The L.A. Times Festival of Books yielded a bonanza for the woman who came to the Southern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America’s Rare Book Round-Up booth for a free appraisal.A book the woman bought for a dollar at a garage sale was worth $6,000. Suffice it to say, she plotzed when informed.A metaphysical ambulance is routinely parked nearby to handle such situations. Treated for acute swoon, she recovered fully and danced a jig all the way home.The volume she presented for appraisal was A Western Trip by Carl E. Schmidt (1904). A lavishly produced book bound...
Crooks in the Food Trade
Carl Wagner, Bartender; wanted for carrying a concealed weapon. Previously wanted in Tacoma for murder Rabelais Books, a bookshop in Portland, Maine that specializes in food and wine material, is currently exhibiting a selection of mug shots of criminals that dabbled in the food trade. The exhibit titled Food Industry Mug Shots 1899-1954 features images from the collection of Dr. Lou Jacobs. Jacobs, a serious foodie himself, started collecting the mug shots 4 years ago when after searching for an antique cleaver for his own kitchen, came across a visual of a foodie who had stabbed a colleague with a butcher...
Reading Down Under: marie claire launches literacy campaign
Maeve Dermody and Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteFour out of five indigenous children in the remote areas of Australia are illiterate. To help break this horrific reality marie claire magazine has enlisted some of Australia's leading stars.marie claire asks some of the country' leading entertainers "to evoke the spirit of books that mean a lot to them." The project is called The Wonder of Words.Vanessa Amorosi and Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe campaign lasts through the month of February and benefits the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (which also benefited from Ikea's recent construction of the world's largest outdoor...
Shooting History: Notorious 1963 Photo On Exhibit At Truman Library
One of the most famous shots (literally and figuratively) in the history of American photojournalism was snapped by a photographer who'd already blown one chance to capture a historic moment, and was sure it was about to happen again. That's just one of the fascinating stories behind the Pulitzer Prize winning photos on exhibit through January 24, 2010 at the Harry S.Truman Library and Museum.Robert H. Jackson, a 29-year-old photographer for the Dallas Times Herald, was assigned to cover the Friday, November 22, 1963 visit of President John F. Kennedy to the Texas city. According to a NBC news story,...
Flamboyant Frontier Photographer Leaves Legacy To Library
Portrait of the Artist As A Frontiersman: Joseph Bevier Sturtevant.(All photos by J. Sturtevant, Courtesy of Boulder Historical Society Local History Collection, Carnegie Branch Library.)Joseph Bevier Sturtevant was a prolific photographer who settled in Boulder, Colorado in 1876. That much is certain. On December 30,2009 according to the online Colorado Daily, Boulder's Carnegie Library got nearly 1,600 pictures to prove it. The photos, donated to the local history collection, are in black and white, but they were taken by one of the Colorado city's most colorful citizens: a fraudulent frontiersman known as "Rocky Mountain Joe." Most of Joe's local color...