NEW YORK CITY-In spite of a slight uptick in the fourth quarter, 2009 went down in the record books as the worst year for apartment sales volume.

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QUICK POLL (GlobeSt.com)

Photo by sadjeans via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Venice's Equator Books has been a welcoming independent option for book lovers on Abbot Kinney for over five years, but now they have announced that this weekend they are closing their doors for good. In an announcement sent out by email and posted on their website, the bookstore's owners are asking their customers to come by and ...

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Equator Books in Venice to Close Up Shop Sunday (LAist)

A new donation will add to the University’s existing collection of materials about book publishing and the cultural history of Philadelphia from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Running Press archives will expand Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s collection with a catalogue of publications from 1972 to the present. The donation was made by Stuart ‘Buz’ Teacher, who founded the Running Press in ...

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Penn receives new donation for Rare Book library (Daily Pennsylvanian)

The people at Skyline Books emailed us to let us know they'd be closing up shop January 31st, 2010 — after being in business since September of 1990.

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Rare Bookstore Cat Soon To Be On Streets? (Gothamist)

Though it's not what he's known for, Andy Warhol created some really cute illustrations for a children's book series ! And now a set of those illustrations is headed toward the auction block next month as part of Bloomsbury's Illustrated Books auction . Reportedly "they were drawn by Warhol early in his career, between 1957 and 1959, for the Doubleday Book Club's popular series Best in Children ...

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Sendak and Warhol on the Block (Gothamist)

Sea Wolf in concert | Photo by Koga /LAist It was just a few months ago when 6-year old Pablo Castelaz lost his battle with cancer, after treatment at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. 13 months before that, he was diagnosed, almost seemingly out of nowhere showing no warning signs prior, with bilateral Wilms’ Tumor, a rare form of children’s cancer.

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Sea Wolf, Band of Horses & Others to Play this Saturday to Fight Children's Cancer (LAist)

A couple of dates with the NHL record books await the sizzling Devils as they hit the road for the next three games.

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New Jersey Devils Team Report (USA Today)

STANDING among the 10,000 rare books in the stacks of the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Bruce Bradley, the director of the history of science special collections, pulls out a copy of "The Starry Messenger," the revelatory book in which Galileo detailed his astronomical observations made with his own "spyglass" -- the instrument that would later be known as the telescope.

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Rare Books Don't Always Live in Glass Cases (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

“Harmonia Macrocosmica,” Andreas Cellarius's 1661 star atlas, is among the rare books visitors can find at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Mo.

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Rare Books Don’t Always Live in Glass Cases (New York Times)

New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) In efforts aimed at improving services, the National Library in Kolkata has launched a major programme to computerise its services and digitise rare and old material, including old newspaper stocks.

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National Library to digitise rare, old material (Press Trust of India)