Close-up of books in the Rococo style Abbey Library, containing the oldest library collection in the country, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Europe

Little Red Book for sale, communist memorabilia, Dali, Yunnan, China, Asia

Library at Monasterio y Museo de la Recoleta, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Arequipa, Arequipa Province, Arequipa Region, Peru, South America

Man in hat enters bookshop in Passage Jouffroy, Paris, France

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Acciaiuoli Missal, 15th century Italian manuscript on parchment, Lisbon, Portugal

El Boleo Foundation Museum in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Lao Fan, Painter Lao Fan in his studio, paints chairman Mao in combination with, attractive and sexy girls, power, Vorsitzender Mao als Playboy, womanizer, red guards, Mao-Bibel, little red book

Man sorting books, standing on a ladder, Prunksaal of Nationalbibliothek National Libary, Vienna, Austria

Prunksaal of the Nationalbibliothek National Libary, Vienna, Austria

Man sorting books, standing on a ladder, Prunksaal of Nationalbibliothek National Libary, Vienna, Austria

Gothic Miniscule script on parchment from the Gutenberg Bible dating to circa 1455, originally part of a collection in Leipzig that was lost after 1945; reproduction dating to 1886

Library of the Strahov Monastery, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Eastern Europe

Library of the Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel general reading society, Basel, Switzerland, Europe

Library of the Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel general reading society, Basel, Switzerland, Europe

Library of the Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel general reading society, Basel, Switzerland, Europe

Library of the Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel general reading society, Basel, Switzerland, Europe

Entrance to the Pierre Laudoueneix Antiquites shop at the l'hotel Dongier in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in Provence, Southern France. Known for its twice a week markets and numerous antique and design shops, this busy market town is high on the must-see list of visitors to Provence.

View of people at Shrine of the Book in Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Cocktail bar Pony in Upper Book street in Regensburg, Germany