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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's book-collecting friend is murdered. To solve the mystery of why the victim was killed, and which of his rare books was taken, Wigan dives into the world of 'runners' and book collectors, where avid agents...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In the tradition of Stephen Greenblatts The Swerve and Dava Sobels Galileos Daughter, a vividly rendered account of the forgotten quest by Christopher Columbuss son to create the greatest library in the world“a perfectly pitched poetic drama” (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through 16th century Europe. The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the story of the first and greatest visionary of the print age, a man who saw how the explosive...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half of his plays from oblivion. The Millionaire and the Bard tells the miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession. When Shakespeare died in 1616 half of his plays died...
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