A comic showing the debut of superhero Batman has been sold for more than $1m (£655,000) at an auction in Dallas. The rare 1939 copy of Detective Comic No 27 was bought by an anonymous bidder from a seller who also wished to keep their identity secret.
Continue Reading Add comment February 27th, 2010
While some college students are perfecting their beer pong, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, the Center for the Book and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress are teaming up to tempt them into the field of rare book collecting.
Continue Reading Add comment February 26th, 2010
Some people might say that his collection of books is excessive. More people would say that they don’t understand why he would want a collection of over 600 copies of the same book. More direct people might say that his collection is an obsession, and seriously, Auburn’s Bill Ewald would probably agree saying yes, yes and yes to all of the above.
Continue Reading Add comment February 24th, 2010
Mount Vernon, George Washington’s Virginia estate, has received a record gift of $38 million to construct a research library on its grounds. The donation comes from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, a group based in Las Vegas that has given generously to the historic estate in the past. In 2001, it bought Gilbert Stuart’s “Lansdowne” portrait of the first president for the Smithsonian Institution.
Continue Reading Add comment February 22nd, 2010
Dick Francis, the former jockey turned best selling thriller writer, has died. He was 89. He passed away at his Caribbean home in Grand Cayman, according to a short statement released through his publicist.
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