Modernism in architecture grew from the Bauhaus, a German architecture and design school established in 1919, in Weimar, by German architect Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969). Paradoxically, Bauhaus, directly translated: “building house”, did not offer courses in architecture in its early years of operation despite a proclamation in its […]
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Rare Books Digest Source Feed- A Rowling-adjacent success story in the making May 31, 2025In our previous post, The Factors Fueling a Collectible Author, we attempted to identify the most salient factors behind J.K. Rowling’s impressive collectible trajectory. In collaboration with affiliates at Rarebooks.AI, we used the 12 factors identified to build a predictive analytical model. It is designed to identify authors who have the potential to become collectible […]jim
- The Factors Fueling a Collectible Author May 18, 2025It usually takes decades for a book to gain significant collectible value in the rare book market. That wasn’t the case for the most successful author of this century, J.K. Rowling. Her first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, appeared on June 30, 1997. By the time her third volume, Harry Potter and the […]jim
- A Rowling-adjacent success story in the making May 31, 2025