Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123422136
Rare Book Review
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Rare Book Review
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Eva Jurczyk
Author : Eva Jurczyk
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728238609
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk Pdf
International Bestseller "With its countless revelations about the dusty realms of rare books, a likable librarian sleuth who has just the right balance of compassion and wit, and a library setting that is teeming with secrets, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a rare treat for readers. I loved this book!"—Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore Anxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soon she has to ask: what holds more secrets in the library—the ancient books shelved in the stacks, or the people who preserve them? Liesl Weiss long ago learned to be content working behind the scenes in the distinguished rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing. Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book, but is told repeatedly to keep quiet, to keep the doors open and the donors happy. But then a librarian unexpectedly stops showing up to work. Liesl must investigate both disappearances, unspooling her colleagues' pasts like the threads of a rare book binding as it becomes clear that someone in the department must be responsible for the theft. What Liesl discovers about the dusty manuscripts she has worked among for so long—and about the people who care for and revere them—shakes the very foundation on which she has built her life. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a sparkling book-club read about a woman struggling to step out from behind the shadows of powerful and unreliable men, and reveals the dark edge of obsession running through the most devoted bookworms. February 2022 INDIE NEXT Selection January 2022 LIBRARY READS Selection January 2022 Loan Star Selection Pop Sugar 35 Must-Read Thrillers and Mystery Books
Dark Archives
Megan Rosenbloom
Author : Megan Rosenbloom
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780374717421
Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom Pdf
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
Oliver Darkshire
Author : Oliver Darkshire
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324092087
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire Pdf
Instant National Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2023 Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award "Witty, literary and very funny." —Minneapolis Star Tribune Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice. Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store’s resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). A novice in this ancient, potentially haunted establishment, Darkshire describes Sotheran’s brushes with history (Dickens, the Titanic), its joyous disorganization, and the unspoken rules of its gleefully old-fashioned staff, whose mere glance may cause the computer to burst into flames. As Darkshire gains confidence and experience, he shares trivia about ancient editions and explores the strange space that books occupy in our lives—where old books often have strong sentimental value, but rarely a commercial one. By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling, where to be uncommon or strange is the best possible compliment.
Rare Books Uncovered
Rebecca Rego Barry
Author : Rebecca Rego Barry
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780760361573
Rare Books Uncovered by Rebecca Rego Barry Pdf
"Discoveries of rare and collectible books are chronicled in stories from both casual and die-hard book collectors" --
Love, Death & Rare Books
Robert Hellenga
Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504061155
Love, Death & Rare Books by Robert Hellenga Pdf
As times change for the book business, a rare book dealer lives through appraisals, auctions, danger, drama, love, and loss, in this thoughtful novel. Chas. Johnson & Sons, a rare bookstore in Chicago’s Hyde Park, has been in Gabe Johnson’s family for generations. It’s where he learned to love Romantic poetry, and where he found a romance of his own with Olivia. Geared toward a colorful community of serious collectors, the shop has survived competition from big chains, and even a violent attack for stocking The Satanic Verses. But by the time Gabe takes over, Olivia is gone, and the world of books has changed. Internet sellers and gentrifying rents force him to close. Down but not out, Gabe decides to reopen on the shores of Lake Michigan. Secretly, he hopes this new beginning will also be a return into Olivia’s arms. But just as he finds her again, Gabe faces yet another threat to the store—and everything else he holds most dear.
The Last Bookseller
Gary Goodman
Author : Gary Goodman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452966915
The Last Bookseller by Gary Goodman Pdf
A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store’s new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota—the early struggles, the travels to estate sales and book fairs, the remarkable finds, and the bibliophiles, forgers, book thieves, and book hoarders he met along the way. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated Lake Minnetonka mansion with half a million books. In 1990, with a couple of partners, Goodman opened St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater, one of the Twin Cities region’s most venerable bookshops until it closed in 2017. This store became so successful and inspired so many other booksellers to move to town that Richard Booth, founder of the “book town” movement in Hay-on-Wye in Wales, declared Stillwater the First Book Town in North America. The internet changed the book business forever, and Goodman details how, after 2000, the internet made stores like his obsolete. In the 1990s, the Twin Cities had nearly fifty secondhand bookshops; today, there are fewer than ten. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.
The Starman Omnibus
James Robinson
Author : James Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1401216994
The Starman Omnibus by James Robinson Pdf
"Jack Knight is a rabid collector, operating an antiques and collectibles store in the heart of Opal City. Despite being the son of Ted Knight, the Golden Age hero known as Starman, Jack is nothing like him. Rebellious, stubborn and disdainful of Ted's past, Jack is certainly no hero. That is, until a terrible tragedy strikes-- Reluctantly adopting his father's former mantle, Jack forges a path as the latest inheritor of the Starman legacy. But now all of Ted's enemies are determined to snuff out this newest star before Jack has a chance to truly shine. Can Jack overcome incredible odds to prove that he has what it takes to be a hero"--Page [4] of cover, vol. 1.
Guarded by Dragons
Rick Gekoski
Author : Rick Gekoski
Publisher : Constable
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1472133846
Guarded by Dragons by Rick Gekoski Pdf
The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them' Ian Rankin Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks is scarce, carefully buried and often jealously guarded, knowledge of its hiding place shared through word of mouth like the myths of old. In Guarded by Dragons, Gekoski invites readers into this enchanted world as he reflects on the gems he has unearthed throughout his career. He takes us back to where his love of collecting began - perusing D.H. Lawrence first editions in a slightly suspect Birmingham carpark. What follows are dizzying encounters with literary giants as Gekoski publishes William Golding, plays ping-pong with Salman Rushdie and lunches with Graham Greene. A brilliant stroke of luck sees Sylvia Plath's personal copy of The Great Gatsby fall into Gekoski's lap, only for him to discover the perils of upsetting a Poet Laureate when Ted Hughes demands its return. Hunting for literary treasure is not without its battles and Gekoski boldly breaks the cardinal rule never to engage in a lawsuit with someone much richer than yourself, while also guarding his bookshop from the most unlikely of thieves. The result is an unparalleled insight into an almost mythical world where priceless first editions of Ulysses can vanish, and billionaires will spend as much gold as it takes to own the manuscript of J.K. Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard. Engaging, funny and shrewd, Guarded by Dragons is a fascinating discussion on value and worth. At the same time, Gekoski artfully reveals how a manuscript can tell a thousand stories.
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Matthew Sullivan
Author : Matthew Sullivan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501116841
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan Pdf
Lydia Smith, a clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, calls the lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves "BookFrogs." When Joey Molina, a young BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's upper room, he bequeaths his meager worldly possessions to her. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But they seem to contain a hidden message. As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey's suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood.
Rare Book Librarianship
Steven K. Galbraith,Geoffrey D. Smith,Joel B. Silver
Author : Steven K. Galbraith,Geoffrey D. Smith,Joel B. Silver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781591588825
Rare Book Librarianship by Steven K. Galbraith,Geoffrey D. Smith,Joel B. Silver Pdf
Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills. This handbook provides that essential information in a single volume. Rare Book Librarianship for the 21st Century is the first new rare books handbook of practice in 25 years. Authored by two special collections experts with extensive field experience, this book is also the first to discuss the role of digital technologies in managing a rare book collection. After a fascinating discussion of the history and current state of rare book libraries, this handbook provides a comprehensive account of the core skills and knowledge needed to be a successful rare book librarian. Topics include best practices for handling, housing, and conserving rare materials; collection development techniques; and user education and outreach. This book will serve as a handbook for practitioners in academic settings, large public libraries, and special libraries, and as a textbook for students in MLIS courses on rare book librarianship and curatorship.
Used and Rare
Lawrence Goldstone,Nancy Goldstone
Author : Lawrence Goldstone,Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780312207496
Used and Rare by Lawrence Goldstone,Nancy Goldstone Pdf
Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again. The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history, the world of ideas contained between the covers of a book or, as in the case of The Night Visitor, some special personal significance. Now, for the first time, we began to appreciate that there was a history and a world of ideas embodied by the books themselves. Part travel story, part love story, and part memoir, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone's Used and Rare provides a delightful love letter to book lovers everywhere.
The Invention of Rare Books
David McKitterick
Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108428323
The Invention of Rare Books by David McKitterick Pdf
Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across Europe, David McKitterick looks at how rare books developed from being desirable objects of largely private interest to become public and even national concerns.
Rare Book Review
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132698437
Rare Book Review by Anonim Pdf
Rare People & Rare Books
Emily Millicent Sowerby
Author : Emily Millicent Sowerby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040815107