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by Stephen J. Gertz It's Bound To Be Great Week at Booktryst . Each day, we'll post a story devoted to some of the most spectacu...

by Stephen J. Gertz News of current special sales by a handful of rare book dealers has come to our attention. (ENO, BRIAN) (SCHMIDT, ...

by Stephen J. Gertz Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, now draw your attention to the center ring and feast your eyes upon a b...

by Stephen J. Gertz F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a good student. At age sixteen he was expelled from St. Paul's Academy. At seventeen ...

by Stephen J. Gertz The notorious bandit Otto Wood (1895-1930) became something of a folk hero in the North Carolina mountains in the la...

by Stephen J. Gertz The celebrity school yearbook has always had a place in the rare book world. Whether acquiring volumes to complete col...

by Stephen J. Gertz December 22, 1945. "It was about eight o'clock at night, and dark, and raining, and freezing, and the win...