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American Rare Book Trade Annals: Heritage Bookshop - The First Year
by Louis Weinstein At the time of its closing in 2007 after forty-four years in business, Heritage Bookshop, established by Louis and Ben Weinstein and ultimately located in a former mortuary on...
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The Wanderlust And Wastrel Lives Of Vagabond Printers
by Stephen J. GertzIn spite of the fact that I received a law degree, I have never been in court except to plead guilty. - Col. Will K. Visscher, tramp printerBetween the American...
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Dean & Son Movable Books and How To Date Them
by Stephen J. GertzOld Woman and Her Silver Penny. Dean's Movable Books. London: Dean & Son, n.d. [1861]. First edition. Octavo (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 ini; 248 x 171 mm). Eight hand-colored wood engraved...
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Original Winnie-The-Pooh Drawing Sells For $40,954
by Stephen J. GertzThe original watercolor and ink drawing of Winnie-The-Pooh by Ernest H. Shepard, reported by Booktryst on Monday February 27, 2012, has sold for $40,954 (incl. buyer's premium). Nate...
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The Most Important Hebrew Book Ever Published
by Stephen J. Gertz"The educated man knows, indeed, from his knowledge of history that the art of Gutenberg saw its inception with a Latin Bible in the middle of the XVth century. Yet what layman knows...
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The First American Antiquarian Book Fair
by Stephen J. GertzThe first American antiquarian book fair was held in 1960, eleven years after the founding of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) in 1949. It took place at...
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Old "New" Map Charts Europe's Current Financial Woes
by Stephen J. GertzSeignor Italy continues to enjoy la dolce far neite despite obvious pressures to do something, anything; niete has gone too far. Señora Spain is smoking a cigarette during a...
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Charles Bukowski Bonanza At Auction
by Stephen J. GertzCharles Bukowski is the star at PBA Galleries Fine Literature and Fine Books sale on Thursday March 15, 2012.Twenty-eight lots of rare and, in a few instances, extremely scarce books...
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Fictional Newspapers of Mark Twain (And Then Some)
by Stephen J. GertzObjective journalism is a modern concept. Through the end of the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth, subjective newspapers were the norm, typically...
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Churchill Tells Chamberlain To Get Real In Historic Inscribed Rare Book
by Stephen J. GertzIn August, 1938, as Nazi aggression against the Sudetenland threatened war, Winston Churchill presented Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with what was a sharply...
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Bookplate Special On Menu At Bonham's
by Stephen J. GertzFor ? by Le Blon, 1625.The bookplate collection of Arthur W. Dorling, one of the foremost collectors of bookplate art, will be auctioned at Bonham's on March 27, 2012 in two, huge...
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The Printer (1568)
by Stephen J. GertzDer Buchdrucker (The Printer).From the "Ständebuch" (Book of Trades).Frankfurt am Main, 1568.Commonly known as the Ständebuch (Book of Trades), this, the first Latin edition of...
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Some Very Special Bindings From Gwasg Gregynog Press
by Stephen J. GertzTHOMAS. R.S. Laboratories of the Spirit.Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 1976Number 5 of 15 copies signed by the author and specially bound by Sally Lou Smith.Crushed blue levant morocco...
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Scarce Copy Of "The Blind Pugilist" Sees Light of Day
by Stephen J. Gertz"Every boy has a hobby, and my hobby was fighting," so says Philadelphia boxer, cigar store owner, and sometime dog trainer Ellwood McCloskey (1872-1927), known as "the Old War Horse...
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The Floating World Of Japanese Erotica At Christie's
by Stephen J. GertzANONYMOUS. Haru no Karitaku. [c.1860s]. 11 full-page and 5 double-page color-printed woodcut illustrations, and 8 full-page uncolored woodcut illustrations. [With:] ANONYMOUS. Hana...
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Rare Holocaust Books & Art Come To Auction
by Stephen J. GertzThe Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. London: Hutchinson, [1943]. Octavo (216 x 140mm). 16 pp, printed in red and black.Estimate: £500-£800 ($785-$1256)A rare...
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Fran Lebowitz On Book Collecting
by Stephen J. GertzFran Lebowitz, whose debut collection of devastatingly witty essays, Metropolitan Life (1978), and its companion, Social Studies (1981), put her on the literary star map as a...
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Beautifully Illustrated Erotic Manuscript Brings 10 x Estimate At Christie's
By Stephen J. GertzDas Buch der Venus vulgivaga, (The Book of Venus Vulvigaga) an illustrated erotic manuscript from c. 1910, was the headliner at Christie's Fine Books Sale on March 21, 2012.Estimated...
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The 2000 Year Old Man Talks Rare Books
by Stephen J. GertzAt the recent 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, the 2000 Year Old Man, the oldest rare book dealer in the history of the world, exhibited for the first time....
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Medieval Scribes Gripe About Writing
by Stephen J. GertzGiven contemporary physical conditions and tools, if you were a medieval monk or nun and knew how to swing quill and sling ink your take on writing was very likely much as Dorothy...
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