Gucci bag or rare book? Your choice.
Posted by Bauman Rare Books on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Bauman Rare Books in Las Vegas is giving tourists a new way to celebrate their success at the slot machines.… Read more »
British Library to open exhibition all about literature’s favorite cats
Calling all crazy cat lovers! Are online cat videos and memes not fulfilling your feline fanaticism? Ailis Brennan of Go London reports that this November, the British Library is offering a… Read more »
A rare bookseller will open a Brooklyn cookbook store
On November 26, just after you recover from your Thanksgiving food coma and are ready to enter the kitchen again, a new cookbook store will open in Brooklyn. The bookstore… Read more »
The (literary) future is female; now, what about the past? Rare books and feminism
Were you aware that women’s inequality extends to the bookshelf? It does. The literary canon is well-known for being predominantly male, and that trickles down to everything book-related: from which… Read more »
Love mermaids, Krampus, or dragons? This exhibit is for you
“The Papal Ass” and other olden horrors are on view now at the library’s exhibit De Monstris. … Read more »
Audits: They’re not just for Al Capone anymore!, Or, How the Carnegie Library got its books back
Great news for people who hate scumbag book thieves: the culprits of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library book heist have finally been caught. As a devoted MobyLives reader, you’ll remember this… Read more »
How much is a signed book really worth?
It’s a question that comes to mind more often than I’d like. I am consistently enamored and curious about the inherent value and excitement fans exhibit when they get the… Read more »
The Carnegie Library was warned about the security of its books, not too long before its books were stolen
It’s becoming clearer why the spokesperson for the Carnegie Library has been sort of tight-lipped about the whole stolen-books thing. As we reported just two weeks ago, the Oliver Room at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library—where most… Read more »
If someone offers you an Isaac Newton first edition, please return it: Theft at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library
Oh, good. According to Marylynne Pitz of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in that city, 314 items have been stolen from the Carnegie Library’s rare books room. Making it more difficult to catch the thief is this fact:… Read more »
Proust the Envious, Hugo the Spiritualist, Flaubert the Obscene: canonical French authors’ lesser literary letters go to auction
Good news, wealthy book lovers! Jean Bonna, the Geneva-based antiquarian book collector known by those in the know for possessing the greatest goddamn collection of French literature in the world… Read more »