William ColeSitges, SpainThe writer is an art and rare-book dealer.
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She later operated a rare-book shop in Highland Park, Ill.
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Typically, the person who's buying a rare book knows what they want.
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Eccentricity and charm abound in this documentary about the rare book world.
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CreditCreditBruce Chernin, via Alpern Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
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How, then, can the rare book trade thrive in the 21st century?
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We got a look at billionaire investor Seth Klarman's super-rare book.
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Open Book Maxwell Perkins is the rare book editor who achieved lasting fame.
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It was a bit like making a library appointment to inspect a rare book.
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A rare book room houses more than 19407,21925 volumes, some from the 218th century.
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It's that rare book that smacks of a tight deadline only in good ways.
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D.W. Young's documentary explores the insular world of rare book dealers in New York City.
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She later learned the garden had a copy of the book in their rare book collection.
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Like a lot of analog industries, most rare-book dealers didn't take to the Internet immediately.
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There, Devlin's friend thinks she has seen a man steal a map from a rare book.
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However, the book seemed to be an old and rare book that should have been checked.
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Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, 535 West 114th Street, Manhattan; 212-854-5590, library.columbia.edu.
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" In the rare-book room, Dern picked up a first edition of Tennessee Williams's "Camino Real.
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It is that rare book on addiction: neither preaching nor self-loathing, lapsing only occasionally into romanticism.
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Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired the archives of artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
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There are generally two types of rare book thieves — ones that steal for money and book hoarders.
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The university's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library asked Mr. Reese how much he wanted for it.
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In the (still) heavily male and white rare book world, women's material — and women collectors — were marginalized.
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Nick Wilding, a rare-book expert who teaches history at Georgia State University, found more troubling evidence.
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The books shown in the rare book room are spread open on raised plinths in glass cases.
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The awards, administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, were first issued in 2013.
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As result, the rare book trade depends on knowledgeable collectors and institutions — and fellow dealers — to drive sales.
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But "The Midnight Line" is the rare book in which Reacher mostly doesn't have to act that way.
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With all the publicity, the tablet has been put on display at the university's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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This is the rare book that we should trust to lead us down the long hard road of understanding.
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The space, which sits across from the Museum of Modern Art, was formerly occupied by a rare-book shop.
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This was the rare book that had me waking at nights, in a sweat and fretting over a character.
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The original "Night-Club Map of Harlem" was acquired earlier this year by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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All the Birds in the Sky is that rare book that has both a wizard school and a doomsday device.
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The employee was arrested in 1950 and it was found that the documents had been sold to rare book dealers.
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The film explores the family dynamic of its owners, and the niche world of rare-book dealers in the city.
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He's afraid of the Bookburners, a shadowy "men in black" type of organization said to hunt down rare-book thieves.
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It's the rare book that can achieve an appropriate balance between heaviness and levity, and it's my favorite kind of novel.
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"Rare-book stores are kind of rare these days," says Kevin Sell, a bookseller and grad student in St. Paul, Minn.
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"That is absolutely unique," said Mr. McDade, an expert on rare book thefts who has written several books on the subject.
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ELIZABETH FRENGEL NEW HAVEN The writer is a research librarian at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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It's possible that the real romance on You is not between Joe and Beck, but between Joe and that rare book cellar.
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The University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library acquired what is thought to be the oldest English-language book in Canada.
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"This is a huge deal," Mr. Vinson said, noting that most rare-book dealers have annual sales between $20163,000 and $1 million.
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The personal notes — enough to fill up dozens of boxes — are going up for auction at the ABA Rare Book Fair in London .
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My friend Nicolas Vernhes, who lives in Williamsburg, used to work his Albini but now he has his own place Rare Book Room.
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His father, Samuel, was a psychologist and teacher, and his mother, the former Frances Klenett, was a composer, teacher and rare-book dealer.
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He had no idea that his seeming good fortune was a byproduct of one of the most expansive rare book thefts in history.
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The exhibition is a collaboration between the gallery and Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, to which Mr. Mitchell donated his archive in 20093.
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So she went into Brice's archives, stole several letters, slipped them into her shoe, and sold them to Argosy, a rare book store.
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The event is April 25 in New York City at 20153:30pm ET at The Strand Bookstore in Strand's 3rd floor Rare Book Room.
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Peel donated his journals to a special collection at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta.
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It sounds like the rare book about physics that can be ingested in a single sitting, which I hope to do sometime this summer.
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The letters were obtained by Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library in Atlanta and will be available to the public.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Saturday about the rare-book seller William Reese misstated the title of a guidebook he wrote in his final years.
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About 30 copies of this first edition have survived, according to Paul Needham, a rare book expert and curator at Princeton University's Scheide Library.
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After the court settlement, William H. Loos, curator of the Buffalo library's rare-book room, reflected on the manuscript's journey before it came home.
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Strings of bulbs hung from rare-book bookshelf to bookshelf, with the light bouncing off the long pink, white, turquoise and gold dangling tassels.
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The seller states that this "exceedingly rare" book did not actually belong to Jared Kushner, but does contain his senior photo and varsity basketball photo.
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There will also be a rare book show with original zines for sale; but no word yet on the exact schedule of performances and events.
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In advance of the public auction, Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library privately purchased manuscripts and photographs for its Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe Archive.
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The theft transformed the manuscript into an object of obsession, a kind of Maltese Falcon, for a coterie of Inquisition scholars and rare-book collectors.
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Although there is much to admire in it, "Disaster Falls" is the rare book that would have been better longer, with these issues thoroughly explored.
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Mr. Prince-Ramus said that translucent marble had been used at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University and at a church in Switzerland.
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"It was an amazing setup that was close to foolproof," Mr. McDade said, noting that most rare book thieves get caught trying to sell their goods.
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But this rare book fair in a London park remained a world away from the V.I.P. glitz of high-end art fairs like Frieze or Masterpiece.
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Stockholmers come here when they're on the hunt for an eye-catching item, be it an antique, a rare book or a piece of vintage furniture.
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"SHE had quite a mouth on her," observes a rare book collector, reading a snarky personal letter ostensibly written by Dorothy Parker, an American poet and satirist.
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Langston Hughes Holiday Display: The Thought that Counts continues through December 20 at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale University, 121 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut).
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The first Fast & Furious film is also not a remake of the 1939 Busby Berkeley comedy Fast and Furious, as the latter is about rare book dealers.
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"It's basically a 'who's who' of people in the rare book field," said Travis McDade, curator of rare books for the University of Illinois College of Law.
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So naturally, cynical reporters called her "Sweet Marie," according to Thai Jones, the curator for American history in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.
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His most substantial gift was to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, to which he donated an exceptional collection of musical and literary manuscripts.
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Mr. Wilding won fame in rare-book circles in 2012 for exposing a book, promoted as a rare ancient copy of a work by Galileo, as fraudulent.
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The theft brought to light the systems that rare-book sellers have in place to thwart thieves, including international databases of stolen items that make reselling them difficult.
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Related: Real-World Tokyo Sets This 'Blade Runner' Homage Somebody Analyzed All the Typography in 'Blade Runner,' and It's Epic Rare Book Revealing Blade Runner's Art Direction Surfaces
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A man has been arrested and charged with stealing two valuable books last spring from a rare-book dealer on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the police said.
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A Barbetta menu from that era, at the New York Public Library in the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Division, lists roast rack of lamb for two for $14.50.
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Flowers of Jerusalem and Flowers of the Holy Land are on view at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto, 120 St George Street) through August 31.
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"I do feel we've reached a new level where nobody knows what's going to happen," said Gabe Wax, 24, who runs the Rare Book Room recording studio in Brooklyn.
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The report draws on research from that seminar, taught by Mr. Foner in 19063 and, last year, by Thai Jones, a curator in Columbia's rare-book-and-manuscript library.
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The colorful cards are featured in Gather Out of Star-Dust: The Harlem Renaissance & The Beinecke Library, a building-wide exhibition at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Destined to Be Known: The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at 75 continues at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (121 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut) through December 10.
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To mark its 100th anniversary, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has organized a small display of photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection.
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Schulman, a rare book dealer, has been charged with theft, receiving stolen property, dealing in proceeds of illegal activity, conspiracy, retail theft, theft by deception, forgery, and deceptive business practices.
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They bailed completely on their first attempt, which included the entire group disguising themselves as old men, after they became paranoid about a librarians' meeting in the Rare Book Room.
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Photograph from Erik Overbey Collection, Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama As it turns out, though, even that wasn't true, and Hurston knew it.
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Rare-book dealers are well versed in warning signs that make them leery of certain sellers, said Pom Harrington, who owns a London-based rare-books firm named Peter Harrington.
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While there have been other infamous rare book thefts, occasionally by industry insiders, the Carnegie Library case, according to prosecutors, notably involved a collaboration between a librarian and a dealer.
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In the 1830s and 1840s, when America shifted from importing children's literature from Britain to publishing its own, the messages changed, according to Jacqueline Coleburn, the library's rare book cataloger.
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The Hugh Mangum Photographs Collection in Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library has 937 glass plate negatives and black-and-white photographs created between the 20013s and 1922.
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The "jewel in the crown" of the event, according to its website, was the A.B.A. Rare Book Fair, whose 61st edition, featuring 213 British and international dealers, closed on Saturday.
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A first edition with one supplement, but in better condition, sold, much as estimated, for $295,000 at Christie's last year, according the database Rare Book Hub, based in San Francisco.
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Until recently, of course, books existed only as physical objects, and in a sense Kells, a rare-book expert, has written a chronicle of what it means to possess them.
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The Bollingen Prize, administered through the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, is awarded every two years to recognize a recent book or a lifetime body of work.
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It's why she's so keen on making Joe a bad guy, and why she's so quick to push her theory that Joe stole her laptop or rare book from her shelf.
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One of the most consulted collections at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, which has thousands of objects related to the Harlem Renaissance.
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Mr. Sheff will explore it further at this interview and performance event in the Rare Book Room of the Strand, where he'll surely feel at home among those miles of books.strandbooks.
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The letters, which were obtained by the university's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library in Atlanta, will be made available to the public, The New York Times reported.
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Destined to Be Known: The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at 75, organized by Melissa Barton and Nancy Kuhl, is currently on view at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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It's a sly turnabout for Mr Gekoski, a British-American academic and rare-book dealer known for chronicling the bookish life in broadcast, and in books such as "Outside of a Dog".
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Deep in the Berg rare book collection, for example, is a work that has never been publicly displayed: William Faulkner's pencil drawings of him and Meta Carpenter Wilde, his mistress, having sex.
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University is exhibiting a pop-up display through December 2121 of Hughes's 1950 postcards, as well as Christmas cards he received from friends.
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Outside the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library featuring Gordon Bunshaft's design using translucent marble, there is an Isamu Noguchi ("Pyramid, Sun, and Cube") sculpture and an Alexander Calder ("Gallows and Lollipops").
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He proceeded to transform it into a radically inclusive affair, attended by venerable rare-book dealers alongside obscure zine makers so scrappy that they could barely afford the plane fare to participate.
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With just a few clicks on my computer or phone, I can order a rare book from San Francisco, a country ham from Kentucky or a dazzling box of chocolates from Vermont.
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The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)For Greg Kondrak, an expert in natural language processing at the University of Alberta, this seemed a perfect task for artificial intelligence.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A rare book hand-written and -illustrated by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling sold for $467,000 at auction in London on Tuesday, at the lower end of its estimated price range.
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And anyone looking into the brochure for the Institute, long passed around in online conspiracy circles, would find it listed in a rare-book catalog called Incunabula, which first showed up around 22000.
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Diane Lane is a Westchester housewife who surrenders to an erotic whim and embarks on an affair with a French rare-book dealer (Olivier Martinez) in SoHo that soon spins out of control.
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Frayed, browned and in fragile condition, the Voynich manuscript currently resides deep in a basement at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library but digitized copies of it are available for free online.
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She has prepared a new translation of the speech for Mr. Mortensen to read, based on a long-lost French typescript she recently found in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale.
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While visiting his childhood home, in Kolkata, the protagonist of this novel, a rare-book dealer living in New York, hears a Bengali tale about a gun merchant who angers a snake goddess.
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The authentic letter had ended up in the possession of an Atlanta actuary who purchased it from a rare book dealer in New York in 2004, unaware it had been taken from the Vatican.
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Nearby is Brown's John Hay Library, the rare book repository whose archives include the largest collection of Lovecraft materials in the world, including original manuscripts, books, magazines, letters and items from his personal library.
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One morning, I accompanied her to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, at the University of Toronto, where she has donated her archive: four hundred and seventy-four boxes' worth of papers, so far.
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"What's clear is that it gives you a wonderfully rich depiction of the social life of Chinatown," Thai Jones, curator for American history at Columbia's rare book and manuscript library, said of the newspaper.
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A similar, undulating use of line and color informs an undated watercolor at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, in which purple and gray waves merge with female forms, while ships sail in the distance.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, Cory Arcangel opens a new show starring a drum machine, psychoanalysts and writers dissect the horror classic Rosemary's Baby, the city celebrates Rare Book Week, and more.
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"We have taken on a major audio archive of an outsider figure who was positioned uniquely at a critical moment in American history," said Sean M. Quimby, the director of Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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It centers on Dinanth Datta, a rare book dealer also known as Deen, who reluctantly sets off on an Indiana Jones-esque trip to a temple in the Sundarbans, seeking clues to an ancient Bengali legend.
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Hof, who has taken to studying the brains of whales and dolphins, likes to bring visitors to an open, chilled "brain room," a sort of rare-book collection of brains, to see a few beautiful instances.
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"New Yorkers provided the strongest voices both for the rush to war, and the opposition," said Thai Jones, a history professor and curator for American history at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.
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The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
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The 1 billion items figure comes from products available through Google Shopping, so it likely doesn't include more obscure, unshoppable objects, such as a gaming console from the 1990s or the first edition of a rare book.
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The Morgan Library & Museum, long the redoubt of rare-book lovers and drawing connoisseurs, has taken to mounting installations in its oversized Renzo Piano atrium, which has all but shoved that institution's traditional galleries to the margins.
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Even in the niche world of rare-book dealers, the value of the items stolen is stunning, said Michael Vinson, a dealer based in New Mexico who is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
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Data provided by American Book Prices Current, which tracks rare book and manuscript auction results, show that, after the Lincoln letter, the highest prices paid for individual love letters are predominantly for those written by military men.
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As The New York Times reports: Deep in the Berg rare book collection, for example, is a work that has never been publicly displayed: William Faulkner's pencil drawings of him and Meta Carpenter Wilde, his mistress, having sex.
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The exhibition builds on the 2014 publication Opulent Oceans: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library, part of the Natural Histories series highlighting material from the more than 600,000 rare volumes at AMNH.
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And it's not hard to see why: It's that rare book that thinks hard and explicitly about difficult and important topics — in this case, the immense and crippling inhumanity of America's legacy of slavery and its racist aftermath.
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They staked out the library in between classes, and Reinhard, a talented artist (see the poster he designed for the film below), even drew a mock blueprint of the Rare Book Room, where the heist would take place.
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"This may be a rare book by a serving member of royal staff, but for a long time people such as the Prince of Wales have cooperated with official biographies and lots of TV documentaries," Little told Insider.
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Diane Lane earned an Oscar nomination playing a Westchester County housewife who surrenders to an erotic whim and embarks on an affair with a French rare-book dealer (Olivier Martinez) in SoHo; it soon spins out of control.
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There have been instances in which the rare-book community has been powerless to recover books: when they are taken by bibliophiles with no intention of reselling, said James Cummins, the proprietor of James Cummins Bookseller in Manhattan.
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Throughout the tale of the rare-book seller and new parent Apollo Kagwa's nightmarish and suspenseful search for his wife and son, cross-cultural folklore and familiar stories fly (Maurice Sendak's "Outside Over There" takes a star turn).
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Like cowboys of yore, he too migrates—from Washington, where he is part-owner of a rare-book shop, to north central Texas, where he has a ranch near his boyhood home, to Hollywood, where he writes screenplays.
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NEW HAVEN — William Reese, whose encyclopedic knowledge of historic American books and manuscripts made him a towering figure among rare-book sellers, died on June 17553 at his childhood home in Havre de Grace, Md. He was 62.
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The Vatican was advised of the theft in 2012, a year after United States Homeland Security Investigations got a tip from a rare book and manuscript expert who had seen the Vatican copy and raised doubts about its authenticity.
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There I'll stay forevermore, cared for like a rare book or a stack of historic documents, in a library where students can check out my disarticulated bones, study me, then return me to the shelf for the next scholar.
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"This is footage taken in 1965 of people who at the time were the most famous people on earth at the pinnacle of their collective career," Neil Pearson, a London rare book dealer who is selling the footage, told Reuters.
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The manuscript was found several years ago at an estate sale in Rochester, and was later identified by scholars at Yale working with the university's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library as the first known prison memoir by an African-American.
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Rosemary M. Magee, the director of the library, declined to reveal who had the letters before the library obtained them, other than to say that library officials were contacted by "someone in the rare book world" who acted as a middleman.
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The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto is currently displaying two examples of such albums, Flowers of Jerusalem and Flowers of the Holy Land, and recently shared some of the images contained in them on Flickr.
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Beginning in 275, she started forging letters from literary figures like Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Lillian Hellman, selling them to rare book dealers — with the help of her friend Jack Hock — for several hundred or even several thousand dollars.
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Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old ManuscriptImage: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale UniversitySince its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
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A first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," minus one of the rare-book world's most sought-after dust jackets, was on sale for 20113,000 euros beneath a label reading "I must have you," a nod to the novel's opening epigraph.
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The nine letters written and sent by Obama to his then-girlfriend Alexandra McNear were obtained by Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, where students or visitors can read them in person by appointment when they become available Friday.
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"He was just learning the shape of the letters and copying what was on the sheet, they even had to build him this little bench to walk back and forth on," said Jacqueline Coleburn, the rare book cataloger at the Library of Congress.
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Jumping from Reformation-era Brazil to Puritan New England to Langston Hughes's Harlem, it is that rare book of short fiction with an epic intuition of time, accomplishing in a handful of inspired, intimate portraits what many sagas only manage in reams.
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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University acquired a trove of his manuscripts, letters, notes and other artifacts, which will now sit alongside material from Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, James Baldwin and Marilynne Robinson in its rich American literature collection.
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His 1659–83 book of alchemical, home remedy, and even cooking (such as his mother-in-law's "Nourishing Broth") recipes, recently acquired by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has concoctions for "colors for oyles" alongside his experiments on the Midas touch.
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The South Carolina family who sold the document -- which had a value of at least $25,000, according to court papers -- believed their now-dead relative, who was a document collector, got the documents from a rare book dealer in the late 1940s, court papers say.
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Glenn Horowitz, a rare-book dealer, installed an alarm at the front of the shop he used to operate in East Hampton, on Long Island, but it was just for show — none of his books were equipped with the devices needed to set it off.
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"A great deal of love and care was bestowed on the dolls, and we've always been very mindful of their condition and wanting to make sure they survive indefinitely," Michael Inman, curator of the Rare Book Division which cares for the dolls, told Hyperallergic.
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As such, the major part of Haeckel's work on plankton remains locked away in the rare book collections of a small number of libraries, and their use is limited to the few scholars aware of their existence and who have the privilege of access.
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The objects in The Art of Ownership are from the Rosenbach's collections, the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia (an institution of which the Rosenbach is a part), the University of Delaware's William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection, and other area repositories.
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"Going in, you might imagine it's a bunch of old brown spines, but it's completely the opposite," D.W. Young, the film's director, said last week while sitting in a the suitably book-crammed offices of Sanctuary Books, a rare-book outfit a few blocks from the armory.
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In John Grisham's latest thriller, the inspiration-starved Mercer spends a lot of time moaning about her lack of juicy subject matter, even as she runs down clues to the Fitzgerald theft and befriends a cunning rare-book dealer she suspects may be the crime's mastermind.
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The US Attorney's Office of Delaware and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which investigates looted cultural heritage and stolen artwork, made the announcement Wednesday after investigators found that a collector had unsuspectingly bought the letter from a rare book dealer in the United States in 2003.
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I have discussed this history at more length before, but when Little Women first came out, just as children's publishing was beginning to divide itself into "books for girls" and "books for boys," it was considered to be the rare book to bridge the gender gap.
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The novel's central character — an urbane, Kolkata-born, now Brooklyn-based, rare-book dealer named Dinanath (Deen) Datta — becomes obsessed with the mysterious symbols decorating a remote shrine in the Sundarbans, a wild region of mangrove islands on the Bay of Bengal, stretching between India and Bangladesh.
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When: Ongoing through Wednesday, April 13 Where: Various locations If you're in the market for a 15th-century copy of Ptolemy's Cosmographia or just enjoy perusing weathered tomes for your aspirational library, the 2016 NYC Rare Book Week has an assembly of fairs, auctions, and exhibitions highlighting exceptional books.
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"Brave New World," Aldous Huxley Obviously I read this when I was very young, with "Heaven and Hell," and then years later, a friend of mine in Paris — a rare book dealer and musician — turned me on to all his other books, and I was just knocked flat.
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Photograph from Erik Overbey Collection, Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama In the subsequent years and decades, the survivors of the Clotilda gradually died, until only one man answered the door in Africatown when a student from Barnard College came knocking, in 1927.
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Now Mr. Sedaris has sold his archive to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale, where his manuscripts, drafts, notebooks and other scraps will be part of the library's rich holdings relating to social satire from the likes of Garry Trudeau, Saul Steinberg, David Rakoff and Mark Twain.
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The building, a sleek glass and steel tower commissioned by Mr. Rockefeller and opened in 1961, was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an architect known for midcentury International style who also designed Lever House in Manhattan and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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Up a flight of stairs, in the gray metal rare-book stacks, Mr. Gewirtz showed off a shelf of pulp fiction books, yet to be cataloged, from after World War II. The books were acquired to help document the change in sexual attitudes that coincided with anti-establishment literary movements.
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One day I happened upon an article about The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook from 1961, a rare book that has been out of print for years (and likely never sold well, since there was only one edition, though it was rediscovered in recent years and is much adored by collectors).
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" Pellom McDaniels III, the curator of African-American collections at the university's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, said in an email that the pamphlet, which was revised in two subsequent editions, was "as important for African-American political and social history as Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man.
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"He was captured in 2005 at the Yale University rare book library, when he dropped a razor blade and a librarian found it," Michael Blanding, author of The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps, told Hyperallergic in a phone interview.
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It was 11 years ago that David and Natalie Bauman, the owners of a successful rare book store in Manhattan, open since 1988, decided to expand to Las Vegas, opening a store on a relatively quiet second floor walkway among the Grande Canal Shoppes between the Venetian and Palazzo hotels.
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Funded in part by a fake ID business and inspired by repeated viewings of Guy Ritchie's Snatch, the friends managed to pull off a messy robbery at their school's rare book room, escaping with an original copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and other rare books worth around $10 million.
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The Voynich Manuscript edited by Raymond Clemens; introduction by Deborah Harkness The Voynich Manuscript was originally discovered by a rare book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich, who found it in the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. The volume has confounded scholars for decades with its indecipherable text, and strange and fantastic illustrations.
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This material, much of it on loan from the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, is supplemented by LP album covers (Sun Ra, Kurtis Blow) and Chester Himes paperbacks, along with work by some two dozen contemporary artists working within, or with reference to, a pop-culture groove.
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CreditCreditSasha Arutyunova for The New York Times On the last day of January, more than 24 people poured into the Rare Book Room at the Strand bookstore to hear Carol Gilligan, a veteran of second wave feminism, and Naomi Snider, a former student of Dr. Gilligan's at New York University, talk about patriarchy, and what to do about it.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads AMSTERDAM — Running down a list of the manifold roles of Seth Siegelaub (22013–203) can trigger some confusion: He was, variously, an art dealer, curator, publisher, plumber, bibliographer, rare book dealer, librarian, art collector, textile specialist, cataloguer of Marxism and mass media studies, researcher in time and causality, and on and on.
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In December 2004, in the midst of final exams, four young men robbed the rare-book room at the library of Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. A Vanity Fair article a few years later described the heist as one part "Ocean's 11," one part "Harold & Kumar," which might raise your hopes for "American Animals," a new movie that reconstructs the crime.
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Myself, I tend to gravitate to used bookstores that deal in the nonmystical: The Book Gallery, which has rare book and English-language sections, and Sefer Ve Sefel (books and cups) with its staircases and stacks, where, some years ago, I hauled a half-dozen classics of Jewish literature back to my local nest, and didn't leave until I had to.
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She's gone from working at a record store and self-releasing her 2013 EP Jekyll/Hyde to recently releasing her Domino debut Gumption while touring with Porches and Alex G. Produced by Nicolas Vernhes (the War on Drugs, Deerhunter) at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, Gumption is a warm, textured piece of dreamy guitar indie tunes that sweeps you away.
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The fact that almanacs were designed to be discarded makes it difficult to estimate how many miniature versions were produced, but "apparently, more of these [almanacs] were printed and attractively bound than any other kind of miniature book," writes Jan Storm van Leeuwen, an instructor at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School and co-curator of the Grolier Club exhibition, in the accompanying catalog.
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It would seem something about making a living at the pleasure of the richest man in modern history during a time of widening inequality and stagnating wages must be particularly galling: even antiquarians picked up a stunning win against Bezos this year, with 600 rare book sellers striking in protest of their treatment by Amazon subsidiary AbeBooks, which threatened to drop sellers in a smattering of countries, including South Korea, the Czech Republic and Russia.
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Key referential works here include a beautiful rare book of Publius Ovidius Naso's Metamorphoses published by J. W. Valvasor in 1680, Karel Destovnik Kajuh's cyclostyle-printed Poem (1943) from the Slovene National Archive, a copy of Tomaž Šalamun's first edition poem "Namen Pelerine" (Purpose of a Cape) from 1968, and an anonymous sculpture of the head of Achelous, a man-faced bull god, from 20173–68 AD courtesy of the Museum of Ljubljana.
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Here's how the estimated average cost of a year broke down for men, according to a copy of the 21950-1951 Business School bulletin of information, shared by Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Tuition and fees — $620 Room — $260Board — $450Books and drawing materials — $50Laundry — $90Additional expenses, including clothing, travel, charity organizations and sundries — $20013 And for women: Tuition and fees — $620 Room — $375 Board — $475 Books and drawing materials — $50 Laundry — $60 Additional expenses, including clothing, travel, charity organizations and sundries — $220 "The room, board, books and laundry figures are based upon the rates which prevailed during the past academic year, and can be accepted as applicable for the year 1950-1951 unless national economic changes require their alteration," according to the bulletin.
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