But so is a restored collection of early- and mid-19th-century mercantile buildings unique to the city.
21) there's the restored collection of the French director Louis Feuillade's silent serial "Fant?," about the masked thief who engulfs Paris in a reign of terror; and Neil Jordan's enchanted sea fable, "Ondine," starring Colin Farrell.
Not only could he reprint many works, he was able to restore collections of Yiddish literature to those Polish libraries.
Since receiving the MacArthur grant, Haber has been working on restoring a collection of sounds that were once used to understand the origins of the Western literary tradition.
"I have favorites for different reasons," said Mr. Bortz, who won't say how much he has spent buying and restoring his collection, for which he is trying to find a permanent home.
As a solo artist, the brilliantly idiosyncratic rock-and-roll guitarist Jeff Beck has been a source of frustration, seemingly more interested in restoring his collection of vintage automobiles than in practicing his fret-board pyrotechnics.
In a testament to the extent of enthusiasm for the project, hundreds of volunteers, including many retired Grumman employees, have clocked more than 625,000 hours restoring the collection, which was assembled throughout the years and paid for by private supporters.
But as she turns her attention to restoring the collection and trying to fathom what it meant to him, she must also defend it against a rapacious cousin intent on contesting the will.
"Restoring the collection and the buildings as much as possible to their original glory is a very important long-term preoccupation".These days the custodians are also juggling another task: making the library appeal to those other than specialist Islamic scholars and academics.
"It is much harder to restore bulk collection after it has lapsed than it would have been to simply extend it," he added.
In 2004, six years after Hughes's death, his daughter Frieda restored the collection to the form her mother had intended.
