Buying out of print books ('orphans' in googlespeak) from book dealers has a great deal to be said for it but money is sometimes tight and many books are too rare to be affordable or even to be available. As a dealer I see the scheme opening up the market rather than harming it. New collectors, readers and book enthusiasts will be created by this bold 'Forever' project - especially among the under thirty crowd, who are now seldom seen in bookshops or at bookfairs; those born after the year of the Jubilee and Punk (1977) i.e. the post-literate generation. Sergey was four at the time but by the time he was 26 he had accumulated well over 15,000 real books...
Cultural Property Advisory Committee Meeting, February 4-6, 2025; New MOU
for Vietnam; Renewals for Chile, Italy and Morocco
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In what has become a holiday “tradition,” the State Department has
provided advance notice of an upcoming Cultural Property Advisory Committee
meeting o...
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