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The Oldest Living Rare Bookseller in the World
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Muriel Craddock, 97, with daughter Kay in their family book store in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Joseph Feil. Muriel Craddock, at age 97 1/2 surely the oldest living rare bookseller in the world, has announced the re-opening of Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller , her family business in Melbourne, Australia. ...2 days ago -
$100,000 Book Found On Bathroom Shelf
Popular Fidelity —
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A very rare copy of the first edition of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species was discovered in a pretty unlikely location. Namely, the incredibly rare book was discovered in a bathroom, on a toilet shelf . It’s amazing just what you can find when you clean once in awhile , isn’t it? The book is ...4 days ago -
Useful Info about College Textbooks
My Personal Finance —
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Are you in college or simply a retired clerk who either has to study or has time to study? All you need are the textbooks for developing your knowledge or scientific research monographs for becoming a specialist in the field. If you are a student you will have a chance to become a processional and build your career, ...6 days ago -
European Rare Book Seller Exhibits at Book Fair In Dubai
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Booth at the 2009 Sharjah International Book Fair in Dubai, November 11-21, 2009 Antiquariaat Forum , an ILAB , Netherlands-based dealer of rare books, prints, maps, manuscripts and drawings, is the only rare book dealer exhibiting at the Sharjah World Book Fair in Dubai. According to Corstiaan S, Hesselink, ...1 week ago -
“Legitimate Contender For World’s Most Expensive Book” (Not)
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“Legitimate Contender For World’s Most Expensive Book” ? (Twelfth edition) “Hiya kids, hiya, hiya, hiya!” Froggy , the croaking - and long-croaked - gremlin, has risen from the graveyard of 50s television to pluck his magic twanger once more and bedevil a hapless victim. This time, a deluded "rare book ...1 week ago -
Vanilla over an Mustiness
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A new test that can measure the degradation of old books and precious historical documents on the basis of their aroma. The non-destructive "sniff" test could help libraries and museums preserve a range of prized paper-based objects, some of which are degrading rapidly due to advancing age, the scientists say. the ...2 weeks ago -
Researchers Find Clues in the Scent of Old Books
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Researchers have found a fascinating new way to determine the degradation of old and rare books. The researchers got the idea to use smell to evaluate old books -- or other historical artifacts -- by watching rare book experts who often smell books as part of their examination. It turns out the the odor emitted by ...2 weeks ago -
How To Read An Expensive Rare Book (A Cautionary Tale)
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One word: Carefully. No, two words: Very carefully. Upon receipt of the three-hundred year old rare book you just paid $22,000 for (but havent yet sent the check), inspect it with delicacy. Examine the hinges (inner joints) by gently - and only partially - opening the upper board and then the lower board. Please ...2 weeks ago -
Signed and rare books for sale
David Moody - author of HATER, DOG BLOOD and the AUTUMN series —
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Bit of an unusual post, this one… I’ve been clearing out my office and my attic and I’ve decided it’s time for a sale! In perfect time for Christmas (coincidence – honest!), I’ve found a few boxes of books which I’m selling off through www.infectedbooks.co.uk . There are a few special items here which ...2 weeks ago -
Mar Saba versus Christies:The Archimedes Palimpsest
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Dr. William Noel is Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, a position he took up in 1997. Since January 1999, Dr. Noel has directed an international program to conserve, image and study the Archimedes Palimpsest, the unique source for three treatises by the ancient Greek ...2 weeks ago -
Michael Suarez, New Director of UV’s Rare Book School, Wows With Lecture on Plate-Subscription Books
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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles Michael Suarez, S.J., new Director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia , presented the Fifth Annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles on Saturday, ...2 weeks ago -
World Record Price For 1477 Printing of Ptolemy’s Map of the World
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A copy of the extremely scarce and considered unobtainable 1477 Bologna printing of Ptolemy ’s world map fetched a record price of 210,000 Euros ($312,000) plus premium at Reiss & Sohn auctions in Konigstein, Germany last week. The map shows the whole hitherto known part of the world and is the first ...3 weeks ago -
New Exhibition Showcases Treasures from Mertz Library
Plant Talk —
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Jane Dorfman is Reference Librarian/Exhibitions Coordinator in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library. Mertz Library Director Susan Fraser and Curators Stephen Sinon and I had the delightful task of selecting the 63 items that comprise the latest exhibit in the Library’s Rondina and LoFaro Gallery, Ex Libris: ...3 weeks ago -
Filipiniana Rare Books & Ephemera
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I have been immersed in the development of a collection on Filipiniana, rare books and the ephemera since August. It is an interesting branch of Library and Information Science. I consider the experience as a re-education. I thought I had it all - an education in the traditional library school that provided for the ...3 weeks ago -
Gerda Yourselves For Pleasure: Wegener Bared at NYC Rare Book Shop-Gallery
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Scène de Carnaval. ca. 1920s. [11" x 16 7/8"] A fine selection of works by famed Art Deco book illustrator and painter Gerda Wegener is on exhibition at Leonard Fox Ltd , in the rare book dealer’s shop-gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City October 29 through November 25, 2009. A small section of ...3 weeks ago -
A "Witch" So Rare Its Scary
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Yes, some water-stains; its a maritime novel, whatd you expect? This copy, apparently, skimmed the seas . Some days I wake up lucky. I now have before me one of the great rarities in American literature, the true first edition of James Fenimore Cooper ’s The Water Witch . Published no later than September ...4 weeks ago -
Link Love: Chapter 1 Books
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Chapter 1 Books , an online bookstore of out of print, second-hand, and rare books, is the new kid on the block. Browsing through their Africana Fiction catalogue you can find such gems as Henrietta Rose-Innes ‘ The Rock Alphabet - but be warned, the copy is “a little shelf rubbed” (just the way we ...4 weeks ago -
Jewish body
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Melvin Konner: The Jewish Body from Tablet Magazine on Vimeo.Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers—Jewish genes. But this is not only a book ...4 weeks ago -
O. Henrys Morphine Overdose, Pay-Scale, and Advice to Writers
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Recently, while on recon for Book Patrol, I discovered Fog in Santone , a short story by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910) set in San Antonio Texas and loaded with morphine. In it, O. Henry limns the nexus of tuberculosis, desperate sufferers, and drug addiction amongst the sick and “sporting class" ...4 weeks ago -
I Sing the Blue Jeans Electric: Walt Whitman for Levis
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"Hi, Walt Whitman for Levis. A fustian cloth, rough-hewn, enduring, yeoman, riveted, the fabric of America. These are my pants. Boot-cut. Perfect fit. Get into them, O shapeless, unformed youth! American poet, Walt Whitman , has been drafted by advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy of Portland to lead the battle cry, ...4 weeks ago
