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  2. Hans P. Kraus - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of unpublished books - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe

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    Rare Earth was succeeded in 2003 by the follow-on book The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of our World, also by Ward and Brownlee, which talks about the Earth's long-term future and eventual demise under a warming and expanding Sun, showing readers the concept that planets like Earth ...

  5. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - Wikipedia

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    After publicity generated by the lawsuits, the book became a bestseller. Reception was not universally positive. In a review for the New York Times Book Review, law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote that Matthiessen "not only fails to convince, he inadvertently makes a strong case for Mr. Peltier's guilt. Invoking the clichés of the radical left ...

  7. Peter David bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Alien Nation: Body and Soul, Pocket Books, 1993. ISBN 0-671-73601-9; Battlestar Galactica: Sagittarius Is Bleeding, Tor Books, 2006. ISBN 0-7653-1607-2; Darkness of the Light, Tor Books, 2007. ISBN 9780765311733; Dinotopia: The Maze, Random House Books, 1998. ISBN 0-679-88264-2; Fantastic Four: What Lies Between, Pocket Star Books, 2007. ISBN 1 ...

  8. Truth (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Truth is a 2009 crime fiction novel written by Peter Temple. The novel is a sequel to Temple's 2005 novel The Broken Shore, and won the Miles Franklin Award in 2010. The book is set around the time of the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. [1] Temple was in the process of writing the book, set during a hot bushfire-prone season, when the ...

  9. Peter Dickinson - Wikipedia

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    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both Tulku (1979) and City of Gold (1980), each being recognised as the year's outstanding children's ...