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      <title>Sent Back: On the Ninety-Year Bargain That Decides Which Books Survive</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The consignment system that lets bookstores return unsold copies for full credit dates to the Great Depression, and it still quietly governs which titles get a real chance and which get pulped.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:48:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rare Book Market Rebounds in H1 2026</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The rare book market rebounded in H1 2026: Sotheby's auctions hit $3.4 billion and a Hebrew manuscript made $6.4 million.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cover Stories: Who Designs a Book Cover</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Venice Biennale Opens in Minor Keys</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale opened In Minor Keys on May 9, 2026 — Koyo Kouoh's posthumously realized exhibition of quiet, poetic registers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>After the Show: Exhibition Catalogues</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why museums publish exhibition catalogues: documentation, colour printing costs, and the catalogue raisonné as scholarship's long game.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>First Light: Illuminated Manuscripts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A beginner's guide to illuminated manuscripts: the Book of Hours, marginalia, online collections, and how to spot a facsimile leaf.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Open Folio: Digitized Manuscripts</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Paper as Practice: The Artist&apos;s Book</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The artist's book, from Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations to Tate and MoMA collections: how book form became art itself.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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