Raymond Scott found guilty of handling stolen goods and removing stolen property from the UK. An eccentric would-be international playboy was facing a lengthy prison sentence last night, despite being cleared of stealing a priceless Shakespeare volume from Durham University.
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A passage of text described by experts as "one of the most memorable and resonant endings in American literature" sold for nearly three-times its $35,000 estimate at Sotheby's, earlier this week.
Today, 550 years after Gutenberg's invention of mechanical movable type, not a few pundits believe we are on the verge of undoing what those Irish clerics did – that is, establishing a world without books
Information about Bibliopulp posters.
Hi, all. I just found a great site for booklovers. It has page after page of bookshelves. Neat bookshelves. Chaotic bookshelves. Famous bookshelves (see image of Shakespear and Company bookstore). Libraries. Art installations and much more. All can be found at
Jonathan and Barbara Hill are offering an English tour group for book collectors, librarians, and book dealers on March 26-April 10, 2011. The price for this unusual tour seems quite reasonable to me. Their website gives the following information (as well as daily schedule, registration forms, etc):
A Cambridge graduate who stole more than £1m worth of rare books during his career as a professional book thief was today found guilty of stealing £40,000's worth of books from a celebrated library.
Author's autographs in a book may be considered in various categories, including signed limited editions, signed trade editions, and association copies. We've discussed limited editions elsewhere on the site.
As the book collector's glossary explains unopened pages: "A state where the book's pages at the fore edge and/or top are still joined from the folding. This cannot occur if the book has been properly cut. At one time many books were issued unopened, and it is not uncommon to find older books still in this pristine state."
Jose Saramago, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature for early novels that explored historical themes from unconventional angles and later works in which inexplicable events threaten society's underpinnings, has died. He was 87.
