My wife Kim and I run Anthony Restorations, a company dedicated to the restoration and preservation of books, rare paper and original artwork.
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Bauman Rare Books takes aim at well-heeled bibliophiles By BENJAMIN SPILLMAN Las Vegas high rollers tired of Italian suits and stocked up on designer shoes for wives and lingerie for girlfriends now can turn to Walt Whitman or Benjamin Franklin to scratch their itch to spend. A bookstore in the posh Palazzo is serving up [...]
If you have a passion for books and have thought about starting to build a collection, you won’t want to miss the 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center Feb. 10-12.
The last full edition of The Birds of America, which went up for auction in 2010, sold for £7.3m at Sotheby's, breaking the world record for a single book.
Virginia Woolf Signed Copy of Orlando For Sale
Source: FoxNews.com Written in "alien" characters, illustrated with sketches, and dating back hundreds of years, the Voynich Manuscript has puzzled cryptographers, historians and bibliophiles for centuries. And now the mystery has finally come to an end, according to a businessman from Finland named Viekko Latvala, a self described "prophet of god," who says he has [...]
Source: New York Times By JOHN MARKOFF Published: October 24, 2011 It has been more than six decades since Warren Weaver, a pioneer in automated language translation, suggested applying code-breaking techniques to the challenge of interpreting a foreign language. In an oft-cited letter in 1947 to the mathematician Norbert Weiner, he wrote: “One naturally wonders [...]
Here is an interesting book about book collector Roy Vernon Sowers. It is a good read about a man obsessed by books - like many of us...
