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Name: Rare Books Uncovered | True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places
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True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places

Rebecca Rego Barry(Autor*in)

Voyageur Press

Erschienen am 1. März 2018

264 Seiten

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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
13. A French Folio in a New England Barn
14. 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
27. A Family Bible Worth $350,000
28. 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
41. Homecoming for a Tome Mislaid since the English Civil War
42. 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 & 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
Afterword
Selected Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
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