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22 Pandemic Books to Read Before the H7N9 Virus Kills Us All

If you’ve been following the outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu with morbid fascination, you know the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Chinese government don’t want people to panic…yet. Continue Reading

Posted On : April 22, 2013 Published By : Carrie Bailey
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  • Book Collecting

When to Repair and When to Preserve a Book

by Carrie Bailey You can get all the materials and all the instructions you need to repair a book online. Some experts will recommend cleaning the book with a swab Continue Reading

Posted On : April 15, 2013 Published By : Carrie Bailey
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  • Book Collecting

The End of the Treasure Hunt?

“If I hadn’t been a novelist I would have been a rare book dealer. You’re always on a treasure hunt.” – Graham Greene Rare book dealers must lament the passing Continue Reading

Posted On : April 8, 2013 Published By : Carrie Bailey
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William Blake’s Masterpiece Inadvertently Burnt in Cult Ritual

by Carrie Bailey In Corvallis, Oregon on the 24th of March 2013, a cult organized by Nathan Dunham ritually burned a copy of The First Book of Urizen by William Continue Reading

Posted On : April 1, 2013 Published By : Carrie Bailey
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  • Book Collecting

What EBooks Mean to Book Collectors

 by Carrie Bailey The short answer, in my opinion, is nothing, but I want explore how I may be proven wrong. Imagine you lived in 1938 and heard Orson Wells’s Continue Reading

Posted On : March 18, 2013 Published By : Carrie Bailey
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14 Inventions NOT Available at Aunt Em’s House

  By Carrie Bailey Context changes things. In 1907, the concept of a clockwork man was innovative, a device before its time. In fact, Frank L. Baum created his character Continue Reading

Posted On : March 11, 2013 Published By : Carrie Bailey
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  • Book Collecting

Book Collecting on a Budget

by Carrie Bailey Old smelly musty historically significant books are my passion. The problem is that I can’t always afford the ones I want. The value of rare books is Continue Reading

Posted On : March 4, 2013 Published By : Carrie Bailey
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The Anatomy of a Book

by Carrie Bailey At some point early in our lives, most people are told to be careful not to damage a book’s spine or to “Look at that cover!” It Continue Reading

Posted On : February 25, 2013 Published By : Carrie Bailey

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