Jane Austen on the Block

Two Austen items on the auction block in early December: Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale N08602 11 Dec 09, New York Exhibition Opens 5 Dec 09 DATE & TIME:  Session 1: Fri, 11 Dec 09, 10:00 AM                                Session 2: Fri, 11 Dec 09, 2:00 PM **********************************************  LOT 75 : AUSTEN, JANE  10,000—15,000 USD  Mansfield Park. London: Printed for T. [...]

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Austen on the Block ~ Bloomsbury Auctions

[I am repeating this from my Jane Austen in Vermont blog] Bloomsbury Auctions-New York  announces the exhibition and auction of   The Paula Peyraud Collection, Samuel Johnson and  Women Writers in Georgian Society Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 • 10:00 am   Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, [...]

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Library of Congress: ‘The Book that Saved a Life’

The History Channel has linked up with the Library of Congress by issuing short video documentaries on the “hidden treasures” housed by the Library.  The current video is about a copy Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and how it literally saved a man’s life in the First World War. You can view this video on “The Book that [...]

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Edgar Allan Poe ~ January 19, 1809

The Bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe [1809-1849] is quite the celebration.  There are yearlong events in all of the cities that claim him as their “Favorite Son.”  The story of his life is as interesting and strange as most of his macabre tales.  Poe endures. One of the more memorable moments in my [...]

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Jane Austen’s “Emma” for sale in Hong Kong

I direct you to my other blog, Jane Austen in Vermont, to read about the upcoming Hong Kong Book Fair:  Anne Sharp’s copy of “Emma”, signed by Jane Austen to her friend, lately sold at a Bonhams auction, and now for sale at the International Antiquarian Book Fair for HK $3.95 million.

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The Lake Champlain Quadricentennial

This year marks the quadricentennial [400th!] celebration of Samuel de Champlain’s “founding” and naming of the Lake that bears his name.  2009 will see many festivities and exhibits about Lake Champlain at area art galleries, theaters, museums, and libraries ~ indeed they started on New Year’s Eve at the First Night in Burlington Vermont! ~ for more [...]

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Abebooks Most Expensive Top 10

Another list from Abebooks, this the listing of the most expensive sales in 2008: Etudes à l’Eau-Forte by Francis Seymour Haden – $17,216 A collection of 25 etchings by Seymour Hayden – 24 of the plates depict the landscape around London, the Thames, Ireland and Wales and the final one is a portrait of Thomas Haden.  The [...]

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Vermont Historical Society: 10 Treasures of the VHS Library

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 [...]

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On Bibliophiles and browsing…

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.”

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Featured Title: Shakespeare

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 [...]

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