"Book Ends owner June Moore said she is considering closing her shop, a fixture on North Main Street for 15 years. Moore took over ownership of the business close to two years ago from Mansfield resident Doreen Tighe, who owned it for a decade."

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"He developed expertise as a book scout, making contact with private individuals who wanted to unload a personal library, or book stores that were closing. This took him to New York, to the West Coast, and to Europe, often to auctions of whole sets of valuable tomes."

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"The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center is pleased to announce the Cook Inlet Historical Society (CIHS) has formally transferred ownership of the society’s collection to the museum. The collection includes 2,500 historical and cultural objects and thousands of photographs, maps and rare books."

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"It's also rare for its collector to take the priceless, frail books from their Georgia home."

"But James Porter has packed about 120 books and prints from his 3,000-plus collection into his blue minivan for a stop Saturday at the Reef Relief Environmental Center in Key West."

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"Efforts have been made to prevent water damage at the main headquarters, including installing water-detection sensors and moving rare documents off-site. But judging from the building's soggy history, these measures may not be enough. "

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"Matthew Pearl is the author of The Dante Club, a literary thriller about a group of 19th-century Harvard scholars secretly working on a translation of The Divine Comedy who are forced out of hiding by a series of gruesome murders modelled on Dante's Inferno."

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" Mitchell estimated he had 15,000 volumes on his shelves and another 30,000 in storage. When he opened in February 2006, he hoped to specialize in rare and antiquarian books but soon began stocking contemporary fiction and children’s books to attract regular customers. Despite his store’s size, he was proud to have one of the area’s widest selections of books about the Beat Generation of the 1950s."

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"Det Kongelige Bibliotek: The Danish Royal Library, or the Black Diamond as it's often called due to the shape of the building, is a modern facility inside and out. Featuring cutting edge design by Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen, it employs marble and glass to create a distinctive form on the outside. "

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"The exhibit is titled 'Lighting the Way: the Life and Legacy of William Rotch Jr.' Its display cases feature artifacts belonging to Rotch and his family. Of particular interest is a 16th-century atlas of world cities which suggests that Rotch had an interest in rare books. Also of interest is a map showing where Rotch's grandfather purchased 10 waterfront acres in the community then known as Bedford Village in 1765."

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"In a country hobbled by a lack of basic services, high unemployment and scarce foreign investment, the family stands for a vibrant alternative. Violence has driven out more than 2 million people, draining Iraq of skilled professionals, but the rebuilt bookshop remains, an engine for fresh ideas and intellectual growth. Every day on Mutanabi Street, a Hayawi sells books, educating a new contingent of lawyers, doctors and computer programmers."

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"Canada's national archives building is so prone to leaks that it sprang another one last month just as workers were cleaning up the mess from a flood days earlier."

"The showcase building near Parliament Hill was given a second soaking June 1 when a cold-water valve in a women's washroom failed, internal documents show."

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"A stolen copy of the First Folio, the first known collection of William Shakespeare's plays, turned up last week in DC when a rare-book enthusiast took it to the Folger Shakespeare Library. In a case of no good deed goes unpunished, the British man is being considered a suspect in the 1998 robbery of the document from Durham University in England. "

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"Robert McDowell -- who's vice president of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers -- runs a rare book business out of his home. WBUR?s Bob Oakes started by asking him how the Internet has transformed the rare book industry."

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"The recovery in Washington, D. C., of a stolen first folio of Shakespeare plays has spurred the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library to bring out its copy of the same volume, printed in 1623 and one of only 228 still in existence."

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"Up until 10 years ago, the only memories Laurie Powers had of her grandfather were that of a reclusive, depressed alcoholic who made his living buying and selling rare books at his bookstore in Berkeley."

"But a research paper Powers wrote as a returning college student unveiled a wealth of information about the grandfather she never knew: the prolific pulp fiction writer Paul S. Powers."

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"For eight years, the retail chain ran a small rare- and out-of-print-book department in its large store in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. When that store closed this spring, many customers assumed that the modest experiment would end, too. "

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"CHECK your attic for valuables -- you never know what you might find. "

"The antique and rare book fair took place on the grounds of the luxurious Farmleigh house last weekend and the experts say it turned up some exciting finds."

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"A new Dunedin Public Library exhibition, 'Charting the Peaceful Sea - Maps of the Pacific 1642-1846', looks back in time to explore the world as we knew it hundreds of years ago."

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"The Duke University Libraries has launched a digital collection of about 5,000 photographs shot primarily in China between 1917 and 1932 by Sidney Gamble, grandson of Proctor and Gamble co-founder James Gamble. The searchable collection is online at library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gamble/."

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" A museum in Texas is offering the Dubuque's Carnegie-Stout Public Library 1.1 million dollars
The Fort Worth museum wants to buy a valuable collection from them, and the money would be just enough to help the library begin its renovation project."

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"More than 750,000 pictures have been cataloged for historical preservation. "The Southwest Collection itself is 23 million leaves of manuscript materials relating to the history, culture and economy of this place. Our rare books component is the largest academic rare books library within a 96,000 square miles of this place," said Monte Monroe with the Southwest Collection."

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"While independent bookstores nationwide struggle as they compete against national chains such as Barnes & Noble, discounters such as Wal-mart and Internet booksellers like Amazon, veteran booksellers like Gordon have survived and even thrived in Asheville. In the town that gave birth to literary legends such as Thomas Wolfe and Charles Frazier, readers like to buy books locally, Gordon said."

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"Stephanie Chase once found a strip of bacon in a book — presumably snatched off the breakfast plate to use as a bookmark, she says.

Chase, who is director of the Stowe Free Library, also recently found a fascinating article online about the weird, valuable and mysterious items that booksellers have found in secondhand volumes, and she mentioned it on her library blog.

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"The 252-page JK Rowling book has the original blue and white paper wrapper and belongs to a teacher. It was a gift from a friend for him to read to his class."

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"Some 300 rare books confiscated from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein's regime have been secretly spirited into Israel, an Israeli newspaper says."

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"The biggest library of Hyderabad boasting of majestic architecture of the Nizam's times now greets its over 700 daily visitors with crumbling walls, dust-laden books, rickety chairs with seats hanging loose and book shelves with broken glass panes that make a mockery of the locks guarding them."

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