This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Authors : Goya Description : Goya etching: The Sleep of Reason Pr... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from February 2013
Entries from January 2013
Robert Frost enthusiasts have reason to celebrate this week, as it was announced that a collection of rare Frost material was donated to the State University of New York at Buffalo. The donor Jonathan... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
You have until the end of April 2013 to submit a book to this prestigious bibliographic contest! A prize with prestige and tradition, a strong support for scholarship: The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bib... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following notebooks were stolen from a car in Lithia, Florida. They belonged to a collector/scholar and contained 40 years of research. If you have any information on either the notebooks or the e... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Below is the list of the books that De Caro has allegedly stolen from the Library of the Abbey of Montecassino. If you have any information about this material, please contact: Colonello Raffaele Manc... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following was reported missing: FitzGerald, Edward. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: George G. Harrap & Co., . 8vo, (110) pp. With 15 tipped-in illustrations by Willy Pogany. Full green morocco... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Member Ken Karmiole Founds Endowment Fund to Support UCLA's Archival Studies Programs and Lectu
By Susan BenneABAA member Ken Karmiole (Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.) has generously given UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) a $100,000 endowment to support Archival Studies a... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from December 2012
Stolen: THE MORMON WIFE: A Life Story of the Sacrifices and Suffering of a Woman (1843)
By Susan BenneThe following item was reported stolen on the weekend of December 1 in Seattle: Near fine copy of Maria Ward's THE MORMON WIFE: A LIFE STORY OF THE SACRIFICES AND SUFFERING OF A WOMAN. 1873. Hartford ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Residents of Malton, a market town located in North Yorkshire, banded together and raised funds for the purchase of a rare inscribed copy of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. A number of the charac... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The appeal of natural history books and prints is twofold, as they are both of scientific and artistic interest. They present a snapshot in time of scientific understanding of the natural world and th... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]