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December 28, 2009 | Jonathan Shipley

Congratulations, Seattle!

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Congratulations, fair city in which I live, for making it back to the top of the list. Seattle, beating out Washington, D.C. and Minneapolis, is America's Most Literate City.

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Book Dealer: Children's Books
Wonderland Books
1824 Wilton Road
CLEVELAND HTS, OH 44118
(216) 538-7460
We specialize in old, rare and out-of-print children's books and issue several (more)
Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare
Encore Books on the Square
2200 Broadway Street
Redwood Ciity, CA 94063
(650) 299-0104
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Five Quail Books
1280 Morning Glory Ln
Prescott, AZ 86305
(928) 642-8050
Out-of-print, first editions, rare and used books, prints, maps, photos, periodicals (more)
Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare
A. Parker's Books
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1488 Main Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
(941) 366-2898
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Auctions

1858 mammoth albumen print of Cairo by Francis Frith.
BINAC Computer Manual, Shackleton Presentation Copy, Blue Paper Euclid: Auction Preview
Cecil B. DeMille's Typewriter and Ten Commandments Tablets to Auction
Autograph Album Featuring Letter from Charles Darwin at Anderson & Garland

Rare Books

And a New Earth. A Romance by Charles Ernest Jacomb
Utopias and Dystopias: Five Rare Books for Collectors
The Book Bus: Rare Book of the Week
Mystery and Detective Literature: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Americana

Evergreen Review at PBA Galleries
Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries
Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West
Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Visual Art

Nicola Anthony's The Words That Bind Us on opening day
New Art Installation Celebrates Magna Carta Anniversary
Rare Movie Posters for 'Jaws', 'Dracula', and 'The Bride of Frankenstein' to Auction
Gil Kane and Brian Bolland Original Comic Cover Art at Hakes

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In Lincoln’s Own Words
Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Photographs

Marilyn Monroe’s signed photograph
Marilyn Monroe’s Signed Passport Photograph Sold for $21,655
Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate
Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries
Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors
The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’
Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Book Arts

Mark Gatiss as Gabriel Book in Bookish
Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'
Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title
LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Book People

Graham at the press
Graham Moss of Incline Press Dies at 77
Aviary Books' Laura Ryan on Photobooks, Photographing Books, and Astronomy Manuals
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Tolkien Character in 'The Hobbit'

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Madame Yevonde, Portrait of Richard Aldington, c. 1929. From the collection of Simon Hewett.
Poet Richard Aldington Celebrated in New Exhibition
Showtime! Explores 200 Years of Performances of Charles Dickens’s Stories
'Printing Books for Four Decades' Exhibition Celebrates Scott Vile
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