"The postcard is among the thousands of pieces of mail that have been meticulously catalogued as scholars at Penn State, working from cramped offices and in conjunction with colleagues across the country and the world, gear up for publication of the complete correspondence of a man widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of American letters."

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"Clayton's mother, Mayme, spent 40 years amassing materials on African American history from every source imaginable: garage sales, flea markets, attics, used-book stores, and even dumps."

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"After the Reformation, many monasteries were abandoned, but Erfurt's Augustinerkloster functions today as a Lutheran church and cloister with regular services. It also houses 60,000 volumes of rare books in its library."

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" For Surjit Hans, a well known Punjabi litterateur and retired professor of history, reading Shakespeare in English was not very easy. So he translated the Bard's plays into Punjabi."

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"The annual Boston Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend features more than just rare books, manuscripts, maps and other curiosities. It also includes something a bit creepy — a book bound with human skin."

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"Another first and only edition of a rare book on falconry by Francois de Saincte Aulaire (born 1551), a grand falconer of France, is priced €60,000. Hesselink's two companies, Hes & De Graaf Publishers BV and Antiquaraat Forum, are the only rare booksellers in the fair, which runs until November 21. "

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"On the first floor of the center, visitors can browse through a copy of the Magna Carta from 1350. There's a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence from 1777 and a page from a Gutenberg Bible printed sometime shortly after Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450."

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"Ralph Sipper, owner of Ralph Sipper/Books, said that people who collect rare books are interested in the books as artifacts. 'People buy them for the same reason that people buy a Picasso. They enjoy it, show it to their friends, admire it.'”

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"In general, the price of antique, out-of-print and rare books in Mexico City is cheap compared with the prices in the U.S. and Europe. Collectors outside the country often don't know what's available in Mexico, and booksellers here may not use the Internet to find out what prices are elsewhere. "

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"John also is a political history buff. He has a collection of 15,000 rare books and is passing down his appreciation for history to his sons, Samuel and Joel."

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"Antiquarian bookseller Marian L. Gore, who specialized in tomes about food and wine, once opened a book on ancient cookery and started to read a 15th century recipe for 'Goos in Hochepot.'"

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"In a quiet, windowless room deep inside the Walters Art Museum, a digitization specialist places a 900-year-old Quran into the cradle of the Stokes Imaging System."

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"The X-Men #1 was sold for a world record price of $101,000 (£60,000) during a comic book auction in Arnold, MO."

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"Very few people know that within the high security vaults of the Asiatic Library are priceless Italian and Latin books stored with great care. The rarest of the lot is the richly illustrated edition of Dante's Comedia Divina (Divine Comedy) (1757)."

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"Standing among the 10,000 rare books in the stacks of the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Bruce Bradley, the director of the history of science special collections, pulls out a copy of "The Starry Messenger," the revelatory book in which Galileo detailed his astronomical observations made with his own "spyglass" -- the instrument that would later be known as the telescope."

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"First stop on this trip and home base: the Library Hotel in midtown, which I had been itching to visit since I discovered it online. Our cab driver didn't know the hotel, which I took as a good sign."

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