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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.



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Rebecca Rego Barry

Rebecca Rego Barry is currently the editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine, a glossy quarterly for book & fine art collectors, dealers, curators, and librarians. Rebecca has also written articles, essays, and book reviews for various publications, including The Guardian, JSTOR Daily, Preservation, The Millions, The Awl, The Economist, and Victoria. She lives with her husband and two daughters in New York's Catskill Mountains, in a home bursting with books. Her particular favorites are 19th- and early 20th-century illustrated medical books.



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