It took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to unravel the mystery of the ...
Glen and Cathy Miranker, devotees of the UVA-based Rare Book School, have endowed a permanent curator position.
Khalili Collection of Islamic Art in 1990 ... late 12th century and sold for $11.7 million in 1983. It was the most expensive book in the world for quite some time. King Henry the Lion was ...
The buyer of this copy was Maruzen Co. Ltd., a major Japanese bookseller. At the time, 1987, it set the record for the most expensive book ever purchased. This collection of William Shakespeare’s ...
Chamblin Bookmine in Jacksonville, Florida, is an enormous bookstore filled with endless shelves of literary treasures, from ...
You don't need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or ...
There are rare books all around us,” says Stewart, whose collection includes books on ... such as the Pope,” says White. One of his most cherished books is written by British food writer ...
"Selling Superman," which screens Saturday in Royal Oak, explores how a comics collection worth a small fortune left a family ...