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A library of one’s own: Meet the man who owns 12,000 books and now organizes the Melbourne Rare Book Week.

“Once upon a time, a university student called Chris Browne decided to take up book collecting. It was 1970, and he bought a first edition

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June 24, 2019 No Comments
Books

An extremely rare book worth thousands is on display in Singapore

#1: The book is where Singapore got its knowledge about Sang Nila Utama and the Singapore stone from. #2: It’s extremely rare – and probably worth thousands of

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February 15, 2019 No Comments
Books

24 Children’s Stories That Still Give Us the Creeps

Atlas Obscura readers wrote in about the classic tales that taught them one thing—unease. The stories and books we consume as children can stick with

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January 29, 2019 No Comments
History

Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses

Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death, or worse. In the Middle Ages, creating a book could take years. A scribe would bend over

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January 29, 2019 No Comments
Books

Heywood Hill, the Legendary London Bookshop Outfitting the World’s Best Private Libraries | Architectural Digest

Buying a best-selling thriller for an escapist read is one thing. Assembling an array of books for a library that is tailor-made to one’s own

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January 16, 2019 No Comments
Books

Giant bird book gets rare public outing – BBC News

Rare Audubon bird book displayed at Liverpool library – One of the world’s rarest books by the 19th Century US artist and ornithologist John James

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January 16, 2019 No Comments
Books

See Harry Potter – A History of Magic – New-York Historical Society – NewsWhistle

All kinds of magical artifacts from the British Library, from the New-York Historical Society’s own collections, and from other institutions, all of which illustrated the

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January 16, 2019 No Comments
Humor

At The Beinecke, A Look At David Sedaris’ Life Before Santaland | Connecticut Public Radio

David Sedaris’ reading of the “Santaland Diaries” is an NPR tradition. Twenty-six years ago, he first shared his tale of being Crumpet, one of Santa’s

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December 26, 2018 No Comments
Art & Artists

Amy Sedaris Reveals Her Magical Greenwich Village Apartment | Interior Lives – YouTube

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December 26, 2018 No Comments
Books

The Christmas Book Flood: Iceland’s Literature-Loving Holiday Tradition | Mental Floss

Bibliophiles, now this is a Holiday tradition I could get used to! In Iceland, the most popular Christmas gifts aren’t the latest iProducts or kitchen

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December 13, 2018 No Comments
Books

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

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November 22, 2018 No Comments
Books

Do you take books with you when you travel?

freckles-and-books: Trying my hardest not to pack more books than I’ll need for my trip to California this week. Must whittle this pile down!

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November 21, 2018 No Comments
Books

Christmas list… guess what? Books.

diverse-reads: Christmas List 1. Books 2. More books 3. Even more books

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November 18, 2018 No Comments
History

Antique Ballots and Voting Ephemera

The American #Antiquarian Society has a collection of 952 election ballots that include national, state, and town elections.The collection is housed in four boxes dating

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November 6, 2018 No Comments
Books

So, you have a marvelous cover for “Get Along Little Unicorn” …

notpulpcovers: You mean this? It’s an interior illustration from the December 1952 issue of Space Stories, which can be downloaded here https://pulpcovers.com/planet-of-the-damned/ but feel free

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November 2, 2018 No Comments
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