Tag: booksellers
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Interest, beauty and rarity: book collecting, the passion that (still) escapes the clutches of the art market
From the first edition of The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, printed by Juan de la Cuesta, at number 87 Atocha Street in Madrid in 1605, it is estimated that around 31 copies remain today. Most of them are found in public institutions, such as the Royal Spanish Academy or the National Library,…
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Four travel bookstores in Madrid to dream of the next destination
“Travelling changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly, you leave marks, even if they are small. And in return, life and travel leave their mark on you,” said the traveler, chef and television presenter Anthony Bourdain, who died in 2018. But, sometimes, it is difficult to choose…
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A London bookseller puts a first edition of Goya’s ‘Caprichos’ on sale for 233,000 euros
Bookseller Bernard Saphero displays the first edition of Goya’s ‘Caprichos’ in his London shop.Rafa Miguel Bernard Shapero has been in the rare books and manuscripts business for 40 years. His shop and warehouse, on London’s New Bond Street, has a light, order and space more typical of a jewelry store than a second-hand bookstore. He…
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The booksellers of Cartagena demand that there be no sale of manuals in schools
Anna Albaladejo. / JMR / AGM These merchants denounce that there are more and more centers that obtain profits with an activity for which they lack a license Cartagena’s booksellers don’t want schools to sell textbooks. Several establishments have come together to demand from the administrations measures that prevent it. They consider that it is…
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The non-renewal of textbooks outrages parents, teachers and booksellers
The counselor, Isabel Campuzano, on Book Day at the Regional Library last year. / VICENTE VICENS / AGM Education challenges the Ministry again and will not acquire the syllabi adapted to Lomloe in 5th grade of Primary or 1st of ESO The Ministry of Education is on its way to turning the Region into an…