Boston in Autumn (image by Rebecca Kennison via Wikipedia Creative Commons) There's still plenty of summer ahead, but it's the perfect time to plan a weekend getaway for the fall, when heat and summe... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from July 2012
Last year the city of Troy, Michigan was facing a serious funding deficit and considered closing the town's public library. Funding to save the library could have been raised through a "minuscule" tax... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Bookmark and page from 'The Sound and the Fury' color coded Folio Society edition (via Folio Society) While William Faulkner was working on his masterpiece The Sound and the Fury in the 1920s, he cor... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Sketch leaf of piano exercises by Beethoven, once owned by Chopin (image via Sotheby's) André Meyer (1884-1974) assembled one of the most significant private collections devoted to music, which Soth... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Shakespeare in O.P. (that's original pronunciation, FYI)! Below is a really interesting video that examines the original pronunciation of Shakespeare's plays in juxtaposition with our modern pronuncia... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following two very large books were stolen from Edinburgh World Heritage Trusts Library from their former office at 5 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh between 18 November 2011 and 25 May 2012. 1. DRUMM... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The new edition of 'A Farewell to Arms', with original cover art (via NY Times) Ernest Hemingway famously told George Plimpton, in a 1958 interview with the Paris Review, that he had re-written the e... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Jane Austen's Gold Ring, via Sotheby's Sotheby's London will be auctioning a ring that belonged to Jane Austen on July 10. The lovely gold and turquoise ring has remained in the Austen family and its... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
This item was still reported missing as of June 12, 2019. The following item was reported stolen: (SHUSTER, Joe) (SIEGEL, Jerry). LOWTHER, George. The Adventures of Superman. New York: Random House, (... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
'Observations in Midwifery' Percival Willughby Perceival Willughby's Observations in Midwifery, a rare book circa 1670, gives a unique look at seventeenth century midwifery&and it's not pretty. Willu... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]