Sentences with phrase «of rare books»

The collection is regarded as world heritage, being one of the finest private collections of rare books in the world.

There are 60 luxury guest rooms, each one containing a treasure trove of rare books and art.

It is one of those rare books full of insights about the interplay between life and literature that can open your eyes and your mind.

Two new films set in the world of rare books, both crime thrillers, are coming in 2018.

Commissario Guido Brunetti must question his own assumptions about culture, virtue, and class in order to solve a shocking case of rare book theft from a Venetian library.

Language: English Genre: Crime MPAA rating: R Director: Bart Layton Actors: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner Plot: Taking inspiration (and not much else) in the heist films they have seen, a group of young men plan to steal millions worth of rare books from their college library.

The bookstore owner told police she had been in business with Linford, who brokered the sale of pages of the rare book on her behalf.

Through intensive research drawn from the artist's extensive library of rare books Taaffe takes an accumulative approach to his works, often combining nature - printing techniques, collage, and painting.

I took an illustrated epub I had made of a rare book from my childhood, sent to my Kindle by changing the.

By Its Cover by Donna Leon Commissario Guido Brunetti must question his own assumptions about culture, virtue, and class in order to solve a shocking case of rare book theft from a Venetian library.

April in Paris is one of those rare books in which the emotional force of the love story is matched by page - turning suspense.

The rarest of rare books, a one - of - a-kind family Bible, has surfaced in Salt Lake City.

Michael Inman, who received a master's degree in library and information science in 2002, is curator of rare books for The New York Public Library, administers the Rare Book Division, George Arents Collection, and Historic Children's Book Collection, among others.

Oh, she also begins to fall in love (somewhat) with him (of course, only AFTER he saves her from vicious wolves and gives her a library featuring thousands of rare books).

Fewer still are lined with steel — and with shelf upon shelf of rare books, their fine bindings in view.

Award recipients include Michael Inman, curator of rare books at The New York Public Library;...

A Senior Partner in the Buffalo law firm of Kavinoky Cook LLP; Mr. Wisbaum is a Trustee of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System, Vice Chairman of the Library Foundation and Commissioner of Rare Books for Erie County.

Evan Peters leads an amateur heist of a rare books library in the brand - new trailer for his upcoming film American Animals!

Teaming up with a pain - obsessed swindler - George Sanders, wringing every line delivery for maximum lecherousness - the entirety of the movie's last act transpires inside a library locked down by a team of thieves, all looking to swipe a set of rare books.

First pitched as something of a joke, the two begin to meticulously plan a heist of a couple of rare books kept in a secure library on the Transylvania University campus.

But they're missing out and missing the point, because this is one of those rare books where every single apparently inconsequential detail comes together in the end to spring a fiendishly clever trap on the reader, forcing a reappraisal of everything that has gone before.

Booklist (starred review) This character - driven novel looks at the ravages of rare book theft on libraries, and, more broadly, the destructive effects of contemporary greed... on cultural heritage.

The perennial favorite Louise Penny makes the list with her latest Three Pines mystery, Glass Houses, as does the clever mystery of rare books, murder and missing manuscripts, Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.

Just out of curiosity: Are any readers of The Book Case collectors of rare books?

When the theft of a rare book upsets the woman, Ella and a friend attempt to find it and unmask the thief.

Before venturing out in the book fair to indulge in a massive catalogue of rare books, I managed to squeeze into the densely populated crowd and made my way to explore what eBook expo could offer.

«I haven't decided yet who to donate my money to, but I have a lot of rare books that I'd like to donate to a university library that will appreciate them.

People are living longer and they can use their longevity to ride out market cycles,» according to Andre Chevalier of Rare Books Digest.

Now he has entered a bastion of rare books and manuscripts, but it takes guts to mention rare and Barney in the same sentence.

Be sure to visit Hopkins Observatory, the oldest extant observatory in the US and Williams College Chapin Library of Rare Books, the only location outside of the National Archives to publicly display original printings of our nation's four founding documents.

Also, unique artists» interventions by Harmony Korine, Justin Adian, and Jordan Wolfson plus a selection of rare books, ephemera, and Japanese magazines from the 1970s.

Important works by Mary Cassatt, Jan Miense Molenaer, Arshile Gorky, Lewis Carroll, and a gift of rare books and 117 early American views from Harry W. Havemeyer

I have produced many artist books of my poetry and these form part of the rare book collections in state, national and university libraries in Australia.

Jointly organized by New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, NYU's repository of rare books and manuscripts, Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961 — 1991 features over 300 photographs and other printed materials from Fales's pioneering Downtown Collection.

The Getty Research Institute offers changing exhibitions of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, artists» notebooks, and other materials from the special collections of the Research Library related to the history of art and architecture.

The library is the largest building in the world dedicated to the containment and preservation of rare books, manuscripts, documents and artist's books.

These include a number of rare books that detail the development of Florida law.

Princeton University received nearly $ 300 million worth of rare books and manuscripts, marking the largest donation in the school's history.

It's a novel twist on NLM's popular online system, Turning The Pages, which allows you to turn the pages of a rare book on your computer screen.

In 1902 American financier Pierpont Morgan (1837 — 1913) chose architect Charles Follen McKim (1847 — 1909) of the prominent firm McKim, Mead and White to design a library to house his growing collection of rare books and manuscripts.

More than 200 years ago an unknown artist tramped the American wilderness painting birds, animals, fish, shrubs, flowers, and creating one of the rarest of rare books.

The New York Public Library has thousands of rare books and other digital content not found anywhere else.

Hope's ginger - colored cat, Margaret, peered at him suspiciously as he raced through General Fiction, hung a right at Philosophy, and skidded left into Religion, where the enterprising Hope had recently installed a shelf of rare books.