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 [...]
Virginia Woolf Signed Copy of Orlando For Sale
Source: Reading Habits Feed Yours Website. We want to thank the author Amber Cross for allowing me to publish this. I hope you will find it interesting... Thursday, 10 November 2011Reading Habit's http://feedyourreadinghabit.blogspot.com/2011/11/reading-habits-top-ten-influences-on.html Top Ten: Influences on the Value of a Second Hand Book As a second hand bookstore operator I often get asked to [...]
Signed Book Source: News-Antique.com - Nov 03,2011 and Press Release from Wikicollecting 10. Signed From Russia With Love manuscript – $65,000 An Ian Fleming signed manuscript regarding From Russia With Love sold for $65,000 at Profiles in History in 2008. The seven lined pages from circa 1963 detail Fleming’s experiences on the set of From [...]
Books Source: The Guardian UK Radical change is certainly producing some alarming symptoms – but much of the doomsayers' evidence is anecdotal, and it's possible to read a much happier story This time last year, I was metaphorically invited to the only party I've ever wanted to be seen at. My first novel, The English [...]
Walter Benjamin
When I first learned about Walter Benjamin and this particulat essay, I searched online with no success for the opportunity to read it. I eventually ordered a copy of it from Amazon. For this post, I have taken the liberty to quote from the essay. The entire essay is definately worth reading but here are the "high points" IMHO
Walter Benjamin
Philanthropist, Owner of Magna Carta, Donates 13.5 Million to Duke Libraries Rare Books
Guide to Preserving Your Rare Book Collection
