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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   Add a comment

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 ... more   Add a comment

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   Add a comment


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   Add a comment

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 ... more   Add a comment

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   Add a comment

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   Add a comment

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   Add a comment

Photographer's papers reveal image-conscious Larkin
Poet's downbeat letters to Fay Godwin among archive acquired by British Library ... more   Add a comment


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   Add a comment

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 ... more   Add a comment

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   Add a comment

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   Add a comment

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   Add a comment


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   Add a comment

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   Add a comment

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 ... more   Add a comment

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   Add a comment

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   Add a comment

 

 
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