Rare Books
Rare Books
Before There Was Betty Crocker...
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...there were a number of notable cookbooks; those extant are pictured on the pages of the today's blog entry at Booktryst.
Another Kind of Ephemera...Bookplates
The latest posting on Confessions Of A Bookplate Junkie (Lewis Jaffe, who has been a collector for thirty years).
What Is To Become of Kafka's Manuscripts? Kafka's Last Trial
A tale of eccentric heirs, Zionist claims, a cat-infested apartment and a court fight the author would have understood all too well. Lengthy (ten page) history and explanation of all the players in the disposition of the works of Franz Kafka; article by Elif Batuman in the Sunday New York Times Magazine.
A Look Back at the History of Print and Publishing (or It's Always Been a Tough Business)
Change of pace from the more frequent 'death of print' stories here on LISNews.
This one's about the birth of print; a discussion of the newly published book by Andrew Pettegree, "The Book in the Renaissance" with Tom Scocca of Slate and the Boston Globe.
Original Nuremberg Laws To Be Transfered to National Archives
From The Washington Post: The National Archives said Tuesday that a California library is transferring to the Archives the two original sets of the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the Nazis' spare, anti-Semitic manifesto endorsed by Adolf Hitler that helped lead to the extermination of 6 million Jews during World War II.
The laws are being transferred by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, where they have been held since they were placed there by Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in 1945.
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
Kafka Experts Will Have to Keep Waiting...
If it were any other writer, today's unfolding of events in an anonymous bank vault in Zurich would be described as Kafkaesque. But the latest twist in a legal battle over the estate of Franz Kafka probably deserves some other adjective.
The Greatest Unknown Literary Treasure in Los Angeles
...might be The Clark Library. Many feel this way when they discover the rare-book library, which is run by UCLA but located in Jefferson Park. Brick walls hide it from passersby, and most undergraduates have never heard of it. But those who know the library say it is unmatched and unforgettable.
But Did He Steal It?
Remember how librarian Richard Kuhta was handed a damaged copy of one of the Bard's First Folios for examination?
Yesterday, the man in possession of the priceless piece, Raymond Scott, 53, was found guilty of handling stolen goods and removing stolen property from the UK in relation to the book, which has been described as part of England's ''cultural legacy''. However he was cleared of stealing the work.