"Jenkins and Walker are retired librarians who worked together for the state Education Department. Jenkins later became librarian at Casady School, where Cote, an IT project manager, was a parent."

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"Titles of local interest at this month's bookfair will include: a rare signed copy of ‘A History of Landlordism in Donegal' by Prionnsias Ó'Gallchobhair; ‘A Souvenir of the First Civic Week in County Donegal 28th April to 5th May..."

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"Later, visiting Johnny's Los Angeles home, I became acquainted with his rare books and other precious objects. He never says he owns any of these things, preferring to call himself their guardian. He is the guardian of John Dillinger's derringer, a manuscript in the hand of Arthur Rimbaud, and Jack Kerouac's last typewriter."

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"Drawings by the St. Petersburg poet Joseph Brodsky, who was famously expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 for “social parasitism,” are on display at the Russian National Library to celebrate the 70th anniversary of his birth."

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"A record-breaking auction of books and drawings once belonging by the family who own Towcester Racecourse has raised nearly £15 million."

"Some of the world’s rarest books collected by Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh, went under the hammer at Sothebys in London this month."

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" Bound to Art: Displaying more than 40 rare books from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, the exhibition is part of an 18-month celebration of the facility's 25th anniversary. The college's book collection ranges from incunabula of printing's infancy to the finely printed works of today's flourishing book arts movement."

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"AbeBooks has just posted their list of the top ten most expensive sales they made in 2010–revealing some eye-popping sums that were paid for rare books this year."

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" I hope they find something to buy in Catalogue 34. My website designer tells me that it is now "available in epub and mobi formats for e-readers. You can download and view them on Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android devices and phones." I am not sure what this entails, or even means, but presumably it is good."

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"The exhibition-Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics-opened at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, reports Artdaily.org."

"The tablets in the exhibition, at once beautiful and enlightening, date from the Old Babylonian Period (ca 1900-1700 BCE)."

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"On her upbringing: Her upbringing undoubtedly shaped her: Her parents, stalwarts of the San Francisco counterculture, hung with Allen Ginsberg and John Lennon. Ryder's father, Michael Horowitz, is a rare-books dealer and Timothy Leary's archivist."

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"Today, within the framework of the Year of Joseph Brodsky in Russia, the exhibition of his graphic works is to open in the main building of the Russian National Library. The show, which is dedicated to his seventieth birthday, presents the unpublished drawings of Joseph Brodsky from his archives that are stored in the Department of Manuscripts of the RNL, from the funds of the Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House, and from private archives and collections."

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"A sheet of Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics to The Times They Are A-Changin' was the highlight of a New York auction of rare books and manuscripts, with the folk anthem lyrics earning more than $400,000 US."

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"Historic Vieux Marche' in downtown Biloxi is a perfect place to find classic literature."

"'This is a very nice piece. It's a first edition Mark Twain,' said Mike Hutter, owner of Spanish Trail Bookstore."

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"Much of the exhibit focuses on daily life in the 1850s, especially from the point of view of the upper class, for whom most of the books and magazines were written."

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"Mitsuo Nitta from Yushodo Bookshop introduces the first edition of the first Western translation of Confucius published in 1687 which values 280,000 HK dollars (appr. 36,000 US dollars) during the International Antiquarian Bookfair in Hong Kong..."

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"Jacques Guerin, a young perfume magnate in Paris, led a secret life as a bibliophile. During the week he was a perfumer; the weekends were given over to hunting for rare books, precious manuscripts and artists' papers."

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