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rare book

NOUN
book that is hard to find
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Ethan Hawke, here called Lee Raybon, is a Tulsa amateur “truthstorian” and rare book dealer, working and living in a store where the cool people hang out.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Hitler’s original copy is in the rare book collection, along with 1,200 of his other books, at the Library of Congress.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

In 2022, a rare book laced with arsenic was discovered by librarians in Leeds.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024

Books bound in human skin — and the sometimes sensational stories surrounding them — have long occupied an odd place in the annals of the rare book world.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024

It smelled as though scent scientists had engineered it to give off the whiff of walking past a high-end rare book dealer’s shop in Paris or London.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner



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