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9780230109414 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 11, 2011, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves.
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9780230341678 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 30, 2012, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Published in 1623, the 750 copies of the first edition of William Shakespeare’s collected works, known as the First Folio, has been sought after relentlessly by kings, earls, and bibliophiles.
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9780393072204 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 14, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A landmark collection featuring rare and sensational images of the Civil War.
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9781856077330 | Columba Pr, February 15, 2012, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Adventures of a Book Collector is the true and continuing story of one man's love of the written word; of what happens when a hobby becomes an obsession.
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The authors recount how they became interested in collecting books and describe the interesting people they have met in the course of their collecting
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9780312156824 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The authors recount how they became interested in collecting books and describe the interesting people they have met in the course of their collecting
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9780312187682 | Griffin, April 15, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The authors rrecount how they became interested in collecting books and describe the interesting people they have met in the course of their collecting
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9780312207496 | St Martins Pr, December 31, 2010, cover price $9.99
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9780521621533 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $217.00 | About this edition: This book centers on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios.
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9780521101813 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 11, 2008), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This book centers on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios.
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9780785823803 | Chartwell Books, September 30, 2008, cover price $29.99
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9780306817373 | Da Capo Pr, January 8, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the astonishing story of a lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in ancient Constantinople to the auction block at Christie’s in New York, and how a team of scholars used the latest imaging technology to reveal and decipher the original text.
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9780252033469, titled "English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton" | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 17, 2008, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton examines the history of early English books, exploring the concept of putting the English language into print with close study of the texts, the formats, the audiences, and the functions of English books.
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9780252075537, titled "English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton" | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 10, 2008, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton examines the history of early English books, exploring the concept of putting the English language into print with close study of the texts, the formats, the audiences, and the functions of English books.
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Product Description: Rare Finds is a friendly, wide-ranging introduction to the world of rare book collecting. It is intended for those with a budding interest in this exciting field rather than simply professional booksellers and librarians. The guide contains an easy-to-use Glossary as well as sections devoted to Frequently Asked Questions, Book Production, and Format...read more
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9781424320509 | Reprint edition (Atlasbooks Dist Serv, January 1, 2011), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Rare Finds is a friendly, wide-ranging introduction to the world of rare book collecting.
9780615153162 | Atlasbooks Dist Serv, October 30, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Rare Finds is a friendly, wide-ranging introduction to the world of rare book collecting.
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9781558210035 | Lyons Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The nature of book construction, storage, and handling, elementary cleaning and repair, and much more.
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9780306815805 | Da Capo Pr, October 22, 2007, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created during the thirteenth century, and offers a revealing look at the full range of mathematical discoveries and theories that were found, as well as the technological tools that made it possible.
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9780787695057, titled "Bookman's Price Index: A Guide to the Values of Rare and Other Out of Print Books" | Gale Group, December 8, 2006, cover price $625.00
9780787695040, titled "Bookman's Price Index: A Guide To The Values Of Rare And Other Out Of Print Books" | Gale Group, July 30, 2006, cover price $625.00
9780787678340, titled "Bookman's Price Index: A Guide To the Values Of Rare And Other Out Of Print Books" | Gale Group, December 1, 2004, cover price $625.00
9780787678333, titled "Bookman's Price Index: A Guide to the Values of Rare and Other Out of Print Books" | Gale Group, October 1, 2004, cover price $625.00
9780787678326, titled "Bookman's Price Index: A Guide to the Values of Rare and Other Out of Print Books" | Gale Group, July 1, 2004, cover price $625.00
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9780712348904 | Revised edition (British Library Board, December 5, 2005), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This is a revised edition of the indispensable guide to the great collections of the British Library.
9780712348447 | British Library Board, July 28, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts.
9780810916531 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1989, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Surveys the massive fifteen-million-item collection of the British Library, a collection that spans almost three thousand years of human creativity
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9780399532382 | 3 updated edition (Perigee, March 7, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A thorough, insider's guide to book collecting explains how to find used and rare books, offering tips on buying and selling books on the Internet, identifying first editions and reader's copies, finding valuable books, and more, and provides a detailed index of more than one thousand of the most collectible books today.
9780399526541 | 2nd edition (Perigee, February 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Discusses how the Internet has changed book dealing, how to get started looking for rare and used books, and how to evaluate editions and condition.
9780399519789 | Perigee, January 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An experienced insider in antiquarian book markets offers advice on finding, buying, and selling used and rare books, and provides an index of more than one thousand of the "most collectible" books and authors.
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9780712345187 | British Library Board, January 1, 2006, cover price $60.00
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9780786713059 | Carroll & Graf Pub, December 14, 2003, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: An anecdotal history chronicles the nearly eight decades of the New York Booksellers' Row, from the 1890s to the 1960s, detailing the collectors, readers, bookstores, sellers, and othes who transformed the area into a haven for bibliophiles.
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9780786716524 | Carroll & Graf Pub, October 18, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place.
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9780807615362 | George Braziller, November 30, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The combination of the woodcut-a print method devised early in the fifteenth century-with Johannes Gutenberg's revolutionary invention of printing with moveable type resulted in a powerful explosion of information and ideas.
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Product Description: The rare book dealers who delighted readers with the history of their bookselling days in Old Books, Rare Friends now offer the other side of their story -- an intimate look at the joys of a relationship that has lasted more than half a century...read more
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9780756777630 | Diane Pub Co, April 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The rare book dealers who delighted readers with the history of their bookselling days in Old Books, Rare Friends now offer the other side of their story -- an intimate look at the joys of a relationship that has lasted more than half a century.
9780786235636 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The rare book dealers who delighted readers with the history of their bookselling days in "Old Books, Rare Friends" now offer the other side of their story -- an intimate look at the joys of a relationship that has lasted more than half a century.
9780743202459 | Free Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Two rare book dealers share an account of their bookselling days and a portrait of their long friendship, detailing their individual personal lives, business exploits and adventures, and struggle with the trials of aging.
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9780198187684 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 6, 2003, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: This major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is in the second part of the story of "the greatest book" in the English language.
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9780078251115 | Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co, January 1, 2002, cover price $107.08 | About this edition: "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.
9781870773409 | Highsmith Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $38.00
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9788444406220 | 3 edition (Library of Congress, January 1, 1988), cover price $25.00
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9780312262686 | St Martins Pr, June 20, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Writings on the world of books and book collecting include a personal tour of the Library of Congress, trips to the Folger Shakespeare Library and Yale's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and stories of famous forgeries.
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9780312304287 | Reprint edition (Thomas Dunne Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Two savvy antiques collectors reveal one of the dirty secrets of the book collecting world, the art of forgeries, illustrating how a New England forger managed to fool collectors and how many of these collectors and booksellers ignore the suspicious books.
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9780807614921 | George Braziller, September 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A republication of the work first released in 1966 showcases all 157 miniature pieces from a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of lavish bible illustrations by an unidentified Dutch master painter for Catherine of Cleves.
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Product Description: St John's College owns one of the largest collegiate collections of medieval manuscripts in Oxford, ranging from the early eleventh century to the early sixteenth century. This a detailed and excellent catalogue of a valuable collection, compiled on up-to-date principles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780199202393 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 18, 2002, cover price $192.00 | About this edition: St John's College owns one of the largest collegiate collections of medieval manuscripts in Oxford, ranging from the early eleventh century to the early sixteenth century.
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9780845731383 | Beinecke Rare Book &, June 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A glimpse into a extraordinary collection of American illustrated books.
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9781580626453 | Adams Media Corp, April 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A helpful guide to buying and selling collectibles focuses on Americana, autographs, dolls, figurines, sports collectibles, stamps, and coins, among many other items.
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