Sentences with phrase «rare books»

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

Investing in rare books can be a safe, fun way to protect your long - term wealth in almost any economic environment.

You know we are all so blessed to be able to have these old, rare books on - line to enjoy.

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A very rare book will succeed with so - so packaging and marketing; the vast majority need effective packaging, marketing, and content.

The affidavit says the bookstore owner also reached out to people who buy and sell rare books to alert them that the book had been stolen.

Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books.

It's great that these previously rare books are made accessible again.

To acquire, preserve, and exhibit rare books, objects of art, and items of historical interest having legal significance bearing on the administration of justice.

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

Through the generosity of Mr Ian Cartwright, we are building the Canada Law Book Rare Book Room as the centrepiece of the new Osgoode Library and as a fitting home for the Balfour Halévy Special Collections.

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.

My dad used to take my sister and me to the Claes Oldenburg lipstick sculpture near Morse College (designed by another great, Eero Saarinen), and my mom took us to the Beinecke Rare Book Library.

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University purchased the map.

Customers who were looking for rare books often found themselves inundated with cheaply made digital files and found it challenging to find what they wanted.

Plus: Man found guilty over murder of Oxford rare book dealer Artists fight developer's plan for studio colony in London Head of Turin Museum Foundation resigns after disagreement with mayor and Smithsonian Archives of American Art receives grant to digitise collections

«In a sense, this forgotten fish has been hiding in plain sight in this old monograph but that monograph is so rare that it now resides only in rare book collections of a few large museums,» Stewart said.

Co-presented with Rare Book School in conjunction with the course, The History of Artists» Books since 1950, at the Thomas J. Watson Library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the New York City Chapter of The American Printing History Association; Small Editions Artist's Books; and Theta Chapter, Beta Phi Mu Honor Society, Pratt Institute School of Information.

Dr. Jörn Günther, Director, Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books AG (Hamburg): «We had a great Frieze Masters 2017 and are extremely pleased with our sales, especially among private collectors.

The Osgoode Library's Canada Law Book Rare Book Room contains many treasures illustrative of Canadian law and history.

Building Buffalo presents books from the Grosvenor Rare Book Collection of the Buffalo & Erie County Library that were generously given or carefully purchased to help Buffalo grow into a great metropolitan center.

Plus: Neue Gallery reacquires Karl Schmidt - Rottluff's Nude Antiquities museum opens in Basra Vladimir Potanin makes major donation of Russian contemporary art to Pompidou Centre and Daniel Crouch Rare Books to launch New York gallery

Co-sponsored event with Rare Book School, APHA - NY, Small Editions Artist's Books; and Theta Chapter, Beta Phi Mu Honor Society, Pratt Institute School of Information

Release date: June 1 Cast: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson Directed by: Bart Layton (The Imposter) Why we're excited: This ripped - from - the - headlines heist film mixes narrative storytelling with documentary - style interviews of the actual young men who plotted to steal valuable rare books from the special collection of a Kentucky university's library.

Shop our extensive collection of fine first editions at Raptis Rare Books.

I saw glimpses of some of what he'd discovered via his illustrated law tagged postings on the Yale Rare Books Blog.

There was a very limited release in which the Dali personally signed every copy and rare book collectors often make this title a centerpiece of their personal collection.

«An investment portfolio that includes rare books is better positioned to withstand market cycles and provide long - term growth that extends well beyond retirement day.

Benjamin Spademan Rare Books showing «Livres d'Artistes», monographs, exhibition catalogues, pamphlets and ephemera by visual artists — from the 19th century, with works by Constable Rossetti and Manet — to the 20th Century, with artists such as Braque, Lipchitz, Zadkine, Picasso and Matisse

by Tiana Taliep, Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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.

Love collecting rare books: Bookscout by John Dunning After years out of print, this one's now available as an eBook — though it's short enough to be considered a short story.

Curators from the Curators Programme tour the stand of Dr Joern Gunther Rare Books at Frieze Masters 2017

It began as a casual conversation to explore if it would be possible to present a handful of galleries in small format, said Levine recently in an interview at his East Hampton Village rare book shop and gallery.

For this year's Masterpiece art fair Shapero Rare Books and Shapero Modern present the work of three artists who celebrate the changing face of London's West End - aerial photographer Jason Hawkes, Swiss artist Dieter Roth and map - maker Stephen Walter.

The library contains many rare books and limited editions, as well as international publications on Western and non-Western art.

In this place I could read and still think that I was part of what held up a wall against any philistinism that would attempt to violate the quiet grandeur of what the history of Galveston in its archives and rare books contained.

With Rare Book Week currently taking place in Melbourne, Roy Morgan Research examines the state of Australia's reading habits, and how the internet has impacted on them.

At the center of the Special Collections department was the Amanda Devereaux Rare Books Room, a monument to the late bibliophile in which her greatest treasures were permanently displayed.

Just off the promenade, Hennessey & Ingalls sells the largest collection of art and architecture books in the Western U.S., while Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller specializes in rare books printed before 1800.

Eric Avery: AIDS WORK includes more than 30 prints and books by Dr. Eric Avery acquired by Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) and the Mortimer Rare Book Room in 2014.

The Library's manuscript and rare book holdings also include a number of original Whitman items, including a sampling of Whitman's draft pages and his handwritten corrections on printed proofs for Leaves of Grass.

Courtesy of McGill Studio Collection / The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library / University of South Alabama / Harper Collins

Located on the seventh floor of Robarts Library, this local scanning operation digitizes mostly old rare books into five different formats.

314 rare books stolen from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library.