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Based on the popular BBC Radio 4 series Rare Books, Rare People, ??Tolkien?s Gown? and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books? is a feast of the tales behind some of the most iconic titles to have graced British publishing, and fascinating anecdotes about the authors who wrote them.
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In each of the twenty chapters of this erudite and funny work, rare book dealer Rick Gekoski tells the inside story of a great work of modern literature. Based loosely on a hugely successful Radio 4 series, Rare Books, Rare People, each essay gives the publishing biography of a single book, together with details of Rick Gekoski's involvement with the first edition of the work.
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