The comic debut of Superman has sold for an out-of-this-world price.
The copy of Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, which features the first appearance of the “Man of Steel” was bought by an undisclosed buyer for a record $1.5 million Monday on the online auction site ComicConnect.com. “This is the Holy Grail of Holy Grails,” said Vincent Zurzolo, co-owner of the Web site.
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Relief is an image created by a printmaking process, such as woodcut, where the areas of the matrix (plate or block) that are to show printed black (typically) are on the original surface; the parts of the matrix that are to be blank (white) having been cut away, or otherwise removed.
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Intaglio is a family of printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface, known as the matrix or plate. Normally, copper or zinc plates are used as a surface, and the incisions are created by etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint or mezzotint. Collographs may also be printed as intaglio plates.
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Lithography (from Greek λίθος – lithos, ‘stone’ + γράφω – graphο, ‘to write’) is a method for printing using a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface. Invented in 1796 by Bavarian author Alois Senefelder as a low-cost method of publishing theatrical works, lithography can be used to print text or artwork onto paper or another suitable material.
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Whatever collecting is, it isn’t a hobby. It’s an obsession, an addiction. You get tired and a little annoyed of people humouring you, smiling indulgently when you speak of your obsession, as if it were some stamp and coin collecting phase from high school that you hadn’t outgrown as an adult.
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ST. PETERSBURG — Never mind that the iPad, Apple’s much anticipated electronic reading tablet, hits stores in 20 days to strike what many say will be the death knell for books. Bibliophiles couldn’t have cared less Saturday as they combed through the stacks for rare finds at the 29th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair at the Coliseum in downtown.
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Visit us this weekend in St. Petersburg at the 29th Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
March 12, 5:30-9pm, March 13, 10am -5pm, and March 14, 11am -4pm.
If you cannot be on site, please browse the selection of books at Books Tell You Why – Florida selection.
Presented items include collectible books in the following areas: Antiquarian Golf and Fishing Books, Awarded Children’s Books, Books To Film, Collectible Cookbooks (incl. signed items from Julia Child, Emeril, Thomas Keller, Paula Deen), Caroliniana and a couple of Charles van Sandwyk illustrated books incl. his new title, Canadian Content.
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