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News - TheBookGuide's
selection of book related news stories from around the world. May
2004 TheBookGuide
is away for a few days but he and the news will return on 10.06.04 27.05.04.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. It has been called the most beautiful book in the
world, and the most unreadable. Its hero has sex with buildings ...more 27.05.04.
Book 'em Ken! Ken Sanders' incredible adventures in the rare-book trade...more 27.05.04.
William Mayne. The author abused children: should we read his books? ...more 26.05.04.
Safeguarding Rare Book Collections. Solar Imaging Systems has launched
a new digital imaging solution. The Advanced Paper Imaging System (APIS) uses
a unique digital fingerprinting method, 'PaperPrint', to enhance the security
of rare books and research the origins of paper...more 24.05.04.
Return of the curse of Conan Doyle? Case unsolved ... murder not ruled
out ... The death of the world's leading expert on Sherlock Holmes creator has
confounded detectives...more 24.05.04.
Rowling launches website.
JK Rowling has launched a website for her fans
just as the third Harry Potter film got its world premiere in New York last night...more 23.05.04.
Today's trash could be a treasure in 100 years. Jeff and Pat Carr have made
a business out of stuff most people toss in the trash. The Oakland couple buys
and sells posters, brochures and other paper items not meant to be saved...more 23.05.04.
Be kind to your books -- and here's how. Book experts offer some tips about
how to take better care of your books and increase their lifespan...more 23.05.04.
Seattle Library Is One for the Books. You can view a slide show of the unconventional
building that not only pushes the defnition of what a library looks like, it also
expands the way a library functions...more 23.05.04.
Davy Rothbart is a man with a mission. Between now and the end of the year,
he plans on stopping by more than 100 bookstores around the country to promote
his weird and wonderful book "Found"...more 23.05.04.
Six Centuries of Atiqi Family’s Art on Display. TEHRAN - An exhibition of
art, book illustrations, calligraphy, and bookbinding collected by the Atiqi family
is currently underway at the Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran...more 23.05.04.
How to put a price on a dream? 1909 Honus Wagner card might be worth $1 million
- unless it's not...more 23.05.04.
Rare books donated. A couple, who say they are descendants of a royal astrologer,
have donated around 100 rare books on astrology to the State Archives Department.
Jitendra and Ansuya Bhatt donated the books, including several handwritten manuscripts
in Sanskrit, to ensure that they are preserved in good condition...more 22.05.04.
Seagulls and celebrities. Richard Eyre, marking Chekhov's centenary, visits
a transformed Moscow...more 22.05.04.
Exhibition combines art and gardening. Edinburgh - Thirty-eight of the finest
Tuscan gardens form the focus of this exhibition, alongside rare books and manuscripts...more 22.05.04.
The Bookseller. Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry...more 21.05.04.
Conan Doyle Manuscripts Bought By British Library. The British Library has
ensured that a significant corpus of the papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - creator
of the most famous of literary detectives, Sherlock Holmes - will remain in the
public domain for access by scholars and researchers and the general public...more 21.05.04.
Comic books. Hollywood has been plundering comic books for material for decades.
Now it's time for revenge...more 19.05.04.
New Seattle Library a Cathedral for Books. With its jutting angles and sharp
corners, Seattle's downtown Central Library -- a $165 million, 11-story glass-and-metal
jewel box -- is filled with bold designs and shocking colors to greet people visiting
this cathedral for books and learning...more 19.05.04.
Conan Doyle sale nears £1m mark. A lost collection of personal papers belonging
to Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sold for £948,546 at auction
on Wednesday...more 18.05.04.
Great books of Hue lost to free market. You wouldn’t read about it. Although
Hue served as the Vietnamese capital for 150 years, there are few traces of the
former imperial libraries. "If researchers want to find rare books, they need
to visit private collections," according to Nguyen Dac Xuan, a Hue scholar...more 17.05.04.
Prisoners of their own literary success. Ever since eight inmates at the York
Correctional Institution became award-winning authors, they've been prisoners
of their own success...more 17.05.04.
Overture to Greatness. A Treasure Trove of Letters Sheds Light on the Birth
and Growth of the Glyndebourne Festival...more 17.05.04.Search
engine locates tough-to-find books. You're stumped because Amazon doesn't
carry the 19th century edition of the German children's book that you crave...more 16.05.04.
Page One turns a new page. When an alliance of independent book store owners
and managers from across the country recently analyzed his two stores, Steven
Morada Stout, Page One's owner and founder, took their recommendations to heart...more 16.05.04.
At Avenue Victor Hugo, remembrances of good books past. For the first nine
years of his life, Vincent McCaffrey rarely opened a book. Then one day he strolled
into a bookshop in his hometown of Larchmont, N.Y., and bought a paperback about
pirates...more 16.05.04.
The best rare bookstore on the planet. While bookstores around the country
are closing their doors and moving their wares online, Heritage has its own private
brick driveway and parking lot on the cusp of Beverly Hills...more 15.05.04.
The bizarre world of bonkers book collecting. "Here's one," says Brian Lake.
"Criminal Life: Reminiscences of Forty-Two Years As A Police Officer. By Superintendent
Bent." His face creases with mirth...more 14.05.04.
Abebooks - Media Correction. The press release incorrectly stated that 79%
of all online used book sales occur on Abebooks.com. The correct percentage of
online used book sales that occur on Abebooks.com is 39%...more 14.05.04.
"The Winterthur Library Revealed". Printed materials that offer a rare and
extraordinary visual record of American design, art, history, and society will
be on view in a new exhibition drawn from the library collections at Winterthur,
An American Country Estate, through July 25, 2004....more 14.05.04.
Hitler makes history at auction. What's in a name? Quite a lot of cash, if
the name is Adolf Hitler...more 14.05.04.
Short Story Printed Only Through Tattoos. Rob Poulos is a walking fragment
of literature. Tattooed on his left wrist is a single word, lowercase, followed
by a comma and quotation marks -- back," -- as if it was lifted from the end of
a line of dialogue...more 13.05.04.
BBC Big Read Results In Increased Library Lending. It's official, BBC TWO's
The Big Read really did encourage people to read more...more 13.05.04.
Second nature. Threatened by technological advances and market vagaries, the
independent resale industry clings to one abiding principle: From books to clothes
to music, one person’s old crap is another person’s treasure...more 13.05.04.
Big drop in US book sales. "We believe this is due to a variety of factors,
the biggest being the used book market,'' said Albert N. Greco, an industry consultant
and a professor of business at the graduate school of Fordham University...more 12.05.04.
Riddle of Boney's link with Bolton. An antique book found at a library has
revealed an unlikely historical link between Bolton...and the French emperor Napoleon
Bonaparte...more 12.05.04.
Are books obsolete? BONN - Insisting that books are a waste of wood pulp,
mail carrier Deutsche Post is refusing to reprint its guide to German postal codes,
saying letter-writers should either look up the codes on the internet or phone
a hotline for help...more 11.05.04.
Book store will help finance library. The Marblehead Peninsula Library Committee
is adding a used book store to the mix of shops in downtown Marblehead this spring...more 11.05.04.
Beginning of a new chapter. Hopkins: The George Peabody Library reopens with
a renewed emphasis on its public mission...more 11.05.04.
Plan to cull library upsets academics. Victoria University academics are crying
foul over plans to cull 130,000 books, including rare monographs, from its library
to free up space...more 10.05.04.
Booklovers' paradise. A doorway into another dimension, literally and figuratively
is the best way to describe this one of a kind place in Mumbai’s busy Kalbadevi
district...more 10.05.04.
Not for sale in the UK. Secrecy surrounds a new book on the NY auction house
scandal...more 10.05.04.
Preserving St. Louis photo album. As director of library and archives, Sneddeker
oversees the society's massive collections of original documents, personal papers,
drawings, rare books, manuscripts, maps and photographs
...more 09.05.04.
Nashville bookstore a wonder. Books are priced anywhere between 50 cents and
$5,000. He tries to mark his books just under Internet prices...more 08.05.04.
Bardot weeps over racism charges. The French actor Brigitte Bardot yesterday
broke into tears after defending herself against racism charges in a Paris courtroom.
The ageing icon is charged with inciting racial hatred in her best-selling book,
Un cri dans le silence (A Cry in the Silence)...more 08.05.04.
The Bookseller. Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry
...more 07.05.04.
Valuable books join collection. "They're easily worth a quarter million
dollars," said Jill Jackson, director of the library which is run by the Lewis
and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation...more 07.05.04.
Beatles collection features in NZ Book Sale. A large Beatles collection,
including many rare volumes, will be hotly sought after at Dunedin’s 24th annual
second hand book sale this month...more 06.05.04.
Butterflies Dispersed to the Wind. To Vladimir Nabokov's favorite translator
and only son, the thought of selling the books his father so intricately annotated
with fantasy butterflies and personal asides was distressing, but it had to be
done
...more 06.05.04.
Shropshire's Libraries Bucking The National Trend. Shropshire County Council's
Library Service is already taking the actions recommended by a new report to reverse
the long-term decline in public library use - and it is working...more 06.05.04.
Thanks to Schulz's wife, gang's all here. Charles M. Schulz never wanted
to publish his Peanuts cartoons in full: all of them, start to finish, in order.
Nobody wants to read that old stuff, he said, and they're not very good. Forty-nine
years of strips? Good grief...more 06.05.04.
Event is all about unusual contents. Works by Charles Dickens, William
Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Burns lie side by side with books
on topics as diverse as a 1923 publication on the fauna of Iraq, and a collection
of more than 40 scarce 19th century books about Orkney and the Shetland Isles...more 05.05.04.
Author jailed for sex attacks. A respected children's author who sexually
abused young girl fans began a jail sentence yesterday at the age of 76...more 05.05.04.
Six vie for non-fiction prize. History is the theme of five of the six
books shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction last night...more 04.05.04.
Library cat dies. In more than 20 years as cat-in- residence at the Haysville
Community Library, Libby Libra survived being run over, a catnapping, a tornado
and 10 days shut up in an abandoned wing of the old library building...more 04.05.04.
Fixing Prices. Timed to arrive in bookstores as the important spring auctions
get under way this week, "The Art of the Steal" by Christopher Mason recounts
the scandal that rocked the art world four years ago and that Sotheby's and Christie's
would prefer to forget: how the longtime auction rivals colluded to fix prices...more 04.05.04.
Son of 'Lolita' author arranges sale. Nabokovs' personal library will be
auctioned by Tajan on Wednesday in Geneva. The sale includes 100 books and 30
titles...more 03.05.04.
Publishing Heavyweight. Benedikt Taschen's latest book is so heavy that
just picking it up gave him a double hernia that required surgery...more 03.05.04.
Alamo Documents Offered at Auction. The collection includes a nine-line
handwritten note from David Crockett dated April 14th, 1834. The note, addressed
to a lady, wishes her "the happiness and pleasures of the world agreeable to her
expectation a lady's of her sterling worth merits"....more 03.05.04.
Huge "Peace" book at Tehran Book Fair. Made of leather and fabric, with its
50 pages weighing 80km, the book contains the name of God in different languages
as well as global explanations and usages the word "Peace"...more 02.05.04.
Children's book authors are breaking new wind. Glenn Murray blushes a hearty
shade of red when a cashier at a Chicago deli recognizes him: "Heyyyyyy!" the
young man shouts gleefully -- and loudly. "You're the fart- man...more 01.05.04.
Imaginary history. What if Napoleon had taken Moscow, Franz Ferdinand had
survived Sarajevo or the Brighton bomb had killed Margaret Thatcher...more 01.05.04.
Kodak shares times of its life. Kodak has donated millions of pages of
original records and photographs to the University of Rochester’s department of
rare books and special collections at the Rush Rhees Library...more 01.05.04.
Mark Twain conference. UCSC will co-host the conference with Stanford University
on the weekend of May 14-15...more 01.05.04.
$1.5 million book. The $1.5 million book is tucked inside its own protective
case, sitting on a shelf in a huge vault with a steel door 5 inches thick...more | 
