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The finest collection of rare and early printed books from colonial India is to be found not at the British Library or even within a rare book institution in India, but in a large flat in London, t
Earlier this year, we invited dozens of antiquarian and rare book dealers to submit their most noteworthy sales of books or manuscripts over the past twelve months. Fine Books staffers then sifted…
It’s not every bestselling author who lives to see collectors’ editions of his books, but Tom Wolfe is rare by many standards.
When one thinks of Hollywood, the phrase “the written word” doesn’t always immediately leap to mind.
In 1896, Rudyard Kipling was living in Brattleboro, Vermont, with his American-born wife.
In 1880 a slim volume of poetry appeared that modern book collectors have come to see as the opening salvo in a revolution that had profound and long-lasting effects on commercial book production a
Once, along the shores of Seattle, Washington, a young man met an old princess. She, out from her waterfront cabin, was on the tideflats collecting clams and mussels.
On Saturday, September 18, 1926, Henry Beston, a thirty-eight-year-old writer and editor, boarded a train in Boston, heading to Cape Cod for a two-week stay at “the Fo’castle,” his small dune shack
