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1 online resource (267 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes; Introduction: Have You a Tamerlane in Your Attic? Redux; 1. A Prewar Stockpile in Brussels; 2. The Five-Hundred-Year-Old Book under the Bed; 3. Philly Flea First Edition Find; 4. A Revolutionary Manuscript Filed in the Attic; 5. Tarzan in a Trailer Park; 6. Bargain Borges; 7. Leather-Bound Beauty in a Cowboy Outpost; 8. Seeking Alice; 9. Superhero Jackpot; 10. Scarce Scottish Imprint Hiding in the Stacks; 11. Kerouac's Hand-Annotated Bibliography, for 20; 12. Dumpster Emergency. |
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13. A French Folio in a New England Barn14. A Better-than-Technicolor Gone with the Wind; 15. Rummaging Up a 1905 Lippincott's Gazetteer; 16. An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary Discovery; 17. Sendak's Seven Stories; 18. Swap Meet Yields JFK-Signed Book; 19. Recovery of Nineteenth-Century Senate Ledgers; 20. A Textbook Turned Lipstick Blotter; 21. Frankenstein Rises from the Shadows; 22. The Townsend Document Surfaces; 23. Where (and When) to Seek Hypermoderns; 24. A Match Made in Germany and England; 25. An Astronomer's Accidental Acquisition; 26. Mendelssohn, for a Song. |
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27. A Family Bible Worth 350,00028. Mark Twain Stashed in a Barrel; 29. The Bard's Book? An Epic eBay Buy; 30. A Cobwebbed Cellar Tenders Treasure; 31. Following the Flag; 32. The 1.50 Declaration; 33. The Curious Case of a Very Overdue Harvard Library Book; 34. A Cache of Cards Concealed; 35. The Motherlode of Mini Books; 36. A Garage Sale Jumpstarts a Career; 37. An 1815 Arkansas Deed Retrieved in Oregon; 38. A World War II Comic Uncovered; 39. Advice from Texas: Look High and Look Low; 40. Memoirs of a Tattooist ... under a Fedora. |
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41. Homecoming for a Tome Mislaid since the English Civil War42. A Sleeper: Marmaduke Sampson's Rationale of Crime; 43. Reclaiming Abandoned African Americana; 44. Ex Libris Vatican Library, in Oklahoma; 45. The Box Lot of the Century; 46. Return to Sherwood Forest; 47. Thick and Thin; 48. Greetings from Salem; 49. A Connection to Capote; 50. The Doctor's Diaries Emerge; 51. Retro Geography in Reno; 52. McMurtry Surveys the Shelves; 53. Free on Craigslist: A Trove of Vintage NOLA Newspapers; 54. A Godsend at the Salvation Army; 55. Flowers in the Attic; 56. Much Ado about a Little Notebook. |
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AfterwordSelected Reading; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
| Summary |
Precious old books found in unlikely places, from the family that avoided foreclosure through a book in their attic to a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle in a local fundraiser. |
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Book collecting -- Anecdotes.
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Book collecting. (OCoLC)fst00836132
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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| Added Author |
Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-
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Print version: Rego Barry, Rebecca. Rare Books Uncovered : True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places. Minneapolis : Voyageur Press, ©2018 9780760361573 |
| ISBN |
9780760361580 (electronic book) |
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