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Escape from Camp 14
Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden is perhaps a book you should add to your ‘to-be-read-list.’ The Guardian carries an article by...
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Avant-Garde Books from Behind the Iron Curtain
The Russian Avant-Garde movement began prior to the rule of Nicholas II and thrived in the early years of the Communist regime. This selection of rare and collectable treasures shows how Avant-Garde...
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I just wanted to take a moment to give a little more credit to Stephen King for recent financial comments he made in an interview conducted by fellow author Neil Gaiman for the UK’s Sunday Times...
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Yesterday’s Racist Books and Memorabilia – To Acknowledge or Ignore?
We look at many, many, many books in a day as part of the AbeBooks marketing team. They go as far back as ancient times, long before the printing press, and I see books from centuries ago every day....
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Don’t Read and Drive: Unless You’re Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto
Reading and driving: Toronto’s mayor multitasks.Toronto mayor Rob Ford is in the middle of a torrid scandal. Sex scandal? No. Embezzling? No. Drinking and driving? Close, but no. Ford’s crime is...
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Banned Books Trading Cards from the Lawrence Public Library
Since 1982, the last week of September has been known as Banned Books Week, and is a time to reflect on censorship in the literary world, celebrate the freedom of information and access to literature,...
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Winston Churchill: The Author Who Saved Britain
Hold on, we hear you say – author? But Winston Churchill was a politician! True. But while Churchill had two stints as prime minister and is most famous for his wartime leadership, many people don’t...
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Books in the War: The Romance of Library War Service
Book Patrol has a post up about the tremendous effort put forth during WWI by the American Library Association to collect books and send them to soldiers overseas. They congregated outside the New York...
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The 25 Best Books about Abraham Lincoln
At least 15,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. If you wish to learn about the man who led the North during the American Civil War and issued the...
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Bookseller of the Week: Churchill Book Collector
Marc Kuritz of Churchill Book Collector was kind enough to answer our questions about his bookselling business. Churchill Book Collector is located in San Diego and it’s a partnership between Marc and...
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Barack Obama’s Holiday Shopping List
President Barack Obama loaded up on books at an independent bookstore last weekend in support of Small Business Saturday. The White House reports that the President picked up 21 titles, ranging from...
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The dictator who collected rare books
Earlier this week the New York Times reported on the book collection that belonged to Chile’s infamous former dictator General Augusto Pinochet, who was responsible for thousands of deaths and...
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25 Years On: Rare Photographs of Tiananmen Square Protests Go on Sale
Twenty five years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, a remarkable collection of photographs documenting the events surrounding the government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters has been listed for...
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Copy of Das Kapital sells for $40k just as Dow Jones hits record high
On Thursday, the day that the Dow Jones index closed at an all-time high of 17,068 points, AbeBooks.com sold a first edition of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital for $40,000. Published in 1867 by Otto Meissner...
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How Well Do You Know Presidential Hairlines?
There’s been a lot of talk lately about a certain politician’s hair. In fact, his unique hairstyle has spawned much debate, discussion, slideshows, memes – the list goes on. With the excitement of the...
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Make Your Bookshelf Great Again
Discover the world of Donald Trump… through books. After all, his gifts to literature have been generous. Donald Trump – author and presidential candidate In 1987, he brought us Trump: The Art of the...
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“It Can’t Happen Here” sales soar as book buyers rush for reassurance
A thoughtful Sinclair Lewis in a signed photo available on AbeBooks Why have sales of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 dystopian novel It Can’t Happen Here suddenly spiked, leaving some retailers with no copies...
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Collectible Memorabilia from Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba
1961, Original 1st. edition. A wonderful book about Cuba and its history, geography, revolution, daily life, education, science and culture, with superb images taken by the French photographer and...
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Memories of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 88 yesterday, on January 15th, 2017, were he not publicly assassinated on April 4th, 1968. Today, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday in the United...
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“Room for Millions of Immigrants”– railroad pamphlet from 1883 shows how...
“Room for Millions of Immigrants” A scarce 1883 pamphlet promoting California as a destination for immigrants has been listed for sale on AbeBooks.com. It show how immigrants were once courted in the...
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