Rare Books Review News for 08/27/2010



Review: Transformers War for Cybertron
They came from beyond the stars to planet Earth to continue fighting a war that's raged for millions of years, hiding in plain sight as "robots in disguise", but how long the Transformers have actually been stalking motorways and...

Khristi Zimmeth: Do's and don'ts in submitting items for appraisal
Each week, letters and e-mails bring questions about hundreds of vintage items. Despite this, only a few are chosen to be brought in for a free appraisal by our two resident experts -- David McCarron of Enservio Select and Robert DuMouchelle of DuMouchelle's Art Galleries in downtown Detroit...

Top Bookstores Online
Rare Books Review notes the results of an Oxfam charity auction at Bonham's last week. A copy of the first Sherlock Holmes story (A Study in Scarlet) made 18600 at the sale. Reviews. - A review of Scott Douglas' Quiet Please appeared . ...

Book review: Carl Hiaasen's 'Star Island' - Los Angeles Times

Book review: Carl Hiaasen's 'Star Island'
Los Angeles Times
Though Skink is a violent man and old enough to be Ann's grandfather, he has a soft spot for the actress EUR” a rare nice person in the moral, .

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Best Buy Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used .
Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books Review. First, I really enjoyed this book. I sell books and the author has likely forgotten more about bookselling and collecting than I'll ever know. ...

IBM helping Europe scan historical documents
Big Blue is working with the EU to help libraries, universities, and companies digitize documents using new scanning tools that provide greater accuracy...

Pictures of Poets - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Pictures of Poets
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania has digitized and made available over 2000 photographs of poets that originally .

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Review: Reiner's 'Flipped' a standout coming-of-age story
So it is, once again many years later, with 'Flipped,' a tale of very young love and loss also set in the '60s. And though our two lovebirds, Juli and Bryce, live in white, middle-class suburbia, the experience feels universal and the oft-trod coming-of-age terrain feels newly turned...

THEATER REVIEW Meet Hitler
By Sam Markson ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR I walk up two flights of stairs. The production is in a language learning center on the second floor. The decoration is sparse, the lighting fluorescent, industrial. Theres a small reception room with coffee and some chairs. The receptionist leads me around the corner to a small office room with fifteen chairs, facing inward at a single chair, and a bit ...

Rare Books Review
Rare Book 1- London night Life - is the first book on the top right corner(unveiling life.) Rare book 2-Obama inuguration speech- second on the side column(top right) Rare book 3-Harry Potter and half prince brother Is the third on ...

IBM helping Europe scan historical documents - CNET (blog)

IBM helping Europe scan historical documents
CNET (blog)
. with more than two dozen libraries, research institutes, universities, and companies across Europe to help them digitize their rare books and documents. .
IBM, EU IMPACT Project Looks to Preserve Ancient TextseWeek
IBM and EU Partner to Enable the Digitization of Historic European Texts on a .The FINANCIAL

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Restoring the Studio of a Meticulous Sculptor - New York Times

New York Times
Restoring the Studio of a Meticulous Sculptor
New York Times
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which took over Chesterwood after Ms. Cresson's death in 1973, gave them to the Chapin Library of Rare Books .

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Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare .
I bought this book as I was starting into book collecting. But with about 4 months of intensive collecting and study under my belt, I found it not to have too much new or really useful information. Is is, however, very well written and ...

More on Franzen and the Future - The Atlantic (blog)

More on Franzen and the Future
The Atlantic (blog)
You don't go searching for coverage of a book you haven't read. A book review, to be effective, has to stand there like a billboard (or a Kindle ad) and .

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Book review: Atlas of Rare Birds by Dominic Couzens - The Guardian

Book review: Atlas of Rare Birds by Dominic Couzens
The Guardian
In this book published by New Holland Publishers, Dominic Couzens tells the stories of 50 of the rarest birds in the world. Some of the featured birds are .

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ELIZABETH AVEDON: ERIC MILES: Photography Book Collecting
. a small collection, but I've got some pretty severe space restrictions! PHOTO-EYE AUCTIONS. Rare and Collectible Photography Books. Posted by elizabeth avedon. Labels: Collecting, NYC, Photography Books, Rare Books, Review Santa Fe ...

Links & Reviews
Rare Books Review reports that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired an extensive collection of the personal papers of Katharine Hepburn, which are being catalogued and will be available for public research ...

New Golf Books for 2010
Throughout the year, we'll be keeping you up to date on the golf books of 2010 EUR” what's out, what's coming out, and what they're all about...

Lowest Price onsale $12.00
Reading Matter: A Rabid Bibliophile's Adventures Among Old and Rare Books Review. Reading Matter: A Rabid Bibliophile's Adventures Among Old and Rare Books Overview. This work is a series of essays on the joys and challenges of ...

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Looking for books at basement bargain prices? Well, look no more. At elephantbooks.com they have a huge inventory of Rare and Used Books at elephantbooks.com . At elephantbooks.com they'll ship to any location in the world. ...

Book review: 'I Curse the River of Time' by Per Petterson - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times
Book review: 'I Curse the River of Time' by Per Petterson
Los Angeles Times
. a mother and son try to fill in the gaps left after a life of rare communication: Plenty of love, the tough unspoken kind, but too little communication. .

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Best Buy Catalogue RaissonĂ of Curious Manuscripts: Early Printed .
Catalogue RaissonĂ of Curious Manuscripts: Early Printed and Other Rare Books Review. Catalogue RaissonĂ of Curious Manuscripts: Early Printed and Other Rare Books Overview. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. ...

Author Spotlight: Kim Dana Kupperman - New York Times (blog)

New York Times (blog)
Author Spotlight: Kim Dana Kupperman
New York Times (blog)
In the Book Review on Sunday, Mary Jo Murphy reviewed EURśI Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives From the Other Side of Silence,EURť .

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8/27 Steppin' Out
AMERICUS EUR” Editors Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin Out page in the Times-Recorder...

Sunday Links
Rare Books Review notes an upcoming auction: PBA will sell books from all fields (concentrating on illustrated and children's books) on 20 March. - The New York Public Library has mounted a new exhibit to commemorate the 400th ...

'That Bastard, Misshapen Offspring Of The Cinema And The Written Word'
They've been turning films into books for almost as long as books have been turned into films. But n..

Book review: 'The Twilight of the Bombs' by Richard Rhodes - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times
Book review: 'The Twilight of the Bombs' by Richard Rhodes
Los Angeles Times
That series began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," one of the rare accounts of atomic origins praised by physicists, .

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Book review of Jere Van Dyk's "Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban." - Washington Post

Book review of Jere Van Dyk's "Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban."
Washington Post
On the whole, however, this first-hand account offers a rare and complicated portrait of the Taliban mentality seen through discerning Western eyes. .

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Experiment pays Houston families up to $1,000 for good grades
Fifth-graders at select Houston ISD schools will get richer for passing math tests EUR” and their parents will get paid, too EUR” under a rare experiment to try to boost student performance with cash incentives totaling as much as $1,020 per family...

What Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, and R. Crumb Have in Common
A look at how The Paris Review conducts its interviews Arts - Toni Morrison - Stephen King - Jonathan Lethem - Dave Eggers..



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