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copyright 2012 Lisa B. Falour, BS, MBA all rights reserved LISA, INC. (EURL) cutecatfaith.com This was video’d near Notre Dame in Paris. Along the Seine, on the Southern bank (Left Bank) there are many “bouqinistes,” or booksellers. In addition to souvenirs for tourists, most sell quality prints and books, new and old. There are many places in and around Paris to buy this sort of thing, but you can’t go far wrong enjoying a Sunday stroll looking at what they have to offer. When something really interests me, I ask if I can pick it up. (That’s just polite, I think.) This entire area of Paris is so charming and so full of things to see and do, it can be quite overwhelming! If you want to engage me as a private guide, that’s possible. I have quite a few clips up on YouTube and Dailymotion (under “LisaFalour”) which show some similar book buying opportunities. Not all of these places are open seven days a week, they are not all in the same place, and I know some real “treasure troves” I can show you! There are lots of bookstores in Paris, and one, called MONA LISAIT, which has several stores, features remaindered new books. They are in many languages and you can get some terrific things there! If you really want antique prints, old original art or rare book editions, again, I can help you with that, also. Remember, however, this is a cash society — have your euros ready! If you hit the jackpot, I can help you ship your purchases properly away, packed, registered and insured….

This short video is one in a series of a curated tour of Karen Guancione’s exhibit “A Portable Constant Obsession” at Rutgers’ Alexander Library in New Brunswick, NJ. The curator and narrator is Michael Joseph, Rare Books Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. All artwork copyright Karen Guancione. All artwork reproduced in this video with permission of the artist. This video accompanies a story on my blog, Here and There at hereandthere123.blogspot.com….

This short video is one in a series of a curated tour of Karen Guancione’s exhibit “A Portable Constant Obsession” at Rutgers’ Alexander Library in New Brunswick, NJ. The curator and narrator is Michael Joseph, Rare Books Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. All artwork copyright Karen Guancione. All artwork reproduced in this video with permission of the artist. This video accompanies a story on my blog, Here and There at hereandthere123.blogspot.com….

This short video is one in a series of a curated tour of Karen Guancione’s exhibit “A Portable Constant Obsession” at Rutgers’ Alexander Library in New Brunswick, NJ. The curator and narrator is Michael Joseph, Rare Books Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. All artwork copyright Karen Guancione. All artwork reproduced in this video with permission of the artist. This video accompanies a story on my blog, Here and There at hereandthere123.blogspot.com….

This short video is one in a series of a curated tour of Karen Guancione’s exhibit “A Portable Constant Obsession” at Rutgers’ Alexander Library in New Brunswick, NJ. The curator and narrator is Michael Joseph, Rare Books Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. All artwork copyright Karen Guancione. All artwork reproduced in this video with permission of the artist. This video accompanies a story on my blog, Here and There at hereandthere123.blogspot.com….

from an original short story by Toby Litt, adapted for the screen by Wendy Bevan Mogg and produced by Elisabeth Pinto. Starring Neve Mcintosh….

So you have a Harry Potter book and you think it might be valuable? But how can you tell if it is worth anything? Back in 1997, no-one had heard of JK Rowling. Bloomsbury took a huge gamble and published a children’s book about magic that no-one else wanted – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. They only published 500 first editions. Three hundred of those disappeared into the British library system. The other 200 were used to spread the word about the Boy Wizard. Those first editions have become the Holy Grail of rare Harry Potter books — AbeBooks sold one for $36000 in 2005 — and they are very scarce. A journalist on London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper interviewed Rowling just after the book was published and then threw away his first edition thinking it was just another kids’ book. Those Philosopher’s Stone first editions are hardcovers The copyright page has a number line that reads 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1….. and it credits Joanne Rowling — not JK Rowling. True first editions of the first four Potter books have regularly sold for four figure prices tags on AbeBooks but this market has tailed off. First editions of the final three Potter books are not worth anything as millions were printed. AbeBooks has sold 700 of Rowling’s books for $200 or more, so what else can make one of her books valuable? Well — has JK signed it? In the early days before she became a megastar, she signed lots of books but that changed as she became more successful. During the Harry ……

This short video is one in a series of a curated tour of Karen Guancione’s exhibit “A Portable Constant Obsession” at Rutgers’ Alexander Library in New Brunswick, NJ. The curator and narrator is Michael Joseph, Rare Books Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. All artwork copyright Karen Guancione. All artwork reproduced in this video with permission of the artist. This video accompanies a story on my blog, Here and There at hereandthere123.blogspot.com….

This short video is one in a series of a curated tour of Karen Guancione’s exhibit “A Portable Constant Obsession” at Rutgers’ Alexander Library in New Brunswick, NJ. The curator and narrator is Michael Joseph, Rare Books Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. All artwork copyright Karen Guancione. All artwork reproduced in this video with permission of the artist. This video accompanies a story on my blog, Here and There at hereandthere123.blogspot.com….

This is a list of some words that are often used in the descriptive cataloguing of rare printed books. I have made this to help librarians and students of library science identify and correctly describe various rare book bindings, according to the RBMS bibliographic standards. (The accompanying music is Beethoven’s Sonata # 15, Andante.)…