"A healthy throng of fiends and misers gathered at Dawson's Books in Larchmont recently on the first day of a sale that ultimately closes the doors of the 105-year-old L.A. bookstore. For seven hours, shelves and boxes of books on Californiana and photography were dissected, as buyers — some of whom have enjoyed a personal relationship with Dawson's for decades — made off with the good stuff."
"A book written and autographed by Queen Liliuokalani is valued at $1,500 and three volumes of the Cook Voyages are being sold for $5,000. Friends of the Library members get first crack at the sale items Friday."
"The new rare books site replaces the old rare books website and aims to enhance the online shopping experience through easier navigation, new title highlights and detailed images of Blackwells books."
"Facing a reduced budget and a third round of layoffs, officials at Washington National Cathedral are considering disposing of priceless treasures -- including a trove of rare books -- that are no longer considered part of its central mission."
"To find book offerings in Cambridge beyond the standard inventory of the Coop, it helps to peruse the city’s streets and read between the buildings."
"Specialty bookstores carrying anything from used rare books to travel maps are overlooked but not underloved, subtly settling into the landscape of Harvard Square over the years."
" In the rare-book room, early editions of James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway line glass bookshelves. Some of the employees have been there for more than 30 years. The walls are lined with photos of writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Eugene O’Neill and Edna St. Vincent Millay."
"The collection offered comprises overall clean copies with the plates in good condition and with good colouring though some plates are missing, especially in the first few volumes. The set has been given the grand estimate of £140,000-180,000. "
"While dedicated antique bookshops are rare, digging around old bookstores, one can come across some gems. Paramount Book Store on Janpath, New Delhi, is one such store."
"Serendipity Books, located on University Avenue, has played an influential role in Berkeley's antiquarian book niche for decades. However, due to the deteriorating health of the store's owner, Peter Howard, many local book collectors say they are concerned about what will happen if the store closes."
"A book the woman bought for a dollar at a garage sale was worth $6,000. Suffice it to say, she plotzed when informed."
"The book, A Trip To The Highlands Of Viti Levu, is a collection of photographs depicting an incredible journey made by two scientists to find their long-lost brother in Fiji in 1881."
"A rare copy of Fleurs du Printemps et de L'Este, a baroque florilegium (literally: 'gathering of flowers') from the early 17th century is to be sold at Ketterer Kunst."
"An impressive 143 dealers have already signed up for the 53rd London International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia from 3-5 June 2010. The works on display at the fair cover a vast range of collectors’ interests, including fine books from the genesis of European printing: prints, fine bindings, illustrated books, manuscripts, maps, first editions and ephemera. Collectors will find the world’s leading antiquarian booksellers with their unparalleled choice of stock."
"Beginning today, March 17, 2010 - St. Patrick's Day - Irish bookhounds and hounds of rare Irish books, art, and eiriana - or simply those blessed with the luck o' the Irish - can get a sneak-peek at a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow when Bloomsbury - New York previews The Irish Sale, to be held next Tuesday, March 23"
"There was a swagger to the more than 2,000 who attended the fair, which featured about 115 specialized dealers from the United States and Europe. Sure, they might have been bookworms. But no one was going to bully them into reading from something as debased as an e-reader."
"While Thomas Boss, a rare-book dealer in Salem, doesn't specialize in modern American literature, he knows a thing or two about the antiquarian book business. Boss talked to The Salem News recently about what effect Salinger's death might have on first-edition copies of his works, and also discussed old books in general."
"First was The Book Mark. Located in Queens, New York, it was in walking distance of our family's home up until we moved when I was in sixth grade. It was owned by two spinster sisters named Rose and Esther and we referred to it as 'rose-n-esther's.'"
"With more than 200 dealers from the U.S. and around the world, this biannual event is the largest and most prestigious commercial book fair that comes Southern California's way. It's a showcase of thousands of items of printed material -- books, manuscripts, maps -- spanning hundreds of years. Everything, pre-Gutenberg to post-Grisham, is on the block.'
"Sponsored by the Southern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the Los Angeles Book Fair is recognized as one of the world's premier antiquarian book exhibitions and sales. Over 200 pre-eminent members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America will feature books from five centuries of printing, as well as rare manuscripts that predate Gutenberg."
"For himself, Warren will only keep a bright red poster, a Republican banner from the Spanish Civil War, which he plans to put in his living room. Many customers had inquired about buying the poster, but were rebuffed by the steep asking price - $10,000. That's a joke, because it's actually not for sale."
" Works on Islam and Buddhism are a big hit at stalls put up by publishers from South Asian countries at the World Book Fair here. Many avid book readers and scholars are happy to have spotted rare books that are not easily available in India."
"In terms of rare books, Irving Leif says he's a millionaire. In terms of real dollars, the soon-to-be-evicted Jersey City man is more like a 14-dollar-aire."
"The annual Book Fair organised by the Association of Book Publishers of Greece opens Friday in Klafthmonos Square in downtown Athens, and will run for 10 days, through Sunday, January 24."
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"A 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook the town of Eureka in Northern Californa late Saturday afternoon. Damage is widespread."
"Old books and manuscripts received considerable attention from collectors at the 20th Doha International Book Fair, the manager of Antiquariat Inlibiris pavilion said yesterday. "
"Bloomsbury Auctions, which has been leading the auction world into no- and low-reserve sales, realized twice its estimate for the recent auction of the de Orbe Novo Collection of early books related to the New World 1492-1625, with complete sell-through of all eight-one lots for a total of $3,489,000, or $43,000 per lot."
"Cheri Holden, owner of Watershed Books, said she'd like to organize the rare books in her store and to encourage more people to volunteer for her resolutions."
"Booksellers Christine Volk and Shep Iiams operate their home-based business high on a hill in Amador County – a site so remote that grazing horses and cattle outnumber their neighbors."
"Off the bustling South Extension shopping area in New Delhi, a nondescript residence is home to a treasure trove of rare literature on the Indian subcontinent going back three centuries. Southex Books and Prints, rare book dealers, is as discreet as it gets."
"The idea of the bookstore as a kind of urban clearinghouse is no coincidence. Mr. Maywar works for the Trenton Downtown Association and was recently appointed to the Trenton Public Library system’s board of directors. Classics has been a community networking engine that has found jobs and places to live for people in Trenton."
"South Korea, which once had a thriving rare and antiquarian book trade, is down to its last fifty rare book shops with more closings on the horizon."
"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."
"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. "
"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.'”
"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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"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.'"
"The X-Men #1 was sold for a world record price of $101,000 (£60,000) during a comic book auction in Arnold, MO."
"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."
"Nothing prepared Arnold for the book a Fayetteville man brought in for appraisal a few months ago, however."
"The book was a first edition of Walt Whitman's seminal poetry book, 'Leaves of Grass,' and laid in the book long ago was a postcard written and signed by the great American poet."
"The new store specializes in arcane, eclectic and obscure works, featuring rare, collectible and used books, many from Hankin’s personal collection. On the shelves are such classic writers as H.G. Wells, J.D. Salinger and Ernest Hemingway alongside collections of Italo Calvino and Primo Levi."
"Antiquarian Ken Sanders is a "bibliodick" on the trail of rare book thief John Gilkey in the riveting nonfiction book, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett."
"Rob Hansen, owner of Bookshelf Etc. in Ocean City, said the popularity of his summer-operated business varies from week to week. He said if he was entirely dependent on the store he would be in trouble, but he invests in property during the off season as an extra source of income."
"I was inside Imperial Fine Books, owned and run by Bibi Mohamed, one of very few high-end book dealers of Indian origin in the world of fine books. And certainly the only Indian woman in the rare book business in New York, possibly the country."
"Eleven Winnipeg book dealers, as well as one each from Montreal and Regina, will be exhibiting and selling collectible and rare books, as well as comics and regular used books."
"The historic Maple Street Book Shop in Uptown has plans to move and open a new store this month since the closing of the Maple Street Children's Book Shop next door."
"Those stamp-sized bookseller labels often found on the rear paste down end paper of old and rare books are often as artistically interesting as the books' dust jackets; high karat precious gems of graphic design in small settings."
"Ian Rankin, whose dour, boozy detective John Rebus is no Robert Langdon, tops Oxfam's bestseller list, which the charity says is the first ever high-street secondhand bestseller chart."
"In April, the Guardian reported that the earliest known dust jacket had just been discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library -- but the report was wrong."
"Sam Weller's Bookstore celebrated its 80th anniversary Saturday on a leaden morning that seemed to echo the uncertain state of the bookselling business."
"The windows of the store were papered both with signs announcing the shop's birthday and its sale to thin its inventory before moving to a smaller, less expensive location."
"Rob Hansen, owner of Bookshelf Etc. in Ocean City, said the popularity of his summer-operated business varies from week to week, but on Monday morning he had between 20 and 25 customers. He said if he was entirely dependent on the store he would be in trouble, but he invests in property during the off season as an extra source of income."
"The 24th annual Arkansas Book and Paper Show will take place this weekend at the Jacksonville Community Center, 105 Municipal Drive. Many rare books, maps and unusual legal documents will be on display. "
"For many Americans, pulp refers to the small pieces of fruit found in orange juice."
"For the several hundred fans and collectors converging this week in Columbus, though, the word takes on thrilling -- and occasionally lurid -- dimensions"
"1. California's Capital Antique Paper and Postcards, Aug. 22- Aug. 23, 2009. Sat. 10-5, Sun. 10-4. Scottish Rite Masonic Center - 6151 H. St., Sacramento."
"This antique show features postcards, stamps and covers, rare books, photographs, posters and prints, advertising, movie memorabilia, music and more! "
"However, two new bookstores, Darren Winston Books and Prints in Sharon and Johnnycake Books II in Salisbury, which both feature rare and used books, are making a persuasive case for the old-fashioned experience of buying actual books live and in person."
"Visible Voice Books is a one-of-a-kind bookstore. They specialize in new, used, antique and specially ordered books; in addition, they have a wine bar and pride themselves on the numerous ways they provide for customers to get involved."
"A historic building housing a rare-book store in downtown Coral Gables was damaged by a Wednesday morning fire that was quickly doused by firefighters."
"Howard M. Rootenberg, a rare book specialist, will speak at the University of Texas Medical Branch about the importance of academic medical centers maintaining a library that includes volumes about the history of medicine as well as rare book collections."
"Howard M. Rootenberg, a rare book specialist, will speak at the University of Texas Medical Branch about the importance of academic medical centers maintaining a library that includes volumes about the history of medicine as well as rare book collections."
"The twenty-one volume collection of the complete works of English philosopher William Hazlitt is expected to fetch more than £1,000 when sold. "
"The title of Americana Exchange's latest analysis of the book auction market succinctly sums up what those in the trade have been feeling for quite some time - A Market Under Pressure. It is the next logical step in the democratization of the rare book business that began with the introduction of the Internet in the 1990s: deflation, here stubbornly held at bay at auction only by the resistance of sellers to lower their expectations and allow reserves to be in harmony with what the market will bear."
"Where Charing Cross Road used to be London's main bookish thoroughfare, rising rents have pushed many of the small independents out of business. Cecil Court is lucky enough to have a sympathetic landlord in Lord Salisbury; while he's not quite the "wealthy benefactor" that a passer-by was overheard (mis)informing his companion, he is keen to keep the street as the specialist book area it's been for over 100 years."
"LONDON: A rare picture of legendary physicist Albert Einstein was sold for 49,300 pounds."
"Michael Mathews thinks the newest addition to his antiques store will go over well with the bookworm crowd."
"Mathews, who owns the Antique Mall of Beaumont on College Street, recently opened the Rare Book Room in one nook of his store."
"A historic building housing a rare-book store in downtown Coral Gables was damaged by a Wednesday morning fire that was quickly doused by firefighters."
"The extent of smoke and fire damage to the building at 296 Aragon Ave., the original site of the popular Books & Books store, was unclear."
"A soldier's rare leather-bound first edition copy of volume one of "The Federalist" sold for $80,000 at auction Tuesday, bringing him an unexpectedly large profit before his upcoming second deployment to Iraq."
"The divorced father of three was 16 when he bought the 227-page book in 1990 after his mother spotted it among book stacks as they browsed at a South Bend, Ind., flea market."
"Harlan's high school history class happened to be discussing "The Federalist" - also known as "The Federalist Papers" - that same week, so he knew the book was special."
"I am grateful to all these booksellers who still take an interest in writing and printing catalogues. The production costs for fine catalogues are obviously high, and they can easily just stay with an electronic version and yet these booksellers print them because both, the aesthetics of such a thing and its place in antiquarian bookselling feel important to them."
"In fact, Swann Auction Galleries in New York, a specialist in the field, recently garnered a record $72,000 for a book from Latin America. In fact, it was the first book published in Peru (some light reading on Catholic doctrine)."
"A rare edition of a James Bond novel is one of three sought-after books expected to raise a total of £600 at auction, after being discovered in a Watford charity shop."
"A London bookstore has installed a new machine that will print an entire book on demand in the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee."
"As Annette Kolling-Buckley unpacked books at the new location of Columbia Books, a fluffy, big-pawed cat named Fred who is as substantial as a bag of baking potatoes, sat atop boxes. One could argue he was trying to keep them from being moved again."
"With numerous bookstores closing in the midst of fierce economic contractions, Aronovitz said rare books can often be recession proof, particularly those in high demand, such as signed copies of an author's best work. The collection featured in Abe.com books are all Hugo and Nebula award winners, the highest ranking titles in modern science fiction and fantasy."
"Now catalogued in its entirety, within the collection was an unpublished manuscript by William H. McMasters, a memoir of his experiences working as a publicist for Charles Ponzi, the fraudster extraordinaire whose claim to Most Notorious Con Artist in History was recently ceded to Bernard L. Madoff in a no-contest episode of Our Gifted Grifters, a too-much-reality TV show pilot not picked up by the networks due to the recent glut of such characters; they threatened."
"Ask 27-year-old Jonathan Smalter what he's most proud of in his bookstore, and he'll probably lead you to the rare book room and point to a first-edition copy of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger."
"Community support and loyalty is what keeps Hicklebee's open, according to co-owner Valerie Lewis. After nearly 30 years, Lewis looks back at the milestones of community support: Loyal customers helped the store move from its previous location across the street, including an ambulance driver who hauled the books on a gurney; many of those same customers lined up outside of the store six months later, the morning after the Loma Prieta earthquake, to see how they could again help."
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"Tworare books dumped on a charity worker's doorstep could each fetch up to £1,000."
"Mary Davidson, the convenor of Christian Aid's annual book sale in Edinburgh, is used to finding bags of books left by anonymous donors outside her home."
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"'Crime and Punishment' may take the average reader several months to complete, but Britain’s first “book vending machine” can print you a copy in just nine minutes."
"A freshly-bound edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic – ordered by The Daily Telegraph – was one of the first tomes to drop out of the Espresso Book Machine when it opened for business for the first time yesterday."
"One hundred and seventy seven rare books went under the hammer today, as one of the most significant collections of antique literature was auctioned in Wellington."
"The collection included a page from one of the first books ever printed dating back to 1478."
"Magus is one of those magical little bookshops where you find yourself getting holed up inside for hours without even noticing the time pass. The selection is incredible."
"One of the most significant private collections of rare books in Australasia is about to go under the hammer in Wellington."
"The collection includes a page from one of the world's first printed books and manuscripts that are nearly 1,000 years old."
"By the look of her, you'd think Helen Simpson was a harmless little old lady, but beware: She spends her days surrounded by murderers, spies and con artists. Not to mention those even more dangerous characters: Amazon and Barnes & Noble."
"...on May 26 and 27, the Parisian auctioneer and horology expert Hervé Chayette will disperse the vast working library of the Milanese horological historian Giuseppe Brusa at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris, proving again that Drouot remains a treasure trove for the most esoteric finds."
"Rare manuscripts and books about early expeditions to Arabia attracted government archivists at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair today, and they invested in several of the centuries-old editions."
"On March 26, 2009, Swann Auction Galleries will present “Printed & Manuscript Americana” featuring historic baseball material from the game’s earliest days, property from the Roger Hollander collection, as well as items related to presidents and other important American figures, including Thomas Edison."
"Patrons show off their new dogs and exchange updates about college-bound children, while checking if their favorite novel came in or if owner JoAnne Geiger remembers the title of that great book they gave as a shower gift last year."
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"A rare Superman comic is going on sale and is expected to make its lucky owner thousands and thousands of pounds! "
"The comic is so special because it's the first one to feature the famous flying hero. "
"This is for the first time that the city will host a 10-day book fair organised by the National Book Trust, New Delhi. Books on various subjects including Punjabi literature, books for children and self-help books have been put on show in more than 100 stalls. "
"Rare books were up for grabs in Greenwich Village Sunday at the the Antiquarian Book Fair on Hudson Street."
"The fair is one of the biggest fundraisers for neighborhood school, P.S. 3. "
"The floods that overwhelmed southern Wisconsin last summer deposited 9 inches of water in the nondescript warehouse in Viola where Allegra Wakest and Eddy Nix built an online-only business selling used books."
"The muck destroyed more than 3,000 books, but there was a bright spot. Volunteers — most of them strangers — helped move about 60,000 books to dry land. Many of the volunteers were stunned to learn that such a vast book collection existed so close by."
"Although you might not know it by wandering the streets, there are close to a dozen booksellers on the east side of midtown Manhattan. Most of them are tucked away in lobbies or require elevators rides to get to. And many carry only rare or specialty books. But Argosy Book Store and Posman Books, two of my favorite shops in the area, are pedestrian-friendly and not completely rarified. An ordinary browser can step inside and not be intimidated by upscale mystique."
"The world’s first printed edition of the Talmud -- nine 16th-century volumes that gather centuries of rabbinic debate on Jewish law -- is now on view at Sotheby’s in New York."
"The so-called Bomberg Talmud -- named after its Christian publisher, Daniel Bomberg -- was printed in Hebrew and Aramaic in Venice between 1519 and 1523."
"That includes veteran bookseller Michael R. Thompson's three postage stamp-size pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the higher-priced items at the fair, ranging from $135,000 to $275,000. The dark and leathery fragments, which date from between 50 B.C. and A.D. 68, were found in a cave on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in the Middle East. Encased in coaster-size pieces of glass, they're shaped like the state of Missouri, a rooster and a Chicken McNugget. "
"Lost for over 110 years, the Antique Silver Reference Library uncovers a treasure trove of antique silver information for collectors, including many previously unknown hallmarks and silver marks."
"Bauman Rare Books also has reached out to the local culturati. In September the store hosted a cozy little private event for the Black Mountain Institute with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jane Smiley reading to a cluster of fans. Last month it closed its doors for another private gathering: Nevada Ballet Theatre’s formal announcement of James Canfield as its new artistic director."
"The City of Miami holds the honor of being one of only five cities - London, Paris, Breda (Holland) and Denver - to host an international map fair. Once again the Miami International Map Fair returns to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida on Saturday, February 7th and Sunday, February 8th."
"For more than 80 years, from the 1890s through the 1970s, the Lower East Side was home to the legendary Booksellers Row, which ran along Fourth Avenue and spilled over into the side streets from Union Square to Astor Place. Specializing in used and rare books, the shops had narrow aisles, filled from floor to ceiling with dusty volumes. Tables out front were stacked high with more books, attracting bohemian teenagers, students, the merely curious and owlish old men who passed the afternoons browsing through yellowed copies of everything from classics like “Treasure Island” and “Leaves of Grass,” to obscure volumes about subjects such as the history of medical research about the digestive track."
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"The 13 volume set was authorized by Congress to be printed by Folwell’s Press for use by the U.S. Congress and House of Representatives. 400 Copies were printed for their use."
"The inside of the book bindings contain book labels showing that they were owned by Edward Everett. Everett was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, United States Seenator, United States Secretary of State, Massachusetts Governor and President of Harvard University."
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"Rare books are scarce books that appreciate over time, such as first editions or unique books. You'll find classis works such as Lee's Lieutenants on the Civil War, first edition David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, and Nancy Drew Mystery Stories first edition prints, which are becoming scarce due to the fact that the acidic paper will disintegrate in about 100 years."
"The activities of the 19th edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which is expected to witness a large and unprecedented participation of hundreds of publishers from various countries of the world, will be held March 17-22 in Abu Dhabi, according to His Excellency Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH)."
"'I think there's a big market in Hong Kong and surrounding areas, because of the big, affluent, educated and inquiring population who care about culture, both their own and of the world. These people care about books for the ideas and history they contain,' said Paul Feain from Cornstalk Bookshop in Sydney, who is organizing the fair for the second time with Mitsuo Nitta from Yushodo in Tokyo and Christopher Li from Hong Kong Book Centre. "
"Denham describes his books as looking into 'crime and punishment in antebellum Florida during the years 1821 to 1861,' shedding light on “'ustice and mayhem along a southern frontier that stretched beyond Florida’s border to Galveston Bay.'”
"Nearby are books about the artists known as the Florida Highwaymen, books on gardening in Florida and history books that read like a Who’s Who of early educators in Central Florida."
"The first show opens on Friday, January 16. Books at the 25th St. Armory, promoted by Mancuso Show Management, features 70 dealers of antiquarian and rare books, autographs, and ephemera. The show, held at the 69th Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue and 26th Street, will run for two days."
"The international attention attracted by a depiction of Pooh, Tigger and Piglet which sold for more than $60,000 at Bonham’s Books sale in London speaks to the public’s enduring love of the little bear. To be offered at this upcoming New York sale are copies of author A.A. Milne’s four most popular books, each including hand drawings by illustrator E.H. Shepard featuring the character Christopher Robin."
"Rare Finds is an exhibition that is held irregularly. In the last nine years it has been organised only four times-in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006. Each time Dilnavaz Mehta thought it would be the last time; each time, popular demand compelled her to set it up again. This year Rare Finds is on from December 10 at the Cymroza Art Gallery."
"While one of Taiwan's leading bookstore chains, Eslite Books, has shut down several of its outlets, some small used bookstores are using their advantage of a more personalized service to stay afloat in the current economic storm."
"Skinner, Inc., one of the nation's leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it has set a new world record for a rare illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. At the recent Fine Books & Manuscripts auction, which took place on Sunday, November 16th, Beardsley's The Climax (lot 139) fetched $213,300 including buyer's premium, well over its $15/20,000 estimate."
"Bookseller Ken Sanders isn't sure what to do with 50 antique lint brushes, 24 neon beer signs and 25,000 Utah postcards."
"'Literally, there are tens of thousands of items,' he said of his late father's collectibles. 'There is much more stuff than I can possibly display at my own house, and I'm doing my double best to [display] it.'"
"U Maung Maung Lwin, the manager of Innwa bookstore, said the book market has not been active this year at all and is way down on what it’s been in years past. "
"On the densely packed shelves next to the wooden fireplace and old leather furniture, you'll find the kind of books that might be resting in your great aunt's garage. From the original British printings of Harry Potter to well out-of-print art books, Dragon Books offers a literary glimpse through time."
"The engraving, An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, has since been valued at between $250,000 and $350,000. It will be auctioned at Christie's in New York next month."
"The highlights of the sale are a collection of books from the library of mountaineer and photographer Nikolas Tombazia, William Simpson and Sir John William Kaya's rare series of illustrations depicting the beautiful scenery of everyday life of 19th century India."
"The 32nd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, one of the oldest and most respected antiquarian book shows in the country, will take place November 14 through November 16, 2008, at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center."
"The deal, which settles a three-year-old lawsuit, allows Google to scan in and make available any out-of-print book that still has a valid copyright. It can offer subscriptions to universities to its database of such books, sell online access to individual tomes and eventually let consumers print books on demand."
"From next year academics at the University of Melbourne will be able to pick up the phone to order a new tome from the US or an out-of-print textbook, then walk over to the library to pick it up."
"Starting this Friday at Chelsea’s Phillips de Pury & Company, located at 450 W. 15th St., Printed Matter will be hosting its third annual New York Art Book Fair: a bazaar of artists’ books, art books, magazines, zines, and art catalogues."
"During this three day fair, Printed Matter hopes to promote the widespread distribution and appreciation of the artists’ book—an artwork made specifically for book form consisting of images and/or words—not exactly one of those clunky coffee table companions."
"Over eight days for the past 24 Novembers, downtown Miami becomes the center of the literary world when the Miami Book Fair International welcomes hundreds & thousands of people who attend readings and discussions featuring prize-winnning, best selling and emerging authors from the U.S. and around the world. "
"We walk past the Fairmont and down two steep blocks of Mason Street to enter the Argonaut Book Shop, at 786 Sutter St. Based on their study of production notes from the film, Leventhal and Kraft are certain that this shop was the inspiration for the Argosy Book Shop in 'Vertigo,' where Scottie meets old Pop Leibel, proprietor, California history buff and explainer of Madeleine's family secrets."
"STRATFORD -- It's not the economy. It's not the Internet or the big chains, either. It's just time for the story of the Whistle Stop Book Shop to end."
"It's a bit sad, as all endings tend to be -- especially in a story that's come to touch so many lives -- but it's not a tragic ending."
"Another indicator of the current economy: Local used-book dealers say people are turning out in droves to sell old books."
“'I’ve had people bringing in stacks of books for gas money,' said David Henderson of Azio Media, 225 Smith Ave. in Shallotte."
"A fixture on the north end of the boulevard since 1968, Dawson’s is the oldest antiquarian book-seller in Southern California, specializing in books on California and Western Americana history and photography."
"Jim Lewin and his wife, Pam, owners of The York Emporium used book and curiosity shop, recently acquired the York Book and Paper Fair."
"They've made some additions to the biannual event, which is about 24 years old."
"CONEY ISLAND -- A world-renowned bookbindery has moved to Brooklyn. Its owner, 74-year-old Herbert Weitz, will tell you the craft hasn’t changed much since the Renaissance – but business sure has."
"Here, collectors can find a $375 paperback of Ian Fleming’s “Octopussy,” one of the store’s low-priced offerings, for pool reading. Or if you hit on roulette, for $250,000, you can purchase a first edition of the account of Lewis & Clark’s expedition. "
"Though the floor plan had to be tweaked a bit to accommodate the now-closed temporary exhibition on Titanic artifacts that was open concurrently to the show at the center, die-hard ephemera and specialty collectors came, seeking the rare and the unusual for which the show is renowned."
"The Espresso Book Machine was unveiled in Melbourne yesterday and can print and bind a paperback book in minutes, but it could be more than a year before it hits Queensland stores."
"Print-on-demand services have been available at universities before, but this is the first time a retail chain plans to make the technology available at their stores."
"Academic criticism of the sale of the trove of 18,000 texts dating back to the 15th Century has emerged 18 months after the council first announced it was planning the sell off to fund library improvements in Cardiff."
"Stock will include about 8,000 moderately priced books, along with a focused collection of rare and hard-to-find books for collectors. The store will include a children's nook and seating areas for adults."
"Bloomsbury Auctions New York is
delighted to present for sale an extraordinary five volume set of 19th century
photographic albums documenting the countries of the Amur, Eastern Siberia,
Western Siberia and the Urals. These albums, compiled between 1860-1866 by
Baron von Brandis, contain a collection of 371 rare and historically
significant salt and albumen prints. This is the only known set of these
albums outside of Russia."
"Over eight days for the past 24 Novembers, downtown Miami becomes the center of the literary world when the Miami Book Fair International (MBFI) welcomes hundreds & thousands of people who attend readings and discussions featuring prize-winning, best selling and emerging authors from the U.S. and around the world."
"Academic criticism of the sale of the trove of 18,000 texts dating back to the 15th Century has emerged 18 months after the council first announced it was planning the sell off to fund library improvements in Cardiff."
"Samantha and Don live on a small farm in Southern Maine with their dog, cats and chickens. Together, they seek the experience only a good bottle of wine and some well-cooked local, fresh foods can provide. That is, if they can decide on a recipe."
"It’s a rainy Saturday morning, and customers idly browse the stacks at Cheever Books, one of San Antonio’s last remaining independent bookstores. Occupying a well-kept, whitewashed storefront on Broadway near the Witte Museum, Cheever Books is the hometown bookstore’s Platonic ideal. Its stacks reach the high, old-fashioned ceilings, and have been organized for maximum visual old-school appeal, as opposed to the merch-heavy endcaps of the big-chain box stores. "
"The home, also known as the Millard House -- it was built for Chicago transplant Alice Millard, a dealer in rare books and antiques -- uses more vertical lines than typical Wright designs. It is situated in a tree-covered ravine and sits among other notable neighborhood residences designed by Charles and Henry Greene, Wallace Neff and Myron Hunt."
"Yes, folks; it's time again to sign up for Alan and Helene Korolenko's "Book Lovers Greenwich Village Adventure" — a one-day trip to New York's Greenwich Village for a walking tour of over 20 independent new and used bookstores in a one-mile area."
"Nearly 2,000 bibliophiles scoured this weekend's used-book sale at Historic Locust Grove, hauling out bagfuls on subjects from Mexican architecture and reggae music to Stonewall Jackson and porcelain doll-making."
"Among the rarities for sale at the gallery is an Ortellius world atlas from the 1630s — hand-colored, still in its original binding and worth about $250,000. An original print of a turkey from artist John James Audubon's Elephant Portfolio is priced at $165,000. Smaller, less-rare books and maps start at $35."
"PLUMSTEAD - A 17th [18th] century stone barn converted into a home for a book dealer and his artist wife burned down Tuesday, destroying 30,000 rare books the man had collected."
"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."
"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."
" 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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. "
"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."
"Coco de Mer's brand new website offers customers all of Coco de Mer saucy favourites including Apothecary, Lingerie, Bondage, Gifts, Jewellery, Erotic Accessories, Books, Designer sex toys, Homeware and Spanking tools, as well as new online sections showcasing Art, Betony Veron Jewellery, Corsets, Vintage and Rare books."
"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."
"SMALL cosy places like this give Helsinki a surreal feeling similar to that of Mr Magorium’s fairy world or Amélie Poulain’s charm. Oh, how aesthetic: read a rare book, drink green tea, converse with a passing traveller."
"Email from proprietor Michael Dawson announces that Los Angeles' oldest bookstore, now located on Larchmont Boulevard, will go to appointment only. Dawson's has sold books in L.A. since 1905 and for a while also published books."
"One of northeast Ohio's most notable bookstores is putting its rare inventory up for auction, NewsChannel5 reported. "
"Every town should have one - a great local bookstore, that is, and Peekskill is lucky to have Bruised Apple Books. It's like a well-loved study in a worn old manse, with appropriately creaky, wooden floors and books lining shelves that reach to the ceiling."
"There are a couple of reasons why independent bookstores are declining, but none applies to Jay's Book Stall in Oakland, closing Friday after 49 years."
"'I'm going to be 80 in August and waiting for 'Dancing With the Stars' to call,' Jay Dantry joked yesterday, explaining why he's retiring and closing down. He opened his shop, at 3604 Fifth Ave., in 1959, but has sold books for 53 years.'"
"Holzinger and the library volunteers who unearthed it don't even know who dropped off the 135-year-old book, a first American edition of Verne's novel about the mysterious Capt. Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus."
"The book will go on sale at noon today at a book sale benefiting the library. Holzinger coordinates similar sales at the library six times each year, but few feature a rare find such as the Verne novel."
"Clark predicts a two-volume, first edition set of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, dating from 1860, will be of keen interest to classical literature fans. Other rare books on offer will be an 1888 "first colonies edition," of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales and a 1930 first edition of William Faulkner's iconic As I Lay Dying."
"A self-described "bibliophile" or book lover, Lane displays at book fairs throughout New England and plans to continue doing so, as well as selling online, a practice he had to give up previously, "because I just had too many irons in the fire," he said. He is now looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones five days a week in Volumes' new location in Hampton."
" Have an old manuscript collecting dust in a drawer? Borders is also betting, smartly, on the trend toward self-publishing, offering a station where customers can submit manuscripts to be turned into bound books. While this service is widely available through other vendors, Borders offers a special enticement: It promises to consider these books for placement on store shelves or for book-signing events."
"The arrival of Chapters didn't hurt Ed Lemond, because his niche at Moncton's Attic Owl bookstore was selling used and rare books, but Lemond says he couldn't compete with the popularity of internet bookselling on massive sites like Amazon."
"The new shop will be many things: a sister store to Glenn Horowitz Bookseller at 87 Newtown Lane, an extension of a business on 64th Street in New York called John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, and an expression of the personal tastes of Mr. McWhinnie, an art and rare books dealer who has a house in Northwest Woods. Its name itself is a hybrid: John McWhinnie and Glenn Horowitz Bookseller."
"Discovered in an Oxfam shop, the rare copy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet, sold for more than £15,000 after a bidding war between buyers in the US and the UK."
"The first edition book broke its upper reserve price of £9,000 to fetch £15,500 at the Bonhams Auction in Oxford."
"Bauman Rare Books, a familiar landmark on Madison Avenue in New York for lovers of antiquarian books and autographs, announces its opening at The Shoppes at The Palazzo in Las Vegas. Visitors to the new luxury retail center can take home something truly unusual -- like an inscribed copy of Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea or a 1550 printing of Chaucer. This is the third location for proprietors Dave and Natalie Bauman."
"RARE Victorian maps of Edinburgh – as well as hand drawings of the city's first tram routes – are to be included in the world's biggest charity book sale."
"The collection was gifted to organisers of the annual Christian Aid fundraiser, being held this weekend at St Andrew's and St George's Church on George Street."
"Considered a Kansas City landmark for history enthusiasts, David R. Spivey Rare Books, Maps and Fine Arts is a destination of historic items."
"A first American edition of "Bambi" by Felix Salten and a signed copy of Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" will be among the rare books offered at this year's St. Louis Book Fair. "
"City Lights. Started by political gadfly Marc Emery in 1975, it's been owned and operated by Teresa Tarasewicz and Jim Capel since 1992. With narrow aisles and floor-to-ceiling shelves jammed with inventory, it's no place for claustrophobics."
"Mike McIntyre and Dan Moore met an unfilled need when they opened their academically oriented used-book store in 1983. They still do - but the niche just got smaller."
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"From students to artists to designers to theorists to activists – Daryaganj is the favourite place to be on a Sunday. Life begins at 7am every Sunday, over the decades for its thriving old book bazaar. This bazaar is a paradise for book lovers all over Delhi and beyond, as a mind-boggling variety of rare books are usually available in this market at very affordable prices. "
"Admirers of Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, for example, may want works by authors such as such as Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. In fact, books by an author of note that were owned by an important figure from history are among the most sought after. "
"Acres of Books, LB's iconic downtown bookstore at 240 LB Blvd., will be closing, possibly as soon as October 2008 or perhaps in up to a year, with the property owners accepting an offer from LB's Redevelopment Agency to buy the site."
"But fans of the bookstore need not get too distressed. A new, smaller location will open up at 86 Nassau Street, in Kensington Market. It'll still have the same name, but expect it to have a slightly different focus. Dan Bazuin will be getting out of the business entirely, and the new shop will be run by current partner Charles Huisken and his son."
"Las Vegas high rollers tired of Italian suits and stocked up on designer shoes for wives and lingerie for girlfriends now can turn to Walt Whitman or Benjamin Franklin to scratch their itch to spend."
"“The Federalist,” conceived in 1787 by the likes of James Madison and others, is a powerhouse of a historical document, according to Heritage Auction Gallaries of Dallas, which plans to unveil the book June 3-4."
"Its estimated value is $150,000 to $200,000."
"...after several hours in the company of the eccentric characters running the antique stores along Industrial Boulevard between Continental and Irving, the silver subcompact festooned with swirls of blue and purple paint, color feathers, and mirrored beads glued to the bumpers was simply par for the course. "
"PARIS: Rare-book lovers, museum buyers and fans of Napoleon flocked for a chance to bid on a rich archive on the emperor, put up for sale by former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin."
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"...when a scruffy looking copy of Graham Greene's Rumour at Nightfall appeared in a box of donated books at Oxfam's bookshop in St Giles, Andrew Chapman - one of the volunteers there - thought it might be worth a second look."
"Darilee Bednar doesn't believe in reincarnation. Still, she thinks she could have been a white Chinese dragon in a previous life."
'They horde things,' she said."
"The store is a reflection of Paul's eclectic taste - so bits and pieces that he has gathered on his travels can be found alongside his ready-to-wear collections. An assortment of special items, designed exclusively for Globe - rare books, photographic prints (some taken by Paul himself), and unique furniture - will also be available."
"Odyssey Books, the city's remaining independent book store, plans to close soon because of competition from national chains and online sellers."
"The Global Book Exchange, a Marin nonprofit that collects and distributes used books to children in developing countries, was informed by the city that it must get out of its Hamilton location by the end of the month after eight years there."
"Belkhir left a career as a Xerox Corp. researcher to start Kirtas Technologies in 2001, and turning books into gigabytes is proving to be a booming business for the Victor firm, which makes both the robotic equipment and software for digitizing books and other documents. "
"Here's what you won't find in Tom Macaluso's bookshop in Kennett Square:
Paperbacks, textbooks, self-help books, abridged books, Hollywood biographies. "
"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. "
"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. "
"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".
"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."
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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."
"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. "
"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, Ore., or tuning into the Beltway buzz at Washington's Politics & Prose."
"A World of Books, the last remaining bookstore in San Leandro, has changed hands from 30-year owner Barbara Keenan to Anthony Owen Smith, a native of England and specialist in rare books."
"When is a bookstore worth a tourist's time
When it's more than just a place to buy books.
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 into the Beltway buzz at Washington's Politics and Prose."
"Of all the great guidebook series, none has ever attained such heights as Baedeker. A hundred years ago, its books were so indispensable that EM Forster was in no way exaggerating when he had the heroine of A Room with a View burst into tears in a Florentine church when she realised she had left her book in her room. Without it, she had no way of knowing what was beautiful, and what should be ignored. "
"Like many of the independent bookstore's faithful customers, the pair has shopped at the place for decades. But times are changing, as buyers choose books at chains such as Barnes & Noble, online at Amazon.com or at discount stores such as Costco."
"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 into the Beltway buzz at Washington's Politics and Prose."
"Some bookstores offer literary touchstones, like the wooden chairs signed by writers who've visited That Bookstore in Blytheville, an Arkansas institution frequented by native son John Grisham."
"'There was a guy in here who said all used books are haunted by the people who owned them before," Drummond said"'
"Fortunately, the customer didn't scare anyone away. At the beginning of year two, shoppers continue to stop by Mojo. Students purchase books for school. Baby boomers take home retro items. Collectors buy and trade."
"For the first time since 1940, the Arthur Szyk Haggadah will be produced in an edition based upon the artist's original drawings. Szyk's beloved Haggadah, a triumphant and enduring work of hope and courage, drawn and first published during the rise of Hitler, is admired the world over."
"TAMPA - You can buy a Hummer and a Prius for the price of some rare books."
"But price doesn't seem to faze the truly driven bibliophile, the collector who values a book above any kind of car."
"They came from miles around for the mother of all book sales Saturday. They arrived with boxes, baskets and shopping carts to haul away used volumes by the thousands."
"For book lovers of all stripes, it was a momentous occasion: After 27 years as a Southern California institution, the Book Baron of Anaheim was calling it quits."
"If you're interested in gifting books this season, an easy shortcut is to head to one of your local bookstores and ask the employees for their educated guesses. Bookstore employees have their attentions so carefully trained on the book industry that they are able to find many soon-to-be bestsellers. To start off my holiday shopping, I queried sellers at several of Uptown’s local independent bookstores to see what they would recommend for the upcoming season."
"To keep pace with modern times, it sometimes helps to have an old soul."
"The Complete Traveller antiquarian bookstore has survived close to 30 years unscathed, despite the shark-like presence of big-box booksellers and giant online retailers."
"There’s even a rotating 3D image of several ‘high spots’ (very collectible true modern firsts, signed or association copies, scarce and rare editions) that allows the browser a virtual examination of a book’s dust jacket, spine, front, back and even fore-edge! This is the booksite for the serious book collector in India."
"A 17th century book believed to be bound in the skin of a priest executed for treason appears to bear a "spooky" image of his face on the cover, according to the auctioneers who are selling the book."
"A piece of American history that had been locked in a Shrewsbury Historical Society safe for years sold Sunday at auction for $693,500, the second highest price ever paid for such a document."
"I got hooked in junior high school,' Stoutamyer remembered. 'It was 'The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,' that did it, and from that point on, I read a lot and bought a lot of books. But I never thought of books as a [possible] business.'
Yet now they are. Stoutamyer recently opened Stoutamyer Fine Books in Middleburg..."
"I found the Lame Duck Bookstore when I wasn’t looking for it. Searching for Raven, a popular used bookstore in Harvard Square, Cambridge, I found myself before the Lame Duck. The sign said, “Rare, Out of Print and Antiquarian Books”. I had never been inside a proper antiquarian bookstore before — had not dared to because I was certain I could never afford a really rare book."
"Svetlana Aronov, a 44-year-old rare-book dealer, disappeared on March 3, 2003, after stepping out of her York Avenue co-op to walk the family's cocker spaniel. "
"Yesterday, at an auction at Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries, Butler forked over $119,500 for the collection of Che Guevara goodies that once belonged to former CIA agent Gustavo Villoldo. Among the items Butler picked up: "fingerprints, maps, letters, newspaper clippings, and dozens of death photographs of Che and his fellow guerrillas" -- and, yes, that infamous 3-inch lock of Guevara's hair, only slightly better than a Che T-shirt or shooter glass."
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"Chris handles all the buying of used books, and his father plays detective with rare books and making transactions in many states and several foreign countries. Rare books represent about 60 percent of the business — one that focuses unashamedly on LDS-related books and periodicals."
"The leather-bound album contains the signatures of hundreds of football players, painstakingly collected by avid fan Alec White in 1936."
"Mr White visited more than 45 clubs across the UK to collect the treasured signatures."
"Loome's Antiquarian Booksellers in Stillwater, Minnesota is closing at the end of the year. Stillwater sits on the fabulous St. Croix, just Northeast of St. Paul, and it has been known as America's Booktown. Loome's provides books for the discerning reader, and it can no longer compete with Amazon and the used book market on the Internet..."
"A 400-year-old handwritten copy of the Holy Quran is fetching offers of up to $4.3 million for its sale."
"The centuries-old copy of the central religious text of Islam belonged to a Yemeni Islamic scholar who gave the book to a Qatari national in Makkah during last year’s holy month of Ramadan..."
"Where did the idea for your business come from? If you're old enough to remember Andy Hardy movies, and the "let's put on a play off the cuff" attitude, then you know how we started. "
"It was "let's open a bookstore." We both sold books at a swap meet. It was a short step to combining our businesses under a roof."
"Although originally distributors of remainder books, Aardvark has evolved to become a retailer of new titles, out of print books and rare books purchased at auction, from collectors or at estate sales."
"Holzman specializes in rare books and historical ephemera, but since he buys mostly from local homes, his shop also has a random cross section of whatever walks through the door. At any given time, in addition to the books, prints, autographs, photos, posters, pamphlets, and political buttons that compose his primary stock, you may also find a Windsor chair, a pewter coffeepot, a bust of Shakespeare, a Shaker box, a Fulper pot, an odd scientific device, Victorian jewelry, some portrait miniatures, or Chester A. Arthur's copy of Picturesque Europe."
" It's possible, at the Wonder Room, to buy a copy of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (an edition written under the pen name Victoria Lucas and stored, fittingly, under a bell jar) or a first edition of Mae West's autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It, for £600 ($1,300)."
"Aiming at inculcating and encouraging the reading habit, especially among children and youth, the fair simultaneously offers an enormous scope for transacting business with publishers from India and abroad, building new contacts and entering co-publishing arrangements. It will also offer opportunities for translation and copyright arrangements and reprinting of old and rare books as well as major international works."
"The Frame estate sale also includes first editions of The Right Thing, by C.K. Stead, signed by him; Ambulando, by Charles Brasch, signed by Frame; Enter Without Knocking, by Denis Glover, signed "J Clutha Dunedin 1965" - Clutha being a name Frame used while living in London in the 1950s."
"The sale of 600 items also features rare books from the collection of the late bibliophile Dr Corrie McLachlan."
"Madeleine Stern, who died Saturday at 95, was a leading Manhattan rare-book dealer and one-half of a team of literary sleuths that discovered the secret "blood-and-thunder" writings of Louisa May Alcott."
"Imagine this: You need a copy of 'The Great Gatsby' for a class. You've gone to three book stores and you've found 'The Beautiful and Damned' and 'The Last Tycoon,' but no 'Gatsby.' Thats when you notice an Espresso Book Machine. You wander over, scroll through a list of available titles, and "Ah Ha!" ... 'Gatsby.' Fifteen minutes later you have a perfect copy of 'The Great Gatsby' printed up and in your hands."
"GREAT BARRINGTON — Stepping across the threshold of Yellow House Books is like walking into a different era.
Shelves are jammed ceiling to floor with books of all description. The owners' cat makes itself at home near a can of pencils and more books. Pictures and posters are plentiful on walls."
"For those late night persons who would like to sample a little different Roma di Notte (Roma by night), there is the Arion bookstore at 42 Via Veneto which is open all night. It offers the night wanderer a cafe where one can sit and enjoy browsing through a good book while sipping a cappuccino."
"Don and Samantha Hoyt Lindgren's storefront shop, which opened in April, specializes in new, out-of-print, and rare books on food, wine, and the arts. With its modern track lighting, white walls, and jazz humming in the background, the open, spacious spot feels more art gallery than used bookshop."
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"The two are the legendary antiquarian booksellers Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern. Rostenberg was the first women President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and Stern was responsible for putting on the first Antiquarian Book Fair. "
"Now Leona and Mady, based on real-life friends who became rare book dealers, have one written about them, too. Leona Rostenberg (1909-2005) was the first female president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, while Madeleine Stern (born 1912) founded the first Antiquarian Book Fair. "
"You might come across a priceless gem if you are patient and browse long enough in Old Delhi's book market, which has been around for nearly forty years, writes Sanjay Podder."
"Joseph Campana's piece, Rare Books, appeared on the Kenyon Review blog last week. The jumping off point for Campana was the New York Times article on the closing of the Heritage Book Shop, one of the premier antiquarian book shops in the world."
"Beyond those basic steps, the creative designs and techniques for creating a cover design run the gamut from simple lettering to the award-winning design by Eleanore Edwards Ramsey of Sausalito -- whose "Huckleberry Finn" design depicted a map of Missouri and surrounding states in different leathers."
"Once in Southern California, brothers Ben and Lou opened a secondhand store in Compton. They found that books sold for the highest profit, and began to focus on them. Eventually, they moved from used books to rare and collectible books, and established Heritage Book Store, an antiquarian shop on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood with an international reputation."
"Spencer, 63, has operated his bookstore on Front Street for 31 years, offering both new and used books -- about 75,000 on three floors -- and carving a niche for his business with rare books, prints and original architects' drawings."
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"Davis-Kidd Booksellers and FlatSigned Press, Inc. of Nashville will celebrate Independence Day by jointly sponsoring a public viewing of an original 1776 printing of the United States Declaration of Independence."
"All hail the independent book seller. The only thing stopping you -- other than getting your boss to give you some time off -- might be where to begin. Every neighborhood boasts at least one independently owned bookshop."
"Before the Internet, before online retail discount giants like Amazon.com and before the rise of chain bookstores, independent booksellers could count on customers to spend hours browsing the shelves and walk out of the store with several tomes in hand."
"Ben Weinstein will rent an office in the Pacific Design Center and serve as a "book broker," or middleman for some of his old clients, looking for books to serve specific needs and interests rather than accumulating an inventory. Lou Weinstein, who was in Jamaica for a wedding last week, will retire and live in Arizona. The 12,000 reference texts that helped the brothers to assess rare books will go to UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."
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"We were waylaid, after about 20 yards, by Piccadilly Rare Books, where I hoped there might be a special section devoted to the local luminary. The kindly gentleman at the counter didn't know of him, but he soon dug out of the stockroom The Poet in the Landscape, a collection of Young's prose from 1962."
"What struck me on this return -- I stayed on the Place de la Sorbonne -- was the intellectual vitality of Paris. There are bookstores everywhere, stores dedicated to every imaginable literary specialty, so many you wonder how any bookseller makes a living. The best ones are the rare books shops, where a bell tinkles and an old gent in a chair nods as you enter. In one old medical bookstore near the Faculté de Mèdecine I leafed through accounts of anesthesia through the ages, learning about the relative merits of chloroform v. ether. Before that, they just held you down and cut you open."
"Foodies now have a book-filled haven in Portland, Maine. Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and her husband, Don Lindgren -- she is an editor turned pastry chef and he a former rare-book dealer -- have opened Rabelais at 86 Middle St. The shop, in a neighborhood known for its restaurants, sells new, used, and rare books for the wine connoisseur, serious cook, and armchair epicure."
"Michael Scott became a bookseller to support his mother and younger brother and sister -- 'I think I sold my first book when I was 21,' he said -- but he always found time to write."
"The store was founded by Ben Bass on what was known as Book Row, which at the time housed 48 bookstores. Today it's run by Fred and Nancy Bass. When asked how the business changed over the past 80 years and if people are still as literary as they once were, Fred Bass answered:..."
"For generations of book-lovers in Calcutta, foraging through books in that mecca of the bibliophile, College Street, carries memories. Once College Street used to be one of the few haunts in the city for books, with Gol Park and Free School Street as alternative venues. "
"By the next morning, Gekoski had sold it to a rich book collector (Bernie Taupin, Elton John’slong-time lyricist) for £9,000. The moment it had gone out of his hands he felt bad. He had wanted to keep it with him. In 1992, Gekoski traced the book and bought it back for £13,000. After owning itfor a short while, he sold it again to a book collector. In 2002, the book appeared at a Christie’ssale and sold for an astounding $264,000."
"Hmm, what is this? I met Jared and Amanda Patchin, owners of the just-opened Veritas Fine Books and Coffeehouse, 3500 Chinden Blvd. "
"...It's a used and rare bookstore that specializes in western American and Idaho history. "
"One of the most notorious book thieves on record - John Charles Gilkey - was pursued for more than three years by book collector Ken Saunders."
"Saunders, owner of Ken Saunders Rare Books in Salt Lake City, is the honored bookseller at today's Gold Rush Book Fair at the Nevada County Fairgrounds."
"The entire contents of the 87-year-old Gotham Book Mart - from rare first-edition John Updike novels to the worn-out oriental rug on the third floor - was sold en masse for $400,000 at a court-mandated auction. "
"The line outside the Gotham Book Mart in Midtown snaked down the block yesterday morning. Several dozen eager bargain hunters, book dealers, art collectors and former employees of the storied shop waited to bid on a piece of literary history."
"Instead, as a premonition of what is to come, even the intersection of Broadway and 12th Street is liberally strewn with metal carts of $1- and 50-cent books. No beady-eyed staffers loiter about to make sure you don’t nip off with a crumbling paperback, so the conviction in individual honesty seems touching. On the other hand, if I had 18 miles of books, I’d probably have to lodge some of them on the street too. "
"HALIFAX — The door to Brian Purdy's basement apartment in Halifax's north end is more square than rectangular, a hatch entered ducking down."
"A few short steps land you in the middle of his living room, which doubles as his new bookstore, Back Alley Books, with its untreated wooden shelves stocked with vintage, collectible and signed works of literary fiction, art and non-fiction. They range from rare hardcover editions to what Purdy terms 'paperback originals.'"
"One book in the collection, available for $3,000, is a first edition of a play written by Jack London. The Popeks spent three months researching it."
"'There was mention that he wrote it,' Michael Popek said, 'but there were no known copies available. That's when pricing books becomes difficult: There's no standard.'"
"She [Mina Hemingway] also wrote an introduction for a special printing of her grandfather's classic and The Old Man and the Sea, the sales of which benefit the Ocean Conservancy. This book is only available locally, and most conveniently at Mina Hemingway's Florida Book Store, which is located in the Pavilion Shopping Center at 857 Vanderbilt Beach Rd. That same address had already been a destination bookstore for over 20 years before Mina started her business there this past September."
"Tucker had a passion for rare books, rock and folk music, and heavy drinking. While the varied group of Ithacans he befriended spoke of his wild side (e.g. bartending New Year's Eve at The Nines and buying junky used cars to drive down to New Orleans or to California on a lark), they equally expressed their admiration for his kindness.
'He never said a bad word about anyone,' said Julie Jordan, the former owner of the Cabbagetown Café.'"
"On a trip to the Brighton Aquarium, Burne-Jones found himself gawping at her tattoos – particularly the version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper which covered the vast expanse of her back."
"Visiting both authors' homes provided a fascinating study in 19th-century class and society in America. Should you be headed to the Berkshires—for live music at Tanglewood, a Shakespeare performance, or rugged adventure in the mountains—consider stopping for a visit at the homes of these literary greats. Even if you're unfamiliar with their works (as was my traveling companion), you won't be disappointed."
"Linda Steadman, owner of Too Many Books in Roanoke, says one of the strangest finds she remembers stumbling across in Roanoke was a rare book of witchcraft spells. She bought it for $1, sold it for a $150. 'It had the sticker of the Aleister Crowley bookshop in Jacksonville (Fla.) in it, and I’m from Jacksonville,' she said. Crowley was an infamous occult figure. 'It was very synchronistic.'"
"Richard Booth turned a sleepy village on the Welsh border into a place where thousands of bibliophiles flock each year to mingle with authors, browse the shelves and celebrate the written word."
"Ungar, 58, is a former rabbi who runs a rare-book-and-manuscript business out of his home office. He has devoted much of his energy over the past 20 years to collecting and promoting the work of Szyk, who fell into relative obscurity after his death in 1951."
"Some of the most attended events at this year’s Literary Festival included talks by ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts and a talk by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, who co-wrote the book ‘Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War.
"Joseph Blackburn loves going on safaris in the Book Gallery, a used and rare bookstore in El Paso since the 1950s and now looking at closing down."
"The store is so popular among literary circles in El Paso and the United States that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, a longtime customer, still drops in sometimes."
"Gruber's story revolves around the search for the most sought-after document in the world: a new play by William Shakespeare. In his own handwriting. To get an idea of how precious such a treasure would be, consider that for 400 years the entire Shakespeare industry has managed to find only six tiny samples of the playwright's handwriting: signatures (all misspelled) on a few legal documents. What would a Shakespeare scholar do to find an entire play in the Bard's hand? Whom would a criminal mastermind kill to steal it?"
"SOUTH BURLINGTON -- Whether they were there looking for a nautical map of Lake Champlain or an "exaggerated postcard," seekers of stories, notes, poems and announcements from years past had a day to dig through some of the state's biggest collections Sunday at the Vermont Antiquarian Spring Book Fair. "
"Sherwood said the auction this year will include two first editions by Mark Twain, a copy of "Knock on Any Door" signed by Humphrey Bogart, and a copy of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" signed by author Maurice Sendak."
"A rare book of poetry published in 1895 by American Indian E. Pauline Johnson will be auctioned, too."
"The library of the late Frank Streeter, an American collector who focused on acquiring vintage books about the European exploration and mapping of the New World, includes more than $1 million worth of coveted first editions published by Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec, pioneering Pacific navigator George Vancouver, and Alexander Mackenzie, the first person to complete a coast-to-coast crossing of Canada."
"The United States Postal Service will change the way it ships internationally, causing problems for smaller independent booksellers, the New York Times reported. As of mid-May, goods will no longer be transported via cargo ships for individual customers."
"Hamburg (kk) - Carrying an estimate of € 25 000, the important “Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei ...” by the brilliant landscape architect and garden designer Prince Hermann Pückler-Muskau is to go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst auction of Rare Books - Manuscripts - Autographs - Decorative Prints to be held at Meßberg 1, Hamburg, on May 21 & 22, 2007."
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"The post office said last month that as of mid-May, it would no longer transport goods internationally via cargo ships for individual customers. These so-called surface deliveries have been the crucial method by which booksellers have sold books to foreign markets because the cost is about one-third that of air mail. "
"In London, the same auction house conducted the tenth auction from the extensive library of the Earls of Macclesfield, bringing the total so far from the one library to more than $48 million. That should have everyone pulling out their first-edition Enid Blytons. Among the extremely rare books sold was a copy of the first printed atlas of England and Wales, printed between 1579 and 1590 by Yorkshire surveyor Christopher Saxon. It fetched $1.63 million, the highest recorded price ever paid for this particular book. "
"One leading alchemist is a Manhattan rare-book dealer named Glenn Horowitz, who in recent years has come to dominate the rarefied market in literary archives. Like the art and real estate markets, the archive market has gone through the roof, and Horowitz, with his wealthy clients and a belief that books will gain increasingly fetishistic status in the digital age, has helped bolster it. "
"SALT LAKE CITY -- A rare Book of Mormon and a hymnal each sold for $180,000 during an auction this week."
"The purchase price for both items is believed by some Mormon scholars to be among the highest ever paid for historic documents associated with the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
"Bill and his wife moved to Naples in 1990, when she signed up as the administrator at Lely Palms. Bill had been an urban planner, but after a few years in Naples he decided to follow the family business located in Duxbury, Mass., and start a used book outlet in Naples. Wickham Books South opened in 1993, and it continues to offer shelves of out-of -print and rare books..."
"A collection of rare books and letters is expected to fetch more than half a million pounds when it is auctioned.
Items on sale include first editions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland."
"Meet Wayne Pernu. He's what is known as a Book Scout. He's also a 40-something musician and journalist. But his main source of income comes from several hours a week in dirty thrift stores and at estate and library sales where he's on the hunt for bargain books that he can turn around and sell to Powell's or other used book stores. "
"SALT LAKE CITY - It’s a rare find left for years in a box in a barn. "
" A first edition Book of Mormon will be sold at an auction in New York City on March 22. It is owned by an antique dealer who purchased books and put them in an upstate New York barn before discovering the valuable text. "
"Jim Hinck, the founder of viaLibri, said that while many users of the site speak English, the new feature was necessary because of an increase of European users and booksellers and the popularity of international works."
"SAN FRANCISCO - Five years ago, Gary Frank decided to sell his bookstore here. The Booksmith had built up a fine reputation over a quarter of a century, thanks to an impressive series of author appearances and a high-traffic location in the old hippie neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. Yet hardly anyone expressed interest."
"The owners of Clayton Fine Books, Cameron and Donna Northhouse, are even more hospitable than the store itself. They are friendly and willing to lend a helping hand in finding books and ordering food or drinks. "
"Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) tax partner Martin Paisner, the son of the firm’s founder and adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair, is being sued for £400,000 over an alleged breach of contract. "
"The claim, which relates to a £2m rare book collection, has been brought by Wragge & Co on behalf of Valentine Rare Books (VRB)."
"Holly Sweezey loves to buy used books. She used to peruse the shelves of places like Left Bank Books at the Redlands Mall and the Novel Hovel in the Vons shopping center."
"Those places are long gone."
"The world's largest rare book fair celebrates its 40th year this weekend in San Francisco."
"More than 200 booksellers from around the world will gather at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair running Friday through Sunday..."
"The Holland Hall Book Fair will take place on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007, selling a huge quantity of used, rare and children's books for every type of reader. The rare books section will include collectible, first edition and hard-to-find publications. "
"Rising rents and competition from the chains have imperiled independents for years, but San Francisco used to think it was immune. Cody's and other Bay Area stores helped spark the Beat movement, encouraged the counterculture, fueled the initial protests against the Vietnam War. In a region that sees itself as smart and civilized, bookshops were things to be cherished."
"NAPLES, Fla. – Gene Frey, Twin Cities and Naples resident, and board member of the Naples Museum of Art, announced today a gift of the Heritage Edition of The Saint John’s Bible to the Naples Museum of Art through the Frey Family Foundation. Myra Daniels, chair and CEO of the Philharmonic Center of the Arts, received the gift on behalf of the Naples Museum of Art."
"Now book lovers can actually get to purchase their favourite paperback, hardbound, best sellers or academic texts at the click of a button. With A1Books USA officially being launched in India on December 12 last year, the site promises to be the biggest e-marketplace for books in town selling not only English books but books in Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and many other regional languages. And they just have to pay the price of the book and nothing for the conveyance or shipping charges. "
"Manning, 68, jumped at the chance to work on the show when host and co-producer Frank Winston first proposed the concept on Sept. 26. Winston had formerly worked as a radio host, but Manning said her career as the owner of a rare- book-and-print shop did not prepare her for the vicissitudes of being an executive producer. Now she writes the script for each half-hour episode (they tape two a month), handles the guest lineups and crew retention, and brings a dinner buffet before every show. "
"Over 200 rare booksellers from the US and around the world will congregate in California to participate in the country's largest rare book fair."
"This fair is full of antiquarian books of all varieties, from first-edition poetry collections to rare versions of cult novels."
"Arguably Los Angeles' signature independent bookshop, the store is a beacon for both prominent authors and passionate readers. A move would indelibly alter the store's identity, many feel. Dutton's, with its irregular layout, ripped carpet and books overflowing their shelves onto old flagstone floors, is considered by many to be not just a city institution but one of the nation's great idiosyncratic bookstores. "
"A Taipei bookstore is running a program that donates funds from book purchases to a charity for the second year.
"'Many people throw away books when they clean up their houses at the end of the lunar year,' said Mollie Tai owner of Mollie Used Books in Taipei, referring to the tradition of cleaning out one's house ahead of the start of a Lunar New Year."
"Among the treasure trove of historical papers that adorns the walls of the Raab Collection's new Center City office are: a letter from King George IV to Czar Alexander I; another from General George Washington to one of his spies; and the executive order signed by President William McKinley appointing Jacob Trieber to the federal bench, the first Jew to achieve the position. And that's just the beginning."
"Produced by the Rosenbach Museum & Library to commemorate the museum's 50th anniversary, The Rosenbach Company: A Tragicomedy is a rousing interpretation of the eccentric and passionate lives of the museum's founders, created by Obie award-winning artist Ben Katchor and singer/songwriter Mark Mulcahy. "
"It seems like every few weeks another venerated New York bookstore waves the white flag: Coliseum Books, near Bryant Park, filed for bankruptcy in September and closed its doors January 6, after 32 years. Murder Ink, on the Upper West Side, finally met its maker in December, after 34 years. And now the Gotham Book Mart, on East 46th Street, faces eviction. Publishers Weekly recently reported that New York ranked dead last nationally in "bookselling stores per resident." The state has just one store for every 43,000 residents."
"So it's natural that bookstores also show art. In San Francisco, Adobe Books was the center for both the artists of the Mission School (Barry McGee, Chris Johanson) and musicians of the neo-hippie or "freak-folk" movement (Devendra Banhart). In Boston, the rare book dealer Ars Libri is the latest home of legendary art dealer Mario Diacono. "
"And in St. Louis, Subterranean Books has been showing art for about two years in a mezzanine space."
"NEW YORK has always been known as a city capable of sating any desire: for money, for high fashion, for companionship. But if you're just a bespectacled out-of-towner who suffers from simple book lust, its eclectic collection of independent bookstores can scratch your itch, too."
"East of Kitanomaru lies Kanda district, divided into distinctive subdivisions such as Kanda-Jinbocho, packed with rare books dealers, literary agencies and publishers, and Kanda-Surugadai, near Ochanomizu Station, the place to shop for musical instruments."
"The store has been a name among New York bibliophiles for more than 32 years, and a mirror for their ethics, hygiene and larceny, at least according to George S. Leibson, a founding partner and the principal executive of Coliseum Books."
“'Running a bookstore is like running an insane asylum,' he said on Thursday."
"His intimate, pristine shop is an antiquarian’s paradise; the books are in amazing condition, and the genres and editions are varied. Specializing in incunabula, literally books “from the cradle,” Bruddenbrooks is laden with books printed between the inception of the Gutenberg Bible on February 23, 1455 and around 1500."
"Murder Ink, the mystery bookstore on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is going out of business after 34 years, along with its younger sister store, Ivy’s Books and Curiosities. On Monday the owner, Jay Pearsall, posted a sign in the window announcing that Dec. 31 would be the final day."
"Nothing was or is computerized — Navis used to keep track of her books in her head or in a series of small pads of paper in which she would record the author's name, every book he or she'd written and the number of copies she had. "
"The Limited Edition, numbered 501 to 10,000, and signed by Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Bobby Charlton, retails at £3,000. But if you really want to prove your love for a Red Devils fan, you will need to splash out £4,250 on the Icons Edition, of which there are 500 copies, each signed by Denis Law, Bryan Robson and Eric Cantona, as well as Sirs Alex and Bobby."
"A rare 1835 collection of hymns by Emma Smith for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fetched $273,600 at auction Tuesday — possibly the third-highest price ever for an LDS book."
"In the tiny but well-organized store with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, you can see the length and breadth of Canada's literary and publishing history. All the best dead authors are there in vintage editions, from Susanna Moodie, Mazo de la Roche, John Glassco and Irving Layton to Hugh MacLennan and Charles Ritchie, along with many other writers still living."
"A rare 1835 LDS hymnal will be auctioned by Christie's Auction House in New York today. Several Utah buyers are bidding on the tiny book, estimated to be worth between $200,000 and $300,000."
"The used book scene in Tel Aviv is like much of that city's culture - underground and spread out. There are more than a handful of shops selling books in every language in the Carmel Market area, on an unofficial corridor along King George and Allenby Streets, and a few others sporadically dotting the city. "
"And finally, something for everyone can be found at Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books in Long Beach, the largest used bookstore in the state. The store stretches one city block along Long Beach Boulevard and was designated a cultural heritage landmark by the city in 1990."
"Norman Levine was a college student attending New York University when he first discovered the business that would keep him happily employed for about the next 60 years. Monday, Nov. 27 marks the last day Editions Bookstore - formerly a mail order catalog before it became an Internet Web site - will be in operation, located on state Route 28 in Boiceville. "
"HYDERABAD: The favourite haunt for bibliophiles and students faded into memory on Monday when MCH officials demolished bookstalls at Koti amidst protests from booksellers. "
"Rare works by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope have fetched about £100,000 at auction.
The first edition books by 19th and 20th century authors - part of a sale of 3,000 books in Dorset - were snapped up by buyers from around the UK. "
"They found cheap premises and decided to have a bookshop on the ground floor, stocking rare books, alternative and radical literature and the gallery in the basement, showing works by the new conceptual artists."
"The caricatures that line the wall -- Heaney, Swift, Goldsmith, Wilde, Shaw, Joyce, Yeats, O'Casey -- are of the authors whose books dominate the shelves. But you can also find a younger generation of Irish writers, from Roddy Doyle to Anne Enright to Hugo Hamilton. Cathach has many titles in the Irish language. "
"Worcester native Jeffrey D. Mancevice got interested in antique books when he was still a student at Doherty Memorial High School. He earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and then he studied library science at Columbia University because it had a rare book program."
"Turkey is a multicultural country and has a long history. Books and magazines in Armenian, Greek, Hebrew and French languages were published in this country. There are old books written in five or six languages. On the other hand, in Europe you can find stores selling only poetry books but you don't have this chance in Turkey."
"Armed with a paltry annual grant from the government, the 112-year-old state-aided library is struggling to preserve its staggering collection of 3.5 lakh books and journals, 3,000-plus manuscripts, paintings, coins and sculptures. A bulk of the journals, periodicals and books are rare, dating back to the first publications."
"CBS producers had wanted a first-edition copy of the book for Lahr to read during the presentation. Rare-book dealers in New York City referred the network to Justin, who'd been collecting books since age 8. And he did indeed have an "Oz" first edition."
"'I remember meeting Mr. Lahr,'" said Schiller, of New York City, now a worldwide expert and dealer in rare literature for children. 'They had hoped to get Judy Garland also, but she was performing and sent her daughter instead.'"
"Richard Beards has found a formula that works for him. Since April of 1994, when not teaching in Philadelphia, he devotes his time to the Bookplace, close to his Kirkwood home. Beards started in the book business with a location in a co-op in Havre de Grace, Md."
"The University of Wisconsin has agreed to take part in Google Inc.'s bid to scan book collections of the world's great libraries, joining a second wave of backers for the controversial project, the two organizations said late on Wednesday."
"The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google plan to provide access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library, they said."
"NEW DELHI: At a time when Indian art is raking in millions of dollars in the world market, the work of some of the most famous painters from the country will go under the hammer on Wednesday here, and organisers say records could be set."
"One hundred and thirtyone works of arts and 13 old and rare books will go under the hammer at the auction, Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, featuring artists like Jamini Roy, Nandlal Bose, SH Raza, Nicholai Roerich and MF Husain. "
"A rare 19th century book worth several thousands of pounds has been donated to a charity bookshop in Devon.
The anonymous donation was made to an Exeter Oxfam shop in July, but has only just been valued at £4,500."
"The used and rare book shop in Cleveland, Ohio, is an online resource for readers who want to track down titles and authors of books they remember -- but only vaguely -- from childhood."
"Ken Sanders is not merely a book lover. His devotion runs deeper than that. "
"No, Sanders has full-fledged bibliomania. The bookstore owner exhibits all the classic symptoms of the disorder listed by Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia: buying 'multiple copies of the same book and [the] accumulation of books beyond possible capacity of use.'"
"Hunsicker couldn't say exactly when Ferrini's antiquities will be put up for auction. While ownership of a couple of items, such as pieces of the famed Gospel of Judas, is still in dispute, he said he hopes the collection can be auctioned sometime next year."
"Ferrini also owns an extremely rare book featuring sketches by artist and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci."
"For John King, owner of John K. King Used & Rare Books, the plotline of the used bookstore business is too similar to the Agatha Christie whodunit 'And Then There Were None.'"
But the culprit is no mystery here. 'The Internet has turned the used book market upside down,' King says."
"In 1934, the great surrealist photographer Man Ray published a book, Photographies 1920-1934, in Paris. But it didn't sell, and never went into a second printing."
"Over time, though, it was acclaimed as one of the great photography books of all time. It has been reprinted a couple of times, but the original French edition is exceptionally rare, and very, very expensive."
"Guess where one was just found? At the Hartland landfill in Saanich."
"The city’s oldest bookseller is Dawson’s, an antiquarian bookshop where buyers can find Californiana ranging from Sierra Club bulletins from the early 1900s to a rare book of engravings by the woodblock printmaker Paul Landacre."
"CODY - Nationally known book dealer and auctioneer Dorothy Sloan will conduct a rare-book auction at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center on Oct. 18. The auction of more than 250 items, which Sloan has assembled from collectors throughout the country, will benefit the McCracken Research Library and will be dominated by rarities on ranching, cowboys and borderlands as well as Wyoming and regional history. The event will take place in two sessions, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m."
"With Brant Point Books closing Sunday, and Mitchell’s Book Corner on the market, Nantucket Bookworks may soon be the only store open for the island’s bibliophiles. "
“'The bookstore cannot support the financing of the building,' said Mimi Beman, owner of Mitchell’s Book Corner. Beman’s parents founded Mitchell’s in 1968, and she took over the operation in 1978. 'During two months of the year, they are buying books,'she said."
"An Oct. 7 re-enactment of a public hanging that took place before a crowd of 5,000 spectators in Mineral Point in 1842 has been postponed, leaving only a ghost of a chance the idea will be resurrected in the spring."
"...Local writer Paula vW. Dail and Gayle Bull, owner of the antiquarian-rare-book Foundry Bookstore, hatched the idea more than a year ago, hoping to exploit the death-by-hanging sentence carried out on William Caffee, convicted of murder in 1842 by a territorial court jury."
'The bookshop is one of the great treasures of our city,'said the executive director of the Poetry Society of America and poetry editor at the New Yorker, Alice Quinn. Her book of new uncollected poems of Elizabeth Bishop was feted there this year, and the Knopf Poetry Series was launched there in 1980. "It's just a magical place, one that feels personally important to so many of us.'"
"Founded in 1920 by Frances Steloff, Gotham became a literary oasis for authors and publishing figures, some of whom got their start working there. According to a story in the New York Times by Herbert Mitgang, Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) worked there as clerks, but Tennessee Williams did not last a day. For one thing, 'He didn't know how to wrap packages.'"
"DAYTON DEANERY — It seems only fitting that the pastor of Dayton’s oldest church, Emmanuel, bless the opening of Kubik Fine Books Ltd. in Oakwood, which its co-owner/manager Owen D. Kubik believes provides 'one of the nation’s largest selections of used, older, rare and out-of-print Catholic books.'
"Marianist Father Lee Sciarrotta blessed the store in a Sept. 7 ceremony, which was positioned between an official ribbon cutting, a cocktail reception and a weekend open house at 24 Park Street on Dayton’s south side."
"THE contents of a stately home with links to two British naval heroes - and James Bond - are expected to fetch up to £3 million at auction."
"More than two centuries of history will go under the hammer when Sotheby's sells the contents of Shrubland Hall in Barham, near Ipswich, between September 19 and 21."
"Just like their new-book counterparts, used book sellers are facing challenges from online competition."
"But at Copperfield’s Used & Rare Books in Petaluma, manager and senior buyer Art Kusnetz is directing a business strategy that seeks to keeps pace with the ever-changing world of online commerce, while at the same time maintaining the business’ tried-and-true brick and mortar business."
"Millions of mobile users in India can now request to receive SMS alerts as new books and bestsellers become available at Oxford Bookstore. This SMS service provides readers with access to an in-depth database of books across 43 categories. The database is updated daily, keeping readers informed about authors, publications, and new releases. Customers can also use this service to send a query on any book or author, or to post comments or feedback to Oxford Bookstore."
"WHEN Eamonn de Burca stepped onto the boat for England in 1968, he carried with him his most prized possession: a copy of The History of Ireland by Thomas Moore, published in 1862."
He had bought it two years previously from a schoolmate in Castlebar, Co Mayo for IR£1 (€1.27). 'That was the start of my bibliomania. I have been collecting ever since.'"
"'For collectors, there is magic in just holding very special manuscripts,' says Peter Petrej, a Swiss seller of antiquarian books whose shop Antiquariat Peter Petrej near the University of Zurich is a cozy place to explore for signed and limited editions."
" Sanders store is pure bliss for bibliophiles, who delight in its rare Utah and Mormon books, concert posters and antique maps. The owner also specializes in certain authors, including Wallace Stegner, B. Traven, and Edward Abbey. Sanders says a highlight of being in the book business over the years was interacting with such literary lions as Stegner, Wendell Barry, Chuck Bowden and especially Abbey, who became his close friend. "
"Bookworms will also enjoy the 17th annual Antiquarian Book Fair, part of the summer antiques show. Sixty dealers will offer rare books, first editions, fine manuscripts, autographs and unusual bibliographical material."
"'With the rise of selling books on the Internet, many traditional brick-and-morter stores are closing,' said owner Owen Kubik in a press release issued Wednesday. 'But we decided to buck the trend. Yes, we sell books online, but we decided to have a local presence as well where people could actually see, touch and feel a book before buying it.'"
"Google is making waves in the publishing industry by offering free PDFs of out-of-copyright books."
"Classic literature fans will be able to download Dante's Divine Comedy, access Aesop's Fables and get hold of other popular classics and rare books that are no longer subject to copyright through Google's Book Search service."
"'In the used book business there's really two styles of bookstores,' said Tom, the President of Dean's Books in Topeka. 'One's antiquarian that deals more with first additions and rare books, and then we're the other type which is more just modern fictions and pleasure reading, but non-fiction as well.'
"Dean's Books is the oldest used bookstore in Topeka."
"This was a book lover's dream: According to its Web site, Oxfam is the largest retailer of secondhand books (including rare books and antiques) in Europe, selling some 11 million each year. In 2005, a 17th-century treatise on economics brought in some $30,000 at auction."
"Here I found unique titles such as "Recollections of a Westminster Antiquary" by Lawrence E. Tanner, keeper of the library muniments of Westminster Abbey, 1926-1966, for $7, and "Memoirs of a Victorian Cabinet Maker" by James Hopkinson, 1819-1894, discovered by his granddaughter in an old trunk in 1966 and published in 1968."
"Only a brass plaque hints at the treasures inside the tidy white house with forest green trim at 2005 T St. in Sacramento: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, est. 1975, it says."
"All the walls of the two-bedroom home are lined with musty books that smell of a different era -- there's a book about manners from 1899, a book in French on sex and marriage from 1911, and a two-volume set on Ulysses S. Grant from 1868."
"Only a brass plaque hints at the treasures inside the tidy white house with forest green trim at 2005 T St. in Sacramento: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, est. 1975, it says."
"All the walls of the two-bedroom home are lined with musty books that smell of a different era -- there's a book about manners from 1899, a book in French on sex and marriage from 1911, and a two-volume set on Ulysses S. Grant from 1868."
"Bangalore, Karnataka, India: 'Integrate and Innovate' have been the ‘keywords’ behind the initiatives spearheaded by Oxford Bookstore in the new media. In conjunction with their pioneering business model of being the first integrated offline-online bookstore in India, Oxford Bookstore now launches an interactive SMS service to update booklovers on new releases and bestsellers on their mobile phones. In a strategic alliance with Mobile 365, the global leader in mobile messaging and data services, Oxford Bookstore brings this unique SMS service across India through the shortcode ‘6365.’ "
"NEW HAVEN -- A rare books dealer who has been using Yale University's map collection since his undergraduate days has pledged to give his alma mater $100,000 to help bring the massive collection into the modern era. "
"Still smarting from the theft of dozens of priceless maps - some taken by disgraced map dealer E. Forbes Smiley III - Yale hopes to make the collection more secure but also to improve its accessibility to scholars."
"Outwardly, Eva Tihanyi and Robert Giannetti might not seem to have much in common. There are two strong connections that they share, though: a deep love of poetic expression and a strong connection to the Niagara Frontier. "
"Giannetti was born in New York City and later came to this area to earn his Bachelor’s at Niagara University. A life-long businessman, he’s only recently refocused on what is perhaps his true love: literature. A former managing partner of a human resources firm, Giannetti now operates a small rare book business in Atlanta, Georgia."
"Brothers Joel and Sam Hyde are going through their own divorce of sorts, as Joel leaves Hyde Bros., Booksellers behind, to open up Every Other Book, a used bookstore set to open at noon Tuesday at 3208 Crescent Ave."
"When Berkeley's Black Oak Books closed its North Beach branch in San Francisco this summer, there was no hassle dealing with the thousands of volumes that made up the used-book inventory. "
"Black Oak cut a deal with Powell's Books, the world's largest independent purveyor of used books. Powell's has eight stores in Portland, Ore., making the city a mecca for used-books lovers, and a Web site (www.powells.com) that's become the go-to destination for anyone seeking a hard-to-find tome. "
"One day my journeys led me to one of the great eccentrics of the America book trade
- Mr. Samuel Kleinman."
"Sam Kleinman's Schuykill Book Shop (or Book Service) was located near the corner of Lancaster and Belmont Avenues in West Philadelphia, not too far from our apartment. The neighborhood had seen better days (probably the last "better days" were before World War Two). It was a storefront shop, painted dark green. The display widows looked like they had not been changed since those long gone "better days". The books, posters, ephemera, and what nots in the window were broken, faded, stained, and warped. Everything had sort of deteriorated to an almost uniform light blue gray color. The show window itself, probably not having been cleaned within the last decade, seemed to have a similar color."
"Naturally, in this town of achievers and suburban sophisticates, there’s a great bookstore right downtown, the quirky and genuinely independent Montclair Book Center at 221 Glenridge Avenue, with scuffed wooden floors and many stacks of new, used and rare books. "
"With the launch of another creative industry base in Beijing, "Culture-Subject Plaza," Disanji Bookstore, Beijing's largest bookstore so far, finally opened its doors last Saturday (July 16). Beyond its massive scale, what makes this new bookstore special? Let's follow China Drive reporter Zhou Jing to find out more. "
"To the dismay of bibliophiles everywhere, most small bookstores have already been out-competed by corporate bookstore chains like Borders and Internet retailers like Amazon."
"Christian bookstores, with their specific and devoted clientele, enjoyed a bit more insulation from those threats."
"But now, independent store-owners like Steller say their biggest competition comes from department stores and general merchandisers like Wal-Mart, which have started carrying the hottest items on the Christian market at big-box bargain prices."
"As with many treasures, the 44-year-old Apollo Book Shop is buried in its background, overlooked by the masses and left behind by the times. It is believed to be Orange County's last used-only bookstore."
"Next year, there may be none."
"A rare book signed by the Edinburgh man behind one of Scotland's great sporting triumphs has been discovered in a bag of books handed to a charity shop."
"Fifty years ago this summer, team manager David Murray led the relatively unknown Ecurie Ecosse team to victory in the famous Le Mans 24 hour race."
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"Scottsdale book dealers Charles Parkhurst, Richard Murian and Linda Moore are treasure hunters — but the fortune they seek is made of paper and ink. The trio specialize in collecting rare books. Their vast collection of tomes and documents at Alcuin Books in Old Town Scottsdale is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."
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""She's what we call a hoarder or amasser," Kasper said. "We have a couple other dealers with 20,000, 30,000 volumes. But most members are regular people who have libraries in their house, maybe 2,000 books. Some are librarians, some professors."
"Cairo's biggest second-hand book market -- originally held along the Azbakia Park fence -- is one of the city's enduring landmarks. After being relocated three times, it now occupies one small corner of the park, itself fenced off with a gateway jam-packed full of street vendors and cars. Yet the Azbakia legend remains a major constituent of Cairo's cultural identity."
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"A vintage text book about a Quebec trapper whose musket wound led to a breakthrough in understanding how the body digests food is expected to fetch a high price at an auction on Tuesday."
"Dr. William Beaumont's Experiments and Observations of the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion, published in 1833, could yield a bid between $4,000 to $6,000 US, according to the auction house."
"Once called an "intellectual haven" by The New York Times, Bart's Books is an iconic fixture in Ojai located halfway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. David and Andrea Grant have loved the bookstore, known for its after hours honor system, since they first discovered it on a trip to Ojai in the '70s. Two years ago the couple bought it. Together they have begun to restore it to its original Bohemian glory including Friday night poetry readings and the honor system program."
"The system is summed up in a sign at the entrance: "After hours, please drop the amount of money marked on the book into the slot." With that trustful message, the al fresco store succinctly captures Ojai's faith in the goodness of humanity."
"If you're in Japan and are having trouble laying your hands on a first edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, or Allen Ginsberg's Howl, then consider a trip to Cow Books, www.cowbooks.jp. Specializing in countercultural works, the Tokyo bookshop is a repository for treasures that will make beatnik bibliophiles weep with happiness."
" Still, the last few months have been a gratifying time for Weinstein, who for many years, was the unofficial "W.E.B. Du Bois tour guide." On Saturday, he estimated that he has shown the Du Bois family gravesite at the Mahaiwe Cemetery about 700 times. Du Bois himself is buried in Ghana, where he died at age 96."
"There’s always been a fruitful disagreement between me and my brother,” Hyde says.
“I want a small store with hard-to-find books. Sam (Hyde) wants an open shop with everything.
"Only nine copies of the hymn book are known to exist and are valued at about $500,000."
"The first edition of the Book of Mormon has chapters inserted by a printer's assistant, but no verses. The second edition has the verses, and about 2,000 grammatical corrections made by Joseph Smith, Ashworth said. Smith is listed as the author. The books are valued at $75,000-$100,000."
"My former wife recalls when Allen Ginsberg came into the bookstore looking for a copy of 'Howl' since he had given all his copies away and needed one for reference for what he was writing at the moment."
"In a time when half a million dollars barely buys a studio in New York, Mr. Schiller is hoping to trade a watercolor drawing by his longtime friend Maurice Sendak, perhaps best known for his children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," for an apartment. "
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"Simon Finch came to purchase the house after successfully establishing himself as a rare book dealer, with shops at Fish Hill in Holt and London's Bond Street. He spent formative years in Suffolk, was in Norfolk in his late teens and always retained an affinity for East Anglia."
"Collecting rare books can be daunting for newcomers to the trade. Often it is difficult to know where to start, and building a coherent collection can be pricey. Even seasoned veterans find that building a collection with the right angle and with longer term investment value can be challenging."
"Rare book and memorabilia store opens in Provo -- B. Ashworth's, a rare book and memorabilia store, is opening Thursday at 127 W. Center St. in Provo. A grand opening and ribbon cutting is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. The company's Web site, bashworths.com, will be launched in a week."
"This is one of the greatest shopping cities in the world, the gateway between Europe and Asia, where you can buy a fur hat from a former Soviet soldier, an emerald direct from the mines of Afghanistan, or unearth a dainty antique armoire in a backstreet junk shop. There are no less than a dozen markets to entice shoppers of all kinds, from Byzantine scholars looking for rare books to stout headscarved housewives in search of a new plastic fly-swatter."
"'The Bibliophile is my sanctuary,'she wrote to me in an email. 'I’ve met some dear, longlasting friends there such as Epictetus, Dorothy Parker, Colette, Ogden Nash, E.B. White and James Thurber – not to mention Uwe and Susan. I’ve replenished my spirit with C.S. Lewis, and refreshed my memories of my solo travels to Egypt with Naguib Mahfouz’ novels. S.J. Perelman reminds me to lighten up, and the mystery section offers stress relief in many modes./"
"As the smell of baking bread pumped out of a bakery is to the hungry, so the aroma within 10 feet of the Book Stop's open door is to the book lover."
"The irresistible and intoxicating smell of books - old books - pulls him or her in."
'"He didn't fit the image of the tweed coat with patches and a pipe," said Mr. King. "He was eccentric, and a self-styled curmudgeon but everybody loved him and he was the patriarch of sorts at King Books.'"
" For starters, Lucky Diamond Rich, whose epidermis is one giant tattoo, will be juggling on a unicycle and "entertaining" on the main floor. On the balcony, Japanese cult hero publisher/illustrator Mr. Shamda will be selling his rare books while overseeing the work of a "master" tattooist whom he brought along for this trip."
" With a mix of live actors, singers, musicians and Katchor's animated images, "The Rosenbach Company" traces the life and career of Abe Rosenbach, one of the world's foremost rare book dealers, and his brother and business partner, Philip. Their collection included James Joyce's manuscript for 'Ulysses' and the original illustrations for 'Alice in Wonderland.'
"The retail district will feature luxury hotels, designer boutique-style restaurants and coffee shops, as well as rare book shops and art and craft galleries. A rustic traditional souk, offering Arabian crafts, antiques, and spices and herbs, will be the focal point of the retail district."
"'We have already been approached by a number of international designers and retailers, specializing in unique artistic crafts and merchandising, interested in setting up boutiques in Culture Village. The retail district will be a unique shopping experience,'" said Al Dabal.
"Profits from this fair are divided between the CFUW and the Moncton Firefighters. The Canadian Federation of University Women Moncton will provide $1,200 scholarships to each of the six area high schools, two $1,000 scholarships for mature students, and one $500 scholarship for a part-time student. Moncton Firefighters will be donating their share to The Moncton Hospital Burn Unit, and to a summer camp in Cape Breton for burn injured kids from Atlantic Canada."
"Wendy Koenig has set up shop in a Main Street storefront that used to house a bank - the old vault is still inside, but now it stands wide open and serves as a display for rare books. The rest of the store is filled with bins, racks and floor-to-ceiling wooden shelves of new and used books."
"His Charles Seluzicki Fine and Rare Books, which sells through Web sites such as www.ilab.org, has long had a sideline as a fine press publisher, bringing together many fascinating writers, artists and printers. What he’s done represents a slice of the literary underground that rarely gets any press. It also closely reflects the hidden relationships between creative people, a network that would never be believed from relying on the mainstream media and its emphasis on writers’ personalities and rivalries."
"NORTHPORT — Used bookstores are the cozy corners of the literary world — the places where famous and not-so-famous writers mingle democratically, in angled piles on table tops, along worn shelves, in stacks leaning against walls already lined with books."
"They are the places of dusty, pulpy smells and creaking floors and little sales counters tucked between books, as if in these places the object isn't really money, but thoughts and words. "
"In the old days, if you wanted to get your hands on a first edition of Syumanjaja's Aku, or copies of the works of Dickens or Camus, you would go to Kramat Kwitang in Central Jakarta."
"But market demand has changed. Very few people go to Kwitang now for secondhand books in good condition, they are mostly after cheap text books. "
"When it comes to books, older is often better. And at age 57, the city's beloved and biggest used-book sale appears to be thriving in a climate of Internet competition, new technology and corporate changes."
"Last year, the Greater St. Louis Book Fair saw a 20 percent increase in sales, and this year may be one of the largest events in the fundraiser's history."
"A Japanese version of the Compendium of Materia Medica, an ancient Chinese medicine masterpiece, has been found in Northeast China's Jilin Province."
"The Japanese version was translated in 1927 and published in 1929 by a Japanese publishing house, which produced specialist reference publications, said Pi Fusheng, a collector of and expert on ancient documents in the province. "
"Christie's in Paris is the sort of place where even Louis XVI would have felt underdressed. The glacial young women behind the desk, whose matching uniforms make them look like two of the early Supremes, are faultlessly coiffeured, sublimely correct. The austere neo-Classical architecture and wood panelling exude the very strong impression that vulgarity - let alone hanky-panky - will not be tolerated."
"Yet this aesthetic holy of holies is currently housing a collection of what the sale room likes to call "historical erotica" but is basically the biggest collection of very naughty books in private ownership. They are to be auctioned next week in what is the first sale of its kind for Christie's and nerves are a little frayed at the stately auction house which is anxious not to develop a reputation for peddling smut."
"Mohamed Sadeq, the proprietor, is appropriately proud: "I preserve and trade in anything related to knowledge and culture, so long as it comes on paper, from theatre tickets to film posters, musical notation, newspapers and books, whatever comes in paper..." Distinct from some 130 second-hand bookshops in Azbakia in that he only deals in genuine rare publications, this charismatic man started out in Al-Azhar, where his father relocated from Darb Al-Gamamiz."
" United - the Manchester United Opus - was launched for pre-orders yesterday at Old Trafford by Sir Bobby Charlton and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but anyone rushing to buy it may be well advised to pause and consider a few pertinent statistics. Weighing 5st 7lb - 35kg - and measuring half-a-metre square, this is not so much a coffee-table book as a coffee table."
"And the cost? Well, let's look at the cheaper end of things first. There is a print run of 9,000 containing the signatures of both Charlton and his fellow knight Alex Ferguson which would only set you back $5,300 (£3,000). You could spend more - $7,100 (£4,050) - for one of the 1,000 versions which also include signatures from Eric Cantona and Bryan Robson."
"he National Geographic Society has raised eyebrows over its pact with a controversial antiquities dealer, write Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino"
"In its recent unveiling of the Gospel of Judas, the National Geographic Society credited Swiss antiquities dealer Frieda Nussberger Tchacos with "rescuing" the ancient manuscript, described as one of the most important archeological finds of the last century."
"One of the most important 18th-century atlases of America will be at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which opens Thursday night."
"The Patika Bookstore in the café provides the perfect hideaway for the travelling bookworm, thanks to its rich supply of rare book collections, as well as the latest news."
"The health conscious are also well catered for, with the Taylife Spa Detox and Wellness centre, which offers yoga, relaxation classes, massages and detox."
"DUTTON'S BOOKS in North Hollywood is closing."
"A door curtain (kiswa) of the Ka`bah dating back to 1909 and a collection of rare Islamic manuscripts will be put on sale Wednesday, April 5, at the London-based Sotheby's auction house.
"They include a complete Qur'an in 30 separate juz', illuminated Arabic manuscript on paper and dating A.H. 1004/A.D. 1595."
"Through the years, some interesting and extraordinary people have made their way to Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, which moved to its current location on Main Street in 1961, one year before Tony was born. There was the autograph party for Ansel Adams, and the time Butch Cassidy's sister came in. Wallace Stegner and Dylan Thomas also stopped by. As a member of the American Board of Book Sellers, Sam traveled to Washington, D.C., and met Presidents Nixon and Carter. Rosalynn Carter even gave Sam a peek at the White House library. Sam said his own library was better. "
"Rare-book dealer Cotton Malone, a former covert agent with the U.S. Justice Department and who now lives in Denmark, spots his former sixtysomething boss Stephanie Nelle outside a Copenhagen restaurant. Before he can approach, she is attacked by a knife-wielding man, who grabs her bag."
"Used books have been through a lot, and people like Ted Dorset, Paul Shelley and Eva Wood are keepers of those lost treasures."
"Each of these bookstore owners sees books come and go."
"But it is their love of books that keeps them in the business."
"Pagina in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, is another used bookstore that requires reservations and is in the good books of book fans. Specializing in Japanese and international books about design and posters, its stock is neatly displayed in a store measuring about 50 square meters. Entry to the store is free."
"Rare-book dealer Ken Sanders laments the fading of a once-thriving community of freaks and artists at 900 East and 900 South."
“'Phillips Gallery got their start there. The original Cosmic Aeroplane was there.'"
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"Ms. Henry said she always knew that she wanted to own a used bookstore, so in 1989 she started a store on Signal Mountain. Eleven years ago, the store was moved to Broad Street, where it is currently located. Now her store is packed with book shelves that she built."
""In fact, the Montreal book scene is as vibrant as ever," he continued as he announced the 14th annual Westmount "Antiquarian Book Fair, to be held at Selwyn House School this Sunday, March 19. "'No matter how small your laptop is, it's no substitute for the sensual act of holding a first edition of your favourite book, turning the pages, and seeing the words exactly as the world first saw them say, 50 or 100 years ago.'"
"Montreal boasts two antiquarian book fairs, the larger one in the fall, sponsored by the Confrérie de la Librairie Ancienne du Québec (CLAQ) and the Westmount fair, a smaller spring version, with around 20 exhibitors from Quebec and Ontario. Both fairs are popular because, in addition to people like Adrian King-Edwards of The Word bookstore in the McGill Ghetto and Robert Campbell of Ex Libris Bookshop on Mackay Street, it allows collectors and readers alike to meet those booksellers who do not have open shops. For example, Alfred Van Peteghem, deals in rare and early Canadiana, while Charles Vyvial specializes in art and illustrated books. On the French side, François Coté handles 20th-century art and literature and Guy de Grosbois offers one-of-a-kind livres d'artiste."
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"The fair, which will take place in the Coliseum, begins Friday evening and continues Saturday and Sunday. Rare and out-of-print books will be for sale, along with first editions, fine bindings, maps, prints, autographs, documents and paper collectibles."
"Those who attend don't have to be big-spending collectors, Slicker said."
"'There are books for $1 and $5,' he said. 'You can spend very little, or you can spend an awful lot.""
"You could spend an entire day hanging out at just Khan Market’s bookshops: I often did, ending with The Bookshop, dropping in as much for the music, the recommendations and the certainty of good conversation as for the books. Friends from out of town were dispatched to various city bookshops according to taste. The rare book collectors were sent off to South Extension, the SF buffs were directed to either Fact & Fiction in Vasant Vihar or the crowded but well-stocked Midlands in Aurobindo Place. The serious book-lover had to drop by Bookworm in CP; the technical books fanatic couldn’t miss Galgotia’s. And newer bookshops keep coming up, like Eureka, the specialist children’s bookstore in GK II."
"The Salon du Livre: the realm of all possibilities"
"Ever flourishing and festive, the Paris Book Fair has frolicked through the alphabet for this its twenty-sixth year and forged ahead with letter F by hosting “francofffonies”, the francophone festival in France."
" AUSTIN -- A collection of historical items including exceptional documents marking the birth of the Lone Star State have been gathered for an auction dubbed the Texana Auction of the Century."
"The Texas State Historical Association is auctioning 183 lots of rare artifacts to raise funds for a project to digitize all the books and magazines it has published since the late 19th century."
"Thousands of books — torn, tattered, spines broken — were lumped into literary mountains on a Gaithersburg parking lot, men shoveling them into two green, 10-ton Dumpsters."
‘'‘I won’t let my children watch,” Stepanov said, pointing to her toddler son, facing the opposite way in the back seat of her car. ‘‘It is horrible. It’s like Hitler.'”
"A 100-year-old book signed by an Antarctic explorer and former Birmingham University vice chancellor is expected to fetch £10,000 at a London auction today."
"Published in 1909, The Heart of The Antarctic was written by the legendary polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackle-ton and the copy on sale at Christie's in South Kensington is one of 300 signed by the author and every member of his 1907 to 1909 Antarctic expedition team."
" Current clients, whose book choices she discretely declines to name, include a current Bull, a former Bear and singer Billy Corgan, the frontman for Smashing Pumpkins. What they have in common with other regulars is a feeling that 'when you sit holding a rare book, something intimate happens.'"
"Most New Yorkers know the Strand Bookstore as a place to browse for bargains, roll their eyes at rude employees, and pick up a paperback for a dollar on a cart outside. But on January 28th, one anonymous industrial figure plopped down a more significant sum for a book— $100,000 to be exact."
"The William Shakespeare Second Folio he purchased was published in 1632 and had been in the Strand’s rare book collection for over twenty-five years."
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"Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries will present an incredible collection of Lincolniana, manuscripts, autographs, rare books, and Americana in their February 21 & 22 Signature Auction in Dallas (with simulcast in New York City). Anchored by the Henry Luhrs & Lincoln Library Collection, this spectacular $5 million event contains one of the most significant offerings of Lincolniana in decades, but is also remarkable for the wide range of material included - from a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible to a JFK pardon for a Marijuana conviction! According to Americana Director Tom Slater, "The Luhrs Collection is one of the most significant and extensive to be auctioned in years, and will almost certainly be the most important manuscript event held in 2006."
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"Arader is a rare books and prints dealer in New York, and he has been struggling to raise $200 million for an art fund that would specialize in American paintings"
"But they’re far from the only bookstores in town. A flip through the yellow pages will come up with 15 total bookstores in the Ithaca area, eight of them used bookstores."
“'A lot of people moved to Ithaca back in the ’60s and ’70s when it was a very cool thing to have a bookstore, work in a bookstore,” said David Graff, an employee at Ithaca Books. “Independent bookstores were basically a real force of American life.'”
" It was the 1980s and bookstores with coffee shops attached were the new craze."
"But self-proclaimed bookworms Robin Moody and Helaine Harris pooled their money to buy into a part of the book industry with a little less sex appeal. They bought a small distribution center that specialized in overstock and "remainder" books -- the excess inventory that publishing houses sell at discount."
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"A sign in the window of the wedge-like building squeezed into the corner where Brattle meets JFK Street advertises “Old & Used Books, Roman Coins Bought and Sold.” It beckons toward Room 306, home to the Harvard Book and Binding Service and one of Harvard Square’s most venerable and idiosyncratic characters."
"However, the Festival is pleased to announce that this event will proceed with John Campbell hosting writer, rare book dealer and raconteur Dr Rick Gekoski. He was on the judging panel of the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2005, and having encountered many acclaimed authors such as Graham Greene, and J R R Tolkien, Gekoski has many fascinating stories to tell."
" People would rather sit at a computer and order their books than go out to a great, old bookstore, such as Dutton's, and meet interesting people while browsing the aisles. Go figure."
"No official closing date has been set, but Dutton said he figures he'll be out by mid-March. He's thinning out his stock now with a 50-percent-off sale before he shifts his rare book business online from his home in Washington, where he and his wife, Judy, are moving."
"RUTLAND, Vt. -- They're shelved away in the strangest spots, often in tiny villages far off the beaten track. Their inventories are massive, their customer traffic sparse, and their staff usually a single person, all of which makes you wonder how they survive. Yet they do."
"The country's highest per capita concentrations of used and antiquarian bookstores; at least 70 are open year-round, offering bibliophiles hours of solitary, undisturbed browsing, a collection often far broader than the local library, and an occasional spectacular find, like a Jules Verne first edition, for example, or an exquisitely illustrated fairy tale, mint condition, in the original Russian."
"The recent closing of Athena Books, the oldest independent bookstore in Kalamazoo, has sent waves cascading around other independent bookstores in the area.
"Who is going to go under next? The independents are hoping that the marketing niches they've developed will keep them afloat."
"After days of controversy, the Logos II floating book fair officially dropped its gangplank and opened doors to the public yesterday in a colourful ceremony involving crew representing 45 different nations.
Premier Alex Scott, MP Walter Lister, Police Commissioner George Jackson, Hamilton Mayor Lawson Mapp, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce Diane Gordon and other dignitaries attended the opening at Number Six Shed which was followed by a tour of the ship and the book fair.
The Logos II project promotes international understanding and world-wide education."
"2005 has been the year of the bibliophile. With a sudden revival of interest in books and bookstores, booksellers have never had it so good. Be it the tale of a ‘teenage wizard’ or an ‘argumentative economic’, book lovers have had a field day when it came to choosing a tome of their choice."
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"Even though the bookstore focuses on Islamic books, it is interesting to note that over 40 per cent of their customers are non-Muslims. It was learnt that most of their customers are women, where sales are three times more than male customers."
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"The College Street book market, once a repository of rare books of all times and a favourite haunt of Kolkata-based novelists, travel writers and historians, is on the verge of extinction, thanks to the deteriorating reading habits of this so-called intellectual city."
" When Jip Jip, a bookstore in Fukui, held a pop-up book fair in the spring of 2004, young couples and 30-somethings flocked to the store. Today, Jip Jip stocks about 60 examples of pop-up books. President Shozo Shimizu says he finds it interesting that although society has become very digitalized, these "utterly analog mechanical books" are catching on."
"Ism, a store in Kita Ward, Osaka, specializing in picture books, held a fair featuring pop-up and other mechanical books this summer. "We saw sales comparable to those at Christmas season," says owner Reiko Tsujinaka. Although mechanical books are rather expensive, customers don't mind paying for books that give them pleasure, she said."
"At the conclusion of Christie's sale of fine printed books and manuscripts this afternoon, a single volume will be offered for $5 million to $7 million.It is a double-elephant folio of John James Audubon's "Birds of America," the grail of American rare books. Approximately 120 complete copies of the original edition are known to exist. One of them, known as the Fox-Bute copy, was sold at Christie's in 2000 to a private buyer for $8.8 million, setting the record for any printed book at auction."
"Time was Soft There is Mercer's account of how Shakespeare & Company, the magnificently chaotic bookstore on the rue de la Bucherie, a mere brioche toss from Notre Dame, became his equivalent of the French Foreign Legion: a place of uncertain sanitation in which to dally until the dust settled. He was one of many such sanctuary seekers. It's well known that George Whitman, the legendarily cantankerous, now nonagenarian proprietor of the store, made in-store beds available to young (mostly) drifters who needed a short-term place to crash and who could lend a hand for a daily hour or two with the business of keeping wholesale entropy at bibliographic bay. By Whitman's count, as reported by Mercer, some 40,000 transients have so far laid claim to one of the Shakespeare & Company cots. (The widely circulated stories of bedbugs -- a not unlikely plague, considering the circumstances -- are apparently untrue.)"
"About 1,200 book retailers went out of business in the mid-1990s, according to the American Booksellers Association. Rochester-based Village Green Bookstores Inc., which once operated four Buffalo-area stores, followed in January 1999, when its flagship closed. The owner blamed disappointing holiday revenues that saw sales shift to the national chains and Internet retailers."
"'Some nights I even slept there," Wayne said. "It became a higher calling.'"
"Last month, Katz deeded the store over to Wayne. The shop is now called Bob's I Love Books."
"Larry Portzline, the founder of the grassroots "bookstore tourism" effort, announced today that he is creating a nonprofit organization to promote the concept: the National Council on Bookstore Tourism (NCBT)."
"Bookstores are sanctuaries. Places to lose yourself, escape the harsh demands of daily life, find new ways to dream and new sources of inspiration. I love all booksellers; anybody who helps spread the word is doing noble work. But my favourite bookstores are the small eccentric independents run by passionate and usually slightly mad book lovers. These are some of the best."
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"In addition to the thousands of digitized rare books which it makes available from its partner companies, Archive CD Books USA has already accumulated nearly a thousand rare books of its own through purchases, gifts, and promised loans to the project. One of the company's debut products is a digital version of "A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England" by James Savage, which was originally published in 1860 and is now offered for just $9.95 on CD-ROM. "Even a hundred and forty years after publication," said Anderson, "Savage's four-volume set remains the starting point for most research problems in seventeenth-century New England. No other single source covers the first century of New England settlement so broadly." Even experienced researchers would benefit from the full-text search that is supported by the digitized version of this important work. It reveals thousands of embedded references to people and places that are lost to those who rely on the book's simple alphabetical list of surname headings."
"Since many local titles go out of print, a strong secondary market is often created for rarer titles. Oak Knoll has 971 old Delaware titles for sale on its Web site, ranging from a $1 church publication to a two-volume set of "The History of Delaware," a seminal 1888 book. The cost? $700."
"It's easy to understand the allure of a rare book, but booksellers say it's not as clear why Delaware books have such a hold on Delawareans. "It's kind of odd, because it's not true of every state," said Peggy Tatnall, who buys local-interest books for the Borders at Churchmans Crossing. "I think it's partly because Delaware is small and we have a strong history."
"What is a rare book? Ken Gloss, proprietor of Boston's Brattle Book Shop, shared his thoughts on the subject with a small handful of people who came to hear his presentation on rare books at the Bolton Public Library Thursday, Nov. 17. He said that, in evaluating the worth of a book, you need to consider it in the context of its publication. For example, he said, book printing was well-established in New England around 1720 to 1730, and many were printed during that time period. He said that, because printing was not well-established in the Midwest during that timeframe, a book printed in Ohio in 1725 would likely be worth considerably more than a book printed in New England the same year."
"In the past month alone, three veteran booksellers -- Jamie Fraser, Michael McBurnie of McBurnie & Cutler, and David Mason -- have carted their precious volumes to new quarters. And the agents of bibliophobic cleansing? Soaring rents, landlords eager for more lucrative tenants and the continuing migration of the used-book business to the Internet. Both Mr. Fraser and Mr. McBurnie are now operating from their homes, while Mr. Mason has moved to a basement near Adelaide and Spadina."
"Palmer's two bookstores -- Fireside Books and Alaskana Books -- sit within 150 yards of each other, but they have little in common besides a downtown address. Alaskana, on Denali Street, is as much museum as bookstore. It boasts 25,000 rare and out-of-prints books exclusively on Alaska."
"Fireside Books sells a mainstream line of mass-market fare and also stocks lesser-known, independent titles."
"Book Lust: It's not like she's pushing heroin, Nancy Pearl's friend assured her. They're just books. She's just suggesting a few titles, some books people might enjoy."
"But for anyone who loves books, Pearl is the most effective dealer on the block. Try this, she'll say. You'll like it."
"You can pick up a first edition of Christmas Carol or De Revolutionibus on the net if you have a few thousand dollars to spare."
"What you can at times buy for Rs 10 from stalls at College Street or Free School Street in Kolkata, can also be had for $50,000 from rare book stores doing business online. In recent years there has been a growth in online sellers of rare books."
"Prince Henry's collection of 2,000 sporting books and artworks of mainly hunting and equestrian scenes reflect his life as a country gentleman. Highlights of the sale will include The Master of Game, an exquisite mid-15th century hawking manuscript once owned by Horace Walpole, which is expected to sell for between £80,000 and £120,000."
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"The original Pageant, a bookstore, opened in 1946 on the renowned Bookseller’s Row that stretched along Fourth Ave. from Astor Pl. to 14th St. A passion for reading and writing drew owner Sidney Solomon, Rebecca and Shirley’s father, to the book business when he returned from World War II. As young girls, Rebecca and Shirley spent almost every holiday from school working in the Ninth St. shop. When their father died in 1986, Shirley continued the business."
"No less a personage than Richard Booth, who turned Hay-on-Wye in Wales into the world's first book town, had given his blessing to the Gold Cities Book Town Assn., placing the neighboring Gold Rush hamlets of Grass Valley and Nevada City, Calif., in the company of such other bookish venues as Larry McMurtry's Archer City, Texas; Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia; St.-Pierre-de-Clages, Switzerland; and Fjaerland, Norway."
"Bernard Quaritch, dealers in antiquarian books and manuscripts since 1847, has opened its first exhibition devoted to photography. In its catalogue, Images of Asia, there are 137 19th-century photographs and albums of China, Japan and South-East Asia assembled for Quaritch by consultant Lindsey Stewart, formerly a photography specialist at Christie's."
"For example, a collection of Civil War books might have been worth $200,000 some 10 years ago. Now because of the Internet, the collector would be lucky to get one-fifth of that, Baldwin said. People find some books in their attic, do not know the value of the volumes and put the collectiononline. Without professional appraisals, the collections are undervalued, which drives the price down for everyone, he said."
"What's chic about used bookstores is the sublime indifference to hot authors and titles. Step inside and there is no season of Tom Wolfe or Zadie Smith. There is, in a way, no now. Books from 1950 can stand beside books from 1980. A weathered dust jacket is a sign of prosperity, the mark of a book that has held up -- at least physically -- over time."
"A RARE first edition of a Charles Dickens masterpiece takes centre stage at an auction to be held in Liverpool today."
"It is part of a spectacular private library collection, containing more than 160 books from novels to history."
"Quigley's Rare Books & Antiques has been on the Dahlonega square about 12 years. The store focuses on Southern classics from Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" to Mark Twain's masterpieces."
"In a glass box on top of rack of 19th century Bibles is the store's prize piece: A nearly flawless first edition of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind."
"The quintessential Southern novel comes with a preserved dust jacket and a $10,000 price tag. It's rare because it was from the novel's first printing in 1936, before it was successful."
"The decline in second-hand booksellers has accelerated over the last three years, falling from 1,200 to just 600, according to figures obtained by The Independent."
"Such a decrease is explained by the massive rise in popularity and continued success of online booksellers, ranging from antiquarian book vendor ABE, to the likes of eBay and Amazon."
"In a booth in the Hynes Convention Center, Adrian Harrington Rare Books of London was selling a set of all six British first-edition hardcover Harry Potter books. One of them, a signed copy of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" marred by two printing errors, is worth an estimated $14,000."
"Blair Cowl, who works for the London-based bookseller, said he expects the books' popularity to endure and boost their value with age."
"I think (Harry Potter) will stand with the Hobbit, the Wind in the Willows or Alice in Wonderland," he said. "When children are 30- or 40-year-old corporate executives, they will still be buying these books."
"Their shop of about 30,000 titles in 1,700 square feet is cozy compared with the Super Target store across the street or the big chain bookstores like Borders or Barnes & Noble in the regional malls of the suburban Northside."
"The 12th annual Banff Mountain Book Festival will include readings and book signings by authors, and a book fair featuring new titles in mountain literature."
"Whereas westerly throughout South Wales, produces some fine Welsh antique furniture including dressers and decorative items from various specialist dealers and several auction rooms including a weekly Sunday sale near Newport. The area extends as far as the tiny Welsh border town of Hay on Wye, renowned for it’s seemingly endless supply of 39 antiquarian book shops and the annual Hay Literary Festival which attracts 80,000 worldwide visitors."
"Mr. Bromsen amassed the "finest collection of manuscript and iconographic items" in the United States related to Simon Bolivar, a leader in the struggle for South American independence, said Norman Fiering, director and librarian at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Mr. Bromsen donated his Bolivar collection to the library in 2000."
"The reach of his forgeries — from Emily Dickinson to Mark Twain, George Washington to Joseph Smith — and the cunning with which he tricked a nation's document collectors continue to intrigue authors and investigators. So far, seven books have been written about him. This weekend, yet another symposium is being held to analyze his crimes, as forensic document examiners from 33 states gather in Salt Lake City to talk about the arcane details of ink and paper."
The Man Booker Prize: "For the judges it began at 1.30pm when they met to choose the winner (from the shortlist of six) over a three-hour lunch at the Clerkenwell home of Lindsay Duguid, fiction editor of the TLS. Rick Gekoski, the rare-book dealer, proposed they each speak up for their favourite book. He chose Banville's The Sea, which he regards as "up there in the context of high modernism with TS Eliot, Joyce, Nabokov, Wallace Stevens". Others spoke for Zadie Smith's On Beauty and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go."
"The idea for Bookstore Tourism came to Larry Portzline in 2003. At the time Portzline was a writing and literature teacher in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. One day he was talking to a colleague about “backdoor” restaurant tours in New York City, and it struck Portzline, a man so in love with books that he’s starting a blog called Over-Readers Anonymous, that the concept could be adapted to bookstore tours. The first trip he organized—a bus tour of the indie bookstores of Greenwich Village, New York—sold out in two weeks, and Bookstore Tourism was born."
"The longest going-out-of-business sale on Hollywood Boulevard is ending. Book City Collectibles, the once-cavernous landmark beloved by neighborhood book junkies and film buffs for 32 years, is finally leaving.
Probably.
When the sign announcing Book City's closure went up in the front window four years ago, area bibliophiles panicked. Ten thousand people signed a petition declaring its importance to the neighborhood. Then, somehow, owner Alan Siegel, 76, never left."
"Richard Chalfin, owner of The Better Book Getter on the upper West Side, said modern technology has put serious pressure on him and the scores of rare book dealers in the city.
"In the '70s and '80s, there were 16 to 20 bookstores on Fourth Ave. in Manhattan where you could go and find anything you needed," he said. "Those businesses aren't there anymore.
"More people are using the Internet and places like eBay. If you have a computer, you can do what I do. Fortunately, the people who want our services want our personal touch."
"FOR AS LONG as there has been a publishing industry, there have been markets for used books — a supposedly quaint world of polymaths and antiquarians poking about musty, cluttered stores for titles few readers would know.
But a landmark study released this week confirms what publishers, authors and booksellers have believed — and feared — since the rise of the Internet: Used books have become a modern powerhouse, driven by high prices for new works and by the convenience of finding any title, new or old, without leaving your home.
"Google, for its part, says the project benefits authors and publishers by raising awareness of their books - and including links to places to buy them. Users can see only small portions of copyrighted books - much like the distilled information about a book contained on a library file card, the company says. Such minimal use complies with so-called "fair use" laws, it says."
"Antiquarian bookseller Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of the nationally known Brattle Book Shop in Boston, likens his job to a treasure hunt.
Selling books is only half of a bookman's trade, he says. The other half - scouting - is where much of the excitement and challenge lies."
"Get ready for the "Bookstore Mob Project." At 2 p.m. Eastern Time (11 a.m. Pacific) on Saturday, October 1, independent bookstores across the U.S. will be the setting of a boisterous celebration to show support for locally owned and operated booksellers."
"Ken Sanders owns more than 200 locally produced concert posters. Some, like his Grateful Dead poster, are autographed by band members. He likes to reminisce about the Rolling Stones coming to Lagoon in 1966. About the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix coming to Salt Lake City. About the 1969 Grateful Dead SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) Ball. He likes to talk about the Terrace and the Fairground Coliseum and about the artists who designed the posters for all these groups."
"People here adore their largest local bookstore, Powell's City of Books, which for 34 years has been a cornerstone of Southwest 10th Avenue and Burnside Street, and -- not to put too fine a point on the matter -- even Portland itself.
There is a lot to love. The attic-y smell of the stacks, the 4 million volumes, the towering shelves that close you in and make you feel like you are reading in your own private den. Its very ethos, like Portland, that hippie aunt of West Coast cities, stands out in clear defiance of corporate sterility."
"It's a great book city,'' says Doug Price of the West Side Book Shop, which has 30 years under its belt selling used, rare and out-of-print books.
For students looking for a good deal or simply curious, there's world of surprises out there beyond bookstore giants like Borders and Barnes & Noble. And it's easy to explore: Many independent bookstores, with everything from brand-new commentary on our times to murder mysteries to used and antique titles, are sprinkled around campus and the Main Street area. What follows are a few highlights. We're also providing a more extensive list of independent bookstores in and around Ann Arbor."
"One of the Bay Area’s best known independent retail bookstores abruptly closed its doors Wednesday morning, shocking employees and customers.
Kepler’s Bookstore, at 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park, held a company meeting 9 a.m. yesterday to tell employees it would not open its doors. After 50 years in business, the store appears to be giving up its pricey location next to Cafe Barrone after years of increased competition with online book retailers."
"Phoenix,Arizona - Retired bookstore owner Helen Schlie can see a higher purpose in selling her 1830 first-edition Book of Mormon one page at a time.
Schlie said she believes it will be more of a "missionary tool" since the framed pages - priced at $2,500 to $4,500 apiece - can be handed down from generation to generation."
"Mr. Robert Sabuda has greatly expanded the boundaries" of pop-up books," said Edward Hoyenski, an art historian and assistant curator of Rare Book and Texana Collections at the University of North Texas Libraries in Denton, Texas. "He's taken them to a new plateau. Our library has a collection going back to the 1800s, and you can chart the evolution. His are the most intricate, most far-reaching and most amazing…. As art pieces, they are amazing examples of sculptural effects. They are brilliant, interactive pieces."
"As it celebrates its diamond jubilee, the Select Book Shop remains a treasure trove for a range of antiquarian books.
A passion for books led founder Kannim Bille Krishnamurthy Rao to travel high and low, sift through piles and piles of books and carefully add to his collection.
A lawyer by profession, Rao, also known as KBK, had the penchant for books since he was a student in Chennai."
"Two portraits of Cumbrian poets Wordsworth and Coleridge are up for auction in one of the largest private collection sales ever to come onto the open market.
The portraits of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth are among 300 paintings of writers, artists, musicians and poets which belong to manuscript expert and collector Roy Davids.
The collection, which took 30 years to compile, will be sold by Bonhams on October 3 and is expected to attract the attention of museums. It was last on display at the British Library’s Millennium Exhibition in London in 2000."
"KOLKATA: A 1599 Latin Bible priced at Rs 1 lakh, a 1736 bibliography of the Mughal period with biographical accounts at Rs 2 lakh, 17th century Hebrew books pegged at Rs 50,000-75,000, Raj travelogues placed at Rs 10,000-25,000 and the 1796 publication on Warren Hastings’s trial hovering at Rs 75,000. The Indian old books market is not only showing signs of picking up within the country, but is also is creating a visible impact in the overseas markets.
“While there are book collectors growing across regions like Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and Rajasthan, the excitement around old books is actually building up internationally too. Exports of old books are being routed to the US, the UK, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Itlay and Thailand in Southeast Asia,” book market sources told ET."
"After 70 years, so is Herb Bell's place in Palo Alto -- Bell's Books -- a landmark shop which right from the start was a place where books of quality, mostly old but some new, could be found, eclectic reading advice given and like-minded friends made.
Tonight, Herb Bell's widow, Valeria, and his daughter, Faith, are putting on an unabashed celebration of Bell's many years with a jazz band, lots of local food and, as the invitation postcard says, "150,000 books!''
State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, will be there to present Bell's with the 2005 Small Business of the Year award for his 13-city district."
"Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry, the author of "Lonesome Dove" and "Terms of Endearment" announced in February that he would padlock his Booked Up, Inc. shop in his hometown of Archer City.
He said then that he needed a break from a business that had been losing customers.
But McMurtry now says that the shop's outlook has improved after staff cuts and an upturn in business."
"JAMES BOND has not had such a battle with communism since From Russia With Love, but on the walls of Richard Platt’s bookshop in Blackheath, southeast London, 007 is about to lose out to Mao Zedong, or rather half a dozen prints of Mao from Shanghai (£149 each).
The front room of the Bookshop on the Heath is dominated as much by pictures as words. Ancient maps and rare photos of the Beatles fight for space with engagingly odd books that tempt you to open them — such as a history of Bovril advertising or a 19th-century gilt Bible in Welsh. But it is Bond that sells best, Platt sells a Bond film poster every fortnight."
Philadelphia: "Resnikoff/Weightman, a brand marketing communications firm, has added Bauman Rare Books to its expanding roster of clients.
With galleries in Manhattan and Philadelphia, Bauman Rare Books is one of the nation's largest, preeminent specialists in rare books. Its catalog includes scarce and important editions ranging from Shakespeare to Seuss. Bauman has engaged Resnikoff/Weightman -- its first agency affiliation -- to expand marketing and communications efforts through a comprehensive branding and business development campaign."
"Generally, books with noticeable defects, like the one in Gaulin’s copy, don’t interest collectors, says Stypeck. On Abebooks.com, an eBay-like site that deals exclusively with new and used books, titles with minor printing errors are often priced higher than those with more glaring ones. A copy of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, for example, with upside-down lettering merely on its spine, is priced at $4,000. A copy of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, which is bound and printed entirely upside-down, is listed at $1,500.
Of course, as Stypeck points out, the “rules” of the antiquarian book world do not necessarily apply to Harry Potter. “When it comes to Harry Potter, there’s this high energy and extreme interest, indicating a very voracious market.”
"The Hong Kong Arts Center and the Wanchai District Council of Hong Kong have joined forces with the council to stage a series of special exhibitions. These include "Literature and Film Crossover" and "Wanchai Cultural Map" which features Wanchai's historical architecture.
Besides, 12 countries have taken part in the "International Cultural Village" pavilion, featuring the latest titles from France, Denmark, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam."
"Barbara Moore is an art historian, writer, and former rare-book dealer specializing in avant-garde art of the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. She was first editor (1965–66) at Dick Higgins’s seminal Something Else Press. Since then she has written essays on and curated exhibitions of artist’s books, multiples, and alternative media, covering the work of Dieter Roth, Lawrence Weiner, Charlotte Moorman, Peter Moore, Boekie Woekie, and many others."
"E-books are a throwback to the days of the papyrus. The text is placed on one side of a series of connected "leaves". Parchment, by comparison, was multi-paged, easily browseable, and printed on both sides of the leaf. It led to a revolution in publishing and, ultimately, to the print book. All these advances are now being reversed by the e-book, bemoan the antagonists."
"Dealing in second hand books is all about passion. And who knows that better than Paul Ridder. Books are his life; they blur the edges between work, recreation and hobby."
"A unique sketch book dating back to the 1520s and linked to Renaissance artist Raphael has sold for £230,000.
The manuscript was found at a stately home in Northumberland. It had only been expected to fetch about £50,000."
"The book sale -- the largest of its kind in the United States -- started yesterday morning at McKinley High School cafeteria, and lines were at the door through much of the day as volunteers slowly let shoppers in as others left."
"LONDON Perhaps someone should write a history of European culture through its best sellers. A remarkable sale of "Western manuscripts and miniatures" held this week at Sotheby's yielded fascinating insights into what gripped the attention of the literate elites in Britain from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and beyond."
"A lifelong love of books led a Carrollton woman to share her passion for literacy with her community by opening a new and used book store in downtown Carrollton."
"Mary Lou Wiese opened Barnes Brothers Books at 219 Main St. last month in the old DeMint House across from the Carrollton Inn."
"Anyone who enters the Bibiliophile bookshop on the corner of Allenby and Geula Streets in Tel Aviv for the first time is liable to emerge somewhat shocked: Anyone of average height will bump into the iron rods that stick out from the walls. The owner, Pinhas Mishani, is aware of his customers' distress, but he doesn't intend to renovate, because of a lack of interest. "I buy old books like merchandise, according to subject," he says. "If you ask for a specific book, I'll send you to the pile, because I don't remember what I bought. That way, even if you didn't find the book you were looking for, you'll buy something else from the pile."
"A Nigerian-born writer and bookseller has won the 2005 Caine Prize for African Writing, an honour some have called the "African Booker."
"S. A. Afolabi was named winner of the $15,000 US prize on Monday. At a ceremony in Oxford, England, the London-based writer, freelance editor and bookseller was honoured for his short story Monday Morning, which is set in a refugee hotel in London and tells the story of a family that has fled an unnamed country."
"Also hot are rare books, maps, and historical documents. Last year a copy of Texas' Declaration of Independence from Mexico sold for $764,000. And on June 21 several Old West items owned by Philadelphia businessman Jay Snider, 47, went for top dollar at Christie's. Included was a three-volume first edition of an 1840s book of portraits of Native Americans, mainly by the artist Charles Bird King, that sold for $156,000, above the top estimates."
"'THERE ARE FOUR kinds of collectors," says John Windle, antiquarian bookseller. There are the Jackdaws, named after the bird attracted to bright and shiny objects; the Completists, who will spend 40 years and thousands of dollars obtaining every book ever written about, say, defenestration; the Peter Pans, who collect every book their mother ever read to them; and, finally, the Investors, who buy low and sell high."
"The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana meanders in a similar way, but this time, Eco guides us through the aging narrator's lost memory - a hazy legacy of the many books that Yambo, a rare-book dealer in his 60s, has read throughout his life and the circumstances in which he read them."
"The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana meanders in a similar way, but this time, Eco guides us through the aging narrator's lost memory - a hazy legacy of the many books that Yambo, a rare-book dealer in his 60s, has read throughout his life and the circumstances in which he read them."
"Portzline's overall goal is to support independent bookstores by promoting them as a tourist destination and creating a new travel niche for booklovers. Based on his own experiences leading group literary adventures to New York City and Washington, DC, Portzline's book tells people how to plan "bookstore road trips" with friends, reading groups, schools, libraries and other organizations, whether the group numbers 5 or 50."
"Pontifell’s limited editions have included books by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Helmut Kohl, James Merritt, Mark Strand, John Updike, and Presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon, among many others. Mr. Pontifell has worked on numerous projects with The White House Historical Association, Monticello, and The Smithsonian Institution, and Thornwillow’s books are in the permanent collection of The White House, the J.P. Morgan Library, the Vatican Library, as well as the rare book collections of Harvard and Yale Universities, the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library."
"Samuel Gibson's eyes light up as he runs his fingers along the cover of 1861 edition of "Washington and The Generals of the American Revolution." He points out the craftsmanship that went into the intricately tooled cover and the spine as he opens the book and gingerly turns its pages."
"For 50 years, Charles Miner has been collecting rare books that either are about Chicago or written by Chicago authors -- from Theodore Dreiser to Sara Paretsky."
"LONDON: A nearly 500-year-old map from the first set to identify the New World as "America" and depict the Pacific Ocean was sold Wednesday for a record $1 million, an auction house said."
"Public libraries spend less than 10 per cent of their budget on books and are losing borrowers at such a rate that they will all have closed in 15 years, according to a former managing director of Waterstone's bookshops."
"Every now and then, a friend will drop off a book to David Lieberman. The book may be tattered and torn, but he will find a way to restore it."
"Panjiayuan in southeast Beijing is extremely popular with vendors, scholars, and migrant workers alike due to the rare or antique books sold there.
It seems that no one cares about the appearance of their booths, and buyers often find what they want there, and even occasionally come across rare and lucrative items."
"CHARLES Nalder has found the literary equivalent of a needle in a haystack. He has stumbled upon a Carey in a book pile."
"Running concurrently at Olympia (June 9-12) is the Antiquarian Book Fair, once again the most important fair of its kind in Europe, if not the world, and again hosting over 100 dealers from across the globe."
"Next month, in Christie's big sale of valuable books and manuscripts, the highlight is a rare offprint of the famous volume 17 of Annalen der Physik, in which Albert Einstein's three great ideas - on the special theory of relativity, the law of mass-energy equivalence (E=mc2), and the Brownian Theory of motion - were revealed. The occasion marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's breakthrough. "
"His latest novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, is about a rare-book dealer who loses his 'autobiographical' memory - he doesn't know his own name or recognise his wife - but still has his 'semantic' memory and so is able to quote from every book he has ever read. The hero is the same age as Eco and has had similar life experiences. There is, then, I presume, much of his own autobiography in this book."
"Bodini, an aging rare-book dealer, awakes in a Milan hospital having lost his memory, save the recollection of all literature he's ever read. Bodini retreats to the old family home to piece through old newspapers, comics, records, photos and diaries, and reconstructs his past in narrative and graphic form."
"More than 40 book dealers from Michigan and throughout the Midwest will be offering fine used, rare and out-of-print books, maps and prints for sale at the 27th annual Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. May 22 at the Michigan Union, 530 S. State St"
"In a rare opportunity for investors, collectors and Batman fans around the globe, the World's Greatest Batman Collection is being offered for sale. This once-in-a-lifetime sale will coincide with next month's release of the new Batman movie, "Batman Begins."
"Hall opened the Ithaca auction house in January in a 5,000-square-foot facility on Danby Road (Route 96B) about three miles south of Ithaca College. The building houses a gallery where buyers rummage through sale items, a "rare room" for more expensive offerings and auction space for about 125 customers. Auctions are scheduled about every three weeks but the growing business may require more frequent sales."
"A small, independent bookstore is a tough thing to find. There's six that I know of in the metro area," Lowell Johnson said. "I think the future is the Internet. What a lot of bibliophiles like is to be able to come in and browse for books."
"The contemporary Russian reader reads Nabokov into everything. In response to a carved bust or a chocolate statue of Putin, some liberal-minded Russians quoted Nabokov"
"Rare-book dealers are stocking more of these materials, and a recent Christie's auction in New York featured a book describing the design for the first programmable digital computer by Charles Babbage, who is sometimes called the father of computing. The book sold for $78,000. It was the first public auction of manuscripts and documents connected to the history of telecommunications and the Internet."
"'It's like a death in the family,' lamented Fischman, an award-winning literary translator. 'The Greene Ave. shop is not just a bookstore,' Fischman said, 'but a gathering place for book signings and readings.'"
"When Libreria Lectorum first opened its doors in 1960 as a specialty bookstore in New York City, who could have imagined it would become the Spanish language publishing and book distribution powerhouse that it is today?"
"Unlike all bookshops across the city Books World deals exclusively with books on interiors, jewellery, fashion, carpets, watches et cetera. Fiction, the most popular category at most bookshops, is nowhere to be seen."
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"In an attempt to cash in on the demand from collectors, publishers are selling deluxe versions of new novels in mainstream bookshops."
"Some of these signed and numbered hardbacks have trebled in price within months of going on sale. Many are worth more than traditional first editions."
"Sanders agrees: 'There are too few of us left. Independent bookshops in cities around the country, both new and used, are becomingrelics of the past.… Many cities have only chain bookshops left.Count your riches. Frequent us as often as your pocketbooks can stand.'"
"Iowa City is full of treasures waiting to be found. But these treasures come between bookends, not in a locked chest."
"The oldest book shop in the city—and the oldest antiquarian book-seller in Southern California—specializes in books on California and Western American history, and, more recently, photography."
"Famous authors like J B Priestley and George Bernard Shaw gave enthusiastic backing, George Orwell said more guardedly: "The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
"Many New England homes are treasure-troves of old and rare books that have increased in value over the years," said Kenneth Gloss.
"Pssst - looking for "The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri" by Charles Van Ravenswaay? How about the two-volume "Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant" by Ulysses S. Grant? Maybe your heart is set on "The Drawings of George Caleb Bingham" by Maurice E. Bloch, or - for something completely different - a first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Two Towers."
"THE BAY AREA'S leading mystery bookstore, "M" Is For Mystery, won the Mayor's Award in the 10th annual business awards sponsored by the San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce and the city of San Mateo."
"Previously, bogus books were simply pirated copies of real versions, sold on the streets for a fraction of bookstore prices. But these days, experts say, scores of business texts in mainland book stores make phony claims of origin or authorship. The contents of some are lifted right out of journals and magazines. Others overstate the number of volumes sold or feature glowing dummy reviews."
"Despite the naysayers, books have endured, never relinquishing the romance they hold to modern temptations. On World Book Day, we turn a few pages back and bookmark the present."
"Branch owes about $92,000 in rent. She's not sure if she can keep the store open long enough to collect that much -- the store makes about half that each month. And profits have thinned since developers blocked off an area for a new movie theater, slicing the shopping center in half, she said."
"St. John's University in Collegeville commissioned a calligrapher in Wales to head up this unlikely effort seven years ago. Now at the halfway point, the first three volumes of the St. John's Bible are on display through July 3 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. For the first time, most of the dozen scribes and illuminators working on the project recently gathered in Minnesota."
"The footloose dropout haunted the museums that he later beautified, as de Gaulle’s minister of culture, and he supported himself by trolling the quais for rare books and reselling them profitably to an antiquarian."
"Over the last 20 years, big box retailers in all of these retail niches have rolled into the Toledo area, fighting for market share."
"The latest battleground: books."
" A few years ago, most independent booksellers would probably have scoffed at the idea of selling their books through a digital superstore they perceived more as a competitor than possible partner. But in an ever-shrinking retail book market, more indies are turning to just these sorts of retailers, including Amazon.com and ABEbooks.com (Advanced Book Exchange), to turn a profit."
"Fat Cat Books is a Johnson City landmark, and the cats who inhabit it are minor feline celebrities."
"RiverRun Bookstore, nestled in Commercial Alley in downtown Portsmouth, recently passed its third anniversary. Sales are strong, and owner Tom Holbrook believes the store will thrive into the next decade and beyond."
"Five arrangements of Scottish and Irish folk songs by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven will be auctioned from a private collection, The Scotsman reports."
"The 12 leaves of paper scores are stitched together with the original twine, said Thomas Venning, a manuscript specialist at Christie's. It is as it left Beethoven's desk."
"Here and there around the country, courageous - and, of necessity, creative - attempts are being made by small bookstore owners to survive in the face of the large chains.
Why bother? Why bother making a point of going into Karon Hasfarim, a private bookshop located in the basement of the memorial center in Tivon? After all, here in the area there are branches of the Steimatzky chain, which is so familiar, and they are more easily accessible. For example: the branch that is located right here in the center of Tivon, and another branch a minute away by car, at the Alonim Mall. At Steimatzky you can get an exchange slip that can be used anywhere else in Israel. Sometimes they have special bargains there. Why make the effort to change habits?"
"With over 100 dealers from the United States and Canada participating in the show, collectors will have a unique opportunity to buy. As one of the first shows of the spring, many dealers will bring fresh material. Serious collectors are likely to discover items they thought unavailable or didn’t know existed."
"The quest for a first edition or an out-of-print titleonce meant spending hours in secondhand bookstores — serene, musty places crammed floor to ceiling with books. Collectors loved the serendipity, the thrill of the hunt. You never knew what you'd come across."
"Then the Internet transmogrified a pleasantly inefficient market into a system of astonishing efficiency."
"Bookstore Tourism is a hot new travel niche for bibliophiles that started out as a grassroots effort to promote independent bookstores and support literacy efforts. It encourages booklovers to organize day-trips and other literary outings to cities and towns with interesting, fun and unique bookshops that people in their own communities may not get to visit regularly."
"For almost 70 years now, the family of Mercurio López Casillas has been selling used and rare books in Mexico City's Centro Historico, or Historic Center."
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"Walsh said he didn't picture spending the rest of his life in bookselling, but he couldn't deny his passion for the arts and letters."
"'Realistically, if I wasn't selling books, I'd probably be writing them,' he said."
"BRITAIN’S independent booksellers are fighting back against supermarkets and online retailers in the battle to win over the country’s growing legion of book fans."
"'In business, you have to go with the flow,'he said. 'We've had to yield to the computer and realize that it's going to be part of the business.'"
"Huber said he enjoys the shows because it gives him a chance to enjoy the company of other booksellers and do a little horse trading.'"
"That’s why Hall wasn’t too worried about attracting business when he opened CNY Book Auctions, an auction house focusing specifically on books and other types of paper collectibles. The business, located at 1429 Danby Road, had its first auction Jan. 23 and is now drawing about 100 to 150 people per auction."
"Leona Rostenberg, a rare-book scholar and dealer who with her partner of 50 years, Madeleine B. Stern, discovered a series of racy novels written by Louisa May Alcott under a pseudonym, died on March 17 at her apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She was 96."
"Amnon Tishler is one example of the former. Tishler is 56 and his love affair with reading started in his childhood in Israel. He came to the United States (Boston) in 1971 and to New York in 1980. For years he worked as a librarian, first in New York City and then on Long Island."
"Do you remember the days when you could walk into a bookstore and not become overwhelmed by the overly-priced products of Starbucks and actually receive some helpful assistance from a knowledgeable employee rather than a completely clueless teenager? Remember the mere satisfaction of enjoying a book without Harry Potter pointing his wand down your throat?"
"Customers can't hide their amazement when they see the cats," says the owner of the bookstore, Nuri Bulut, adding that 11 street cats haven't left his bookstore in four years."
"Wayne Dueck, of McNally Robinson Booksellers, reads five to six books at a time and often wakes at 3 a.m. to read."
"A couple of blocks away, the famous City Lights bookshop was opening its doors. It was founded in 1965 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, publisher, writer, godfather to the Beats, and its shelves are still packed with the outrageous and the obscure, the political and the avant-garde."
"It's more than just a war of words on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. It's a war between entire bookstores."
"The issue came to a legislative committee on Monday in the form of a bill opposed by the university and supported by an independent bookstore located just to the south of the campus boundaries."
"Mr Sam Fogg, the well-known London book-seller and Orientalist, has presented the Institute of Ethiopian Studies Library with an important 19th century manuscript copy of the Ge'ez Fetha Nagast, or Laws of the Kings."
"Horror at Number 50 is set entirely in an antique bookshop in London. In the 19th century, a pair of sailors broke into the bookshop (then only an abandoned residential house) in search of a place to sleep. They were set upon by "The Horror", and one sailor was killed."
"Shopping his novels around to potential publishers and literary agents got old for Scott Malensek, a Cuyahoga Falls resident who writes military thrillers."
"So he turned to print-on-demand publishing -- technology that allows a complete book to be printed and bound in a matter of minutes, usually for a one-time fee of several hundred dollars. A single book is printed each time a copy is ordered, usually through online book retailers."
"The essay turns into a rhapsody on books crackling with life in the Baghdad street named after legendary 10th century poet Tayyeb Mutanabi, much like Old Delhi's Sunday book bazaar and the pavement bookstores of Kolkata's College Street."
"If one is lucky, one could find here priceless first editions of classics like TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom at throwaway prices."
"Seattle's East West Bookshop has in 14 years become the region's largest spiritual bookstore and has made a profit every year by focusing on one goal: supporting people on their spiritual paths, irrespective of what those paths may be."
"True crime has been around for some time, but only recently has it acquired the status of a fully fledged genre. The most eminent US crime-writing awards, the Edgars (named after the progenitive Edgar Allen Poe), have had since 1948 given an annual prize for what it calls “fact crime”.
"Numerous programs scattered throughout Charlottesville embody the Festival's goal to honor book culture and promote reading and literacy. Event locations include popular hotspots such as Gravity Lounge and Jaberwoke, as well as local bookstores including Old Dominion Bookshop and Barnes & Noble. The University will host events in Culbreth Theatre, the University Bookstore and the Special Collections Library. The events are as diverse as the locations and include panel discussions, intimate chats, readings and artistic performances."
"Now, with 14 separate nominations, Wenlock Books has more recommendations than any other shop in the UK, despite its somewhat off-the-beaten-track location."
"President Jacques Chirac told France's national library on Wednesday to draw up a plan to put European literary works on the Internet, rivalling a similar project by U.S.-based Web search engine Google."
"A grass roots campaign that grew out of discussions amongst small retailers facing larger chains such as WalMart yielded an advertising campaign to support local businesses. The campaign, developed by Boulder Colorado based Boulder Book Store owner David Bolduc and others, is funded by an alliance of local businesses who have an interest in co-existing with larger chain stores. The campaign has appeared in Boulder, Raleigh and now Louisville."
"Que Pasa Coffee & Books, 611 W. National Ave., is Wisconsin's first and only Spanish bilingual bookshop."
"Our goal is to make literacy more attractive by having a safe haven for learning," says manager Cynthia Zarazua."
"Mein Kampf is becoming the book of the month at the D&R bookshop at the Migros shopping center in downtown Ankara. Adolf Hitler's infamous work is selling so fast it has entered the bestseller lists. Rukan Binerbay, store manager, says he has sold at least 1,000 copies in the past few weeks."
"This is because Waterstone’s Booksellers, the UK’s biggest bookshop chain with 197 branches, has just signed a deal with Motilal Banarsidass, one of India’s largest publishing houses, to bring English language books from India within easy reach of the British reader."
"Marut Lekpetch, MD, looks more like a laid-back musician than the respectable physician he is. Giving one of his rare little laughs, the 26-year-old concedes that, on first meeting, few people take him for a doctor. But then the thousands of people he's treated to date are in no doubt about his medical credentials."
"Texas booksellers still argue over what forces are bringing change to the industry, but they tend to agree on one thing: fewer people are taking time to shop for a book to read."
"The small business alliances and "Weird" campaigns grew out of meetings by a group of independent booksellers, said David Bolduc, owner of the Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colo., and one of the founders of the movement."
"The award for the lightest moment during President Bush's visit to Louisville goes to Larry Dean, owner of Legacy Books and one of the onstage participants."
"Dean first offered to sell 'a few' antiquarian books to first lady Laura Bush, prompting Bush to quip: 'Well, a little short on money these days, you know?'"
"Since their acquisition of a KODAK NEXPRESS 2100 digital production color press, NexPrint has established itself as an expert in the production of high quality digital reproductions of rare art and history books."
"Sam Hessel had a life before books. So did Kevin Rowe and Ruth Cohen. Hessel worked as a radiologist, Rowe was a schoolteacher and Cohen ran a catering business."
"These three from disparate backgrounds share a love of books, so much that they now fill their days among hundreds and hundreds of books."
"After a floor-to-ceiling revamp, the two-story, 400-square-meter space which was once an old villa has become a chic nook on one of Shanghai's busiest streets."
"A Letter written by Lawrence of Arabia is expected to attract special interest at an antiquarian book fair in Harrogate later this month."
"Five colleagues in Manila have opened a bookshop, and a share of the money raised by selling the books goes to the Defense and Welfare Fund. The National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) administers the defense fund, which supports journalists who are threatened, as well as families of journalists killed for their work."
"It is like visiting a vast museum of the mind, where everything is for sale. Opening a long-desired book is like opening a door to Elysium."
"Borders is a publicly held Fortune 500 company with annual sales of $3.7 billion. It says it operates more than 460 Borders superstores in the United States and 41 Borders stores outside the United States, primarily in Britain and the Pacific Rim."
"In addition, it operates 36 Books etc. stores in Britain and about 700 Waldenbooks stores in malls across America."
"The Raleigh Book Fair will also offer autographs, maps, prints and other items. Authors Nicholas Basbanes (A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books) and David and Susan Siegel (Used Book Lover's Guides series) will be on hand as well."
"The 18th-century books were found in the back rooms among the boxes and bins. They sat untouched for more than 20 years before an employee discovered them and began to investigate."
"This riveting new novel by John Dunning will hold the reader hostage until the very end. As with previous Dunning crime stories featuring Denver bookman Cliff Janeway, we learn a lot about the world of book collecting, and, in this one, some of book collecting's shocking secrets."
"Bookstores are reading success in Auburn. A new bookstore opened recently in downtown Auburn and two others are beginning new chapters with new owners."
" Phil and Brendan Boyle run a parallel universe where gamers, artists, writers and those who just like large statues of Wonder Woman can all commune."
""It's a comfortable environment to nourish old collectors and cultivate new ones," Lieberman explains. "We also get to meet and greet our colleagues, our competitors, and we get to rub shoulders with a lot of good books."
"TOKYO — A popular, long-selling children's picture book will again go on sale in early April in Japan after its printing was halted in 1988 due to protests that it fanned racism against black people, the book's new publisher said Thursday."
"When visitors walk into Twice Sold Tales, a quirky used bookstore on the corner of Northeast 45th Street and the Ave., many immediately notice the sign telling them to check your bag with the staff if it 'can fit a cat of any age.'"
"Applause Books—one of the primary sources of scripts and theatre books for New York playgoers and theatre professionals—will close up shop on June 30 after a quarter century in business, it was announced."
"The Russian composer’s annotated score for his Second Symphony was due to be sold at Sotheby’s in London last December with an estimated price of £300,000 to £500,000."
"But, the 300-page work was withdrawn just before the sale after Sergei Rachmaninov’s estate – his grandson and three of his great grandchildren – claimed to be the true owners and obtained an injunction."
"With an all volunteer crew and staff of 320 people from over 40 countries, the MV DOULOS offers a unique opportunity to cross cultural barriers, raise awareness and understanding of other cultures and promote friendships."
"Everyone knows that writers love books, but mystery writer John Dunning loves them more than most. He’s a famed rare book collector who also deals in rare books — as does his fictional detective, Cliff Janeway, the hero of his latest novel, The Sign of the Book.
"A sampling of the shelves reveals a signed first edition of William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch" for $1,750. A lavishly illustrated 16th-century book of hours is $60,000. An inscribed presentation copy of Winston Churchill's "World Crisis" costs $15,000 - vanquishing the $10,000 for a copy of "Mein Kampf" signed by Hitler, which the shop recently sold."
"In all, about half the 254 lots in Novato book dealer Jeremy Norman's collection sold for a grand total of $714,060."
"The history of computing is largely written on paper and plastic that gets thrown away. Technical papers, manuals, business plans, magnetic data storage tapes. Why save 'em?"
"Because one day you may be able to sell them for a million bucks. At least that's the theory behind Christie's February 23 auction, called The Origins of Cyberspace"
"Ninety percent of all books are spiraling down in price," noted Bill Leone, a bookseller from Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. "The other 10 percent -- the high spots -- are doing just the opposite. That's because the Internet has determined which books are truly scarce."
"Columbia [South Carolina] once had eight Christian retail stores and now only half of those remain."
"A Sacked bookshop worker has been headhunted by an independent bookseller attracted by the weblog entries that cost him his last job."
"Joe Gordon was dismissed from his job at the Waterstone’s store at the east end of Prince’s Street for complaints made on his blog website, which referred to his employer as Bastardstone’s and spoke about his evil boss."
"It's a book lover's paradise this Presidents' Day weekend in San Francisco. The 38th California International Antiquarian Book Fair is Friday through Sunday at the Concourse Exhibition Center."
"Literary treasures include antique law books, illustrated books, early American literature, maps, children's books and fine bindings. Prices range from several dollars to thousands."
"The Eckert-Mauchly business plan is being sold as a part of a collection called "The Origins of Cyberspace." The collection, viewable online at christies.com, consists of about 1,000 books, papers, brochures and other artifacts from the history of computing."
"Archer City is home to the nation's largest used bookstore. Archer City is the hometown of best-selling author Larry McMurtry, and it's his store."
"Foyles, Britain's most famous bookshop, is planning to open new stores in cities across the world as part of its first expansion drive since the 1930s."
"A magnificently illustrated 700-year-old manuscript describing the history of the monarchy is to go on public sale for the first time since it was produced by one of the greatest artists of 15th century England."
"The Chaworth Roll, named after the aristocratic family that commissioned it, possibly to educate their children, will go on show in London on March 3 at the gallery of one of Britain's leading dealers in historic manuscripts."
"A bookseller is taking on Hamilton's mayor over corporate donations to his November 2003 election campaign."
"Joanna Chapman wants Mayor Larry Di Ianni to open up his campaign records to public scrutiny."
"Oxfam is opening a second store in Highgate High Street that will sell only books."
"The Highgate Society is concerned that the new store will threaten the future of independent shops in the street."
"“It’s a small independent bookstore, and I like to patronize those kinds of establishments,” said Ralph Bauer, an associate English professor who directed the 100 students in his American literature class to Vertigo Books to purchase 15 paperback books for the class."
"A group of private dealers in rare Bibles has opened an exhibit in High Point. The exhibit includes antique biblical texts, sections from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A mock biblical market featuring books, videos and jewelry for sale sits alongside."
Larry McMurty, author of The Last Picture Show: "He brought Archer City one of the best bookstores in the world," Clark said. "We have to keep it open."
"Jones began her training in book selling by volunteering to run the book booth at Goucher’s May Fair for 18 years. She also volunteered to catalog rare children’s books at a library and began buying and selling old books from antique shops, flea markets and estate sales."
(Foyles, Strand, Shakespeare & Co., Eslite Taipei, Heritage Book Shop and Bindery)
"Dealers of old books complain that they are having a hard time finding good books these days. The underlying problem is that, in general, prices of antiquarian books are falling."
"Slated to go up for auction on Feb. 23, the collection is being identified as "The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications." The assortment of reference materials, letters and scientific journals was originally gathered by Jeremy Norman, a collector and dealer of rare books and manuscripts."
"Paul crafts each single-spaced, double-sided page of the newsletter on a 1958 Hermes 3000 typewriter."
"Weird is apparently becoming the norm."
"Nearly five years after a librarian coined the expression "Keep Austin Weird," at least four other American cities are clamoring to keep themselves strange."
"Sir, Should a royalty be paid to authors on second-hand sales of their books? Quite the contrary."
"Hitler's original battle plans for the invasion of England are to go up for sale."
"The maps of landing sites in the south east of the country, coastal profile diagrams, and hundreds of photographs of British towns and other scenes are to be sold at auction in Ludlow, Shropshire."
"There are several dozen dealers in used, rare, and older fishing books who can help choose, and from whom modestly priced readers' editions can be had - or fine first editions, if one develops the expensive and rewarding collecting bug. I would recommend:
¶Judith Bowman Books, 98 Pound Ridge Road, Bedford, N.Y. 10506 (jubobo@aol.com).
¶Callahan & Company, Booksellers, Box 505, Peterborough, N.H. 03458 (callahanbooks@cheshire.net).
¶James Cummins Books, 699 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10021.
¶Craig Douglass at Anglers Bookcase, 148 Walden Brook Way, Aiken, S.C. 29803 (books@anglersbookcase.com)."
"Put together in the summer of 2004, the Jesse Stuart Room includes original manuscripts, personal items of Jesse’s wife obtained when they lived in Egypt, all of those magazine covers and Stuart’s books translated in Arabic, Japanese, Spanish, German and many other languages."
The Jesse Stuart Foundation is here.
"The Shadow of the Wind - a runaway bestseller in Spain - is the story of an antiquarian book dealer who initiates his son into the secrets of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by rare book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world"
"In the late 1850s, sensing a lucrative niche in the booming horticultural trade, a Rochester bookseller named Dellon Marcus Dewey began producing brightly colored illustrations of fruits, flowers, and ornamental trees that he termed 'plates'."
"Thackeray's Books, a popular West Toledo independent bookseller for nearly 22 years, will close its doors in May, a victim of expanding competition and rising costs."
"One of the competitors contributing to the retailer's demise is Ann Arbor's Borders Group Inc., which will open a book and music superstore at about the same time in nearby Westfield Shoppingtown Franklin Park."
"“Iran is among the top ten countries in publishing and is also exporting books to neighboring countries,” he noted."
"Price, a longtime bookseller in the neighborhood, should have been in terrible spirits watching her livelihood disappear. But she managed to smile, gratefully thanking customers who have been streaming in since Monday when a story about her ran in The Sun. She estimates she sold as many as 10,000 books."
"The rare book department on the third floor is probably the largest in New York, and has the musty smell that is catnip to bibliophiles. A vault holds the rarest of the rare. The store's inventory includes incunabula (early printed books, dating back to 1500 or before), with the oldest a leather-bound volume with bronze clasps that is an intricately decorated commentary on the Psalms printed in 1480 in Cologne, Germany."
(If you don't want to register to read that site you can go here.)
"A first edition of Mutiny on the Bounty will be sold at auction in the Capital next week."
"The rare manuscript was written two years before Captain William Bligh’s full account of the voyage and is expected to fetch more than £5000 when sold on Tuesday."
"The Vincent van Gogh Foundation recently acquired a significant early drawing by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) for the Van Gogh Museum: Portrait of Jozef Blok."
"The subject was a well-known street vendor of books in The Hague. He traded in literature and magazines, and was known as the 'open-air library of the Binnenhof"
"Welcome to the Daryaganj bazaar. It is here that a serpentine 1.5 km queue of rare second-hand books and magazines overnight springs up at scores of makeshift stalls on crowded pavements."
"And it's her bookshop, filled with books in a genre she knows well. Mattes remembers getting turned on to mysteries as a kid when a bookmobile would visit her Des Moines neighborhood and she got hooked on stories by British author Enid Blyton."
This story is all over cyberspace today, on the mainstream newspaper sites: Kansas City Star, Grand Forks Herald, Bradenton Florida Herald, Myrtle Beach Sun News, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Columbus Ledger-Inquirer, Biloxi Sun Herald, Centre Daily Times, Minnesota Pioneer Press, Duluth News Tribune, Macon Telegraph, Monterey County Herald, Charlotte Observer, San Bernardino Sun, etc.
"When the Feminist Bookstore Network closed in 1999, its roster listed 120 member bookstores in the U.S. Roughly 30 feminist bookstores remain."
"...he reminisces about the abundance of bookstores -- where now scores of Starbucks and martini bars exist -- that flourished 30 years ago when he arrived in this city."
"The European Fine Arts Fair (TEFAF) is now regarded as one of the most, if not the most influential art and antiques event in the world."
"...Book of Hours, Visitation, Illuminated manuscript on vellum, Bruges, circa 1450. ...Heribert Tenschert Antiquariat Bibermuhle AG."
"Despite the healthy Christmas sales, the walk-in, walk-round bookstore is doomed. "Cyberglobalism" is about to happen."
"'I admire anybody that wants to open a bookstore. It's a risky business,' says Merchantville rare books dealer Tom Congalton, president of Between the Covers Inc., who, like Almon, has a special interest in African-American literature and mysteries."
(Was a $600,000 German book stolen in Germany in World War II by an American GI?)
(With jpg of requisite resident Bookstore Cat.)
"I picked up a 40-year-old notebook and found original letters saved in it from Jefferson and Madison dealing with the War of 1812."
Michigan State University's Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop is holding an online book auction.
Slashdot: "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
(Hamburgers taste good with French Fries. Books do not.)
...because trying to make money selling regular books would have been "like slicing one wrist slowly."
"Nobody cares much for 19th century English literature in Rumbek, judging by a copy of "David Copperfield" gathering dust in south Sudan's only bookshop for hundreds of miles."
Tai Kawabata is "a cheapskate let loose in Tokyo paradise of print."
"America's book club tries to recapture glory days" (They discovered JD Salinger.)
"The driver hit the gas, pushing the Ram to better than 100 m.p.h. with police still on his tail."
(Take plenty of water and a good map.)
"The bookfair is a child-friendly event. Bring your kids!
Free childcare on-site." (Soccer Moms can be part-time Anarchists.)
"The new translation, De Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling (NBV), is in fact the first official translation to be published since 1951."
"Gloss reminisced about a visit he made to a Belmont estate a few years ago, in which 10 letters of correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were found in a trunk."
(...because the old lady's will said it was supposed to be a school, not a Barnes & Noble.)
Read this news story.
(Scroll down to "Crystal Lake - Barnes & Noble bookstore.")
"WATERSTONE’S, the bookseller, has made enemies of a large chunk of the internet community." (TimesonLine)
Joe's infamous blog is here.
(Reading on beach: Fun. / Reading on glacier: Not-so-Fun.)
"I wrote quite a bit of it on the shop computer while sitting there in quiet moments between customers.
Now The French have taken it, the Australians, the Germans and the Japanese. It is coming out in America."
"There are some hundred-odd stall owners who will be allowed to sit on this stretch." (Anyone want to scout this place for me?)
A Pakistan newspaper reports on a Lahore Library Society book fair.
"Fair organizers insist they only displayed the Arab literature as a function of their commitment to global literary diversity."
"...three top mystery writers are slated for a book-signing appearance at Samantha's shop. But one of the writers seems marked for death.
"I have this weird fear of bookstores. Well, not the stores exactly, but those who work in them."
"It increases my knowledge and interest to read more. I can’t stay home at evening.” said a booklover visiting the market yesterday."
"Once the site of a famous literary cafe..."
"An online operation is planned to stave off growing competition." (Seems a little late to go online.)
Best-Selling Author has Bookstore in Texas
"Archer City, Texas: It's OK to be a book nerd here. In fact, it's cool."
Good News & Bad News for Boston Book Scene
Some bookstores thrive. Some bookstores flounder.
Knife-Wielding Woman Robs Totem Book Shop in Washington State
She demanded cash. (Maybe she should have demanded signed first editions.)
Partying at Varney's Book Store in Aggieville
"Little Apple Ball Drop" on New Year's Eve
A Controversial Cuba Book Fair
"Since its founding, the group has published over 100 titles related to Marxist thinking, including classic works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Rosa Luxembourg."
An International Book Fair in Libya
Who knew?
Arabic Literature Promoted at German Book Fair
200 Arab authors presented works at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's biggest annual publishing event.
The Decemberists: Radical Rock and Roll for Bibliophiles
Literate Rock and Roll created by 2 Bookstore Clerks.
Old Water Mill becomes a Bookshop in England's Highlands
The mill's water wheel will create the electricity for the lighting.
Bookstore Owner is Political Activist on Canadian Islands
"StarBooks, Rouleau’s bookstore, is known as a community gathering space where many issues around poverty, environmental degradation and social injustice are discussed and directly acted upon."
'Krishna's Butter Bash' and other Books at India Book Fair
"What is heartening is that the age group of stall attendants is getting younger. Proof that not all is lost."
Itzhak Volansky Sells Books in San Francisco's Tenderloin District
"Junkies and alcoholics cluster on the sidewalk out front, shouting obscenities at one another and at passers-by."
Family and Friends try to Save Charleston Bookshop
"A lot of people kind of see the book shop as a community thing, and we pretty much feel the same," said their son Tony Wood of New York.
Aspen, Colorado: Read Books while Skiing
"This place is the poster child for independent bookstores. An old Victorian with room after room of treasures."
Fred Rosselot sells Geology Books, but he'd rather be a Gold Prospector..
"He has a passion for books about gold prospecting, an interest that probably contributed to his career in geology. 'I'm a frustrated prospector. I was born 100 years or 200 years too late.'"
John Rolfe Has Midlife Change and Opens Maine Bookstore
"I kind of realized, at age 50, that when I walked into a bookstore, my blood pressure went down. I felt at home. That was the kind of feeling I wanted."
Joseph Felcone is Mr. New Jersey Book Guy
"I know more about New Jersey books than anybody has ever known," said the 58-year-old collector. "That's a very dubious honor. It's like being the world's best comb-kazoo player.
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