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November 28, 2011

Football Quarterback Sells £2 million Winnie-the-Pooh Collection

"Pat McInally, the first Harvard graduate to play in the Super Bowl, is selling his £2 million Winnie-the-Pooh memorabilia collection."

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Audubon on Exhibit in Philadelphia

"One of the world's rarest and most valuable books is out of the vault and on public view as part of an unusual daily ritual at the nation's oldest natural history museum."

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November 19, 2011

My New Website about Letterpress Printer & Photographer John Fass

"John Stroble Fass was a graphic designer and a printer of fine press books. Fass designed books for the leading American publishers of limited edition books."

"Collectors of private press books also remember John Fass for the handcrafted books he printed on a tabletop printing press in his one-room apartment at the Bronx YMCA. John named this press the Hammer Creek Press, for the stream which flows near his hometown of Lititz, PA."

"Fass' books and his photography celebrate his life in New York City, where he lived most of his career. His work also documents his passion for the rural landscapes of his native Lancaster County, Pennsylvania."

The website is Here


November 14, 2011

Luke Ives Pontifell: Bibliophile

"He has also devoted his life to the production of handcrafted books that will be around long after he’s gone. Pontifell, founder of Thornwillow Press, a small Upstate New York publishing house, bookbinder and bespoke stationer, is convinced that in an increasingly ephemeral and expendable society, those things that are tangible and permanent become only more valuable."

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Rare Hemingway Short Story Auctioned in Iceland

"The story was only printed in 300 copies in 1933 in New York, and this copy is numbered 175, visir.is reports."

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November 11, 2011

Bonhams Opens Auction House in Washington D. C.

"He said the Archimedes Palimpsest — the oldest manuscript containing work attributed to the Greek mathematician Archimedes — is owned by a private Washington collector who paid $2 million for it at Christies."

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Ahmenabad: Digitizing Manuscripts of Ancient Scriptures

"This is the first phase of a larger project, where the institute would be digitising 50,000 rare books and over 75,000, centuries-old manuscripts."

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November 03, 2011

North Texas Book and Paper Show

"The Eighteenth North Texas Book and Paper Show, held October 15th and 16th, was a great success. Heritage Auctions of Dallas and The Texas Bookseller’s Association teamed up to sponsor this show which was held at a new venue, the convention center in Garland, just minutes away from the Dallas Fort Worth Airport."

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Nathan Myrhvold: Cookbook Collector

"I do have some rare books, but I don't have too many rare cookbooks. It's an area where I — somebody sent me a link a couple months ago because Daniel Boulud was selling part of his collection but by the time I clicked on the link everything was over. So I've got a lot of out-of-print cookbooks, but in terms of hyper valuable, oh my God it's 200 years old or it was Escoffier's own copy, no, I don't have anything like that. I suppose I should."

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