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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]
If Bullets Were Gold) and Amazon Fever [1] [2] Richard Brautigan: The God of the Martians; Harold Brodkey: A Party of Animals, a 2000-page manuscript in 1976 later published in a different form [3] Louise Brooks: Naked on My Goat, autobiographical novel; James Brown: A Fine Madness, a novel which Brown says "never found a publisher"
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 Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 is a box set by Bob Dylan issued on Columbia Records. It is the first installment in Dylan's Bootleg Series , comprising material spanning the first three decades of his career, from 1961 to 1989.
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 ...
Cancelled books (1 C, 4 P) N. Unpublished novels (21 P) U. Upcoming books (11 P) Pages in category "Unpublished books"
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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.