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The beginnings of the antiquarian book trade can be traced to British North America, specifically Boston of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1] There is no established date of when this business of book collecting actually begins, however Stern attributes the beginnings to John Dunton’s visit to Boston in 1686, in which he brought along numerous books from his native England.
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.
A History of the Book in America. American Antiquarian Society. ISBN 978-0-8078-34046. Andrews, William Loring (1895). The old booksellers of New York, and other papers. New York. Andrilk, Todd (2012). Reporting the Revolutionary War: before it was history, it was news. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks. ISBN 978-1-4022-69677. Ashley, Perry J. (1985).
"A room without books is like a body without a soul," Cicero once said, though he might not have known that those books could one day be worth serious cash. How To Go From Broke in Your 40s to...
In response to spiking prices in 2021 and 2022, the Fed raised interest rates aggressively between March 2022 and July 2023, hiking them by a total of 525 basis points.
A History of the Book in America is a five-volume series of scholarly books of essays published 2000–2010 by the University of North Carolina Press, and edited by David D. Hall. [1] Topics include printing, publishing, book selling, reading, and other aspects of print culture in colonial America and the United States.
Here are 15 books PEN America says were most frequently banned in the first part of the 2022-23 school year. 1. “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe. ... high school in 2007 after parents ...
U.S. Book Publishing Yearbook and Directory, ISSN 0193-6417 1979-Michael Hackenberg, ed. (1987), Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America, Washington DC: Center for the Book, ISBN 978-0-8444-0569-8. Chapters include: "Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900" by Terry Belanger