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09.05.08.
German president voices shame at 1933 book burning
Germany's president on Friday marked the 75th anniversary of the
1933 book-burning that was an emblematic step in the Nazis' seizure
of power, voicing his country's shame for actions that he said faced
little resistance at the time ... more
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After 30
years, black archive gets a permanent home
A small patch of grass in Brixton currently represents London's
only nod to the arrival of the Empire Windrush, the ship that brought
Caribbean immigrants to England in 1948. But now, a corner of Windrush
Square is to become home to a unique archive celebrating not only
the stories of the migrants, but centuries of black history in Britain
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Rare maps
of city find their way to sale
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, Edinburgh ... more
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08.05.08.
Medieval to Modern
Since 2003, the National Gallery of Art in Washington has acquired
an exceptional group of drawings, prints, and rare illustrated books,
which are the focus of the upcoming exhibition Medieval to Modern:
Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books,
on view May 4 through November 2, 2008, in the West Building Prints
and Drawings Galleries ... more
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Books not
bombs
The National Library in Sarejevo still stands in ruins, 16 years
after Serbian military forces shelled the building and destroyed
over 90% of its priceless contents. The European Union and the Austrian
government have helped rebuild the roof and the atrium. Last year
Spain offered a little over $1 million to finish the reconstruction.
But the boarded-up windows and pock-marked walls of the gorgeous
late-19th century, Moorish revival building remains a powerful symbol
of the international community’s half-hearted approach to Bosnia
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Surrealist
manifesto to be auctioned in Paris
The only known manuscript of the French poet Andre Breton's "Manifeste
du surrealisme," the founding text of the Surrealist movement, is
to be offered for sale later this month, auctioneers Sotheby's said
on Tuesday ... more
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St Bride's
unveils line up for type event
St Bride, the printing and graphic arts library, has announced the
line-up of speakers for its seventh annual design conference. The
event will take place on 15-16 at Bridewell Hall, London ... more
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The Works
sale confirmed
Beleaguered discount bookseller The Works has been bought by private
equity company Endless. The deal will save about 2,200 jobs and
was struck last Friday ... more
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Photographer's
papers reveal image-conscious Larkin
Poet's downbeat letters to Fay Godwin among archive acquired by
British Library ... more
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06.05.08.
Comics buyer's price guide to use auction results
Comics Buyer's Guide (CBG), the world's longest-running magazine
about comics, has announced that it will use actual sales results,
from both Heritage Auction Galleries and Atomic Avenue, as the basis
for its monthly price guide.
"Reality-based pricing such as this has
never been attempted before," said CBG Editor Brent Frankenhoff.
"In the past, price guides for comics have been determined by projected
prices or retailer opinion, but we are now in a position to use
real market data, based on actual, closed transactions to set the
prices in our guide ... more
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Lean times
at Edith Wharton's
The fate of The Mount, novelist Edith Wharton's Lenox home, is still
uncertain. The grand house and gardens, a national historic landmark
that welcomes visitors, needs $3 million to avoid foreclosure ...
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Faber launches
print-on-demand classics
Could out-of-print books be a phenomenon of the past? That's the
question that will be facing publishers, agents and authors after
the launch on June 2 of a new imprint from Faber and Faber designed
to make available a large number of titles which until now have
been out of print ... more
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The baron
of bibliomania
Bibliophilia: the love, and collecting, of books. No problems there:
the odd fit of extravagance, possibly, but everything more or less
under control. But watch out. The next step up may be bibliolatry:
an extreme fondness for books. And beyond that lies bibliomania:
a mania for the collection and possession of books. That can be
very dangerous territory ... more
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Mystery deepens
over German poet Schiller's skull
A painstaking two-year investigation to determine which of two skulls
belonged to Friedrich Schiller has found neither is a match, prolonging
a 180-year-old mystery over the celebrated German poet's remains
... more
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01.05.08.
For a book to touch you, you need to touch it
A book - as in the thing itself - is not a work of art, but a miracle
of design. Which makes the V&A's new exhibition extremely frustrating.
Featuring books and book-influenced works by contemporary artists
from Matisse to Damien Hirst, Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book
is a beautiful morgue, where ranks of stylised books sit behind
glass like crisp butterfly corpses pinned to velvet ... more
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New kids
take on the dotcom dinosaurs
This week sees the launch, initially in the US and Canada, of an
eBay "killer" named Wigix.com which is unashamedly aiming at the
solar plexus of the most successful online auction site in the world.
The trouble is, it is extremely difficult to shift an incumbent
with a dominant market share ... more
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The 40 books
that inspired Sebastian Faulks
They range from the delights of Dr Dolittle to the darkness of A
Clockwork Orange, the books that should be on everyone's shelves
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Books a catalyst
for Minneapolis neighborhood revival
The city tried to rebrand the area as a technology corridor, but
not a single dot-com materialized. Instead, three nonprofit organizations
formed a partnership in 1999, bought three adjacent warehouses and
renovated them into Open Book, which says it is the largest — if
not the only — literary and book arts center in the United States
... more
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Premier hopeful
of Timbuktu project cash
It appears that the US$3-million (about R22-million) needed to complete
the manuscript archiving project at Timbuktu has been secured from
a Dubai donor, Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool said on Wednesday.
... more
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