HANOVER, N.H. — The librarians at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College are used to one frequent request from visitors. The most requested book in the library’s collection is the ...
“It was really an extraordinary coincidence,” Carolyn Potter Ingersoll recalled of that lucky first find. She and her husband, William Boley Ingersoll, had gone on a pleasure outing to Baltimore with ...
A collection of first-edition books and jazz memorabilia belonging to the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will go up for auction in September. More than 500 items, including a first edition ...
Collecting vintage first edition books has always fascinated me because of the unique blend of history, rarity, and value these treasures hold. Many of these editions capture the original essence and ...
Book lovers who have missed getting their fix of fine leather books, rare first editions and children's collectibles need look no further than the Book Collector and the Old Tin Soldier Shoppe, once ...
Thanks to a 1931 Luther College alumnus’ passion for collecting books, the college’s Preus Library now has an almost complete set of Henrik Ibsen first editions in its special collections. Mary Kvamme ...
Surrounded by stacks of books, Don Scriven confessed that his quest to find first-edition copies of fictional works is an expression of his “nerdiness” and his lifelong fascination with the historical ...
Since the publication of "Carrie" in 1974, Stephen King has knocked out over 60 books (which have been turned into 59 movies) ...