30.07.05
'All
You Need' is $1 million for Beatles manuscript
A handwritten manuscript
of the Beatles' hit song, "All You Need Is Love," has sold for over $1 million
at an auction in London. John Lennon used the song sheet during the Beatles' last
live television appearance in 1967. Film of the performance shows the manuscript
falling to the floor as the group finished playing...more Add
a comment How
Kremlin strove to block Dr Zhivago
The lengths to which the Soviet authorities
were ready to go in their efforts to block publication of Boris Pasternak's epic
novel about 20th-century Russia, Doctor Zhivago, was revealed by a letter published
yesterday...more Add
a comment Were
treasured maps looted?
A dropped knife blade at Yale's rare book and map
library was the tip-off that led to the arrest of well-known East Coast map dealer
E. Forbes Smiley III , now charged with larceny...more Add
a comment First
edition novels by Ian Rankin to be auctioned
A complete collection of first
editions of the crime novels by best-selling Scottish author Ian Rankin are to
be sold at auction by Bonhams in Edinburgh on August 25....more Add
a comment Return
our Sindy book or we send the bailiffs
A six-year-old girl was threatened
with bailiffs for forgetting to return a copy of a Sindy annual to a library.
Breagh Hannan, from the village of Rowardennan, on the shores of Loch Lomond in
Stirlingshire, borrowed the book 12 weeks ago when a mobile library visited her
primary school...more Add
a comment The
birth of British art
It took £1.7m to save the Macclesfield Psalter for
the nation. It's worth every penny, writes Jonathan Jones...more Add
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15.07.05
Harry
Potter and the stony broke authors
JK Rowling's fellow children's authors,
a third of whom earn less than the national minimum wage of £8,827 a year have
published a survey claiming that some work for 2p an hour...more Add
a comment Rebuilding
of Baghdad library speaks volumes on tenacity
Driven away by bombs, dispirited
by shelves emptied by looters, visitors to the public library in Baghdad's Khadamiya
district are now starting to return...more Add
a comment Book
theft 'mule' gets two years jail
A man who was paid to plunder rare books
from libraries throughout New Zealand has been jailed for more than two years...more Add
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14.07.05
Yeats’
work fetches over 100,000 Euros at auction
A valuable literary collection
including letters and a manuscript by WB Yeats fetched £72,000 at auction in London
on Tuesday...more Add
a comment Library
Gets Control of Items From Kennedy's Presidency
The John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum received all but one of the items through a settlement reached
with the estate of a cleaning-supplies salesman who, thanks to a chance friendship
with Mr. Kennedy's secretary, was able to amass a large piece of Camelot, squirrel
it away in his mother's basement and sell some of it at auction, angering the
Kennedy family and piquing the interest of federal lawyers...more Add
a comment Library's
plan to sell rare books opposed
A library's plan to sell 38 rare books
is being opposed by relatives of the woman who donated them 107 years ago. "The
basic objection is they feel this application is a breach of trust by Pequot Library,"
said Amy E. Todisco, attorney for Jim Biggs of Westport, during Monday's Probate
Court hearing in Sullivan-Independence Hall. "We're objecting under any circumstances
to the sale"...more Add
a comment Iran
MPs plan jailed writer visit
Five Iranian MPs say they want to meet the
jailed dissident Akbar Ganji, who has been on hunger strike for a month. Saeed
Abutaleb MP said the visit would take place soon as Mr Ganji's health was "a matter
of concern"...more Add
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13.07.05
'Lost'
book is sold for £230,000
A unique sketch book dating back to the 1520s
and linked to Renaissance artist Raphael has sold for £230,000...more Add
a comment Braille
library saved
Historic braille books kept by the National Library for
the Blind have been rescued for future generations after the charity today scooped
a major grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund ...more Add
a comment Anti-Islamic
Italian author in new legal fight
One of Italy's best-known authors faces
renewed legal action in a dispute that has raised fundamental questions about
respect for religion and the right to free speech...more Add
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12.07.05
Writer's
ashes to be shot into air
Friends and family of gonzo journalist Hunter
S. Thompson are preparing to pepper the sky with the late writer's ashes. His
cremated remains will be shot into the air August 20th from a cannon installed
on a 150-foot tower behind his home in Woody Creek...more Add
a comment Harry
Potter and half-price prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has
started a huge price war as shops sacrifice profit for market share. The two biggest
price-cutters yesterday were Asda and Tesco’s online service, both of which offered
the book for £8.96, a 47 per cent reduction on the recommended retail price of
£16.99...more Add
a comment Madonna's
children books ghost-written?
Though Madonna claims she wrote the Kabbalah
themed children's books as "Mr. Peabody's Apples", "Yakov and the Seven Thieves"
and "Lotsa de Casha", it may not be completely true...more Add
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11.07.05
Potter's
magic spell turns boys into bookworms
JK Rowling's latest is launched as
a new report shows that her books are inspiring children to read again, reports
David Smith...more Add
a comment Nine-year
chapter ends for used-book store
Boston - Among the last items to go from
Books & More was the hand-written ''Back in 15 minutes" sign taped to the inside
of the door frame. After nine years of operating a used-book store on the edge
of Roslindale Village, owner Brian Frawley will not be back...more Add
a comment Police
charge dealer with stealing rare maps from Yale
A once-respected New York
dealer in antique maps and atlases is charged with stealing rare maps from Yale
University, and the FBI says he may have targeted other libraries that have items
missing from their collections...more Add
a comment A
tale of plunder
Rare books missing from Khalsa College Sikh History Research
Department, even as intellectuals turn a blind eye...more Add
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09.07.05
At
manuscript sale, images prevail
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...more Add
a comment Book
aid
It's been difficult to judge what the well-read anarchist has been
perusing this G8 week, as some of Edinburgh's major bookstores have had to, temporarily,
close their doors because of skirmishes in the city of literature...more Add
a comment Rare
book store to close
New York - Twenty years ago, former teacher Martha
Kelly bought Gutenberg Books on Monroe Avenue. It had been a dream of hers to
own the store known for having a good selection of old and rare books. Kelly died
earlier this year and now the store must close...more Add
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08.07.05
Yeats
letters and essay to be auctioned
A collection of letters and an essay
penned by one of Ireland’s greatest poets, William Butler Yeats, is to be auctioned.
The album, which includes an annotated, working manuscript of The Tragic Theatre
and 18 signed letters written by Yeats, is expected to fetch between 90,000 and
120,000 Euros at the Sotheby’s sale in London...more Add
a comment Ed
McBain
Salvatore Lombino, who died on Wednesday aged 79, was a prolific
American thriller writer best known under the pseudonyms Evan Hunter and Ed McBain,
which was his personal preference...more Add
a comment
07.07.05
A
bid for Harry Potter's green fans
Subplot to the adventures of Harry Potter:
Will the muggles boycott the United States edition of his newest book, due out
next week, and buy the Canadian version, which is printed on recycled paper, instead?
...more Add
a comment Hitler
sketches to be auctioned in Montreal
Four sketches by Nazi tyrant Adolf
Hitler and two greeting cards signed by him are for sale by a Montreal auction
house...more Add
a comment Legendary
book goes to British Library
The British Library has just been presented
with a legendary book, regarded by many bookbinders as one of the greatest modern
bindings in the world - but haunted by tragedy and disaster...more Add
a comment Return
of Korean books
France should return the books it plundered during the
invasion of Korea in 1866. Paris may say there are few such precedents, but that
must be because the plunderers were from one of the most powerful countries in
the world at that time. President Roh Moo-hyun, during his visit to Paris in December,
expressed his respect for France as a country of freedom and culture. We hope
France will prove it...more Add
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06.07.05
Shrine
and Shroud: Textiles in Illuminated Manuscripts
Los Angeles - The close
relationship between textiles and manuscripts, two of the most venerated items
in the medieval world, is examined in Shrine and Shroud: Textiles in Illuminated
Manuscripts, at the Getty Center, through October 2, 2005. The exhibition is the
first at the Getty Center to focus on this fascinating subject. It explores the
great importance textiles held in secular and spiritual life, and their use in
manuscripts as protective and decorative elements and as an integral part of the
book’s imagery and message...more Add
a comment Found
treasure or false hope?
Paul Burks was cleaning out his workshop when
he found what may be one of the earliest copies of the Declaration of Independence...more Add
a comment
05.07.05
China
jails Muslim author
A Chinese Muslim author has been sentenced to 10 years
in prison after authorities deemed one of his stories subversive...more Add
a comment Browsing
on roadside
A vast collection of books on varied subjects including architecture,
archaeology, business studies, mathematics, medicine, mass media et al on a pavement,
in Vadapalani, Chennai - a treasure trove by the roadside...more Add
a comment New
challenges for libraries outlined
An initiative was launched yesterday
to nudge policymakers away from seeing successful book lending and the encouragement
of reading as the prime goals of Britain's public library service...more Add
a comment Newton's
alchemy manuscript found
Sir Isaac Newton, famous for his revolutionary
work in mathematics, optics, gravity and the laws of motion, had a secret hobby.
A collection of his notes thought to have been lost 70 years ago reveal his passion
for alchemy and fruitless attempts to turn lead into gold...more Add
a comment
TheBookGuide
is away for a couple of days but he and the news will return on July 5th.
02.07.05
Russia
votes to return books
Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma,
passed a library restitution bill after its first reading Friday. The bill provides
for the return to Hungary of 134 theological books removed from the Hungarian
Reformist Church's Sarospatak College during World War II...more Add
a comment Historical
document thieves go hi-tech
A researcher at the National Archives tucks
valuable historical documents into his clothes and walks out. In Philadelphia,
an archives employee strolls out with valuable historic material. A court docket
sheet from Leon Czolgosz’s trial for the 1901 assassination of President William
McKinley disappears from a dusty, oversized ledger in Buffalo, N.Y. In all three
cases, some of the booty winds up posted for sale online...more Add
a comment Godfather
script sold for record price
It was a well-thumbed script from a film
more than three decades old and it sold yesterday for $312,800 (£176,000). Marlon
Brando's personal copy of the screenplay for The Godfather set a new world record
at yesterday's auction of the actor's personal effects at Christie's in New York...more Add
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01.07.05
Mailer
savages 'kamikaze' critic who panned his books
Norman Mailer has demonstrated
that neither age nor his status as one of the grand old men of American letters
has withered his loathing of a bad review by savaging the most powerful book critic
in America...more Add
a comment
Plot
thickens in vanishing books mystery
This was not your average smash and
grab. The High Street shop is one of Melbourne's oldest antiquarian book stores
and the thief - who bypassed nearby stores selling jewellery and fine china -
allegedly made off with two dozen of English literature's finest...more Add
a comment Textbook
case yields another arrest
University of Iowa police arrested a fifth
man in an alleged scheme in which the suspects netted more than $50,000 by selling
stolen textbooks for cash...more Add
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