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Signed and rare books for sale
David Moody - author of HATER, DOG BLOOD and the AUTUMN series —
Authority: 114
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 ...1 day ago -
Mar Saba versus Christies:The Archimedes Palimpsest
ein hod —
Authority: 128
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 ...1 day ago -
Michael Suarez, New Director of UV’s Rare Book School, Wows With Lecture on Plate-Subscription Books
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
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 days ago -
World Record Price For 1477 Printing of Ptolemy’s Map of the World
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
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 ...5 days ago -
New Exhibition Showcases Treasures from Mertz Library
Plant Talk —
Authority: 419
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: ...1 week ago -
Filipiniana Rare Books & Ephemera
School Librarian in Action —
Authority: 122
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 ...1 week ago -
Gerda Yourselves For Pleasure: Wegener Bared at NYC Rare Book Shop-Gallery
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
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 ...1 week ago -
A "Witch" So Rare Its Scary
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
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 ...1 week ago -
Link Love: Chapter 1 Books
BOOK SA - News —
Authority: 542
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 ...1 week ago -
Jewish body
ein hod —
Authority: 128
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 ...1 week ago -
O. Henrys Morphine Overdose, Pay-Scale, and Advice to Writers
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
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" ...2 weeks ago -
I Sing the Blue Jeans Electric: Walt Whitman for Levis
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
"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, ...2 weeks ago -
They Laughed When I Sat Down To Read Piano 300
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
On March 8, 2000, the National Museum of American History opened Piano 300 in the Smithsonian Institution s International Gallery in Washington D.C. Celebrating the tricentennial of the piano’s introduction in Florence by Bartolomeo Cristofori , this outstanding exhibition was seen by more than 330,000 ...2 weeks ago -
Publishers Clearing House Presents: No Garden-Variety Library
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
Next time you impatiently yank an over-sized envelope emblazoned with the words: "You May Have Already Won 10 Million Dollars!!!" out of your junk-filled mailbox, take a moment to say: "Thanks." Without Publishers Clearing House , the New York Botanical Garden might not have a library. The Botanical Gardens ...2 weeks ago -
Paper Chase :Why and why not?
ein hod —
Authority: 128
10 Reasons to buy a Kindle 210 reasons not to buy a Kindle 210. There’s just something about a dead tree book, isn’t there? It’s nice to pop into the airport news stand and pick up a novel. It just is. I’m sorry.2 weeks ago -
Thicker than Blood back cover and spine unveiled!
C.J. Darlington —
Authority: 110
Im very excited to share with you the final cover, spine and back cover of my January 2010 Tyndale House novel Thicker than Blood. Click on the image to enlarge it and see how the designer Jennifer Ghionzoli managed to make the most beautiful cover ever! (Im not biased at all, am I?) I LOVE the way this book looks ...2 weeks ago -
Neither fish nor fowl...
Confessions of a Curator —
Authority: 112
I saw this on twitter, thanks to Merrilee and Mazarines: Jackie Dooley will be heading up a new survey of archives & special collections in academic & research libraries , that will follow up on the ARL Hidden Collections Survey from 1998. The update includes an effort to survey even more institutions this ...2 weeks ago -
One Hell of a Book Store - Or the Wrong One?
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
From Book Patrols International Book Shops Wed Like To Visit Department. This one in Hong Kong. Thanks to LISNew s for the lead.2 weeks ago -
Gen. McChrystals "Bad Habit": He Loves Old Book Shops
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
(I wish I was home, relaxing in my library, reading a good book) During the 1960s, the phrase “military intelligence” was considered an oxymoron. In the midst of the Vietnam war it was a darkly glib joke, defensible only because of the series of strategic blunders that were made; it certainly seemed to be true ...2 weeks ago -
73 Interpretations of Tristram Shandys Infamous Black Page
Book Patrol —
Authority: 500
Black Page 73 by Patrick Hughes In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Tristram Shandy , Shandy Hall, author Laurence Sterne ’s former home in Coxwold, U.K, has mounted an exhibition, The Black Page . Seventy-three artists, composers and writers have created their ...3 weeks ago
