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  2. Facsimile - Wikipedia

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    A facsimile (from Latin fac simile, "to make alike") is a copy or reproduction of an old book, manuscript, map, art print, or other item of historical value that is as true to the original source as possible. It differs from other forms of reproduction by attempting to replicate the source as accurately as possible in scale, color, condition ...

  3. Originality - Wikipedia

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    Originality is the aspect of created or invented works that distinguish them from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or substantially derivative works. [citation needed] The modern idea of originality is according to some scholars tied to Romanticism, [1] by a notion that is often called romantic originality.

  4. Bluestockings (bookstore) - Wikipedia

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    Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.It started as a volunteer-supported and collectively owned bookstore; and is currently a worker-owned bookstore with mutual aid offerings/free store.

  5. Gotham Book Mart - Wikipedia

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    Iconic Wise Men Fish Here sign, (2007). The Gotham Book Mart was a famous Midtown Manhattan bookstore and cultural landmark that operated from 1920 to 2007. The business was located first in a small basement space on West 45th Street near the Theater District, then moved to 51 West 47th Street, then spent many years at 41 West 47th Street within the Diamond District in Manhattan, [1] New York ...

  6. Strand Bookstore - Wikipedia

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    Shelves on 1st floor. The Strand is a family-owned business with more than 230 employees. [5] Many notable New York City artists have worked at the store, including rock musicians of the 1970s: Patti Smith – who claimed not to have liked the experience because it "wasn't very friendly" [6] – and Tom Verlaine, [7] who was fond of the discount book carts sitting outside the store. [8]

  7. Argosy Book Store - Wikipedia

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    The Argosy Book Store is New York City's oldest independent bookstore. Located at 116 East 59th Street , between Park and Lexington Avenues in Midtown Manhattan , it occupies an entire six-story townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions , Americana , leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs. [ 1 ]

  8. How a 1985 magazine article launched the Brat Pack ... - AOL

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    The article, which New York Magazine has made available online, was published June 10, 1985 — 18 days before the release of “St. Elmo’s Fire,” one of the most quintessential Brat Pack ...

  9. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The original copy produced between 1403 and 1408 is now lost, and only about 400 of the 11,095 volumes of the 16th-century copy now survive. These two previously unrecorded volumes in private ownership in France were bought. [33] – 1567 a Chinese collector from Zhejiang called Jīn Liàng 金亮 July 2020 [34] $12.7 $9.06 Histoire de ma vie