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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 ...

January 7, 2009 (Arts Journal)
About. Terry's latest book, Pops: The Life of Louis Armstrong , will be published by Harcourt in the fall of 2009. One of his essays is included in Robert Gottlieb's Reading Dance , just out from Pantheon...

January 6, 2009 (Arts Journal)
A few months ago I paid tribute in this space to Richard M. Sudhalter , the distinguished jazz musician, historian, biographer, and critic, who died last September after a long and grievous illness...

Fond Farewells (Norwalk Advocate)
A political wit, esteemed writer, editor, columnist and debater, Buckley made his home in Stamford for more than 60 years. Buckley died at work in his Wallack's Point home Feb. 27 at age 82...

PhiloBiblos: One More Auction Note
Rare Books Review caught it, though. A first edition copy (12 July 1493) of the Nuremburg Chronicle in Latin (Liber Chronicarum) sold at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg this week for $170400. This copy was colored throughout by Johannes ...

Manga Review: Batman: Child Of Dreams by Kia Asamiya and Max Allan Collins
EUR¦ rare beast that successfully merges manga with American comics. It stays true to a comic book icon while at the same time retaining the unique qualities of manga. It's a EUR¦..

PhiloBiblos: 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 ...

The Land Of The Free - But Free Speech Is A Rare Commodity - Coastal Post

The Land Of The Free - But Free Speech Is A Rare Commodity
Coastal Post, CA - 5 hours ago
Their paper was printed only in the UK, in the London Review of Books. In America, there then followed what has been described as the massive 'Shhhhhhhhh! .

"Rich Like Them" review - The Daily Sound

"Rich Like Them" review
The Daily Sound, CA - Jan 5, 2009
But maybe it was a little bit of what-iffing that led you to peek into cavernous closets and run your fingers over marble baths, rare-wood mantles, .

Book review: 'The Mercy Papers' and 'Downtown Owl' - International Herald Tribune
The Mercy Papers A Memoir of Three Weeks By Robin Romm 213 pages. Scribner. $22. The foundational condition of being human is that we're going to die. Almost as basic a truth is that we seem incapable of believing it. The collision of these ...

PhiloBiblos: Links & Reviews
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 ...

rare books review: hot items for collectors
in this rare books review, you will learn more about the hobby of collecting rare and precious books. various people collect books for solely for their enjoyment, while there are others who collect them for investment purposes as they ...

The Next Speculative Bubble (GoldSeek.com)
2008 was a brutal, bitch of a year. Nothing like the Bold and Beautiful most housewives or closest trash junkies know and love. (I am occasionally included in this list)...

SciTech Book News - Research focus on gastric cancer
September 1, 2008 -- Research focus on gastric cancer. Ed. by Dorothy C. Cardinni. Nova Biomedical Books 2008 295 pages $129.00 Hardcover RC280 Gastric...

2008: Year in Review (The Woodlands Villager)
Editors note: The following is a month-by-month recap of some of the top newsmaking events of 2008...

rare books review: hot items for collectors
. holding a piece of history, a piece of another era in you hands. you are unquestionably a bibliophile, a book lover if this setting stirs your passion. in this rare books review, you will learn more about the hobby of collecting [. ...