Posted in Literature, News, tagged Books, National Book Award, National Book Foundation on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2008 Winners
Fiction: ‘Shadow Country,’ by Peter Matthiessen
Nonfiction: ‘The Hemingses of Monticello,’ by Annette Gordon-Reed
Poetry: ‘Fire to Fire,’ by Mark Doty
Young People’s Literature: ‘What I Saw and How I Lied,’ Judy Blundell
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See the National Book Foundation website for complete information, as well as complete list of the 2008 finalists.
See this article at the New York [...]
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Literature, tagged Fine Books & Collections, John Milton, Legacy Library, Library Thing, Paradise Lost on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
See this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about a marathon reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost at St. Olaf College in Minnesota - a celebration of the author’s upcoming 400th birthday (December 9, 1608); there are other such plans at several colleges. Not sure I could sit through such a day!
Legacy Libraries Project at Library Thing: ”I [...]
Posted in Antiquarian Books, News, tagged Books, Kindle, Register-Guard on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
See this article by Bob Welch from a Eugene, Oregon online paper Register-Guard.com about the technology of the new Kindle - the author asks “are downloadable books still books? ” I open it up for debate here, or you can go to the author’s blog site and respond to him directly (there are already 16 comments.)
Posted in News, Vermont Resources, tagged Antiquarian Books, Charles Tuttle Fund, Libraries, Vermont Historical Society on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, November 21, 2008,
Ten treasures of the VHS Library: Celebration of Reiko and Charles E. Tuttle, Jr. Fund
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm • VHS Leahy Library, 60 Washington St., Barre, VT
Come see Ethan Allen’s “Reason, the Only Oracle of Man,” the earliest photographic images of Vermont, the original map for the proposed highway across [...]
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Bookshops, tagged Antiquarian Books, Bookstores, New English Review on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interesting article by Theodore Dalrymple “Of Bibliophilia and Biblioclasm” at New English Review. A look back at the lost art of book store browsing … and the “sacred quality of books.”
Posted in Antiquarian Books, News, tagged Libraries, Rare Books, Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TOUCHING HISTORY at the University of Pennsylvania: Students can now peruse ancient texts at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania. “We’re not running a museum,” says John Pollack, one of the library’s specialists. See this article with photos in the NY Times “Handle This Book!” by Roger Mummert about the trend in Rare [...]
Posted in Book History, Women Writers, tagged Bodleian Library, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Women Writers on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein again raises the question of how much of the work was that of Shelley’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Read this article by Jennifer Howard at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Bodleian Library has published Charles E. Robinson’s edition of The Original Frankenstein, “a version of the novel that probably [...]
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Featured Titles for sale, tagged Antiquarian Books, William Shakespeare on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Complete Works of Shakespeare [ Limited Edition ]
William Shakespeare, George Lyman Kittredge [editor]
Price: $400.00
Publisher: Ginn and Company
Publisher Location: Boston
Book Condition: Collectible; LIKE NEW
Binding: Hardcover
Limited edition: “Of this First Edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Two Hundred and Fifty Copies are printed on All-Rag paper. This Copy is No. 121″ SIGNED BY THE EDITOR G.L. Kittredge. The present edition [...]
Posted in Literary calendar, News, tagged Literary calendar on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fyodor Dostoevsky, born 1821in Moscow
Louisa May Alcott, 1854, first published story “The Rival Prima Donnas” appears under the pen name Flora Fairfield in the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette
Kurt Vonnegut, born 1922, in Indianapolis
James Baldwin, in 1948 sails for Europe with a one-way ticket
“I think the health of our civilization … and our concern for the [...]
Posted in Literary calendar, tagged Literary calendar on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
William Hogarth, born 1697 in London
Oliver Goldsmith, born 1730 in Ballymahon
Samuel Richardson begins his first book, Pamela, at age 50
Friedrich von Schiller, born 1759 in Wurttemberg
Vachel Lindsay, born 1879 in Springfield, Illinois
“I think the health of our civilization … and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.” [Carl [...]
