Word: antiquarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paper Chase. Two days later, more than 100 of his colleagues gathered at New York's Plaza Hotel for the 13th Annual International Antiquarian Book Fair. There celebrities like Zero Mostel and Jackie Onassis, substantial as morocco-bound sets, and youths, shabby as prison paperbacks, browsed through more than $2 million worth of books, manuscripts and incunabula. Among the items for sale was a two-volume set of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, inscribed by the author. The price for this piece of the true Hakenkreuz...
Kathy Fulton, captain of the Radcliffe basketball squad, is psyched. This Friday the annual Ivy league tourney begins establishing just who is who among the antiquarian eight...
Independent booksellers of New England have organized an antiquarian bookfair that will go on Saturday and Sunday at Gutman Library, featuring goodies like children's books, Victorian literature, detective fiction, and miniature books. Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to8:30 p.m., Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A $1.50 donation for admission will go to the library itself...
...willingness to always begin again which makes him admire one of his friends, another Widener scholar who sat sipping coffee at the same lunch table. The woman, who also asked that her name be withheld, has been a Ph.D. mathematician and physicist in her native Austria, an antiquarian and linguist after an attack of polio, the coordinator of an African education project, the author of an article on the artist Oskar Kokoschka, and is currently a student of plants. She explained her activities without the rabbi's serious tone in what she called a characteristic "lighter vein...
...strength in numbers that protects everyone else and show themselves to be somehow anti-social. One of these characters is a poet who sips Campari on the steps of the seaside Grand Hotel just outside of town, watching the Nazis make out with the local girls; another an antiquarian who stands in the midst of the snow covered square to inform us that this is the town's largest snowfall "since the ice age," although there have also been large snows in 1694 and 1888, the last one occuring on the 13th of July. He gets hit on the head...