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• Category: Art of the book
  • Data Visualizations of the First Graphic Designers.
  • Helen Frankenthaler’s Valentine Art
  • Ballets Russes: a gift to Modernism
  • Horticulture Preserved on a Changing Planet
  • The Fourth Dimension of a Rare Book
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat is “PYRO” hot
  • Extreme Femininity
  • The Jewels of Passover
  • Introducing the Rare Book Sale Monitor – Artist Breakdown
  • I am a pre-1950 Pocket Book with Leo Manso cover art, paperback collector
  • The Factor of Color in Early Centenary Printing
  • Interview with Dr. Sandra Hindman of Les Enluminures
  • Hot new genre: Adult Coloring Books
  • Dada is 100 Years Old!
  • Alice is 150 years old, but she doesn’t look it!
  • Endpapers – Work of Art
  • The Market for Early Printings of Venetian Woodblock Decorated Books
  • Ver Sacrum – The Most Beautiful Art Journal Ever!
  • Livre d’artiste
  • Love is a Pink Cake
  • Paul Éluard’s poetry that inspired surrealism
  • Codex Seraphinianus rare again?
  • Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916)
  • Beautifully illustrated Knave of Hearts
  • The Andy Warhol Book Covers that the Art World Overlooked
  • Luigi Serafini’s Storie Naturali
  • Contemporary Art for the Bibliophile
  • First edition less significant than the reprint?
  • Man Ray and a missed opportunity
  • My rare book discovery
  • Print Methods in Rare Book Illustrations
  • Inspiring Minds: Howard Pyle as Teacher of NC Wyeth
  • The most famous private press – Kelmscott Press
  • Illuminated maps in rare books
  • The Art of Book Marbling Decoration
  • When the companion volume is more valuable than its opus
  • Hipster Mecca: The New York Art Book Fair
  • World’s Fair & Symposium of the Book Arts
  • The inspiration of Franz Kafka
  • The rare “Block Books”
  • The drypoints of Becat in rare books
  • Jackson Pollock’s Rare Catalogue Raisonne
  • Salvator Dali rare books
  • Strange, wonderful Rare Books
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 1st Quarter 2012
  • Luigi Serafini’s other rare book – Pulcinellopedia
  • The Rare Books of Maurice Sendak
  • The Valuable Rare Book Dust Jacket
  • The Great Gatsby rare dust jacket
  • Codex Seraphinianus: a rare book?
  • The Beauty Outside the Rare Book
  • Bilitis – the theme that inspires art in rare books
  • Rare photography books by Ansel Adams
  • The rare Christmas books of Tasha Tudor
  • Treasures illustrated by Tasha Tudor
  • The art inside the book
  • Best in Children’s Rare Books
  • Category: Architecture
    • Bauhaus = Building House = Modernist Architecture = Communism?
  • Category: Photography Books
    • Photographing Paris
    • Some Disordered Interior Geometries
    • Something old and something new for Photography Month
    • The beauty in a collectible photography book
• Category: Book Fairs
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – New York edition
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 4th Quarter, 2021
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 3rd Quarter, 2021
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 1st Quarter, 2021
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 2020
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – Virtual in Boston
  • The Trade in the Middle of the Pandemic
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 3rd Quarter, 2016
  • Two book fairs that are distinctively homogeneous
  • Tis the season for book fairs
  • Rare Comic Book Convention Fever
  • Book Fair & Book Sale Calendar
  • 2012 – The Year of China
  • Give a Rare Book as a Christmas Gift
  • Boston Book Fairs
  • Rare book fair review – Pioneer Valley
  • International Book Fairs and Sales: A ‘’rare books’’ opportunity
  • The 3rd Antiquarian Book Market at Beaumes-de-Venise, France
  • The Vermont Book Fair
  • The 18th Beijing International Book Fair, 2011 BIBF
  • Slow but Steady
• Category: Books on Books
  • Educational Books on Books
  • Collectible Books on Books
• Category: Business & Economics
  • Is this the Year for Behavioral Finance to Shine?
  • There is no Business like Book Business
  • On the most serious economic crisis
  • Two economic crises, two rare books on investing
  • Rarest books on labor and employment
  • Book Collector Selling Tactics
  • Das Kapital, Karl Marx’s “social networking”
  • Adam Smith’s Classic of Modern Economic Thought
• Category: Children's rare books
  • The Collectible Japanese Fairy Tales
  • Kay Thompson’s Christmas Message to All
  • THE CAT IN THE HAT BUT NOT THE JACKET
  • Once Upon a Simpler Time
  • Eloise from 6 to being 60 years old
  • Happy 75th Anniversary Madeline
  • Tasha Tudor Christmas gift at a bargain
  • The Charles Dickens Christmas Stories
  • Pumpkin Moonshine for Halloween
  • Book Collectors’ Appetite for The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • The monumental epic of American literature
  • Christmas with children’s book illustrator Tasha Tudor
  • The book that brought us “Bah! Humbug!” and “Merry Christmas”
  • The Tchaikovsky – Hoffmann – Dumas – Sendak – Disney Nutcracker
  • The J.K. Rowling price inflation
  • C.S. Lewis – the children’s books author
  • Charles Dickens Rare Books: Great Expectations
  • Happy Valentine’s Day – All for Love
• Category: Classics
  • The Importance of Translation Exemplified by the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature
• Category: Exploration
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 3rd Quarter 2014
  • Exploration – No Discovery – Big Dispute
  • Brooke-Hitching’s Rare Books of British Exploration
  • That so important Date of Publication is not specified
  • Mapping America
  • The rare books of Greece
  • To Grow a Library: Electronic or Hard Copies?
  • Mediterranean Rare Books – West
  • Mediterranean Rare Books – East
• Category: Innovation & Technology
  • The Mechanical Models of Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
  • Tesla’s Controversial Articles, a Meme Phenomena
  • The Most Complicated Machine
• Category: Market Analysis
  • James Baldwin’s Collectability at 100 Years Old
  • Our Nobel Prize Nominations of the Literature Laureates
  • The Importance of Language in Rare Books
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – Auctions
  • The Seven Pillars of a Rare Book: The case of John William’s “Stoner”
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – Modern Firsts
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 4th Quarter, 2017
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 2nd Quarter, 2017
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 1st Quarter, 2017
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 4th Quarter, 2016
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 2nd Quarter, 2016
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor Update – 1st Quarter 2016
  • Auction Activity Signals
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor Update – 4th Quarter 2015
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor Update – 3rd Quarter 2015
  • Introducing: Rare Book Offer Manager (RBOM)
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor Update – 2nd Quarter 2015
  • Rare Book Market – An Anatomical Exercitation through the Generations
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 1st Quarter 2015
  • Raymond Carver Short Story Wins on the Big Screen
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 4th Quarter 2014
  • Rare Book Marketplace Shifting Gears
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 2nd Quarter 2014
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 1st Quarter 2014 – Factor of Provenance
  • Two prayer books, two auctions, same result
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 4th Quarter 2013
  • Speculations on the sale of the Bay Psalm Book
  • Tweet, tweet, blurb, blurb
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 3rd Quarter 2013
  • Collectible Pocket Books
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 2nd Quarter 2013
  • Books – read them, collect them, love them
  • Big Data to the old Rare Book trade?
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 1st Quarter 2013
  • Tax tactics for the book dealer, investor, collector
  • The “Anonymous” trade of the sixteen “Alcoholics”
  • Rare books in the Year of the Snake
  • What is a priceless rare book worth?
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 4th Quarter 2012
  • Year end thoughts of the rare book kind
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 3rd Quarter 2012
  • Why are my rare books not selling?
  • Rare books for Father’s Day
  • Rare book collecting as an investment?
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 4th Quarter 2011
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 3rd Quarter 2011
  • A Rare Book: ‘’Hebrew is Greek’’ by Joseph E. Yahuda
  • Jane Austen’s Rare Manuscript sold for an astronomical Price
  • Rare Religious Books
  • Philip Dick’s New Frontier
  • The Most Expensive Rare Book
  • Rare Books – An investment opportunity
  • Determining a rare book’s fair value
  • Rare Books – The significance of a ”first edition”
• Category: Modern Firsts
  • The Fictional Mystery Dartmouth College Wished Away
  • Historical Fiction Reads at a Time of War
  • The Good, the Bad and the Rare
  • Sex: the single girl’s perspective
  • Fast Forward 50 Years
  • Desperately Seeking Members of the Prestigious Collins Crime Club
  • Highsmith, Hitchcock and Homosexuality
  • New Year Wishes from Shakespeare & Company
  • The Rare Books of Hunter Thompson
  • Jack Kerouac’s Material America
  • Play it again, F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
  • Dune, Science Fiction Epic
  • Rare Books and Veblen Commodities
  • Skyfall and the Ian Fleming book collector
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Modern Firsts – Auntie Mame
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs Rare Tarzan Books
  • The soul of a rare book – To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Ian Fleming’s rare book – Casino Royale
• Category: Rare American Literature
  • Feminist author led women’s movement with works in multiple genres
  • Category: Rare Cook Books
    • The First Ethnic Cook Books of America
• Category: Rare Book Education
  • Copyright Page or “Confusion Page of Anomalies”
  • AMBIVALENT CENSORSHIP OF MEDIEVAL “SCIENCE” IN 17th CENTURY SPAIN: THE EXAMPLE OF THE HORTUS SANITATIS (MAINZ, 1491)
  • Provenance through Bookplates or Book Labels
  • Toys for the collector
  • Interview with Laurent Ferri
  • The Ingredients of the Rarest Christmas Book
  • Mistaikes in Books
  • The Second Sex is undervalued
  • The factor of book censorship and controversy
  • Rare Book Provenance
  • Research aids of yesterday and today
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • Back to rare book school
  • Hidden treasures between the pages
  • Smart Rare Book Collecting
  • How to be a better Rare Book Lover
  • How to be a Better Rare Book Collector
  • Rare Books 102
  • Rare Books 101
  • Charles Dickens Rare Book: A Christmas Carol
  • Mansfield Park: Jane Austen’s rare book
  • Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen’s rare book
  • Emma: Jane Austen’s rare book
  • When censorship affects rare books
  • Ten Tips for a safe Rare Book Purchase
  • The Rare Books of Science – The Early Years
  • Jane Austen’s rare books: Sense and Sensibility
  • Jane Austen’s Rare books
  • The Rare Science Books of Charles Darwin
  • Rare Books: What makes them Rare?
  • Welcome to Rare Books Digest!
  • Category: Book Care and Conservation
    • Pleased to Meet you, Hope you Guess my Name
    • Rethinking the Grading of Old Books
    • Book conservation / Book restoration: Deciding upon a course of action
    • Valuable Encyclopedias
    • Book Restoration: Good or Bad?
    • A Piece On Paper
    • A day at the Athens flea market
    • Mutilated, Altered, Grangerized, Razored, and Bowdlerized Books
    • Letter from Greece
    • Old Book Paper Bindings
    • Which Binding is Suitable?
    • Rare book conservation tips and techniques #2
    • Rare book conservation tips and techniques
    • Bookbinding, book restoring in Greece
    • How to store Rare Religious Books
  • Category: Comic Books
    • Graphic Novel Market Vision
    • Robert Crumb – book Vs underground comic
    • The Final Issue in a Comic Book Series
    • Someone to die for, at least once.
    • Cult writers and story-liners
    • What if they held an auction and no one bid?
    • When Important Events get Captured in Comics
    • The Importance of the Comic Book Series Issue Number
    • Rare comic books – Where to find them.
    • Rare comic books – what makes them so rare
  • Category: The Book Trade
    • Rare Book Sale Monitor – 2023 Review
    • The Most Popular Novelists of the 21st Century
    • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – End of 2022 Edition
    • NFT Usage in the World of Rare Books
    • The Value of a “Priceless” Rare Book
    • Rare Book Optimal Pricing
    • The Most Expensive “Candy”
    • Women author scarcity
    • Houdini’s Book Disappearing Act
    • The Independent Bookshop
    • The Death-Effect in Rare Books
    • The Appeal of an Enigma
    • Rare, Signed and Forged
    • America’s Oldest Continuously Running Rare Book Shop
    • A Perfect Book Sale
    • The Purpose of Bookseller Catalogs
    • In the beginning of the dust wrapper
    • The shelf-lot book auction of the century
    • Pricing your rare books to market
  • Category: World History and Government
    • Trojan horse of the Women of Suffrage
    • The birth of the science of modern politics
    • Rare Books of History
• Category: Rare Book Exhibits
  • Islamic Libraries: A Short History
  • “THE GLORIOUS/WILL BE GLORIOUS TO ALL ETERNITY” TWO PORTRAITS OF PETRARCH IN A 15th CENTURY ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
  • Happy New Rare Book Year – 2014
  • Thank You!
  • The Treasures Laid-In
  • Interior decorating with the help of books
  • A unique and pleasant bookstore experience
  • The Handling of Rare Books by the University of Crete Library
  • Insectivorous Plants: A rare book by Charles Darwin
• Category: Rare English Literature
  • Obelisk Scarcity
  • Happy 450th Birthday to William Shakespeare
  • Virginia Woolf, a rare book icon
  • Les Propheties by Nostradamus
  • Dickens 2012
  • Wollstonecraft – First Tsunami Wave of Feminism
  • The origins of Sherlockiana
  • Mudfog Papers – Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • The Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, rare books by Jane Austen
• Category: Rare Fiction
  • Father of the American Hard-boiled Detective Stories
  • The Rarest Milestone in the Science Fiction Genre
  • The collectible Weird Tales pulps
  • Category: Science Fiction
    • Cyberpunks among us
    • G.E.: “We Bring Good Books to Life”
    • Speculative Fiction for the Future
• Category: Rare Poetry
  • Apollinaire’s Poetry is Art
  • Tarantula by Bob Dylan
  • The Bright Side of the Black Sun
  • Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
  • When condition affects more than value – Interpreting Beowulf
  • The 1501 Aldine Edition of Petrarch (vellum) or The Rhetorical Delivery of a New Practice: Printing Modern Poetry
  • Pushkin, father of modern Russian literature
  • Poetry – Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”
• Category: Rare Religious Books
  • The High Price of Baskett’s Mistake
  • The Bible of the Revolution
  • The Slave Bible
  • Bible Scarcity Reaches the Civil War
  • The Lombard Gradual
  • Bay Psalm Book – Most expensive book sale ever?
  • The first book printed in America
  • The priceless Gutenberg Bible
  • The poor man’s Bible
• Category: Rare Romance
  • Valentine, Caviare, and Bittersweet by Grant Richards
  • Commuter Libraries and their Effect on Scarcity
  • All for love, in Tasha Tudor rare books
  • The first edition of Gone with the Wind
  • Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon
  • The rare books of romance
• Category: Rare Science Books
  • The Rare Books of Popular Chemistry
  • Infectious Diseases: A Groundbreaking Book (1546) – Some resemblance between Didier Raoult and Girolamo Fracastoro (?)
  • Messy Interconnections of Innovation
  • The First Dystopian Novel
  • The First Illustrated Textbook of Surgery
  • iApparatus in Rare Books
  • RENAISSANCE “THEATRES OF MACHINES” – A 1578 BOOK OF (PLEASANT AND USEFUL) INVENTIONS
  • Elementa Geometriae – the oldest mathematical textbook
  • Rare books about the machines of science
  • Voynich – “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”
  • The Rare Books of Cyberspace
  • Rare Books of Science – The Later Years
  • Category: Natural History
    • Silent Spring, Silent Earth
• Category: Sports
  • The Rare Books of the Olympics
• Category: Statistical analysis
  • From the Hinman Collator to Machine Intelligence
  • Rare Books Digest Sentiment Analysis
  • New technologies, old books
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 2nd Quarter 2012
  • Happy Birthday to the Rare Book Sale Monitor
  • Rare Book Sale Monitor update – 2nd Quarter 2011
  • Our Rare Book Sale Monitor (RBSM)
• Category: Uncategorized
  • Where American History and Christian Religion Crossed
  • Rare Books Digest Spring Giveaway
  • An underperformer with historical importance
  • Rare Books: A classic father’s day Gift
  • Rare Books – The Passion