wikify date December 2011 Update date January 2012 Unreferenced date April 2007 Antisemitism Antisemitica designates, in the fields of book collecting , and rare book dealing, the collection and distribution of books , pamphlets , Serial literature serials , poster s, and other printed literature, of an antisemitic nature. It is to be noted that antisemitica does not, generally, designate antisemitic activity, or antisemites themselves. In the United States , the freedom of the press does not limit the publication or distribution of antisemitic literature, and there are scholarly and historical interests in such material. See also Bibliophilia External links http www.danwymanbooks.com fearthejew.htm A catalog of antisemitica at Dan Wyman Books Category Antisemitic publications Category Books by type Category Book collecting lit stub nonfiction book stub ... more details
orphan date November 2011 Bookbreaking is the longstanding practice of removing pages especially those containing map s or illustration s from book s, especially from rare books. Bookbreaking is most often motivated by a market situation in which the maps or illustrations in a book will have more value sold separately than the value of the intact book. Often this happens because book collectors judge minor defects in an old book so harshly as to make them seemingly unsaleable. This widespread practice probably peaked in the 1970s or 1980s, because the price for old engraving s and especially for old maps was outstripping that of rare books. However in part because so many rare, illustrated books were broken in this manner the price of the intact books has now risen the point where an old book is typically worth more intact. Book collectors have also become more sophisticated in understanding minor condition problems. The term bookbreaking is not usually used to refer to outright theft, where the bookbreaker does not own the book in question. There have been many cases of theft of illustrations again, especially maps from rare books in library libraries . See also Bibliophilia Book collecting References Nicholas A. Basbanes, Patience & Fortitude A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture . New York HarperCollins , 2001. ISBN 0 06 019695 5, ISBN 0 06 051446 9 Miles Harvey , The Island of Lost Maps A True Story of Cartographic Crime . New York Random House , 2000. ISBN 0 375 50151 7, ISBN 0 7679 0826 0 Category Bookselling ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Image London books.JPG thumb The South Bank Book Market in front of the National Film Theatre , London , England , in October 2004 File Hay On Wye Booksellers geograph.org.uk 235428.jpg thumb right Bookshop in Hay on Wye A used book or secondhand book is a book which has been owned before by an owner other than the publisher or retailer , usually by an individual or library . Used books typically become available on the market when they are sold or given to a second hand or used book shop, they are usually sold for about half or three quarters the price of what they were originally bought for, though rare books and others still in demand or hard to obtain might sell for more than their original price. Some new book shop s also carry used books, and some used book shops also sell new books. Though the original author s or publisher s will not benefit financially from the sale of a used book, it helps to keep old books in circulation. Sometimes very old , rare , first edition , antique , or simply out of print books can be found as used books in used book shops. A reading copy of a book may be well used, may include highlighting or marginalia , and is suitable for reading, but is not collectible. This is a term used in the used book business, to indicate the lack of collectible value, while claiming that the book is in sufficiently good condition for a purchaser whose interest is primarily in actually reading the book. A reading copy is typically less expensive than a collectible copy. Booktowns A number of small towns have become centres for used book sellers, most notably Hay on Wye in South Wales and Wigtown in Scotland . They act as a magnet for buyers, and are located in country areas of great scenic beauty. See also List of used book conditions Booktown Bibliophilia Book swapping DEFAULTSORT Used Book Category Books by type Category Book collecting Category Reuse fr Librairie de livres anciens et d occasion lt Naudota knyga hu Ant ... more details
Amos Urban Shirk 1890? &ndash October 20, 1956 was an United States American businessman, author and bibliophilia reader of encyclopedia s. As a businessman he worked in the food industry. He wrote Marketing Through Food Brokers , published in 1939 by McGraw Hill . He invented a synthetic chicle and introduced vitamin capsules to grocery stores. He was also renowned as a prodigious reader. Shirk read the entire 23 volume 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica from cover to cover in four and a half years, reading on average 3 hours per evening, and taking two to six months per volume. As of 1938 he had begun reading the 14th edition, saying he found it a big improvement over the 11th, and saying that most of the material had been completely rewritten . Shirk did not limit himself to Britannica . He also read Henry Smith Williams s 24 volume Historians History of the World , which took him two years. Among his other feats of prodigious reading were an eighteen volume set of Alexandre Dumas, p re Dumas read twice , a thirty two volume set of Honor de Balzac Balzac twice , and a twenty volume set of Charles Dickens three times . Shirk had other hobbies including painting and record collecting . See also The Know It All One Man s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World References Reader , The New Yorker , March 3, 1938. pg.17 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Shirk, Amos Urban ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1956 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Shirk, Amos Urban Category Encyclop dia Britannica Category 1890s births Category 1956 deaths Category American book and manuscript collectors Category Encyclopedists Category American food industry businesspeople pt Amos Urban Shirk ... more details
BLP sources date June 2011 Michael Griffith is a novelist and short story writer. His stories and essays have appeared in literary journals such as The Oxford American , The Southwest Review , Salmagundi magazine Salmagundi , and The Virginia Quarterly Review , among others. Griffith received a Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University LSU in Baton Rouge , and is the former associate editing editor of The Southern Review . He now works as a professor of creative fiction writing at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati , Ohio . His published works include the novel Spikes ref cite news url http www.nytimes.com 2001 03 25 books the game is up.html title The Game Is Up last Klein first Bradley S. date 25 March 2001 work The New York Times page 15 accessdate 7 June 2011 ref out in 2001 as well as a novella plus collected stories entitled Bibliophilia released in 2003. Both works are published by Arcade Publishing . References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Griffith, Michael ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Griffith, Michael Category Year of birth missing living people Category American novelists Category American short story writers Category American essayists Category Louisiana State University alumni Category Living people US essayist stub US novelist stub US story writer stub hr Michael Griffith ... more details
Image Buch675.jpg thumb right 270px Boudewijn B ch, 1994. Boudewijn Maria Ignatius B ch December 14, 1948 ref name kagie24 cite book last Kagie first Rudie title Boudewijn B ch, verslag van een mystificatie year 2004 publisher Prometheus location Amsterdam language Dutch isbn 9789044603347 pages 24 ref &ndash November 23, 2002 was a The Netherlands Dutch writer, poet and television presenter. Early life B ch originated from a to the Catholic Church converted Jews Jewish family. He was born in a hospital in The Hague and spent his childhood in Wassenaar . ref name kagie24 His father was a civil servant. ref name kagie24 He and Boudewijn s mother divorced in 1963. ref name kagie24 Boudewijn had five brothers, ref name kagie24 one of them Menno B ch . Controversy B ch exhibited pseudologia fantastica , uttering many complete falsehoods about his life. ref name kagie10to21 cite book last Kagie first Rudie title Boudewijn B ch, verslag van een mystificatie year 2004 publisher Prometheus location Amsterdam language Dutch isbn 9789044603347 pages 10&ndash 21 ref Tellingly, a 2004 biography has the subtitle translated Report on a mystification . One of these lies was that he was the father of a child that had died at the age of around six. The boy he referred to did exist, but the child was not his and it did not die. This lie formed the basis of his successful novel De kleine blonde dood The small blond death . ref name kagie10to21 Television One of B ch s most successful television programmes was De wereld van Boudewijn B ch VARA broadcaster VARA , summer 1988 &ndash autumn 2001 , in which he travelled all around the world to show and give his views on various places, people and phenomena. ref cite book last Kagie first Rudie title Boudewijn B ch, verslag van een mystificatie year 2004 publisher Prometheus location Amsterdam language Dutch isbn 9789044603347 pages 198,208&ndash 219 ref Bibliophilia B ch was a bibliophilia bibliophile , specializing in various subjects, in ... more details
Deleted image removed Image Moorland Spingarn Research Center.gif 125px right The Moorland Spingarn Research Center MSRC is recognized as one of the world s largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa , the Americas , and other parts of the world. As one of Howard University s major research facilities, the Research library MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience. The MSRC is named after Jesse E. Moorland , an Alumnus a alumnus and trustee of Howard, and Arthur B. Spingarn , learned Bibliophilia bibliophile of writers who would be considered Negro in the United States . In 1914, Moorland gifted his collection of some 3,000 books, pamphlets, and other historical items to the University cquote because it is the one place in America where the largest and best library on this subject of the Negro and History of slavery in the United States slavery should be constructively established. It is also the place where our young people who have the scholarly instinct should have the privilege of a complete reference library on the subject. Howard s board of trustees created The Moorland Foundation, a Library of Negro Life , and housed it as a special collection in the new library building recently donated by Andrew Carnegie . In 1946, the Moorland Foundation purchased the private library of Spingarn and named it The Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Authors . The Spingarn Collection is maintained separately from the Moorland Foundation s other collections. The collection contains many rare editions, and expansive in its coverage of Afro Cuba n, Afro Brazil ian, and Haiti an writers. Among the most important foundations for the MSRC are the collections of Lewis Tappan , a noted Abolitionism abolitionist who organized the American and Foreign Anti Slavery Society and served as treasurer of the American Missionar ... more details
James Negus 22 February 1927 ref name bateman Bateman, Robert. Stamp Collectors Who s Who . London Stanley Gibbons Ltd., 1960, p.63. ref 22 February 2008 ref name GSM May 2008 John Holman, Obituaries. James Negus , Stanley Gibbons Gibbons Stamp Monthly vol. 38 12, May 2008, page 20. ref was a British Philately philatelist and book editor. Early life Negus was a student of chemistry and then a civil servant. ref name GSM May 2008 Later he worked in book editing for British publishing houses. Stanley Gibbons He had already published some philatelic books at Heinemann when he was hired in 1975 by Stanley Gibbons Ltd to manage its philatelic and Numismatics numismatic publications. In 1977, he was promoted to editor of the Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue . He decided its thematic and geographic division into 21 volumes but in 1981 he was made redundant as part of an economy plan. ref name GSM May 2008 An author himself, Negus came back to this activity for Stamp World magazine and new books. he participated to the Connoisseur Catalogue , specialised in the Machin series Machin series . ref name GSM May 2008 Collecting As a collector, he was a member of many philatelic associations in the English speaking world, and an editor or a writer to many of their publications. In 1957 he was the first Editor of the Journal of Chinese Philately of the China Philatelic Society of London . ref Philatelic Notes and Comments in The London Philatelist , Vol. LXVI, No. 780, November 1957, p. 199. ref He was interested in the first half of the 20th century philately of many countries. In the 1980s, he studied souvenirs created and distributed during British philatelic exhibition s. ref name GSM May 2008 In 2000, Negus stopped all philatelic activity and sold his Bibliophilia bibliophile and stamp collections. He lived at Milford on Sea, Hampshire until his death in February 2008. ref name GSM May 2008 Ron Butler, President of the Royal Philatelic Society London in the 1970s, described hi ... more details
Original research date August 2011 Bibliomania can be a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder which involves the Book collecting collecting or even Compulsive hoarding hoarding of book s to the point where social relations or health are damaged. Description One of several unusual behaviors associated with books, bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great intrinsic value to a genuine book collector. The purchase of multiple copies of the same book and edition and the accumulation of books beyond possible capacity of use or enjoyment are frequent symptoms of bibliomania. Bibliomania is not a psychological disorder recognized by the DSM IV. The term was coined by Dr. John Ferriar , a physician at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. ref Kendall, Joshua. The man who made lists love, death, madness, and the creation of Roget s Thesaurus , Penguin Group, USA, 2008, p. 154. ref Other book related conditions Bibliomania is not to be confused with bibliophilia , which is the usual love of books and is not considered a clinical psychological disorder. Other abnormal behaviours involving books include book eating bibliophagy , compulsive book stealing kleptomania bibliokleptomania , and book burying bibliotaphy . People with bibliomania Stephen Blumberg , who was convicted of stealing 5.3 million worth of books Sir Thomas Phillipps ref http www.maggs.com collections onlycollect.asp?book 17&page 3 Book Collecting A.N.L. Munby A Balanced View Bot generated title ref 1792 1872 suffered from severe bibliomania. His collection, which at his death contained over 160,000 books and manuscripts, was still being auctioned off over 100 years after his death. Rev. W.F. Whitcher ref cite news url http query.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res 9A01E2DB133EE433A2575BC2A9619C94609FD7CF work The New York Times title A Book Thief. A Providence Preacher s Strange Transactions In Rare Volumes date 1881 07 28 accessdate 2010 04 26 ref was a ... more details
Image CluboOddVolumes.png right thumb 300px Device of the Club of Odd Volumes The Club of Odd Volumes is a gentlemen s club private social club and bibliophilia society of bibliophiles founded on January 25, 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts Boston , Massachusetts . The club was founded by eighteen Boston bibliophiles in order to promote literary and artistic tastes, the exhibition of books, and social relations among its members. The term odd , as used in the club s name, is an eighteenth century usage meaning varied or unmatched . The club and its name were likely inspired by The Sette of Odd Volumes , an English bibliophile dining club founded in 1878 by Bernard Quaritch , among others. ref The archives of the Sette of Odd Volumes are now at Cambridge University Library , see http www.lib.cam.ac.uk deptserv rarebooks directory.html sette ref The club began primarily as a dinner club complementing established social clubs like the Algonquin Club , Harvard Club of Boston Harvard Club , Somerset Club , and the Union Club of Boston Union Club . In its earliest years the club was somewhat roving holding meetings and dinners in other clubs and at the Boston Athen um . The club rented a sizable building on Beacon Hill s Mount Vernon Street before buying its own five story Federal architecture Federal Style townhouse across the street in 1920. The club has a substantial library of antiquarian books and an archive of letterpress printing. Image 77 MtVernonSt Boston 2010 f2 .jpg thumb Mt. Vernon St. building, 2010 Image 1911 Club of OddVolumes MtVernonSt Boston.png thumb Mt. Vernon St. building, 1911 Between its founding and 1900, the club expanded its membership and activities to include an active exhibition and publishing program as well as the maintenance of a library. Members in the Club of Odd Volumes are often associated with Boston s publishing business or universities. They often include printers and typophiles. The club continues to offer exhibitions on the printing ... more details
Infobox Person name Jos Ephim Mindlin image Jos Mindlin.jpg image size caption Jos Mindlin birth name birth date September 8, 1914 birth place S o Paulo , Brazil death date February 28, 2010 aged 95 residence nationality Brazil lian other names known for education employer occupation Lawyer , Businessperson height spouse Guita Mindlin died 2006 partner children relatives signature website footnotes Jos Ephim Mindlin September 8, 1914 &ndash February 28, 2010 was a Brazil ian lawyer , businessperson and bibliophilia bibliophile , born to Ukrainian Jewish parents. ref http www.cremesp.com index.php?siteAcao Revista&id 286 CREMESP Conselho Regional de Medicina do Estado de S o Paulo Bot generated title ref He was the owner of the largest private library in Latin America , with more than 38,000 titles. A large number about half of the collection was donated to the University of S o Paulo in May 2006, mostly regarding Brazilian studies. A building will be built in the university s campus specifically to maintain this massive library, and will be named after the Guita and Jos Mindlin Foundation , who made the donation. Mindlin had said he wants to keep the library alive through the continuous growth of the collection and scientific contributions by academics. Son of dentist Ephim Mindlin and of Fanny Mindlin, both born in Odessa , he graduated from the University of S o Paulo law school. He worked as a lawyer for 15 years, until he founded with some friends Metal Leve , an automobile piston company, which went on to become a large international player in the automobile parts industry. After years of successful management of the firm as a Director, the opening of the Brazilian markets in the 1990s has reduced Metal Leve s profits, and he and his business associates had to sell the firm in 1996 to Germany German firm Mahle Group . After retiring from the business world, Mindlin was able to dedicate his time to a passion he had since he was 13 collecting and preserving ... more details
Image Leary s back.jpg 250px thumb right Leary s Book Store bookmark. Leary s Book Store was a landmark in downtown Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , for nearly one hundred years. In 1969, when it closed, it was known as the oldest book store in the United States. Downtown location Leary s Book Store later renamed Leary, Stuart, and Co. was located in the heart of the downtown district of Philadelphia at 9 South 9th Street, a short distance from Market Street Philadelphia Market Street . The very large Gimbels Gimbel s Department Store occupied the corner of 9th and Market, and the relatively tiny Leary s Book Store on 9th Street was separated from it by a small Cobblestone cobble stoned alleyway. Building structure Leary s Book Store was contained in a large three story building with basement and sloped roof. The building consisted of three floors and a basement full of books. On the third floor, an opening in the floor allowed a view of the mezzanine down below. Additional books were placed outside on shelves on the Leary s side of the alleyway separating it from Gimbels. Some provision was made to shelter the books and the readers in the alley way, but, most of the time, the books and browsers, suffered the inclemency of the outdoor Philadelphia weather. Throughout the building, numerous used books were everywhere on wall shelves and piled high on tables for readers to browse through. The policy of the bookstore was not to interfere with readers and browsers, but simply to direct customers to their areas of interest if asked. A famous trademark, of sorts Image Carl Spitzweg 021.jpg 200px thumb left The Carl Spitzweg image strongly associated with Leary s Book Store. Leary s Book Store tied its advertising to the The Bookworm, a painting done in 1850 by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg . A cropped portion of this painting, showing the Bibliophilia bookworm on a ladder, was used in Leary s advertising and commercial signage . Customers and browsers were routin ... more details
Mark Samuels Lasner born 1952 is a recognized authority on the literature and art of the late Victorian era . He is also a Collecting collector , Bibliography bibliographer and Typography typographer . Samuels Lasner is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware University of Delaware Library . ref name del http www.materialculture.udel.edu faculty lasner.html Biography on the Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware website ref Mark Samuels Lasner Collection A graduate of Connecticut College , Samuels Lasner has served as an honorary Curator at several institutions and is active in numerous Bibliophilia bibliophile and scholarly organizations. His life s work has, however, been the amassing of what Samuels Lasner calls A Period Library , one of the country s foremost private collections of books, manuscripts, letters, and artworks by British cultural figures who flourished between 1850 and 1900. ref name gw http gwenglish.blogspot.com 2009 04 mark samuels lasner at corcoran.html News in the Department of English at the George Washington University ref His collection comprises 2,500 first and other editions, including many signed and association copies, manuscripts, letters, works on paper, and ephemera . The materials in his collection, particularly those relating to Aubrey Beardsley , Max Beerbohm , Oscar Wilde , and other writers and artists of the 1890s, have provided the basis for numerous publications and exhibitions. ref name del ref name gw Samuels Lasner is Senior Research Fellow at the Library of the University of Delaware , which now houses the larger portion of his collection. ref name gw Publications Samuels Lasner is the author of The Bookplates of Aubrey Beardsley Rivendale Press, 2008 , A Bibliography of Enoch Soames Rivendale Press, 1999 , The Yellow Book A Checklist and Index Eighteen Nineties Society, 1998 , A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995 , and William Al ... more details
File Otto Thott.jpg thumb right 140px Otto Thott Otto Thott October 13, 1703 &ndash September 10, 1785 , was a Denmark Danish Count, minister of state, bibliophilia bibliophile , and collector of books. He was one of the greatest private book collectors of his time in Denmark. Early life and education He was the son of Tage Thott d. 1707 and Petra Sophie Reedtz. His father died before Otto had been reached the age of 4 years, and his mother moved, with him to Sor , where he went to school. He also lost his mother before he was 17 years of age. Thott was left alone almost without any funds. He was supported by and he was able to continue his development at the way that the time was considered to be necessary for a young nobleman, namely by a trip abroad. ref E. Holm http runeberg.org dbl 17 0338.html Thott, Otto i 1. at the Dansk biografisk leksikon , p. 336 ref He lived for a time in Halle, where he studied the Jurisprudence , and also the history and philosophy. These studies he continued in the University of Jena and later during his stay in Holland, England and France. Besides, made the acquaintance with several scientists in the various towns where he stayed, and though his funds was probably limited, he earned himself valuable manuscripts and books. Career After his return from the trip he obtained, in 1723, a secretary position in the Danish Chancellery, although he was only 20 years old. In 1728 he became the highest Trainee judge, two years later, Special Adviser for chamber College here from advanced him the deputy for finances February 15, 1734 and as Kommercekollegiet was created, he stepped in as deputy of the 5th December 1735th. A significant step forward in his career was made on August 30, 1746, when he came to lead the Finance College as the 1st deputy, a post he held until the December 6, 1759. The year previously he had reached the highest statesmanship dignity on July 21, 1758, to join the gehejmekonseillet . ref E. Holm http runeberg.org dbl 17 ... more details
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