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A remarkable new exhibition at Marsh's Library in Dublin offers a rare opportunity to see books printed in the decades after the invention of printing by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s.
More than 500 million have been sold worldwide. But that pales in comparison to the Bible, which has sold 5 billion copies have been printed, according to the " Guinness Book of World Records." ...
Printed by William Caxton in 1477, this version holds immense significance as one of the very first books ever published in the English language. Its creation marks a pivotal moment: the true dawn ...
World’s Oldest Bible —A near-complete Hebrew Bible that could date back to the 9th Century, known as the Codex Sassoon, sold at auction in May for $38.1 million, which Sotheby's called the ...
The First Issue of Superman Just Became the Most Valuable Comic Book in the World An original copy of 1938’s “Action Comics No. 1” sold for a record-breaking $6 million at auction ...
In 2021 three of the top four most-sold books in the US were actually children’s books, with Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Dav Pilkey selling more than 2.5 million copies in a single year.
But her self-titled book has sold about 64,000 hardcover copies since it came out in May, according to NPD BookScan, which tracks most printed books sold in the United States — not necessarily a ...
This copy, which was published by Appleton in New York in 1866, was one of the first thousand copies printed for the US market and was the most expensive work sold of Abe Books this year, fetching ...
On Friday, Christie's New York auctioned a copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America, which already holds the title of most valuable printed book in the world, having sold for about $11.5 ...
While the book was estimated to sell between $15 and $30 million, the $14.2 million (including buyer’s premium) accepted bid was still the highest amount ever offered for a printed book. The ...
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