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Bernard John Shapero (born August 1963) is a British dealer in antiquarian rare books and works on paper, the founder of Shapero Rare Books of 94 New Bond Street, Mayfair, London. [1] In 2005, Slate called him "London's most successful rare-book dealer and arguably the top dealer in the world today".
Jack Bradbury: autobiography about working in animation and comic books; Barry Brown: Unsung Heroes of the Horrors, interview profiles of actors; Peter Bogdanovich: But What I Really I Want to Do is Direct: My First Picture Shows 1965–1971, a memoir detailing his life and career as a director [8] Buff Cobb: Memoirs of a Subdeb in Hollywood
In 2006 the "Rare Book Room" website was created which contains the complete collection in medium to medium-high resolution freely available to the public through a web browser or as a PDF file. Some high resolution versions are still being sold by Octavo through a separate website. As of 2007 over 400 books have been scanned. [1]
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Hans Peter Kraus (October 12, 1907 – November 1, 1988), also known as H. P. Kraus or HPK, was an Austrian-born American book dealer described as "without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th century" [1] and in a league with other rare book dealers such as Bernard Quaritch, Guillaume de Bure and A.S.W. Rosenbach.
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006. Released: October 6, 2008; Label/Catalog no.: Columbia/Legacy 88697 35795 2; Format: 2×CD, 4×vinyl, digital download; 6 9 BPI: Silver [15] 2008 The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 (Deluxe Edition) Released: October 7, 2008
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