harry Dalton donated a first edition of Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass.'"
"Soon Halifax's The Book Room, Canada's oldest independent bookstore, will be closing its doors for good."
"No book lover can be happy to see the end of this intimate shop, which has spent the past 169 years supplying readers with literary works both rare and mainstream. "
"The University of Rochester will soon share original papers from the pen of Abraham Lincoln online, through an innovative program that puts students in touch—literally—with history. "
"Through the program, letters and other Lincoln documents will be scanned and posted online with typed transcriptions for easier reading. For some documents, graduate students will write contextual essays and lesson plans for teachers to facilitate the use of the documents as learning tools in their classrooms. "
"JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--The Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University lost approximately 10 percent of its holdings when the EF-4 tornado swept through the Jackson, Tenn., campus Feb. 5."
"We didn't have one day from the time we opened when we didn't have substantial numbers of books and records coming through the door," Beveridge says. "We couldn't believe what we were getting - first editions of all kinds". Not to mention the time someone brought in a second edition of Shakespeare's poems - "one of the few times my knees actually shook".
"Now one of the world's oldest manuscripts of Enoch has found at least a temporary a home in Jeffersonville. The Remnant Trust -- a private collection of rare books and documents aimed at increasing public interest in culture-shaping works -- unveiled the Ethiopian-language manuscript this week at its East Court Avenue building."
"In 1912 Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare-book dealer, made the find of a lifetime in the library of a Jesuit college near Rome: a manuscript some 230 pages long, written in an unusual script and richly illustrated with bizarre images of plants, heavenly spheres and bathing women. "
"A Canadian antiquarian is set to auction a remarkable set of letters written by Queen Victoria in which the grief-stricken monarch confides her deep sorrow over the death of John Brown, the Scottish royal aide whose close relationship with the widowed Queen sparked rumours of a romance in the 19th century and inspired the hit film Mrs. Brown in the 1990s."
"As a collector of rare books and first editions, defense attorney Bob Van Norman's tastes run more to mysteries, legal works and infamous killings, but once bitten, the lure of a rare book is hard to resist. So taunting, in fact, that Van Norman paid $4,250 for a flimsy, soft-covered book at the Black Hills Stock Show Foundation's Old West Collectibles Auction on Saturday, Feb. 2."
"EKU Archives, a department of the EKU Libraries, is lined with books and file cabinets containing letters and other historical documents from politicians, sports figures, entertainers, scientists, historians and the “average” citizen. They include a personal letter from John F. Kennedy to Carl Perkins, pages from the handwritten draft of Noah Webster’s first dictionary of the American English language, and the oldest document in the collections – a papal document written in 1319 during the reign of Pope John XXII."
"Next year, Darwin will be 200, and 2009 will also mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.'"
"The Natural History Museum in New York City is exhibiting the most comprehensive ever on Darwin's life and work. 'Darwin' includes more than 400 artifacts, specimens and documents. "
"A destination bookstore can make you feel like you're part of the community, whether you're grooving on the laid-back vibe at Powell's in Portland, or tuning in to the Beltway buzz at Washington's Politics and Prose."
"Deep within the Foley Center library, between the endless rows of bookshelves and the scholarly students, reside precious and ancient treasures of the past. These "Treasures of the Vault" can only be found on the third floor of the Foley Center, nestled in a public, yet unfamiliar place to many students: the Cowles Rare Books room."
"The gem of the University of Illinois' world-renowned library -- its Rare Book & Manuscript Library -- is infested with mold and will be closed down for several months."
Libri Antichi e Rari, Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Torino
Thursday May 8th, 2008 - Sunday May 11th, 2008 10.00 am-19.00 pm
Torino, Lingotto, Area 3, Via Nizza 294
35 selected antiquarian bookseller and 1100 international editors
"This collection of 269 titles represented in nearly 600 volumes comprises the classic legal works of France from the 16th through the 19th centuries, and augments the Jacob Burns Law Library's noted French Collection. Customary law, civil law, royal ordonnances, all elucidated by the celebrated French jurisconsults, are found in the New York City Bar Library's rich gathering of French legal historical works."
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"ATLANTA – Former NBA star Mike 'Stinger' Glenn, a curator of rare books and original documents, will showcase a segment of the Mike Glenn Collection, 'The Liberated Life and Turbulent Times of Frederick Douglass' at the Douglas County Public Library, February 9 – 29, 2008. "
"A first edition copy of "The Great Gatsby" inscribed with a note from F. Scott Fitzgerald to T.S. Eliot was one of three rare books donated to the John Hay Library by Daniel Siegel '57 in December."
"LONDON - Got 48 hours to explore the literary haunts of London? The British capital is a treasure trove of pubs, museums and hotels steeped in booklore. Reuters correspondents with a mix of local knowledge give tips on how to spend a short stay."
"Swem also happens to house the country’s second-largest collection of dog books, the largest belonging to the American Kennel Club. The Chapin and Horowitz Collection includes an edition of the first dog book written in English, classified as a rare book, meaning that fewer than 100 institutions have a copy. The collection is one of the primary locations in Swem shown to tourists who visit. "
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"If there’s anyone who knows about books, it’s Brown. He’s the co-founder and editor of Fine Books & Collections Magazine, the only full-color glossy magazine in the United States devoted to collecting books."
"In today's market single pages alone go for $25,000 each, and several years ago just 1 volume (it's a 2 volume set) sold for $5.5 million."
"The bookstore, at the corner of Main and Center streets in Bountiful, specializes in used and rare books. It carries titles covering everything from aeronautics to writing. The books come from a variety of sources, including estate and garage sales and customers hoping to make a few bucks or a good trade. "
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