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"A room without books is like a body without a soul," Cicero once said, though he might not have known that those books could one day be worth serious cash. How To Go From Broke in Your 40s to...
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century St Cuthbert Gospel, to a 21st-century autograph manuscript of J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The earliest printed book in the list is a Southern Song annotated woodblock edition of the Book of Tang printed c
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel . It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. [ 1 ]
And those two seemingly minuscule mishaps translate into big dollar signs for those who own a copy with the typos in tact – versions of the novel with these mistakes are fetching over $13,000 ...
The book, which begins in the 1940s, explores how architectural trends have shaped the Las Vegas Strip over 70 years. [4] [12] It covers the numerous structures and architects that have impacted the Strip. [4] The book delves into the economy of the United States, demographic shifts, urbanization, gaming laws, and the resorts' designers and owners.
Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome: 1958 12 Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon: 13 Tom Swift and His Space Solartron: 14 Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope: 1959 15 Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector: 1960 16 Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts: 17 Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X: 1961 18 Tom Swift and the Electronic ...
Tom Early rides into a Wyoming town where he once lived with his wife and son. In the general store, owner Wainscott is annoyed when he believes clerk Jo is flirtatious with Early. At his old ranch, Early finds his wife's grave and his 17-year-old son, Tom Jr., an immature man embittered by his father's having abandoned him and his mother.