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		<title>Dead Poet&#8217;s Society</title>
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35 original poems penned by William Topaz McGonagall, aka The World's Worst Poet, will go on sale at Lyon and Turnbull auctions in Edinburgh on 16th May.McGonagall was born in Edinburgh of Irish parents and gave up his job as a handloom weaver in Dundee to become a poet. Others did not value his lyricism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/05/01/dead-poets-society/</link>
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		<title>Going for Gould</title>
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A set of John Gould's books of bird illustrations sold for £1,252,500 at Christie's in London yesterday. The 40 volumes were largely first editions and included his celebrated The Birds of Australia.&#160;Now regarded as classics in their field, Gould compiled his series of books of bird illustrations on his extensive travels around the world.An accomplished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/05/01/gold-for-gould/</link>
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		<title>Undercover Collectors</title>
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Book collectors are a diverse bunch and the most unexpected of people can turn out to be covert bibliophiles. No such secrecy for 27 year old entrepreneur and 'The Apprentice' contestant Raef Bijayou, who openly admits his love of antiquarian book collecting on the TV series' website.Well known for his public schoolboy image, it could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/05/01/undercover-collectors/</link>
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		<title>Governess Greatness</title>
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, a little-known novel by about a day in the life of an English governess in the '30s, has swept the US box offices with its new film adaptation.The novel was popular in the 1940s, but has gone on to sell
far more copies after being republished by Persephone Books, which
specialises [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/04/29/governess-greatness/</link>
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		<title>Bubb Kuyper Auctions</title>
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In its spring sale, Bubb Kuyper Auctions will 
offer a wide collection of antiquarian and modern books and prints.&#160;Among the 
approximately 120 lots of posters an outstanding and colourful group of French 
art nouveau posters is on offer, featuring posters by i.a. E. Causé, J. Chéret, 
H.J. Detouche, E. Grasset, J.A. Grün, A. Levy, P.H. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/04/25/bubb-kuyper-auctions/</link>
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		<title>Landmarks of Science and Medicine from the Library of Andras Gedeon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christie’s South Kensington is offering over 400 highlights from the library of Swedish collector Andras Gedeon, which will go on sale on the 23rd April from 2pm. Author of 'Science and Technology in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries' (2006), Gedeon's collection includes major works by Descartes, Darwin, Rutherford [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/04/21/landmarks-of-science-and-medicine-from-the-library-of-andras-gedeon/</link>
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		<title>Cover Versions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Penguin's Designer Classics book series, the latest texts to get the haute couture makeover are those of the Virago Press imprint Virago Modern Classics. The trailblazing female fiction imprint has commissioned textile designers to give a new look to modern classics in celebration of their 30th anniversary this year. Orla Kiely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/04/16/cover-versions/</link>
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		<title>A Very Close Bond</title>
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&#34;For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond&#34; opens tonight at the Imperial War Museum. The first comprehensive exhibition to cover the life and works of 007's creator, it is a central part of the Ian Fleming centenary celebrations and features an 'unparalleled' blend of the literary and movie franchises ranging from Fleming's personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/04/16/a-very-close-bond/</link>
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		<title>Book of the Hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A mid-15th century Book of Hours set a Dutch record when it sold for €316.051 (estimate €40.000-80.000) at a Van Gendt Book Auctions in the Netherlands.This manuscript written in Latin and French, and illuminated with 11 beautiful miniatures by an unidentified master, was formerly in the possession of William Bragge (1823-1884), an English civil engineer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/04/14/book-of-the-hour/</link>
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		<title>Grand Old Fair</title>
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The Paris “Salon International du Livre Ancien”, organised by the S.L.A.M., will run for its second year in the magnificent Grand Palais, from this Thursday 17 until Sunday 20.Despite
the discomfort sellers experienced last year due to the April heat
wave, which was only amplified by the glass-domed ceiling, a record
number of 156 ILAB booksellers will take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rarebookreview.com/2008/04/14/grand-old-fair-2/</link>
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