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30.03.10.
Superman
comic sale is a record: $1.5 million
The record price
for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been shattered
again ... more
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Can you identify
the forgotten book?
Ever had a book
you remembered fondly but couldn't name? Perhaps we can help each
other ... more
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The Ephemera
Society’s 30th
Celebrating its
30th year, the Ephemera Society of America conducted its annual
Conference and Paper Show over the weekend of March 19–21. The gala
event began with lectures and conferences on Friday and they continued
through Sunday afternoon. The ephemera show, hosting 80-plus dealers,
opened to society members early on Saturday afternoon, to the public
an hour later, and continued through the weekend ... more
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Libraries:
stop doing it by the book
Their transformation
from fusty institutes to hi-tech hubs has resulted in a schism in
local libraries ... more
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27.03.10.
No
news this week
Sorry about the
lack of news items this week, but for the past ten days I've had
acute sciatica, which has made it all but impossible to work at
the computer. It's slowly improving but I have to spend the time
I can tolerate in front of the keyboard, dealing with things that
actually contribute to earning a living. Hopefully, I'll be able
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19.03.10.
Antique
map market regaining strength
There is renewed
interest in the antique map market in 2010 as new collectors as
well as seasoned veterans are looking to take advantage of the end
of the global downturn, picking up museum-quality pieces at bargain
prices ... more
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New Bloomsbury
archive
A revealing letter
about the disappearance and suicide of Virginia Woolf in 1941 is
part of a new archive of letters by the Bloomsbury group that is
being opened to public viewing for the first time ... more
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18.03.10.
Hitler
in the Public Domain
The copyright
on Mein Kampf will expire in 2015. It's high time Germans see what
a ridiculous text it is ... more
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Rare medieval
Jena Codex on display at Prague Castle
The rare late-15th-century
Jena Codex, part of the Czech National Museum's collections that
is put on display very rarely, can be seen at the Art of the Czech
Reformation exhibition at Prague Castle from yesterday until March
30th ... more
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16.03.10.
Baby
boomers drive collectible book sales
Reread any good
books lately? The answer for many is yes, especially if you’re a
baby boomer. Boomers, it appears, are returning to the books of
their youth in droves ... more
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PBA sells
Henry Miller collection in private-treaty sale
In an announcement
made yesterday, March 15, PBA Galleries confirmed that a major American
research institution has purchased via private treaty the rare and
extensive collection of Henry Miller items that were to be auctioned
on March 18, 2010 as part of the Library of Roger Wagner ... more
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JD Salinger
letters shine light on a recluse
A collection
of previously unseen letters written by the famously reclusive Catcher
in the Rye author JD Salinger, who died in January, has gone on
show at a New York museum ... more
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15.03.10.
'Shakespeare's
lost play' no hoax, says expert
It has thrills,
spills, sword fights, violent sexual assault and – to modern ears
– a terrible ending, but the little-known 18th century play Double
Falsehood was propelled into the literary limelight today when it
was claimed as a lost Shakespeare ... more
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12.03.10.
The
largest vintage paperback book fair in the world
The show is the
last of the old fashioned book shows in California and has grown
into the largest vintage paperback show in the world. It is a simple,
no frills affair, completely unpretentious. The exhibitor-tables
are invitingly inexpensive; dealers from across the country converge
en mass to exhibit. Collectors flock to Southern California from
across the USA and the globe to attend ... more
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10.03.10.
Antiquarian
booksellers adapt to keep industry alive
Three decades
ago, Catherine Clement opened her bookstore, Clement Antiquariat,
in Bonn - then the capital of West Germany. For Clement, Bonn was
the ideal location. "It was a bourgeois town with ministers, ambassadors
and bureaucrats who had money," she told Deutsche Welle. "All the
cultivated people who played a role in the evolution of Germany
were my customers" ... more
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Google to
digitise ancient Italian books
The Italian government
has signed a deal with Google to put the contents of two national
libraries on the internet. Up to one million antiquarian books -
including works by Dante, Machiavelli and Galileo - will be scanned
and made available free on Google Books ... more
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Book cover
made of human skin develops psoriasis!
Wealthy entrepreneur
David Wayne Haskins of Clarksville, Tennessee has many volumes of
rare books and has one whole shelf of some 34 books that are hundreds
of years old and he was shocked lately after pulling down a copy
of "Peter's Complaint" to show a guest and discovered that the book's
cover had red scaly spots on it ... more
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The last
English language bookstores in Jimbocho
Tokyo's sadly
declining second hand book district offers Anglophone bookworms
everything from cheap paperback novels to first editions requiring
credit card limit extensions ... more
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09.03.10.
Antiquarian
books thrill visitors in Abu Dhabi
"I participated
at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair and received such positive
feedback that I decided to participate again this year," said Robert
Frew of Robert Frew Ltd ... more
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Conan Doyle
fans want author's home preserved
Fans of the creator
of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - are trying to save
his boarded-up home in Surrey from being redeveloped ... more
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New comic
auction site launched
Just as prices
for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales
of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector
and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction
site called GetSlabbed.com ... more
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World exclusive!
Finnegans Wake nonsense!
Stop worrying
if you find this legendary modernist masterpiece unreadable – I
can sensationally reveal that the author couldn't make much sense
of it either ... more
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05.03.10.
JFK
love letters go for $115,000
Love letters
and telegrams from John F. Kennedy to a young Swedish woman put
up for sale by a south suburban auction house have sold for $115,537.50.
"We had estimated $40,000 to $50,000," said Doug Allen, president
of Legendary Auctions in Lansing. "We were very pleased to get six
figures" ... more
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Thousands
of Cardiff's rare books are saved
Thousands of
Wales' oldest and rarest books has been saved after a council threatened
to sell them. The 14,000 items, some dating from the late 15th Century,
are to be moved to Cardiff University's library ... more
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04.03.10.
Harry
Potter tops poll of books to pass on
JK Rowling's
Harry Potter series has topped a poll of books British people would
most like to pass on to the next generation to read ... more
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£78m Bodleian
transformation
Oxford University
is to submit plans this month for a £78m scheme to transform the
New Bodleian Library in Broad Street. The massive renovation would
take five years to complete and could bring new vibrancy to one
of the city’s most historic streets ... more
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Why World
Book Day matters more than ever
Amid the frenetic
changes of life in the 21st century, literature remains a vital
component of a fulfilling life ... more
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03.03.10.
Shakespeare
and Company, a creative sanctuary
Long after Hemingway
and the Beats, the Shakespeare and Company bookshop is still encouraging
Paris to read and write ... more
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Michael Foot:
a passionate literary man
Michael Foot
was a passionate politician and parliamentarian, but he was no less
passionate a literary figure ... more
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Shirley Hughes's
top 10 picture book characters
From Fungus the
Bogeyman to Babar the Elephant, the creator of Dogger and Alfie
looks at the compelling creations that turn small children into
readers ... more
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Tales of
a riverbank revolution
Open-air book
stalls have been a fixture of Paris's Left Bank for centuries. Now,
an invasion of tourist tat has left them fighting for survival ...
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02.03.10.
Original
Theory of Relativity manuscript goes on display
The Academy of
Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem is opening a rare exhibition
showing for the first time ever the complete original manuscripts
of Albert Einstein’s historic General Theory of Relativity ... more
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01.03.10.
Boys
prefer to read simpler books, survey suggests
Boys choose to
read less challenging books than girls and this gets more pronounced
as they get older, according to a UK-wide survey of reading habits
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The Hobbit
at The Bodleian Library
The Bodleian
Library is taking part in World Book Day on March 4th by exhibiting
a selection of JRR Tolkien’s original artwork which was used to
illustrate The Hobbit ... more
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Digital archivists
work to save rare books
The rumors traveled
urgently from Haiti: Beyond all the death and wreckage, one of the
nation's greatest exports -- its cultural scholarship -- was buried
that awful afternoon in January. The three largest heritage libraries
and the National Archives -- keepers of much of Haiti's complicated,
heroic, rich story -- were reportedly lost to the random nature
of earthquakes ... more
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McGill collection
soars
Birds of America:
Single prints from the John James Audubon books have sold for close
to $200,000. Small wonder ... more
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