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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.
The British sixpence (/ ˈ s ɪ k s p ən s /) piece, sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny bit, was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 40 of a pound or half a shilling.It was first minted in 1551, during the reign of Edward VI, and circulated until 1980.
The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1895 through 2020. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.
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 Rare Book Hub (formerly known as the Americana Exchange) is a website for the buying, selling and collecting of rare and antiquarian books. It was founded in 2002 in San Francisco by rare book collector Bruce McKinney with the aim of offering hard to find information about book collecting to the public.
The word antiquarian could also be used to describe a person who collects rare books or other antique items. Two key figures who have written a great deal on the U.S. antiquarian book trade specifically are Leona Rostenberg (1908–2005) and Madeleine B. Stern (1912–2007), both of whom were also in the business of collecting and selling rare ...
Rare Book School (in Virginia) bibliographies: History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern; History of the Book in America, c. 1700–1830; American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940; BibSite – via Bibliographical Society of America. (Includes articles on American book history) Davies Project. "American Libraries ...
The City of Books has nine color-coded rooms and over 3,500 different sections. [28] The inventory for its retail and online sales is over four million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books. [29] As of 2009, Powell's was buying around 3,000 used books a day. [30] Powell's Technical Books, which closed in 2010.