Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places

Synopsis

Feed Your Inner Bibliophile With This Volume On Unearthed Rare And Antiquarian Books. Few Collectors Are As Passionate Or As Dogged In The Pursuit Of Their Quarry As Collectors Of Rare Books. In Rare Books Uncovered, Expert On Rare And Antiquarian Books Rebecca Rego Barry Recounts The Stories Of Remarkable Discoveries From The World Of Book Collecting. Read About The Family Whose Discovery In Their Attic Of A Copy Of Action Comics No. 1--the First Appearance Of Superman--saved Their Home From Foreclosure. Or The Salt Lake City Bookseller Who Volunteered For A Local Fundraiser--and Came Across A 500-year-old Copy Of The Nuremberg Chronicle. Or The Collector Who, While Browsing His Local Thrift Shop, Found A Collectible Copy Of Calvary In China--inscribed By The Author To The Collector's Grandfather. These Tales And Many Others Will Entertain And Inspire Casual Collectors And Hardcore Bibliomaniacs Alike-- Discoveries Of Rare And Collectible Books Are Chronicled In Stories From Both Casual And Die-hard Book Collectors-- Prewar Stockpile In Brussels -- Five-hundred-year-old Book Under The Bed -- Philly Flea First Edition Find -- Revolutionary Manuscript Filed In The Attic -- Tarzan In A Trailer Park -- Bargain Borges -- Leather-bound Beauty In A Cowboy Outpost -- Seeking Alice -- Superhero Jackpot -- Scarce Scottish Imprint Hiding In The Stacks -- Kerouac's Hand-annotated Bibliography, For $20 -- Dumpster Emergency -- A French Folio In A New England Barn -- Better-than-technicolor Gone With The Wind -- Rummaging Up A 1905 Lippincott's Gazetteer -- Eighteenth-century Dictionary Discovery -- Sendak's Seven Stories -- Swap Meet Yields Jfk-signed Book -- Recovery Of A Nineteenth-century Senate Ledgers -- Textbook Turned Lipstick Blotter -- Frankenstein Rises From The Shadows -- Townsend Document Surfaces -- Where (and When) To Seek Hypermoderns -- Match Made In Germany And England -- Astronomer's Accidental Acquisition -- Mendelssohn, For A Song -- Family Bible Worth $350,000 -- Mark Twain Stashed In A Barrel -- Bard's Book? Epic Ebay Buy -- Cobwebbled Cellar Tenders Treasure -- Following The Flag -- $1.50 Declaration -- Curious Case Of A Very Overdue Harvard Library Book -- Cache Of Cards Concealed -- Motherlode Of Mini Books -- Garage Sale Jumpstarts A Career -- 1815 Arkansas Deed Retrieved In Oregon -- World War Ii Comic Uncovered -- Advice Fom Texas: Look High And Look Low -- Memoirs Of A Tattooist... Under A Fedora -- Homecoming From A Tome Mislaid Since The English Civil War -- Sleeper: Marmaduke Sampson's Rationale Of Crime -- Reclaiming Abandoned African Americana -- Ex Libris Vatican Library, In Oklahoma -- Box Lot Of The Century -- Return To Sherwood Forest -- Thick & Thin -- Greetings From Salem -- Connection To Capote -- Doctor's Diaries Emerge -- Retro Geography In Reno -- Mcmurty Surveys The Shelves. Rebecca Rego Barry ; Foreword By Nicholas A. Basbanes. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 241-242) And Index.