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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]
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 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 ...
Upon release 12 Books That Changed the World received criticism from reviewers who noted that several items in the list were not considered books. [4] Others also criticized the list as focusing on works put out by white British men, as well as the length of the list. [5] [6] Miles Kingston noted that the list was absent of any foreign texts. [7]
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"
[12] Biographer Kenneth Slawenski notes that, despite Salinger's protestation that he never intended his early fiction to appear in book form, the author had engaged in protracted discussions with Story magazine editor Whit Burnett during the 1940s concerning publication of a Young Folks anthology. The collection was to be assembled from among ...