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Going once, going twice, sold!

Bloomsbury auction house is selling this amazing Rowlandson watercolor of an early 19th-century book auction on 10/24. Anybody got $40,000-60,000 to lend me?

Published in:John Overholt |on October 22nd, 2007 |Comments Off on Going once, going twice, sold!

Discoveries in the back stacks, Part II

Clearly the second-greatest work of literature whose title starts “Boswell’s Life of …”

Boswell's Life of Boswell

Published in:John Overholt |on October 8th, 2007 |Comments Off on Discoveries in the back stacks, Part II