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29.07.10.
Stealing
Shakespeare
Today, 22:35
on BBC
One. The remarkable story of how a 53-year-old rare book dealer
from the North East of England became the centre of a mystery surrounding
the disappearance of a long lost Shakespeare First Folio. The film
follows bachelor Raymond Scott as he finds himself the focus of
a worldwide investigation, involving the FBI, a Cuban fiancee and
Durham CID. If you miss it tonight you can watch on iPlayer for
the next seven days. (Thanks to Steve Archer for the heads up.)
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28.07.10.
Ansel
Adams photos 'worth $200 million'
Rick Norsigian's
hobby of picking through piles of unwanted items at garage sales
in search of antiques has paid off for the Fresno, California, painter.
Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down
from $70 -- are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million,
according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser ... more
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Row erupts
over 'fake' Ansel Adams pics
The grandson
of Ansel Adams has rubbished claims that a stash of negatives bought
in a 'garage sale' were taken by the famous American landscape photographer
and now worth £200m ... more
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Unfinished
Dylan Thomas poem 'saved for Wales'
Dylan Thomas's
last unfinished poem has been given a permanent home at the National
Library of Wales after being bought from a collector ... more
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27.07.10.
'Famous
Five' to get 21st-century updates
Enid Blyton's
children's book series The Famous Five, which was published from
1942 through 1963, is due to get a 21st-century update, announced
industry publication The Bookseller on July 26. Several changes
to the dated dialogue are planned for the new editions, due to roll
out beginning in August ... more
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All things
bright and beautiful
Sheila Markham
in conversation with Edward Bayntun-Coward of George Bayntun ...
more
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'Bookseller
of Kabul' author to pay damages
Norwegian court
rules Åsne Seierstad's book breached privacy of the Bookseller's
real-life spouse ... more
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Sir Walter
Scott’s home set for £10m tourism makeover
The hidden treasure
that was the home of Sir Walter Scott, one of Scotland’s greatest
literary figures, is on the verge of being transformed into a major
tourist attraction after being awarded a multi-million-pound grant
... more
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Mauritania's
hidden manuscripts
Precious Arabic
manuscripts from western Africa are under threat as Mauritania's
desert libraries vanish ... more
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26.07.10.
Rare
Textus Roffensis on display at Rochester Cathedral
An Anglo Saxon
manuscript said to have inspired the Magna Carta is going on display
in Kent this week ... more
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Lottery cash
secures Cornish historical manuscripts
A unique collection
of historical manuscripts charting 500 years of Cornish history
are to remain in the county after a grant of more than £300,000
from the Heritage Lottery Fund ... more
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Surprise
find in rare book
A Literary enthusiast
came away with more than he bargained for after bidding for a collection
of books at Lawrences Auctioneers in Crewkerne. Malcolm Welshman
picked up a copy of Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer
on Wednesday, July 14, and discovered a letter from the First World
War poet in-between the pages when he got it home ... more
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21.07.10.
A
£6,000 Auden bargain
In the first
of a new series detailing his adventures in bookworld, the author
and book dealer Rick Gekoski recalls an exciting discovery at the
Hay festival ... more
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How thieves
target rare books
A book thief
who served a four-year jail sentence should have turned over a new
leaf. Instead, he has been sent back to prison after targeting one
of Britain's most distinguished libraries. The case highlights a
little known, but widespread crime ... more
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Siegfried
Sassoon archive goes on show at Cambridge
Pocket book in
which poet denounced the Western Front carnage in A Soldier's Declaration
to be exhibited with manuscripts, sketches and diary ... more
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20.07.10.
Bookshelf
Porn: the joy of shelves
For all those
bemoaning the slow demise of print, and even more for anyone thinking
of buying themselves a Kindle or iPad to replace their books, here’s
a reminder of the humble paper- or hard-back’s unique joys: ‘Bookshelf
Porn’, http://bookshelfporn.com/ a celebration of beautiful bookshelves
from around the world, which for the past year and a half has posted
photos taken by readers of their favourite shelves ... more
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Six priceless
library books are overdue
University bosses
have made a fresh appeal for the return of six stolen books and
manuscripts following the court case of former South Shields Grammar
School pupil Raymond Scott ... more
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William Jacques
jailed for three years
A serial thief
who stole antique books worth £40,000 from a world-famous library
has been jailed for three-and-a-half years ... more
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The bitter
legacy of Franz Kafka
A milestone has
been reached in the battle over the ownership of the author's unpublished
papers. Tony Paterson reports ... more
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10.07.10.
No news today ...
I'm out of the office for most of next week, so no more news until
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09.07.10.
Raymond
Scott cleared of theft of Shakespeare's plays
An antiques dealer
who tried to sell a rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio has been
found guilty of handling stolen goods and removing stolen property
from the UK. But a jury at Newcastle crown court cleared Raymond
Scott, 53, of stealing the book, which has been described as part
of England's cultural legacy ... more
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Raymond Scott's
life of deceit
Self-confessed
dilettante Raymond Scott loved the high-life, drinking vintage champagne,
wearing designer clothes and driving a Ferrari ... more
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08.07.10.
Shakespeare
folio trial: ‘My client is an old fool’
A self-styled
rare book dealer accused of stealing a priceless Shakespeare volume
was a Walter Mitty-type fantasist who lived a double life, a court
has heard ... more
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Shakespeare
folio jury retires
A jury has retired
to consider its verdicts in the case of an antiques dealer, from
County Durham, accused of stealing a rare copy of Shakespeare's
First Folio ... more
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Eric's family
treasure lost ... and found
An irreplaceable
family heirloom - a book - could have disappeared forever after
it was accidentally donated to a charity ... more
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Print v iPads:
books win!
The speed race,
at least. Books are faster and 'more relaxing' to read, but iPads
and Kindles are 'more satisfying', finds new study ... more
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07.07.10.
Laurie
Lee love letters sold at auction
A collection
of letters written by Laurie Lee – which reveal he was involved
in a love triangle with two sisters – sold for more than £1,700
at auction on Monday ... more
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Raymond Scott
will not give evidence
A serial thief
accused of stealing a rare first folio of Shakespeare’s works will
not give evidence in his defence ... more
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The great
Ellison book purge
Beloved author
(or, more accurately, rabidly followed and immortal author) Harlan
Ellison is, according to his own website, selling off a large chunk
of his collection of rare, exceedingly rare, and “Holy Grail” rare
books and comics ... more
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06.07.10.
Graduate's
floating museum idea for Lindisfarne Gospels
A university
graduate has come up with a unique design for a "floating museum"
to exhibit the Lindisfarne Gospels. Matt Drury, who lives in Newcastle,
came up with the idea after visiting Northumberland's Holy Island,
where the illustrated manuscripts were created ... more
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Robin Ince's
top 10 truly bad books
From Sign of
the Speculum to How to Marry the Man of your Choice, Robin Ince
picks the best of the truly bad books he's salvaged from jumble
sales and skips up and down the country ... more
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05.07.10.
A
bibliophile's paradise
Dreaming of a
store devoted to books about books? Wake up to reality; Oak Knoll
Books makes this fantasy come true ... more
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Manuscript
could be oldest illustrated Christian work
A manuscript
found in a remote Ethiopian monastery could be the oldest illustrated
Christian work in the world, experts have claimed ... more
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The hunt
for lost Stevenson treasures
X, unfortunately,
does not mark the spot but a global treasure hunt is to be launched
for the priceless lost manuscripts of Robert Louis Stevenson. The
original handwritten copies of some of the Scottish author's greatest
works are believed to be in the hands of obscure libraries or private
collectors after they were sold off at the beginning of the 20th
century ... more
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The collectible
future
The book may
be doomed in the digital age, but a first edition of The Great Gatsby
still costs $150,000 ... more
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01.07.10.
What
can John Lennon tell us about the book market?
Items in the
books, manuscripts and ephemera field do not have to be antiquarian
to bring in big money. Indeed, we are witnessing something of a
changing of the guard in what is collectible, as personally relevant
may be gaining ground on historically significant. It is a point
worth understanding in building collections or building inventory
to sell to the new collector ... more
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Raymond Scott
claims he was 'framed by university staff'
A book dealer
accused of stealing a valuable work of Shakespeare told police he
was being framed by corrupt university staff, a court heard ...
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Manchester
prepares for its first children's book festival
The poet laureate,
Carol Ann Duffy, directs a festival featuring a string of well-known
authors that takes children's voices as its theme ... more
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Penguin Books
celebrates its 75th birthday
Fans of Penguin
Books – academics, collectors, readers – gathered at a conference
in Bristol yesterday to mark the 75th birthday of the publishing
house, and to ponder its future ... more
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Temporary
bookshop is open and shut case
Created by design
studio Campaign, RIBA Bookshops and Claire Curtice Publicists, the
Foldaway Bookshop is a specialist architecture bookshop open for
the London Festival of Architecture ... more
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